Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Emissary (1993)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

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Quotes 

• Quark : Commander, I've made a career out of knowing when to leave. And this Bajoran provisional government is far too provisional for my taste. And when governments fall, people like me are lined up and shot.

  Commander Benjamin Sisko : There is that risk. But then, you are a gambler, Quark.

  Odo : And a thief.

  Commander Benjamin Sisko : You know, Quark, that poor boy is about to spend the best years of his life in a Bajoran prison. I'm a father myself. I know what your brother must be going through. The boy should be with his family, not in some cold jail cell. Think about it. It's up to you.

  [He exits] 

  Odo : You know, at first, I didn't think I was going to like him.

• Commander Benjamin Sisko : My officers, Bajoran engineers, all their families depend on the shops and services of this promenade. If people like you abandon it, this is going to become a ghost town. We need someone to step forward and say "I'm staying. I'm rebuilding". We need a community leader, and it's going to be - you, Quark!

  Quark : [guffaws]  Community leader!

  Odo : Seems reasonable. You have all the character references of a politician.

• Commander Benjamin Sisko : It's really quite simple, Quark. You're not going to leave.

  Quark : Not going to leave? But we're packed and ready to go.

  Commander Benjamin Sisko : Unpack.

  Quark : I don't understand, Commander. Why would you want me to stay?

  Constable Odo : I'm curious myself. The man is a gambler and a thief.

  Quark : I'm not a thief.

  Constable Odo : You are a thief!

  Quark : If I am, you haven't been able to prove it for four years.

• Odo : Most people in my experience wouldn't know reason if it walked up and shook their hand. You can count Gul Dukat among them.

• Major Kira : I cannot justify taking you into this wormhole. We have no idea what we're dealing with in there; it could be hostile...

  Odo : Major, I was found in the Denorios Belt. I don't know where I came from. No idea if there are any others like me. All my life I've been forced to pass myself off as one of you, always wondering who I really am. Well, the answers to a lot of my questions may be somewhere on the other side of that wormhole.

• Odo : [on seeing Sisko for the first time, annoyed]  Who the hell are you?

• [Odo's first line of the series] 

  Odo : Yes, Major?

• [arriving on the Promenade, Bashir crouches over a badly wounded woman, grabs Odo's hand and guides it to a spot on the woman's neck] 

  Dr. Bashir : Press there, hard.

  Odo : Uh... look, Doctor, maybe I should find you someone more...

  Dr. Bashir : *Hold-it-there.*

  [Odo shuts up] 

• [during the battle] 

  Odo : [over comm]  Odo to Ops!

  Kira Nerys : Go ahead.

  Odo : I've got wounded people down here! Have you seen that doctor of your anywhere?

  Dr. Bashir : I'm on my way!