Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Return to Grace (1996)

Cyia Batten: Ziyal

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• Tora Ziyal : You don't like my father very much, do you?

  Major Kira Nerys : No. I don't.

  Tora Ziyal : I understand. He did some very bad things during the Occupation.

  Major Kira Nerys : Yes, he did.

  Tora Ziyal : It bothers him, you know.

  Major Kira Nerys : [cynical]  Does it?

  Tora Ziyal : Very much. He talks about it sometimes. He'd never admit it to anyone else, but he thinks the Occupation was a mistake.

  Major Kira Nerys : Somehow, I don't think he'd say that if the Cardassians had won.

  Tora Ziyal : Maybe not. But maybe losing made him a better person.

  Major Kira Nerys : Well, then a lot of innocent people died for his education.

  Tora Ziyal : I... I know. I think about that a lot, but when I look at my father, I have a hard time seeing a murderer.

  Major Kira Nerys : And when I look at him, I have a hard time seeing anything else.

• Tora Ziyal : My father says that the two of you have a lot in common. That you both did things during the war that you regret. That's why he cares so much about what you think of him.

  Major Kira Nerys : Ziyal, what your father wants from me is forgiveness. That's one thing I can never give him.