Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Trials and Tribble-ations (1996)

Avery Brooks: Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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Quotes 

• Dulmur : Be specific, Captain, which Enterprise? There've been five.

  Lucsly : Six.

  Captain Sisko : This was the first Enterprise - Constitution-class.

  Dulmur : His ship!

  Lucsly : James T. Kirk.

  Captain Sisko : The one and only!

  Lucsly : Seventeen separate temporal violations; the biggest file on record.

  Dulmur : The man was a menace.

• [the crew has traveled back in time and is now wearing TOS-style uniforms. Sisko is wearing gold, O'Brien red and Bashir blue] 

  Doctor Bashir : Wait a minute. Aren't you two wearing the wrong color?

  O'Brien : Don't you know anything about this period in time?

  Doctor Bashir : I'm a doctor, not an historian.

  Sisko : In the old days, operations officers wore red, command officers wore gold...

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : And women wore less.

  [Dax appears behind them, dressed in a revealing TOS miniskirt-style uniform] 

  Doctor Bashir : I think I'm going to like history.

• [Sisko and Dax are getting an unexpected glimpse of Kirk and Spock] 

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : I had no idea.

  Sisko : What?

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : He's so much more handsome in person. Those eyes!

  Sisko : Kirk had quite the reputation as a ladies' man.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Not him. Spock.

  Sisko : [drags Dax away]  Let's go.

• [Sisko on the Enterprise bridge...] 

  Sisko : Excuse me, Captain. Here's tomorrow's duty roster for your approval.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Lieutenant... er, Lieutenant...?

  Sisko : Benjamin Sisko, sir. I've been on temporary assignment here. Before I leave, I just want to say... it's been an honor serving with you, sir.

  Captain James T. Kirk : All right, Lieutenant, carry on.

  Sisko : Thank you, sir.

• Sisko : The last thing I want is a visit from temporal investigations when we get home.

• O'Brien : Captain, I'm not sure we can get to K7's internal sensors.

  Sisko : Then you will have to manually scan every tribble on the station.

  O'Brien : There must be thousands of them by now.

  Doctor Bashir : Hundreds of thousands.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : 1,771,561! That's starting with one tribble, with an average litter of ten every twelve hours. After three days...

  Sisko : Thank you!

• Sisko : If my people had caused any changes in the timeline, we would have been the first to notice when we got back.

  Lucsly : Why do they all have to say that?

• Dulmur : Captain, why'd you take the Defiant back in time?

  Captain Sisko : It was an accident.

  Lucsly : So you're not contending it was a pre-destination paradox?

  Dulmur : A time loop? That you were meant to go back into the past?

  Captain Sisko : Um... no.

  Dulmur : Good.

  Lucsly : We hate those. So - what happened?

  Captain Sisko : This may take some time.

  Dulmur : Is that a joke?

  Captain Sisko : No.

  Lucsly : Good.

  Dulmur : We hate those too.

• Sisko : He put a bomb in a tribble?

• Sisko : [unknowingly echoing a Kirk line from the original episode]  Storage compartments... storage compartments...

• Chief Miles O'Brien : [On the bridge of the Defiant, immediately following the incident where Barry Waddle/Arne Darvin refers to Klingons as "foul-smelling barbarians", and Bashir muses that Worf's body odor includes a "touch of lilac"]  Trust me. Next time you see him, just sniff the air and go "is that lilac?"

  Lt. Cmdr. Jadzia Dax : [laughing]  Find somebody else! I have my own ways of torturing Worf.

  Capt. Benjamin Sisko : [O'Brien turns towards Sisko with anticipation, who responds with amusement]  Don't look at me!

• Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Maybe we should beam over to the station to help Odo and Worf. We know Darvin was there a few hours ago.

  Sisko : I think it might be better if Chief O'Brien and Dr. Bashir go.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : But if we went, we might run into Koloth.

  Sisko : Exactly.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : [pleading]  It's not as if he would recognize me! I'd love to see him at his prime!

  Sisko : Dax.

  [Dax is sulking] 

  Sisko : Major, beam the Chief and the Doctor to K-7 and fill them in.

  Major Kira Nerys : [over communicator]  Aye, sir.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : [pouting]  It would have been fun.

  Sisko : Too much fun!

• Doctor Bashir : Captain.

  Sisko : [dressed in a gold TOS-style uniform]  Well... Lieutenant, actually. I didn't want to push my luck.

• Captain Sisko : Are you sure you don't want anything?

  Dulmur : Just the truth, Captain.

  Captain Sisko : You'll get it. Where do you want to start?

  Dulmur : The beginning.

  Lucsly : If there is such a thing.

• [last lines] 

  Captain Sisko : I'm open to suggestions, people.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : We could build another station...

  [on how to deal with the growing tribble population on DS9...] 

• Sisko : [Sisko and Dax are on the Enterprise, discussing the plan to find Arne Darvin's tribble bomb with Odo, Worf, O'Brien, and Bashir on the Defiant]  Dax and I will take care of the Enterprise. The rest of you beam over to K-7 and start searching there.

  Odo : Understood. But, I think Mr. Worf should remain here. It seems he's... allergic to tribbles.

• Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : That's...

  Captain Sisko : The Enterprise!

• Sisko : Excuse me Captain, here's tomorrow's duty roster for your approval.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Lieutenant, uh Lieutenant?

  Sisko : Benjamin Sisko, sir. I've been on temporary assignment here. Before I leave I just want to say... it's been an honour serving with you, sir.

  Captain James T. Kirk : All right, Lieutenant carry on.

  Sisko : Thank you, sir.