Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Emperor's New Cloak (1999)

Armin Shimerman: Quark

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Quotes 

• Ezri Tigan : If you're found in Alliance territory without the cloaking device, you're dead.

  Quark : Are you suggesting we should go back home?

  Ezri Tigan : It's the smart move.

  Quark : Do we look smart to you?

• Quark : Now, if you give us the Nagus, we'll be on our way, and you can go on with your plans for mass destruction, genocide and all those other good things.

• Quark : I can't believe it - Julian just shot Vic Fontaine!

  Rom : I thought Vic was his favorite singer. No wonder they call it the "alternate" universe.

• [first lines] 

  Quark : [observing Dax and Bashir in an animated conversation]  Have you ever seen anything so disgusting? The way he's undressing her with his eyes... And look at his hands!

  Odo : What about his hands?

  Quark : His gestures, they're obscene. You should arrest him.

  Odo : You're joking.

  Quark : He's pitiful. Doesn't he realize she loves me?

  Odo : I don't think he does. To be honest, I don't think she does either.

  Quark : Thanks for your support.

• Zek : [on a recorded message]  You'll never guess where I am!

  Quark : Risa?

  Zek : If you said Risa, guess again.

• [Quark is visited in his quarters, apparently from Ezri Dax, who attacks him twisting his arm on his back] 

  Ezri Tigan : Anyone else here?

  Quark : [suggestive]  Just you and me.

  [she pushes him forward to the next room] 

  Ezri Tigan : Is that the bedroom?

  [Ezri thrusts him brutally against the wall] 

  Quark : I owe you... Ow! Does it have to be so rough the first time?

  Ezri Tigan : [holding a knife to Quark's throat]  I don't know what you think is going on here, but think again!

• Quark : He's the Nagus. He's the man my mother loves, not to mention he's the head of the Ferengi Alliance.

  Ezri Tigan : In other words, he's rich!

  Quark : [chuckles]  They don't come any richer.

  Ezri Tigan : I see. How much are you expecting to get out of him?

  Quark : Knowing the Nagus, I'd say, a pat on the head and a fistful of empty promises.

  Ezri Tigan : I don't understand.

  Quark : There's nothing to understand. He's my Nagus; and when your Nagus gets in trouble, you're supposed to do something about it.

  Ezri Tigan : Why?

  Quark : I don't know - loyalty.

  Ezri Tigan : [incredulous]  You're kidding me, right? You're doing this out of loyalty?

  Quark : Would you stop looking at me like that? You're making me feel like an idiot.

  Ezri Tigan : I hope so.

• [Rom and Quark are toiling away carrying something invisible] 

  Rom : I told you, cloaking the cloaking device was a good idea.

  Quark : Brilliant. But couldn't you have done something about its weight?

  Rom : Uuh... nope. But if it makes you feel any better, the cloaking device on the Defiant is a lot heavier.

  Quark : Tell it to my hernia.

• Rom : [about alternate Brunt]  He's so nice...

  Quark : Scary, isn't it?

• [Ezri Tigan, Quark and Rom arrive in the alternate universe] 

  Rom : It didn't work.

  Ezri Tigan : Yes, it did. We're on Terok Nor.

  Rom : It looks like Deep Space Nine to me.

  Quark : I suppose a cargo bay is a cargo bay, no matter what universe you're in.

• Quark : I still don't understand why you'd want to come here in the first place.

  Zek : Simple, really. I came to find new financial opportunities for the Ferengi people.

  Rom : In the alternate universe?

  Zek : Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.