Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Dax (1993)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

Quotes 

• Enina Tandro : My husband was not the hero in life that he was in death, Mr. Odo. In death, he became a legend, and I became a legend's wife. There're people who didn't even know my husband, who still contact me. Decades after his death, they still mourn him.

  Odo : But you don't?

  Enina Tandro : No. Because I knew the man before he became a legend. But I also know my place in history. My place is to carry on bravely, never to remarry, to represent my husband at the banquets given in his name, but never, never to talk about who he really was. Because nobody wants to hear that.

  Odo : They may have to hear it now.

  Enina Tandro : [smiling wryly]  No matter what is said, they will still embrace his memory. For he was, and always will be, the hero who died for his people.

  Enina Tandro : [after a pause]  But perhaps it's time for my place in history to change.

• Odo : This case has thirty years of dust covering it. The extradition hearing will take about thirty minutes.

  Commander Sisko : I was hoping to make it a little longer than that.

  Odo : Good luck.

• [Quark has refused to close his bar for the extradition hearing out of business reasons] 

  Odo : Since the provisional government took over, they've got their hands into everything and of course, I'm the one who's expected to enforce their rules here.

  Quark : Ha!

  Odo : You know, I think this bar is just a little too near the exit.

  Quark : This is blackmail.

  Odo : No, it's just business. And "business is business".

• Odo : It says Dax betrayed the Klaestron government to the rebels.

  Commander Sisko : It's all nonsense, Constable, I'm telling you, I knew the man!

  Odo : But did you know the symbiont *inside* the man?

• Odo : Treason plus the murder of his own best friend, huh - strange business. If those charges *are* true, I'd want to hang Curzon Dax up by his heels myself.

  Commander Sisko : Thanks for the confidence.