Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Alternate (1994)

James Sloyan: Dr. Mora

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• Dr. Mora : [after finding out about Odo's identity crisis]  What do you think they'll do with you?

  Odo : Do?

  Dr. Mora : They won't know what to do with you! They'll put you in a high-security prison, or quarantine you on a deserted asteroid in the Gamma Quadrant. Odo, they'll put you in a zoo!

  Odo : [flustered]  I don't... believe that. You don't know them.

  Dr. Mora : What other humanoid have you been able to trust except me?

  Odo : [incensed]  What makes you think I trust you?

• Dr. Mora : Constable?

  Odo : It's a nickname that I barely tolerate.

  Dr. Mora : It's an expression of affection that you find difficult to accept.

• Dr. Mora : [about Odo]  I never thought he could do it - integrate successfully. If you could have seen him before. He was so ill-prepared to be on his own, I was sure he'd come back. I told him when he left, he'd come back. And all these years I was so certain that eventually, one day he'd show up at the lab... Well, I guess I'd better get used to the idea he's not going to.

• Odo : Dr. Mora... I want to be sure, you understand... I had no idea.

  Dr. Mora : You had to speak in a voice loud enough for me to hear.

  Odo : I'm... sorry.

  Dr. Mora : I'm sorry it was necessary.

• Dr. Mora : I've done it to you again, haven't I, Odo? Make you a prisoner. Dear God, what have I done?

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Mora : I would like - in a very small way - to be part of your life again, your life here, on the station. From time to time, we could talk about things that matter to you, to us.

  Odo : I'd like that.

• Mora : I'm beginning to think that the scientific method and police method have a lot in common.

  Odo : I never thought of it that way. Perhaps they do.

  Mora : In science, we look for the obvious. We track in a straight line. If something looks too good to be true, it usually isn't true. If there appears to be more to something than meets the eye, there usually is more. We take it step by step.