Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Assignment (1996)

Max Grodénchik: Rom

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• [O'Brien prepares Rom for a secret mission and urges him to talk to no one about it] 

  Rom : Culpable deniability - I understand. Don't worry about me, Chief; my lips are sealed. Nobody will get anything out of me, not even my name!

  O'Brien : Rom - everybody on the station knows your name.

  Rom : [reflecting]  Right... But I won't confirm it!

• Rom : Captain Sisko, Odo, they don't know about any of this, do they?

  O'Brien : No. No, they don't. And I want you to help me keep it that way for a little while longer.

  Rom : I have to stay here and play the idiot?

  O'Brien : I'm afraid so. And no matter what Odo asks you...

  Rom : I'm Quark's brother. I know the role.

• [Rom comes into the bar after his night shift. Quark places a bowl with some sort of mash in front of him without comment] 

  Rom : What's this?

  Quark : What do you mean, 'what's this'? It's puree of beetle.

  Rom : I didn't order it.

  Quark : Of course you didn't order it; you don't need to order it. You have it after work every morning!

• Rom : So, what are you drinking?

  Whatley : Raktajino.

  Rom : Great! Is that what we drink on the swing shift?

  Whatley : You can drink anything you want.

  Rom : I'll have a raktajino.

  [he goes to the replicator] 

  Rom : It's not like this on a night shift. We don't drink raktajino. We really don't drink anything...

  Whatley : Fascinating.

• [last lines] 

  Quark : I guess you'll be wanting the Chief's special again.

  Rom : Actually, no. I've discovered that bacon doesn't agree with me.

  Quark : What a surprise.

  Rom : Instead, I'll have a short stack of pancakes, dripping with butter, side of sausage and pineapple.

  Quark : Pineapple?

  Rom : That's the breakfast of choice on the day shift.

  Quark : Pineapple.