Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Emissary (1993)

Cirroc Lofton: Jake Sisko

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Quotes 

• Sisko : In the end, it comes down to throwing one pitch after another, and seeing what happens. With each new consequence, the game begins to take shape.

  Alien Batter : And you have no idea what that shape is until it is completed?

  Sisko : That's right. In fact, the game wouldn't be worth playing if we knew what was going to happen.

  Jake Prophet : You value your ignorance of what is to come?

  Sisko : That may be the most important thing to understand about humans. It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge. And that is why I am here. Not to conquer you with weapons, or with ideas. But to coexist... and learn.

• [Sisko is trying to explain 'past' to the Prophets] 

  Jake Prophet : What comes before now is no different than what is now. Or what is to come. It is one's existence.

  Sisko : Then for you, there is no linear time.

• Alien Batter : Aggressive. Adversarial.

  Sisko : Competition, for fun. It's a game that Jake and I play on the holodeck. It's called 'baseball'!

  Jake Prophet : Baseball? What is this?

  Sisko : I was afraid you'd ask that.

• [Jake Sisko's first line of the series] 

  Jake Sisko : Small fries - threw 'em back. Wanna go for a swim?