Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Ascent (1996)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

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Quotes 

• Odo : You know, if I were still a Changeling, I could've shapeshifted into a Vorian pterodactyl and flown that damn transmitter to the top of the mountain hours ago.

  Quark : You're the one who wanted to be a Solid.

  Odo : I never wanted to be a Solid.

  Quark : Oh, please. I used to see you coming into the bar, watching Morn eat, eyeing my customers, as they gambled and flirted with the dabo girls, wishing you were one of them - not to mention your platonic friendship with a certain Bajoran Major.

  Odo : [laughs disparagingly]  If that's the kind of psychological insight you dispense with your drinks, it's a wonder you have any customers.

  Quark : Deny it all you want, but the fact is, your people gave you what you wanted. You're one of us now, and I can finally sit on a chair and know with absolute certainty that it isn't you.

• Quark : I'm not trying to rescue you, I'm taking you along as emergency rations. If you die, I'm gonna eat you.

  Odo : You're joking.

  Quark : Waste not... want not.

• [last lines] 

  Quark : You remember back there, when I told you I hated you, and you told me you hated me?

  Odo : Vividly.

  Quark : I just wanted you to know... I meant every word of it.

  Odo : So did I.

  [both chuckle] 

• Quark : All we have to do is haul this transmitter to higher ground - more altitude, less atmosphere. Go high enough and we might be able to get a signal out.

  Odo : And how much higher do we have to go?

  Quark : Uh... carry the seven, take the square root, times pi... I'd say, er...

  [points at the top of the highest mountain] 

  Quark : ...that high.

• Odo : [freezing and breathing heavily]  Chief of Security... 's log, final entry. It looks like... Quark didn't make it. Can't say I'm surprised. You'll find his body further up the slope. No doubt he'd want you to vacuum desiccate his remains... and auction them off. Not that they're worth... much. As for myself... cremate me. Stick my ashes in my bucket and shoot me through the wormhole. I might as well end up where I began. Or better yet...

  [he is beamed up] 

• [Odo has just been saved from the planet] 

  Odo : [slightly bemused]  I'm alive.

  Doctor Bashir : Yes, I'm gonna see you stay that way.

  Odo : Quark?

  Lt. Commander Worf : We found him on top of the mountain slumped over a subspace transmitter.

  Odo : You mean he made it?

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : If it wasn't for his signal, we never would have found you. Looks like he saved both of your lives.

  Odo : I was afraid you'd say that.

• Odo : I guess you're not as successful a businessman as you think you are.

  Quark : Which means you spent the last ten years of your life trying to catch a nobody, with little success, I might add. So you tell me: which one of us is the bigger failure?

• Odo : You can annoy me, bait me, question my very existence, but in the end, we both know I've won. Because when all is said and done, I'll be heading back to Deep Space Nine, and you'll be spending the rest of your life in a Federation penal colony.

• Quark : So - how much longer till we reach Inferna Prime?

  Odo : Oh, I'd say 191 hours and 17 minutes - give or take a day.

• [Having been dragging an injured Odo up the mountain while carrying the transmitter, a wea, cold and exhausted Quark collapses in the dirt] 

  Odo : Quark?

  Quark : [his face in the sand; defeated]  It's over.

  Odo : What do you mean it's over?

  Quark : I can't move... We'll have to set up the transmitter here.

  Odo : We're not high enough. You have to leave me here and go on by yourself.

  Quark : [in despair]  Don't you get it? I can't do it. I'm half frozen. I haven't eaten for days... . MY MUSCLES CAN'T WORK ANYMORE!

• Odo : You can have the rest of my rations.

  Quark : These aren't rations. These are crumbs. You can't climb a mountain on crumbs!

• Odo : [about the planet's frigid weather]  How can it be so cold when the sun is shining?

  Quark : It isn't much of a sun, this isn't much of a planet... and you've got a lot of nerve to complain when you're the one wearing the jacket!

  Odo : [defensively]  You agreed to take turns!

  Quark : [under his breath]  Under duress... .

• [Quark has tripped and fallen to the ground while carrying the transmitter] 

  Odo : [concern]  Quark! Quark?

  Quark : [groans]  What?

  Odo : [trying to conceal his concern]  Uh... If you break that transmitter.

  Quark : [snaps]  I'm fine! *Thank you very much!*

  [softly] 

  Quark : And so is the transmitter...

  Odo : Here, let me help you up.

  Quark : [Quark doesn't budge]  No thanks! I think I'll just LAY here, and freeze to death!

  Odo : [rolls his eyes]  Al right, Alright... You made your point. I'll carry the transmitter for a while.

  Quark : [as Odo helps him up; irate]  And I get to wear the jacket!

  Odo : But *I* get the trousers!

• Quark : Comfortable?

  Odo : Not really.

  Quark : Join the club.