Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Progress (1993)

Nana Visitor: Major Kira Nerys

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• Mullibok : [about his times of starvation]  It was mind over matter. Every 26 hours, I'd just tighten up my waist belt another notch, and that way my belly didn't know that it was shrinking.

  Major Kira : Excuse me?

  Mullibok : You wanted to ask me to tell you how I got started here, which I'm very politely trying to do. Now, would you kindly let me finish?

  Major Kira : I assume you found some food before you ran out of belt notches.

  Mullibok : Are you telling the story or am I?

• Major Kira : When I was very small, I remember there was this tree right outside my window. It was the ugliest, most gnarled and battered old tree I'd ever seen. Even the birds stayed away from it.

  Mullibok : But you loved it, huh?

  Major Kira : I hated it! Because it had grown so huge, its branches blocked out the sun for kellipates, and its roots buried themselves so deep in the soil, nothing else could grow there. Oh, it was a... big, selfish, annoying...

  Mullibok : ...nasty...

  Major Kira : ...nasty... nasty old tree.

  Mullibok : Hm... Sounds to me like it had a lot of character.

  Major Kira : A lot.

• Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : [on Morn]  You know, those... seven or eight little wiry hairs that come out of his forehead...

  Major Kira : What?

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Well, they make him look kinda cute.

• Mullibok : You know, you look real good even from this angle. But you know something? You walk like a carnivorous rastipod.

  Major Kira : [unnerved]  Now look...!

  [looks annoyed, but then starts smirking] 

  Major Kira : You're trying to make me mad!

  Mullibok : How am I doing?

  Major Kira : Not well enough to get rid of me.

  Mullibok : Damn!

• [Mullibok tells Kira how he had traveled as a stowaway on board a Cardassian vessel] 

  Mullibok : When we got here to Jerrado, I overpowered the crew and I stole whatever I needed to start building a life here.

  Major Kira : Y... you overpowered the crew? Yourself?

  Mullibok : There was only six of them. That was fortunate for me, because I was somewhat weakened by the captivity and starvation.

• Commander Sisko : Look, I understand you're used to sympathizing with the underdog. You spent your life fighting to overcome impossible odds, just like he's doing. But you have to realize something, Major: you're on the other side now. - Pretty uncomfortable, isn't it?

  Major Kira : It's awful.

• [Kira is threatened by Baltrim and Keena with farm tools] 

  Mullibok : Their problem is, they don't like uniforms.

  Major Kira : Neither do I, but, uh, it comes with the job.

• Mullibok : You're halfway pretty.

  Major Kira : Does that mean I can come in?

• [Kira tries to persuade Mullibok against his will to leave Jerrado] 

  Mullibok : The Cardassians probably told you you didn't stand a chance either. Did you surrender?

  Major Kira : No.

  Mullibok : Why do you expect me to act any different than you? Now you tell them they can start cracking this moon apart whenever they're ready. I'll be here.

• [last lines] 

  Major Kira : Two to beam up.

• Mullibok : What I'm telling you, Major, I tamed this place - me.

  Major Kira : I believe you.