Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Paradise (1994)

Avery Brooks: Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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• Commander Sisko : [reading]  "The common conceit that the human species has evolved over the last several centuries is ludicrous. What gains we have made have come at the cost of our own core identities. Man has lost touch with his true power."

  Chief O'Brien : Sounds like it took a crash landing for her to find her paradise.

• [Sisko reads in Alixus' journal about her views about mankind] 

  Commander Sisko : ...She says we have become fat and lazy and dull.

  Chief O'Brien : My wife told me something along those lines just last week.

• Alixus : No one follows me; they follow their own hearts.

  Commander Sisko : My heart tells me to try to get back to my ship.

  Alixus : I'm sure it does. But if we'd had that attitude for the last ten years, we wouldn't have been doing what was necessary to survive here - to find the plants, herbs, molds that cure disease. We've conquered seventeen illnesses, with the most powerful resource man has: his ingenuity.

  Commander Sisko : An interesting philosophy. And while we're debating it, a woman is dying.

  Alixus : We're doing everything we can for her.

  Commander Sisko : No, we're not.

• Commander Sisko : [after being stranded on a planet]  I hope you find a few more of those talents you never knew you had...

• Alixus : That's the first core behavior I've seen from you since you arrived.

  Commander Sisko : 'Core behavior' - does that chapter come before or after sexual procurement?

• Alixus : Cassandra came to me; she was worried. She sensed that you weren't happy.

  Commander Sisko : She was right about that.

• Commander Sisko : You never had much use for technology, did you? It's interesting how you happened to crash on a planet that fit your philosophy of life so well.

  Alixus : I agree. In fact, I've started writing a book about our experiences. I've been wondering if in the ancient religions of man there aren't some new truths to be found, something, to explain how sometimes fate delivers us exactly where we need to be.

  Commander Sisko : [sarcastic]  Perhaps one day, you'll even feel the hand of God on your shoulder.