Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Circle (1993)

Nana Visitor: Major Kira Nerys

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• Odo : You're not...!

  Major Kira : Leaving? I really don't have much choice, do I?

  Odo : You're not just leaving, Major, you're surrendering.

  Major Kira : You break the rules, you pay.

  Odo : Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules.

  Major Kira : Well, I guess I broke one too many.

  Odo : [incensed]  Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules, they're all meaningless to you. Because you have a personal code, that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.

  Major Kira : [softly]  I'll miss you too, Odo.

• Doctor Bashir : [to Kira]  I came to give you my best.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Well, that's rather dull.

  Doctor Bashir : I beg your pardon?

  Major Kira : Dull is a polite word for it.

  Odo : Doctor, if you were Kira, wouldn't you at least be complaining to Commander Sisko?

  Doctor Bashir : Look, I just wanted to wish you good luck.

  Major Kira : Thank you, Doctor!

  Doctor Bashir : Complaining, about what?

  Odo : Never mind, Doctor. If she doesn't care, why should we?

  Doctor Bashir : Have they given you any reason yet?

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Did they give you any alternative?

  Major Kira : I do care. - No, they haven't. - No, they didn't. I... I really ought to finish packing!

• Odo : Idiotic bureaucracy! Now I suppose they'll expect me to break in a new man!

  Major Kira : A great man. Li Nalas can handle the job, believe me.

  Odo : Well, you did fairly well at it once I smoothed your rough edges.

  Major Kira : [surprised]  Ha!

  Odo : What's so funny?

  Major Kira : [amused]  I thought *you* did fairly well - once I smoothed *your* rough edges.

• Odo : Have you asked Sisko for help?

  Major Kira : I'm sure he'll do whatever he thinks is best for the station.

  Odo : You haven't even gone to him?

  Major Kira : Well, what do you want me to do, Odo?

  Odo : Fight for what you want! It's what you do best!

• Major Kira : [to the crowd that has accumulated in her quarters]  Is this a joke? Did you plan this?

  Doctor Bashir : Nobody could have planned this.

• Major Kira : I'm useless here.

  Vedek Bareil : So?

  Major Kira : So? I... I need to feel useful.

  Vedek Bareil : It might be interesting to explore 'useless' for a while - see how it feels.

• [Vedek Bareil has taken Kira into the monastery to show her an orb] 

  Vedek Bareil : It is the third orb - the orb of prophecy and change.

  Major Kira : What do I do?

  Vedek Bareil : Be useless, Nerys. Allow the Prophets to guide you.

• Major Kira : How can you betray your own government?

  Minister Jaro : Major, I don't have to tell you. I've heard your opinion of this government. Government! They can't even agree it is a government, so they call it provisional. It's just another word for 'powerless'.

• Major Kira : If you want to change the government, Minister Jaro, you vote to change it. You don't sneak up from behind it with a dagger.