Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Waltz (1998)

Avery Brooks: Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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• Gul Dukat : [of the Bajorans]  I hated everything about them! Their superstitions, and their cries for sympathy, their treachery and their lies. Their smug superiority and their stiff-necked obstinacy. Their earrings, and their broken, wrinkled noses!

  Captain Sisko : You should have killed them all, hm?

  Gul Dukat : Yes! Yes! That's right, isn't it? I knew it! I've always known it! I should've killed every last one of them! I should've turned their planet into a graveyard the likes of which the galaxy had never seen! I should have killed them all.

  [Sisko clubs him over the back with a metal pole] 

  Captain Sisko : And that is why you're not an evil man?

• Gul Dukat : About my daughter... You and Major Kira took care of her for almost a year. I wanted to thank you for that, it was very generous.

  Captain Sisko : Ziyal was a very special young woman. It was a pleasure to have her with us, even if it was only a short time.

  Gul Dukat : A short time is all she ever had.

• Gul Dukat : No more pretense, no games! Just you, me and the truth.

  Captain Sisko : What do you know about the truth? You bend the truth into whatever shape suits you.

• [first lines] 

  Captain Sisko : Captain's log, stardate 51408.6. I've been aboard the Honshu for two days now, and I still haven't spoken to him, although the doctors have assured me that he's made a full recovery. Maybe that's what I'm afraid of. Maybe I prefer to think of him as a crazy man, a broken man. He'd be less dangerous that way. As terrible as it sounds, there's a part of me that wishes he were dead. But that's a thought unworthy of a Starfleet officer. He lost an empire, he lost his daughter, and he nearly lost his mind. Whatever his crimes, isn't that enough punishment for one lifetime?

• [last lines] 

  Captain Sisko : You know, old man, sometimes life seems so complicated. Nothing is truly good or truly evil. Everything seems to be a shade of gray. And then you spend some time with a man like Dukat, and you realize that there is such a thing as truly evil.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : To realize that is one thing. To do something about it is another. So what are you going to do?

  Captain Sisko : I'll tell you what I'm not going to do: I'm not going to let him destroy Bajor. I fear no evil. From now on, it's him... or me.

• Captain Sisko : Is there anything I can get for you?

  Gul Dukat : Hmm. A bottle of kanar and an Orion slave girl would be nice.

  Captain Sisko : [smiling in spite of himself]  I'll see what I can do.

• Major Kira : He's patronizing you!

  [sardonically] 

  Major Kira : "You were a soldier and you had to carry out your orders." He doesn't believe that lame excuse any more than I do.

  Gul Dukat : This is growing tiresome.

  Capt. Benjamin Sisko : Dukat? Dukat! I thought you wanted to talk to me.

  Gul Dukat : Yes! But Nerys won't leave well enough alone. She's always interfering! Always trying to upset me!

  Capt. Benjamin Sisko : Maybe we should just ignore her. Let's pretend that the Major's not even here.