Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places (1996)

Terry Farrell: Lt. Cmdr. Jadzia Dax

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• Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : You know, for a Klingon who was raised by Humans, wears a Starfleet uniform and drinks prune juice, you're pretty attached to tradition. But that's okay - I like a man riddled with contradictions.

• Doctor Bashir : [running a medical scanner over Quark]  A compound fracture of the right radius, 2 fractured ribs, torn ligaments, strained tendons, numerous contusions, bruises, and scratches. What have you been doing?

  Quark : You mean,

  [trades a Look with Grilka] 

  Quark : what have *we* been doing?

  Doctor Bashir : [realization dawning]  Never mind. I don't need that particular image running around in my head. I'll just treat you.

  Doctor Bashir : [the door opens, and a battered Dax and Worf enter]  What happened to you two?

  Lt. Commander Worf : We, um...

  [looks to Dax] 

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Well, um... if you must know...

  Doctor Bashir : No! No, I don't need that image, either. In fact, I'm going to stop asking that question altogether! People can come in, I will treat them, and that's all!

• Lt. Commander Worf : I am a fool.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : You're in love. Which, I suppose, is the same thing.

• Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : What is it you see in her anyway? I mean, she's attractive, but other than that?

  Lt. Commander Worf : It is everything about her. The way she carries herself, confident and strong. She commands those around her. The proud tilt of her head, the way her face betrays none of her true feelings, the power of her voice. And her eyes, they're as hard as separ gemstones, and twice as sharp.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Sounds like you're describing a statue. What would you do with a woman like that? Put her up on a pedestal and clean her every week?

• [Worf elaborates how to properly court Grilka] 

  Quark : Then what?

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Well, either she accepts your offer... or she has her bodyguard shatter every bone in your body.

  Quark : Sounds reasonable.

• Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Worf, it sounds like you have a bad case of par'Mach.

  Captain Sisko : Is that contagious?

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Par'Mach is the Klingon word for love, but - with more aggressive overtones.

  Captain Sisko : Love? Worf?

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Stranger things have happened.

  Captain Sisko : Especially around here.

• Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : The truth is, Worf... at heart, you're not much of a traditional man.

• Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : If I were in your shoes, I would be looking for someone a little more entertaining, a little more fun and maybe even a little more attainable.

  Lt. Commander Worf : You are not in my shoes.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Too bad. You'd be amazed at what I can do in a pair of size 18 boots.