Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Duet (1993)

Nana Visitor: Major Kira Nerys

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• [last lines] 

  [Kainon has fatally stabbed Marritza in the back] 

  Major Kira : Why? He wasn't Dar'heel! Why?

  Kainon : He's a Cardassian! That's reason enough!

  Major Kira : No!... It's not.

• Major Kira : Enough good people have already died. I won't help kill another.

• Major Kira : Nothing justifies genocide.

  Marritza : What you call genocide, I call a day's work.

• Major Kira : Marritza says, I don't care about the truth, that all I want is vengeance.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Are you worried that maybe he's right?

  Major Kira : All I want is to see him punished.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Even if he *is* just a file clerk?

  Major Kira : That's just it, I don't want him to be just a file clerk. I want him to be... I don't know, something worse.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : You want him to be guilty.

  Major Kira : As far as I'm concerned, if he was at Gallitep, he is guilty. They're all guilty. His punishment will let Bajor feel some... satisfaction.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : It sounds like you're trying too hard to believe what you're saying. You already know, if you punish him without reason, it won't mean anything. And you already know, vengeance... isn't enough.

• Major Kira : [Describing the Gallitep labor camp]  Commander, if you'd been there twelve years ago when we liberated that camp, if you'd seen the things I saw. All those Bajoran bodies starved, brutalized. Do you know what Cardassian policy was? Oh, I'm not even talking about the murder. Murder was just the end of the fun for them. First came the humiliation; mothers raped in front of their children, husbands beaten till their wives couldn't recognize them, old people buried alive because they couldn't work anymore!

• Major Kira : If your lies are gonna be this transparent, it's gonna be a very short interrogation.

  Marritza : Well, in that case I'll try to make my lies more opaque.

• Major Kira : I still think you're a liar.

  Marritza : So much for our search for the truth. Now we trade insults.

• Major Kira : You're Marritza, aren't you?

  Marritza : You mistake me for that bug? That whimpering nothing? Oh you stupid Bajoran girl, don't you know who I am? I'm your nemesis. I'm your nightmare. I'm the Butcher of Gallitep!

• Major Kira : I hope it won't disturb your dinner if I ask you a few questions?

  Marritza : If I refuse to answer?

  Major Kira : I'll ask them anyway.

  Marritza : Of course.

  Major Kira : This is my job.

  Marritza : Persecuting Cardassians goes far beyond your job, Major; it's your passion.

• Commander Sisko : Major, what if this image confirms that Marritza *was* a file clerk? What do you expect us to do then?

  Major Kira : I suppose you'll let him go.

  Commander Sisko : I'm glad we understand each other.

• Marritza : Well, there you are. My secret's out, my crimes laid bare - I await execution.

  [He mockingly holds up his black dinner napkin over his face like a hood] 

  Major Kira : I hope we don't keep you waiting long.

• Major Kira : What was your rank at Gallitep? What were your duties?

  Marritza : You don't want to know.

  Major Kira : Just answer the question.

  Marritza : [sing-song]  You'll be disappointed.

  Major Kira : [looks up from her datapad; deadpan]  I'll risk it.

• [first lines] 

  Major Kira : We never cared what we did, as long as it annoyed the grown-ups. All inner deflector shield subsystems are showing equal intensity.