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Colm Meaney, Avery Brooks, and Marc Alaimo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

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Civil Defense

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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  • Gul Dukat: I set up this program, and I assure you, Major, I will find a way to defeat it. There is no dilemma that cannot be solved by a disciplined, Cardassian mind.
  • Garak: It's not going to work, you know.
  • Gul Dukat: What are you babbling on about now?
  • Garak: I'm talking about Major Kira.
  • Major Kira: What about her?
  • Garak: She's much too busy trying to save this station to be impressed with your incessant posturing.
  • Gul Dukat: [outraged] Garak!
  • Garak: And even if she weren't, she has much better taste than to be attracted to you - you, a married man.
  • Gul Dukat: I should've executed you years ago.
  • Garak: Oh, you tried, remember?
  • [last lines]
  • Quark: [checking out Odo's files] "A self-important con artist who's nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is." That's your official security evaluation of me?
  • Odo: Quark, I told you to stay away from the computer.
  • Quark: Two hours ago, you told me I was the most devious Ferengi you ever met.
  • Odo: I thought we were going to die. I was trying to be nice.
  • Quark: Name one Ferengi who is more devious than I am.
  • Odo: Grand Nagus.
  • Quark: All right. Name another.
  • Odo: DaiMon Tye.
  • Quark: One you personally know.
  • Odo: Your brother Rom.
  • Quark: My brother?
  • Odo: Your uncle Frin.
  • Quark: Frin?
  • Odo: Your cousin Gaila.
  • Quark: Gaila? The one with the moon?
  • Odo: I suppose, during the Occupation, the Cardassians considered their Security Chief a security risk.
  • Quark: And I know why.
  • Odo: Oh, do you?
  • Quark: It's because they knew you were an honorable man - the kind of person who would do the right thing regardless of the circumstances. And now, your integrity is going to get us both killed. I hope you're happy.
  • [Dukat has offered to shut down the self-destruct program in return for allowing the Cardassians to establish a permanent garrison on DS9]
  • Major Kira: I will destroy this station before I ever give it back to the Cardassians.
  • Gul Dukat: Yes... I'm sure you would. But... would you allow 2,000 people aboard this station to die simply because you don't like... us?
  • Quark: [75th Rule of Acquisition] Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum.
  • Gul Dukat: [in an automated message] Bajoran workers, your attention please. Your attempt to seize control of this facility is going to fail. You are valuable workers, and we wish you no harm. However, if you do not return control of this unit to your Cardassian supervisors, we will be forced to take action. You have eight minutes to make your decision.
  • Commander Sisko: You know, I never knew how much this man's voice annoyed me.
  • [Ops is under phaser fire, although not harming Dukat and Garak]
  • Garak: It would appear that the computer is only targeting non-Cardassians.
  • Gul Dukat: If you had been on the station when I designed this program, I would have made an exception in your case.
  • Garak: Well, you've aways been shortsighted. It's held you back over the years.
  • [Odo and Quark are trapped in Odo's office]
  • Quark: You're telling me I'm stuck here? With you?
  • Odo: No. *I'm* stuck here with *you*. Believe me, a far worse fate.
  • Gul Dukat: I set up this program, and I assure you, Major, I will find a way to defeat it. There is no dilemma that cannot be solved by a disciplined, Cardassian mind.
  • Garak: It's not going to work, you know.
  • Gul Dukat: What are you babbling on about now?
  • Garak: I'm talking about Major Kira.
  • Major Kira: What about her?
  • Garak: She's much too busy trying to save this station to be impressed with your incessant posturing.
  • Gul Dukat: [outraged] Garak!
  • Garak: And even if she weren't, she has much better taste than to be attracted to you - you, a married man.
  • Gul Dukat: I should've executed you years ago.
  • Garak: Oh, you tried, remember?
  • [Dukat has accidentally activated an old recording left by his former commanding officer]
  • Legate Kell: Dukat, if you are seeing this recording, it means you tried to abandon your post while the station's self-destruct sequence was engaged. That will not be permitted. You have lost control of Terok Nor, disgracing yourself and Cardassia. Your attempt to escape is no doubt a final act of cowardice. All fail-safes have been eliminated. Your personal access codes have been rescinded. The destruct sequence can no longer be halted. All you can do now is contemplate the depth of your disgrace, and try to die like a Cardassian.
  • Gul Dukat: Let me guess: someone tried to duplicate my access code, hm?
  • Doctor Bashir: The Cardassians don't miss a trick, do they?
  • Quark: Should've listened to my father. He always warned me this was gonna happen.
  • Odo: What? That you'd spend your final hours in jail? I could have told you that.
  • Quark: A lifetime of scheming and plotting, wheeling and dealing, and what has it got me? One measly little bar. My uncle Frin owns thirty, and my cousin Gaila...
  • Odo: I know, he owns a moon.
  • Quark: I told you that?
  • Odo: Many times.
  • Odo: Quark, I've met a lot of Ferengis in my time. And the truth is, though some of them may have been more wealthy, I've never met one more... devious.
  • Quark: Really?
  • Odo: Would I lie?
  • Doctor Bashir: You know, I've been here nearly three years, and I was just finally starting to think of this place as home.
  • Major Kira: Your "home" was built by Cardassians, Doctor. Don't ever forget that.
  • Doctor Bashir: Well, there's not much chance of that, is there.
  • Gul Dukat: [the crew have accidentally tripped a Cardassian security program left over from the Occupation, and one of the security measures is a weapon created by the replicator firing deadly phaser blasts at random throughout Ops] Where's Commander Sisko? I trust he wasn't vaporised while asking for one of those Raktajinos he's so fond of?
  • Lieutenant Dax: No, the last we heard he was trapped in the Ore Processing Unit.
  • Gul Dukat: Hmm. I wish him well.
  • Quark: Well, is there anything I can do to help?
  • Odo: Not unless you have a level nine Cardassian security clearance.
  • Quark: Let's see. I think I have everything from levels one through seven.

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