Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Siege (1993)

Avery Brooks: Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

Quotes 

• Quark : My ship... the Rio Grande... my brother's on it; he's got my ticket.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : [to Sisko]  That ship is full, sir, I checked the list myself, and Quark's name wasn't on it. His brother Rom did go aboard, but he was with a dabo girl.

  Quark : [aghast]  A dabo girl? What?

  Commander Sisko : Looks like he sold your seat.

  [smirks smugly] 

• Major Kira Nerys : [referring to Li Nalas]  Somehow you figured now that he was here... things would be better. You know, he'd... he'd find a way to make things better. Because he was a man who could do that - a great man. I wish I knew where we could find others like him.

  Commander Sisko : Major, there are heroes all over Bajor. I'm sitting with one.

• Chief O'Brien : Sir, can I ask you something?

  Commander Sisko : Sure.

  Chief O'Brien : About Li Nalas.

  Commander Sisko : M-hm.

  Chief O'Brien : Well, listening to Kira talk about all he was, all he did, all he was going through... She makes him sound like he was larger than life, like he was some kind of military genius. But the Li Nalas I...

  Commander Sisko : Chief, Li Nalas was the hero of the Bajoran resistance. He performed extraordinary acts of courage for his people and died for their freedom. That's how the history books on Bajor will be written, and that's how I'll remember him, when anybody asks.

• Li Nalas : I've done everything I can to help. I'd die for my people, but...

  Commander Sisko : Sure you would. Dying gets you off the hook. Question is, are you willing to live for your people, live the role they want you to play? That's what they need from you right now.

• [Odo leads Quark into ops] 

  Odo : He's been brokering seats on the evacuation vessels.

  Commander Sisko : Where did you get more seats?

  Quark : Everybody always asks the brokers where they get their extra seats; and all I can say, this is my business to find preferred seating for select listed clients...

  Commander Sisko : [grabs Quark by his throat]  I have got more than 200 people who want to get off this station. Where did you get more seats?

  Quark : A few trades... A person here or there who changed his mind about leaving at the sight of a reasonable stipend.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : [over comm]  Bashir to Commander Sisko.

  Commander Sisko : Go ahead.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : We're having a bit of a panic at the airlock, sir. Far more passengers than we can handle have shown up, and they all claim to have made arrangements to leave.

  Quark : I might have overbooked slightly...

• Commander Sisko : Sisko to all units - you can thank Chief of Operations Miles O'Brien for your repast this afternoon.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : [sniffs at his combat ration]  Woah - you haven't made any friends here, Chief - or should I say 'chef'?

• Commander Sisko : [to Colonel Day]  We don't want to fight you or hurt anyone. Your officers will be our guests for a while. I hope they won't mind Starfleet combat rations.

• [first lines] 

  Ben Sisko : Starfleet feels it has no other choice. The Federation is here on invitation of the Bajoran provisional government.