Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Afterimage (1998)

Avery Brooks: Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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Quotes 

• Captain Sisko : What are you gonna learn in the next few months that you haven't already learned in the last 300 years?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Oh, how to keep from breaking into tears for no reason... How to resist the urge to stand on my head - things like that.

  Captain Sisko : Why are you standing on your head, by the way?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Emony used to do it.

  Captain Sisko : The gymnast?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : She found it relaxing.

  Captain Sisko : Do you?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Actually, it's giving me a headache.

• [Dax has been promoted to full counselor] 

  Captain Sisko : [to Dax]  Congratulations, Lieutenant. I want you to take a good look around. You have just agreed to take responsibility for the mental health of everyone in this room. You have your work cut out for you.

  Doctor Bashir : Well, I'm glad they made you a lieutenant. It would've been hard taking advice from an ensign.

  Chief O'Brien : Since when did you take advice from anyone?

• Jake Sisko : [about Ezri Dax]  She is cute.

  Captain Sisko : She is also about 300 years too old for you.

• Ensign Ezri Dax : I told him all about Trill traditions - Jadzia did. We discussed them - *they* discussed them.

  Captain Sisko : I understand.

  Ensign Ezri Dax : These pronouns are going to drive me crazy!

• [Dax has decided to leave Starfleet] 

  Captain Sisko : Well, if you're leaving Starfleet, you'll have to find something to do. Let's see. Maybe you could become one of the people who take care of the symbiont pools. It's quiet in those caves, no one around, no one expecting great things of you. You could spend the rest of your life underground, in the dark, stirring mud. Eighty or ninety years of that just might be what you need. And as for Dax, that symbiont had eight amazing lives. So what if the ninth was a waste?

• Ensign Ezri Dax : It means a lot to me that you want me to stay, but... I can't.

  Captain Sisko : Because of Worf?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Mostly.

  Captain Sisko : Well... you just say the word, and I will intimidate him for you.