Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Cardassians (1993)

Alexander Siddig: Doctor Julian Bashir

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• Commander Sisko : I assume this couldn't wait until morning?

  Doctor Bashir : No, sir. I-I need to use a runabout...

  Commander Sisko : I'm waiting.

  Doctor Bashir : It's Garak, sir. He wants to go to Bajor.

  Commander Sisko : Bajor? For what?

  Doctor Bashir : ...He wouldn't tell me.

  Commander Sisko : Well, by all means. Will one runabout be enough?

• Doctor Bashir : But there's one more question I haven't figured out, Garak. Why did you want to expose Dukat? What's the truth about you and him?

  Elim Garak : Truth, Doctor, is in the eye of the beholder. I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing. That's why I prefer the straight-line simplicity of cutting cloth.

• Doctor Bashir : [on Gul Dukat, after a conversation with him on subspace]  He's lying.

  Commander Sisko : Is that an opinion, or do you have evidence to support it?

  Doctor Bashir : I have Garak.

  Commander Sisko : Garak?

  Doctor Bashir : He seems to think there's more going on here than we realize.

  Commander Sisko : What exactly does he think is going on?

  Doctor Bashir : I'm not sure. He doesn't actually tell me what he really thinks. I sort of have to deduce it.

  Commander Sisko : Ah. So, you deduced that Garak thinks Dukat is lying about something you're not sure of, and you proceeded to interrupt my conversation to confront him about whatever that might be.

  Doctor Bashir : [sighs]  I'm sorry, Commander. It just seemed an opportune...

  Commander Sisko : Don't apologize. It's been the high-point of my day. *Don't* do it again.

• Elim Garak : Really, Doctor, must we always play this game? I'm no more a spy than you are a...

  Doctor Bashir : ...a doctor.

• [Garak is repairing the resettlement center's computers himself] 

  Doctor Bashir : I continue to underestimate you, Garak.

  Elim Garak : Oh, it's no more difficult than sewing on a button actually. Excuse me.

  [He takes an electronic loupe out of his eye] 

  Doctor Bashir : You carry this everywhere with you, do you?

  Elim Garak : A simple tailoring tool. You'd be surprised how often someone needs their pants let out.

• Doctor Bashir : The damnedest thing just happened - Garak the tailor was attacked.

  Odo : Attacked? Where?

  Doctor Bashir : At the replimat. He was bitten in the hand.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Another unsatisfied customer?

  Chief O'Brien : He always cuts the pants too long.

• Elim Garak : Children without parents have no status in Cardassian society. The situation is most unfortunate, but I don't make the rules.

  Doctor Bashir : But you *do* play the game, don't you, Garak? And there is a game being played right now as we speak, isn't there?

  Elim Garak : There are always games, Doctor.

  Doctor Bashir : The trouble is, I don't have the slightest idea what this game is all about. So you're gonna tell me what's going on inside that plain and simple head of yours, my Cardassian friend, or we're gonna sit here until we rot!

• Doctor Bashir : [Garak on Dukat]  I don't think he likes him very much.

• [first lines] 

  Elim Garak : Aah. Tarkalean tea again, doctor?

  Doctor Bashir : Yes. And you're drinking Rokassa joice, Garak.

• [last lines] 

  Doctor Bashir : So you're not going to tell me.

  Elim Garak : But you don't need me to tell you. Just notice the details. They're sacttered like crumbs all over this table we regularly share. Until next time.