Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)
Prodigal Daughter (1999)
Nicole de Boer: Lieutenant Ezri Dax
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Odo : By the way, your gagh has arrived.
Ezri Dax : My what...? Oh, no.
Colonel Kira Nerys : Oh, yes. And it's waiting for you in cargo bay 2.
Colonel Kira Nerys : [incredulous] Your *gagh*?
Ezri Dax : Jadzia ordered it. She was planning a party for Martok's birthday next week.
Colonel Kira Nerys : How much gagh did she order?
Odo : Fifty-one cases.
Ezri Dax : Each containing a different variety.
Colonel Kira Nerys : There are *varieties* of gagh?
Ezri Dax : Oh, yes. I can remember what each one tastes like. And the way they feel when you... swallow them. Torgud gagh wiggles. Filden gagh squirms. Meshta gagh jumps...
[She starts dry-heaving; the conversation continues as she composes herself]
Ezri Dax : ...Bithool gagh has *feet*.
[to Odo]
Ezri Dax : Flush it out the airlock. All of it.
Odo : [shaking his head] Environmental regulations.
Colonel Kira Nerys : Well, why don't you just give it to Martok?
Ezri Dax : He'd insist on sharing it with me, as a point of honor.
[sighs]
Ezri Dax : Wistan gagh is packed in Targ blood...
[she looks nauseated]
Ezri Dax : I have to go now.
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Ezri Dax : I haven't talked to my mother in almost six months.
Captain Sisko : Oh.
Ezri Dax : Last time I saw her was just after I was joined. She came to visit me on Trill and... I was still a little confused. When she walked into my room, I put on a big smile, looked her right in the eye and said "Hi mom, it's me - Curzon!" Things kinda went downhill from there.
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Ezri Dax : Nothing's simple for Ezri.
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Ezri Dax : There's times when the computer asked me to identify myself, and I have to think about what to say. Or worse yet, there's days when I wake up, and I don't even know if I'm a man or a woman until I pull back the covers!
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[Bashir hands Dax a PADD]
Doctor Bashir : Everything Starfleet knows on Bilby and his widow.
Ezri Dax : Where's your report?
Doctor Bashir : Oh, it's in there. It's the one with Captain Sisko's boot prints all over it.
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Ezri Dax : Our mother is a force of nature.
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Ezri Dax : [of a painting on the wall] Is this yours?
Norvo : Mom insisted on hanging it in here. I hate it.
Ezri Dax : Why?
Norvo : Well, the composition is puerile and obvious, the colors belong on a child's toy, and the technique is laughable.
Ezri Dax : But other than that?
Norvo : It's perfect.
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[last lines]
Chief O'Brien : Mind if I join you?
[Ezri shakes her head sadly. O'Brien takes a seat at her table]
Chief O'Brien : When'd you get back?
Ezri Dax : Last night. Norvo was sentenced to thirty years.
Chief O'Brien : I wish I could say I'm sorry, but... considering what he did, he got off lightly.
Ezri Dax : I understand why you feel that way. But you didn't know him, Miles. Norvo was very gifted. When we were young, he always had so much potential. Norvo was always the one that we all thought would be something special. And I don't know what happened. I don't know how my brother turned into... You know, I guess I just spent so many years dreaming of ways to get out of that house that I didn't see what was really going on inside. What was happening to Norvo. The endless humiliation. The constant drumbeat of criticism. The way his heart was carved up into little pieces. I should have seen it. I should have tried to stop it.
Chief O'Brien : You can't blame yourself. You're not responsible for that.
Ezri Dax : But I am, don't you see? I should have gone home a long time ago.
