Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

For the Uniform (1997)

Terry Farrell: Lt. Cmdr. Jadzia Dax

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• Sisko : [letting off steam pummeling a punch bag]  He worked under me for a year and a half. I saw him almost every day, read his reports, had him for dinner. I even took him to a baseball game in a holosuite once, and I never saw it! It's my job to be a good judge of character, and what did I do? Not only did I not see it, I put him up for a promotion.

  [shouts angrily] 

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : He played his hand well.

  Sisko : He played me all right. And what is my excuse? Is he a Changeling? No! Is he a being with seven lifetimes of experience? No! Is he a wormhole alien? No! He's just a man, like me - arrgh! And he beat me!

• Sisko : "Les Misérables" isn't about the policeman. It's about Valjean - the victim of a monstrous injustice, who spends his entire life helping people, making noble sacrifices for others. That's how Eddington sees himself: he is Valjean, he's Robin Hood, he's a romantic, dashing figure, fighting the good fight against insurmountable odds.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : The secret life of Michael Eddington.

• Sisko : All right, say it.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : What?

  Sisko : That I have lost all perspective, that I'm turning this into a vendetta between me and Eddington, and that I am putting the ship, the crew, and my entire career at risk, and if I had any brains at all, I'd go back to my office, sit down, and read Odo's crime reports.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : I wasn't going to say that.

  Sisko : But that's what you were thinking, right?

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : No. Actually, what I was thinking is... you're becoming more like Curzon all the time.

  Sisko : I don't know how to take that.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Consider it a compliment. And the next time *I* go off, half-cocked on some wild-eyed adventure, think back to this moment, and be a little more understanding.

• Sisko : Eddington is the hero of his own story. That makes me the villain. And what is it that every hero wants to do?

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Kill the bad guy.

• [last lines] 

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Benjamin, I'm curious. Your plan to poison the Maquis planets - you didn't clear it with Starfleet first, did you?

  Sisko : I knew I'd forgotten to do something.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Big gamble.

  Sisko : That's what it takes to be a good villain.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : You know, sometimes I like it when the bad guy wins.

• Sisko : You win some, you lose some.

  Dax : You always had problems with the "lose some" part of that.