Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Adversary (1995)

Ken Marshall: Michael Eddington

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• Michael Eddington : Captain - I just want to say that... I agree with what Chief O'Brien said. About your promotion. It's about time.

  Captain Sisko : I appreciate the sentiment, Commander, but it really doesn't change anything. I have the assignment I want, I have the crew that I want. The rank doesn't make much difference.

  Michael Eddington : You'd be surprised. People don't enter Starfleet to become commanders, or admirals, for that matter. It's the captain's chair that everyone has their eye on. That's what I wanted when I joined up... You don't get to be a captain wearing a gold uniform.

  Captain Sisko : You could always transfer from Security to Command.

  Michael Eddington : [with fake naivety]  Then who would protect the Ambassador?

• Odo : [on using a phaser on a fellow Changeling]  In the history of my people, no Changeling has ever harmed another. I'd hate to be the first.

  Michael Eddington : Apparently that Changeling doesn't feel the same way. If we don't stop him, no one on board will escape unharmed, including you.

  Odo : You may be right. But I've been a Security officer most of my humanoid existence; and in all that time, I've never found it necessary to fire a weapon, or take a life. I don't intend to start now.

• Michael Eddington : [Eddington fires off a phaser blast in the Jefferies tube trying to expose a Changeling infiltrator aboard the Defiant]  Don't you ever sweat?

  Odo : No, I don't. It's the modified phaser beam. It's heating up the air.

  Michael Eddington : You know... this would be a lot easier if we knew where he was hiding. Where would you be if you were him?

  Odo : I wouldn't know. I'm not him.

  Michael Eddington : He is one of your people. Can't you put yourself in his position? Try to anticipate his next move?

  Odo : I've thought about it. But the truth is... I don't understand my people all that well.

  Michael Eddington : That's too bad.

  Odo : Yes, it is.

  Michael Eddington : For all of us.