Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Abandoned (1994)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

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• Major Kira : I never thought I would say this to you, Odo, but you are listening to your heart, not your head. That boy was created in a laboratory! His body, his mind, his instincts, are all designed to do one thing: to kill.

  Odo : My body, mind, and instincts were designed to be a Founder. You were trained to be a terrorist. But each of us chose to be something different. I just want to give him the same chance we've had!

  Major Kira : All right. Give him a chance. Just don't forget, he is a Jem'Hadar. He's dangerous!

• Odo : No one on this station is better than anyone else. We're all equal.

• [Sisko has been ordered to send the Jem'Hadar to another starbase] 

  Commander Sisko : There will be a complete team of xenobiologists and exopsychologists waiting for him.

  Odo : So they're going to study him, like a laboratory specimen.

  Commander Sisko : Well, he'll be very well treated.

  Odo : [sarcastically]  So he'll be a well treated specimen.

• Odo : I also know what it's like to be a specimen in a laboratory. Oh, I'm sure they'll treat him very well. No one will risk harming their new prize. They'll be courteous, caring, treat him like he's among friends, but in the end, he'll be just another specimen to them, something to be analyzed and cataloged. Give me the chance to find out if he really is just a programed killing machine - or if we can help him become something else.

• Odo : Is that all you can think about? Killing? Isn't there anything else you care about?

  Jem'Hadar Teenager : I don't think so.

• Odo : We need to find other interests for you to pursue. For the moment, why don't you relax? Try not to be so tense. Take it easy. Smile.

• Jem'Hadar Teenager : Why do you want to look like a humanoid? You're better than they are. You're a Changeling.

  Odo : That doesn't make me better. Just different.

• [last lines] 

  Odo : Major - about the boy... You were right.

• Chief O'Brien : [referring to the Founders]  I still don't understand why they would engineer someone to be addicted to a certain chemical.

  Odo : I suspect it's another way of ensuring the loyalty of the Jem'Hadar to the Founders. If your soldiers are addicted to a drug that can't be replicated and only you can provide, that gives you a great deal of control over them.

  Chief O'Brien : Seems a pretty cold-blooded thing to do.

  Odo : My people don't have blood, Chief.

• Jem'Hadar Teenager : I now know that anyone who is not a Jem'Hadar, is my enemy.

  Odo : Does that include me?

• Odo : [to a teenage Jem'Hadar Odo's taken to one of Quark's Holosuites]  In here, you can indulge yourself. You can let your instincts take over. Fight until you're ready to stop, but at a price. Out there you have to control yourself. You have to learn restraint. Learn how to live peacefully among other races regardless of how you may feel. Learn to contain your feelings of aggression and violence.