Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

When It Rains... (1999)

Barry Jenner: Admiral Ross

Quotes 

• [the Klingons are performing a ritual where they have to cut open their hands] 

  Captain Sisko : We're next.

  Admiral Ross : You're kidding.

  Captain Sisko : I wish I were.

• Admiral Ross : Well, gentlemen, it seems as if the Klingon fleet is the only thing that stands between us and the Dominion.

  Velal : What have we come to?

• [first lines] 

  O'Brien : Basically, we stumbled onto it by accident. At Chin'toka, our entire fleet was disabled when the Breen used their energy dampening weapon. 311 ships, Federation, Klingon and Romulan, all lost power.

  Sisko : But one didn't. A Bird of Prey called the Ki'tang.

  Ross : Why? What was different about the Ki'tang?

  O'Brien : We're not really sure. The only thing we can figure is that just prior to the engagement, their chief engineer adjusted the tritium intermix to compensate for a containment problem in the warp core.

  Martok : I've ordered every vessel in the Klingon fleet to adjust its reactor in the same way.

  Velal : Our vessels are of a different design. Can this technique be adapted to protect them as well?

  Sisko : Unfortunately, no. Your ships are still vulnerable and so are ours.

  O'Brien : I've sent everything we know about the Breen weapon to the Romulan Ministry of Science and to Starfleet Engineering, but realistically, it's going to take a while before they can figure out a way to protect our ships.

  Sisko : Thank you, Mister O'Brien.