Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Melora (1993)

Daphne Ashbrook: Melora Pazlar

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• Melora : [to Bashir]  Maybe independence isn't all it's cracked up to be; I kind of like how it feels to be dependent on someone for a change. And I'm glad you got me to unlock the doors to my quarters, so I could finally let someone into my life.

• Melora : I'm sorry if I seem overly sensitive. But I'm used to being shut out of the Melora problem. The truth is, there is no Melora problem - until people create one.

• Doctor Bashir : Melora, no one on this station is completely independent. In space, we all depend on one another, to some degree.

  Melora : I just want you all to know that you can depend on me.

  Doctor Bashir : You've proven that. Now, what do the rest of us have to do to convince you?

  Melora : Of what?

  Doctor Bashir : That you can depend on us.

• [Dr. Bashir has given Melora a treatment enabling her to walk around without motor controls] 

  Melora : I don't understand myself. How can I possibly have second thoughts? This would mean real independence. It's everything I ever wished for. But then I start to think about home, and how I will never be able to go back. Well, maybe just for a short visit, but... never *really* go back.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : The Little Mermaid.

  Melora : Mermaid?

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : It's an Earth fable by Hans Christian Andersen. She trades her magical life under the sea for a pair of legs, to walk on land.

  Melora : Didn't she live happily ever after?

• [being an Elaysian, Melora has to use a wheelchair to get around the station] 

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Julian knows more of your capabilities than any of us.

  Melora : I don't need a medical opinion to tell me my own capabilities.

  Commander Sisko : Ensign.

  Melora : I simply object to being treated like someone who is ill.

  Commander Sisko : I don't see anybody doing that.

  Melora : Try sitting in the chair, Commander. No one can understand until they sit in the chair.

• Melora : There's nothing worse than half-dead racht.

• [Melora and Bashir - a little clumsier - are floating in a low gravity environment] 

  Doctor Bashir : [ecstatic]  This is astonishing! I can't tell you how curios I was about this.

  Melora : Most people are. Sometimes they make me feel like a carnival attraction. So usually I prefer to keep everyone out.

  Doctor Bashir : Well, thank you - for letting me in.

• [Melora and Dax are discussing subspace relationships] 

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Love across light years - it's just so...

  Melora : It lacks intimacy.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : You could say that.

  Melora : I finish my mission here, I move on to the next one...

  [sighs] 

  Melora : What kind of future is that for a romance?

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Look at the alternative.

  Melora : I guess.

• [last lines] 

  Melora : I want to remember all of this.

• Melora Pazlar : I dreamt about exploring the stars as a child. And I wasn't going to allow any *handicap*, not a chair, not a Cardassian station, to stop me from chasing that dream.