Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Hippocratic Oath (1995)

Alexander Siddig: Doctor Julian Bashir

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• Chief O'Brien : Keiko only spends a few days at a time on the station. I'm the one living in those quarters. And if I want to set up a little workshop in the bedroom...

  Dr. Bashir : You set up a workshop in the bedroom?

  Chief O'Brien : Yeah. I don't use it when she's visiting.

  Dr. Bashir : Of course not.

  Chief O'Brien : She says I'm trying to live like a bachelor again. That I'm expressing a subconscious desire to push her out of our quarters.

  Dr. Bashir : Now, that *is* ridiculous.

  Chief O'Brien : That's what I said!

  Dr. Bashir : I mean... if anything, by spending your free time in the bedroom, a place you intimately associate with Keiko, you are actually expressing a... desire to be closer to her, during her absence. It... 's quite touching, really.

  Chief O'Brien : Exactly! Exactly! See, you understand. Now, why can't she see that? Why can't she be more like...

  Dr. Bashir : More like...?

  Chief O'Brien : Well - a man. Mo-more like a man?

  Dr. Bashir : So... you wish... Keiko... was a man?

  Chief O'Brien : I wish I was on this trip with someone else, that's what I wish!

• Dr. Bashir : [on an unknown planet]  A lovely place. - Smells like a garbage dump.

  Chief O'Brien : I'm sorry I couldn't find a nicer place to crash-land. Should we try again?

• Goran'Agar : I have never seen a Founder.

  Dr. Bashir : Never?

  Goran'Agar : To us they're almost a myth. But everyone in the Dominion, even the Vorta, serve the Founders. I have fought against races that believe in mythical beings who guide their destinies and await them after death. They call them gods. The Founders are like... gods to the Jem'Hadar. But... our gods never talk to us. And they don't wait for us after death. They only want us to fight for them... and to die for them.

• [Goran'Agar intends to kill his men] 

  Dr. Bashir : You don't have to do this. Even if we can't save their lives, there's no need to sacrifice yourself.

  Goran'Agar : [to O'Brien]  You are a soldier?

  Chief O'Brien : I have been.

  Goran'Agar : Then you explain.

  [he walks off and vanishes into the jungle] 

  Chief O'Brien : He's their Commander. They trusted him. He can't leave them.

• Chief O'Brien : I wish things could've been different, Julian.

  Dr. Bashir : So do I.

  Chief O'Brien : And I'm... sorry I had to destroy your work.

  Dr. Bashir : You didn't "have" to, Chief. You had a choice; and you chose to disobey orders, override my judgment... and condemn those men to death.

  Chief O'Brien : Yes, I did. Because I thought it was the only way to save your life. Whatever else you may think of who I am and what I did, at least try to understand that.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Bashir : Tonight's supposed to be our weekly darts game.

  Chief O'Brien : Don't worry. I don't feel much like playing either.

  Dr. Bashir : Maybe in a few days.

• Dr. Bashir : Why did you stop taking the drug?

  Goran'Agar : It was not by choice. Three years ago, I was on a ship that crashed on this world. The rest of the crew died and I was left with only enough

  [Ketracel] 

  Goran'Agar : White to sustain me for three days. I rationed my supply, and managed to stretch out the drug for eight days... and then it was gone, and I was ready to die. But death never came. I lived here for 35 days without a single drop of White. Being here, on this planet cured me.

  Dr. Bashir : And that's why you've returned here... to cure the rest of your men of their addiction as well. But it hasn't worked, has it? They still need the drug.

  Goran'Agar : We have come to the same place, breathed the same air, eaten the same food. It should have cured them as well.