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"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
For the Uniform (1997)

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[Sisko is trying to arrest a former security officer turned traitor]
Odo: Sir, have you ever reminded Starfleet Command that they stationed Eddington here because they didn't trust me?
Sisko: No.
Odo: Please do.

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Michael Eddington: You just don't understand the Maquis, do you, Captain? We're not killers. Mr. Cing'ta's accident has marooned him on a particularly nasty planet in the Badlands. But I assure you, he is very much alive.
Sisko: How merciful. You condemned him to a slow death.
Michael Eddington: It's more than he deserved. He was trying to sell us out to you. He betrayed us.
Sisko: Now, there's a subject *you* know a lot about.

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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 the 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 - arrg! And he beat me!

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Michael Eddington: Tell me, Captain, what is it that bothers you more - the fact that I left Starfleet to fight for a higher cause? Or the fact that it happened on your watch?

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Michael Eddington: Look at them, Captain. They're humans - just like you and me. And Starfleet took everything away from them. Remember that the next time you put on that uniform. There's a war out there, and you're on the wrong side.
Sisko: You know what I see out there, Mr. Eddington? I see victims. But not of Cardassia or the Federation. Victims of you, the Maquis.

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Sisko: All right, say it.
Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: What?
Sisko: That I have lost all my 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.

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Michael Eddington: Can't you see what's happening to you? You're going against everything you claim to believe in. And for what? To satisfy a personal vendetta?
Sisko: You betrayed your uniform!
Michael Eddington: And you're betraying yours right now! The sad part is, you don't even realize it. I feel sorry for you, Captain. This obsession with me - look what it's cost you.

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Odo: I remembered something that Eddington once said to me: the best place to hide something is in plain sight.

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Michael Eddington: Pay close attention to the character of Inspector Javert - the French policeman who spends twenty years chasing a man for stealing a loaf of bread. Sound like anyone you know?
Sisko: Why don't you beam over and we'll discuss it?

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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.

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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.

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Sisko: I think it's time for me to become the villain.

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

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Captain Sanders: Do me a favour.
Sisko: Of course.
Captain Sanders: Save me a seat at his court martial.

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

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