Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Dax (1993)

Avery Brooks: Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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• Ilon Tandro : [after trying to abduct Dax off the station]  My name is Ilon Tandro, special envoy from Klaestron IV, in charge of this extradition procedure.

  Commander Sisko : Extradition? I call this kidnapping and assault.

• Commander Sisko : I want you to find all the medical evidence you can to support the theory that Jadzia Dax and Curzon Dax are two entirely separate people. Major...

  Doctor Bashir : Excuse me, sir, I-I don't know that there is any medical evidence on that.

  Commander Sisko : Assume there is, then find it.

• [Sisko has asked Kira to search for precedents involving Trills] 

  Major Kira : Is a Trill responsible for the conduct - for the acts - of its antecedent selves?

  Commander Sisko : Right, that kind of thing.

  Major Kira : What if I find the answer is yes?

  Commander Sisko : Then *that* answer is wrong. From this minute on, our answer is 'no'.

• Odo : This case has thirty years of dust covering it. The extradition hearing will take about thirty minutes.

  Commander Sisko : I was hoping to make it a little longer than that.

  Odo : Good luck.

• Odo : It says Dax betrayed the Klaestron government to the rebels.

  Commander Sisko : It's all nonsense, Constable, I'm telling you, I knew the man!

  Odo : But did you know the symbiont *inside* the man?

• Major Kira : What was exactly your relationship with Curzon Dax?

  Commander Sisko : He took a raw young ensign under his wing, and taught me to appreciate life in ways I'd never thought about before. He taught me about art, and science, and diplomacy. Whatever sense of honor I might have today, he nurtured. Treason, murder - he was not capable of those things.

• Odo : Treason plus the murder of his own best friend, huh - strange business. If those charges *are* true, I'd want to hang Curzon Dax up by his heels myself.

  Commander Sisko : Thanks for the confidence.

• Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : When one of my kind stumbles, Benjamin, it is a mistake that's there forever. I can't tell you which part of Curzon Dax couldn't stop himself from acting shamefully with another man's wife. I can tell you that he did love her - for whatever that's worth.

  Commander Sisko : Enough to kill her husband?

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : So you are questioning?

  Commander Sisko : What else can I do?

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Nothing, Benjamin. Nothing at all.

• [first lines] 

  Commander Sisko : Station log, Stardate 46910.1. Chief O'Brian has escorted his wife back to Earth to celebrate his mother's 100th birthday. In the meantime, the rest of us are trying to keep the station up and running.

• Commander Sisko : Are you really willing to commit suicide over something done in another lifetime?