Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Things Past (1996)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

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Quotes 

• Elim Garak : I took the liberty of borrowing this from the gentleman who thought my nose needed adjustment.

  Odo : I see I'm going to have to add the word "pickpocket" to your resume.

  Elim Garak : It's only a hobby.

• [Odo has admitted that he was the one responsible for the death of the three Bajorans] 

  Odo : I was too busy, too concerned with maintaining order, and the rule of law. I thought of myself as the outsider, a shapeshifter who cared for nothing but justice. It never occured to me that I could fail. But I did. And I never wanted anyone to know the truth... that seven years ago, I allowed three innocent men to die.

• [last lines] 

  Major Kira : I guess the truth is that anyone who lived through the Occupation... had to get a little dirty. But I need to know... that no other innocent people died on your watch, Odo. That this was the only time.

  Odo : I'm not sure. I hope so.

• [Odo, Sisko and Garak appear with the identities of Timor, Ishan and Jillur respectively] 

  Odo : Timor, Ishan and Jillur were the names of three Bajorans who were accused of attempting to assassinate Gul Dukat on the Promenade.

  Captain Sisko : Half the Resistance tried to kill Dukat.

  Odo : These three were innocent. However, no one knew that at the time, and... Dukat wanted to make an example of them, so he had them led out onto the Promenade and publicly... executed.

  Elim Garak : If we're them...

  Captain Sisko : If we're them, we'd better find a way out of here before Dukat makes an example out of *us*.

• Thrax : The Occupation has lasted for fifty years, and it will probably last another fifty!

  Odo : I wouldn't be too sure about that.

  Thrax : Why not just accept it? If the Bajoran people would accept their place in history, none of this would be happening.

  Odo : We are talking about the attempt on Gul Dukat's life, not the socio-political ramifications of the Resistance!

  Thrax : It's all part of the same problem! When your people resort to terrorism and violence, they're fighting against order, against stability, against the rule of law, and this must be stopped.

  Odo : There is more to life than the rule of law.

  Thrax : It has been my observation that only the guilty make that kind of statement.

• Odo : Your job is to find the truth, not obtain convictions.

• Odo : How much damage would it do to the timeline if Quark were to suffer a mysterious "accident"?

  Captain Sisko : I'm not sure. But maybe we should conduct a little experiment and find out.

• Odo : Captain! The authorities on Terok Nor will not be looking for reasons to help us, they will be looking for a reason to interrogate us, and believe me, you do not want to be interrogated by the Cardassians.

• Odo : [as Timor]  There's been a temporal displacement of some kind. We don't belong in this time. We are from the future!

  Thrax : I know.

  Odo : You know? Then what are you going to do about it?

  Thrax : What I am supposed to do; nothing more, nothing less. The question is - what are *you* going to do... Odo?

• Odo : I'm guilty. What more is there to say?

  Major Kira : Maybe nothing. Maybe a lot. I believed in you. A lot of people did. You were special; you were the one man who stood apart from everyone else, the one man who stood for justice. Now what?

  Odo : Now I'm... just another... imperfect Solid.

  Major Kira : Okay.

• Captain Sisko : This is Terok Nor, DS9 during the Occupation.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Time travel?

  Elim Garak : Er, no, it's more than that, our clothes have changed.

  Odo : Could we be in a holosuite?

  Captain Sisko : [testing]  Computer, end program.

  [nothing happens] 

  Captain Sisko : Let's assume that's a "no" for the moment.