Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Shadowplay (1994)

Kenneth Tobey: Rurigan

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• Rurigan : I was happy living on Yadera Prime - that is, until the Dominion took over, and changed our whole way of life. And I realized one morning that I didn't really belong there anymore. So I came here, and I used a holo-generator to recreate all the things that I'd lost. I've lived here in my village for nearly thirty years. I've watched the people marry, have children, grow old. And sometimes I even forgot that they were holograms. But it's over. It's over; and I would appreciate it if you'd take me back to Yadera Prime.

  Odo : But... what about the villagers, what about your granddaughter?

  Rurigan : She's not real.

  Odo : Technically I suppose you're right. Maybe, by our definition, Taya is not real; her memories are stored in a computer, her body is made up of omicron particles. But who is to say that our definition of life is the only valid one?

• Odo : I saw the way you held her hand when she was sad. I saw the way you tried to comfort her when she was frightened.

  Rurigan : I-I didn't want her to get hurt.

  Odo : If she's not real, what does it matter?

  Rurigan : It matters. It matters to me.

  Odo : Why should it matter to you if a hologram cries?

  Rurigan : Because I love her.

• Colyus : [after Dax has restored the holographic village with all its inhabitants]  We just have to get used to the fact that we're holograms.

  Rurigan : We're alive and we have our families back, that's the only thing that counts.

  Colyus : I wonder who created all this.

  Odo : Whoever it was did a fine job.

  Colyus : They did, didn't they?