- [Sisko and Jake have managed to 'sail' all the way to Cardassia, where they are greeted by Dukat]
- Gul Dukat: I've been asked to convey a message from the Cardassian government: "Your voyage is a testament to the spirit of the ancient Bajorans who first ventured out into space. It could not be more appropriate that your arrival coincides with the discovery here on Cardassia of an ancient crash site, a site that our archeologists believe contains the remnants of one of the Bajoran vessels whose journey... you have just recreated."
- Chief O'Brien: You're not an in-between kind of guy.
- Doctor Bashir: What do you mean?
- Chief O'Brien: Well, people either love you, or hate you.
- Doctor Bashir: Really?
- Chief O'Brien: I mean... I hated you, when we first met.
- Doctor Bashir: I remember.
- Chief O'Brien: But now...
- Doctor Bashir: And now?
- Chief O'Brien: Well... now I don't.
- Doctor Bashir: That means a lot to me, Chief, it really does.
- Chief O'Brien: Really. Now... and that is from the heart, hm? Mm... I really do... not hate you anymore.
- [Sisko and Jake are sailing through space on the lightship]
- Commander Sisko: Listen.
- Jake Sisko: I don't hear anything.
- Commander Sisko: Exactly. Not even the hum of an engine. It's almost like being on the deck of an old sailing ship. Except, the stars are not just up in the sky; they're all around us. Imagine how the ancient Bajorans must have felt - heading into space, in a ship like this one, not knowing what they were going to find, or who they were going to meet.
- [a very drunk Bashir wants to confront Dr. Lense for ignoring him earlier]
- Chief O'Brien: Better wait until tomorrow.
- Doctor Bashir: Why? Why not right now?
- Chief O'Brien: Because you can barely stand up, right now.
- Doctor Bashir: Good point. Good point. Good point...
- Commander Sisko: [of Jake] It's funny. A year or two ago, nothing would have stopped him from coming with me on an adventure like this. I guess I waited too long.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You'll have other adventures, Benjamin; they'll just be different. Believe me, I know, I've been a father a couple of times myself. Oh, I could tell you stories...
- Commander Sisko: You already have.
- [O'Brien has doubts that the ancient Bajoran solar vessels were capable of space exploration]
- Major Kira: You sound just like a Cardassian.
- Chief O'Brien: I beg your pardon?
- Major Kira: They have denied the possibility of ancient contact for decades, because they cannot stand the idea of Bajor having interstellar flight before they did.
- Chief O'Brien: With all due respect, Major, you're beginning to sound like a Romulan.
- Major Kira: A Romulan?
- Chief O'Brien: There is no piece of technology in existence they don't claim they invented before everyone else.
- [Gul Dukat has surmised that Sisko might encounter something unexpected during his flight on a Bajoran lightship]
- Commander Sisko: Like what?
- Gul Dukat: Oh, I don't know. A Maquis ship, perhaps.
- Commander Sisko: Why would the Maquis have any quarrel with an unarmed ship sailing toward the Denorias Belt? They have nothing at stake here, nothing to prove. Or should I say, disprove.
- Gul Dukat: Commander, I contacted you out of concern for your safety. But you seem to be intimating that I've made some sort of threat.
- Commander Sisko: Ah, then I'm glad I was wrong. For a moment there, I thought that you had been put in charge of the Cardassian Ministry for the Refutation of Bajoran Fairy Tales.
- [Jake is encouraging his father to get a date]
- Commander Sisko: I cannot believe that I'm getting advice about women from my son.
- Jake Sisko: Don't think of me as your son right now. Just think of me as... another guy. Another guy who happens to know a very attractive lady who wants to meet you.