Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Jem'Hadar (1994)

Avery Brooks: Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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Quotes 

• Quark : I think I figured out why Humans don't like Ferengi.

  Sisko : Not now, Quark.

  Quark : The way I see it, Humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.

  Sisko : Quark, we don't have time for this.

  Quark : You're overlooking something. Humans used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi: slavery, concentration camps, interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you... we're better.

• [Quark is making a racket calling for the Jem'Hadar] 

  Eris : If we escape, do we have to take him with us?

  Sisko : He's not so bad.

  Eris : Doesn't he realize he's not accomplishing anything?

  Sisko : Don't be so sure. We need to know what the Jem'Hadar plan to do with us, which means we need to get their attention. And if there's one thing I know...

  Third Talak'talan : [from the background]  That's enough!

  Sisko : ...it's that Quark is hard to ignore.

• [Sisko and Quark have been captured by the Jem'Hadar] 

  Third Talak'talan : A Ferengi, and a human. I was hoping the first race I'd meet from the other side of the anomaly would be the Klingons.

  Sisko : I'm sorry to disappoint you.

  Third Talak'talan : It's too late for apologies. The Dominion will no longer stand by and allow ships from your side to violate our territory.

• Quark : I have the right to express my opinion.

  Sisko : I'm about to put my fist in your opinion!

  Quark : You don't scare me. And you want to know why you don't scare me? Because I'm already more scared than I've ever been in my life.

• [last lines] 

  Major Kira : She'll be back. The question is who she'll bring with her.

  Sisko : If the Dominion comes through the Wormhole, the first battle will be fought here. And I intend to be ready for them.

• Quark : [screams]  I'm on fire!

  [screams more] 

  Quark : I'm on fire!

  Sisko : Quark!

  [puts out fire] 

  Sisko : Are you alright?

  Quark : No, I am not alright! My ears itch, my nose is running, I'm eating foreign bugs, now look at me! One minute, I'm trying to pick out a couple of bugs out of that jumbo-whatsit-pot, then the next thing I know... woosh!

• Third Talak'talan : We gain more knowledge every day. And now we have you to help us learn more.

  Sisko : I don't plan on telling you anything.

  Third Talak'talan : I won't be the one asking the questions.

  Sisko : Who will?

  Third Talak'talan : I was really hoping to meet a Klingon.

• Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : [about Captain Keogh]  Don't you find him just a little arrogant?

  Sisko : Funny, he said the same thing about you.

• [a Jem'Hadar ship has made a suicide run against the Odyssey and caused it to explode] 

  Chief O'Brien : [aghast]  We were retreating. There was no need for a suicide run.

  Sisko : They're showing us how far they're willing to go.

• [Quark is making smalltalk to Sisko on a wild planet] 

  Quark : I'm glad we could talk like this. There's nothing like facing the wilderness to bring people closer.

  Sisko : The answer is still no, Quark.

• Sisko : I want to know why we are being held here.

  Third Talak'talan : That's not my concern.

  Sisko : Then why won't you let us go?

  Third Talak'talan : Because the Founders don't want you released.

  Sisko : And who are the Founders?

  Third Talak'talan : That's not *your* concern.

• Sisko : How did you know that the security barrier is lethal?

  Eris : Because everything about the Jem'Hadar is lethal.

• Sisko : You know, Jake, we really need to get away more often.

  Jake Sisko : I'm ready whenever you are. I'm sure Nog is, too.

• Quark : [During dinner, Sisko is offering Quark more food. Quark refuses by uses his spoon to hold Sisko's label back; trying poorly to conceal his disgust]  I still say there's some dirt in the sauce... and these bugs...

  [sticks his finger in the food and holds it up] 

  Quark : Look at this! They get into everything... it's disgusting!

  Sisko : I though Ferengis liked eating bugs.

  Quark : Only *certain* bugs. Ferengi Bugs!

• Quark : [screaming angrily at Sisko after getting his sleeve caught on fire]  No, I am NOT alright! My ears itch, my nose is running, I am eating foreign bugs! Now... Look at me!

  [points at his burned sleeve of his loudly colored shirt] 

  Quark : One minute I am trying to pick a couple of bugs out of that jumba-whats-it pot, then next thing I know... *WHOOSH!*

  Sisko : Quark, calm down. Look, do us all a favor. Sit down and try to stay out of trouble.

  Quark : [irately]  *What did I do?*

  Nog : [an embarrassed Nog hisses at Quark and runs off in shame into the shrubbery]