Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

What You Leave Behind (1999)

Nana Visitor: Colonel Kira Nerys

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• Garak : [as his house is being destroyed]  All during the years of my exile I imagined what it would be like to come home. I even thought of living in this house again, with Mila. But now she's dead, and this house is about to be reduced to a pile of rubble. My Cardassia is gone.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Then fight for a new Cardassia.

  Garak : I have an even better reason, Commander: revenge.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : That works too.

• Quark : A-ha, I knew it! When I saw the two of you slip out, I said to myself, that no-good, misanthropic, cantankerous changeling is trying to sneak off the station without anyone noticing.

  Odo : That was the idea.

  Quark : Well, it's not gonna happen, is it?

  Odo : Apparently not.

  Quark : So - now that I'm here... is there something you want to say to me?

  Odo : Such as?

  Quark : Such as... 'Goodbye. You certainly were a worthy adversary.' Or maybe something with the words 'mutual respect' in it.

  Odo : No.

  Quark : No? What do you mean, no?

  Odo : I mean, no. I have nothing I want to say to you.

  Quark : You telling me that after all these years, after all we've been through, you're not even gonna say goodbye to me?

  Odo : That's right. Nerys, I'll be on the runabout.

  [he utters one last contemptuous grunt and mounts the runabout] 

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Don't take it hard, Quark.

  Quark : Hard? What're you talking about? That man loves me! Couldn't you see? It was written all over his back.

• Odo : [after "changing" into a tuxedo]  You always said I looked good in a tuxedo.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : You do.

  Odo : Then this is the way I want you to remember me.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : I'll never forget you.

  Odo : Goodbye, Nerys.

• Odo : Nerys, please - tell everyone I'll miss them.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Even Quark?

  Odo : Even Quark. But most of all...

  Colonel Kira Nerys : I know.

• [Kira and Garak have taken over the Dominion briefing room on Cardassia] 

  Colonel Kira Nerys : This war is over. You lost.

  Female Shapeshifter : Have I? I think you'll find that neither the Jem'Hadar or the Breen will agree with that assessment. They will fight to the last man.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : And what will that accomplish?

  Female Shapeshifter : Isn't it obvious? You may win this war, Commander; but I promise you, when it is over, you will have lost so many ships, so many lives, that your victory will taste as bitter as defeat.

• Colonel Kira Nerys : Just between you and me, all bets are off.

  Quark : What're you talking about?

  Colonel Kira Nerys : As of this moment, betting pools of any kind are illegal on the station. I catch someone placing a bet, I put *you* in a holding cell for fifteen days, is that clear?

  Quark : Fifteen days? Can I bring my own pillow?

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Quark.

  Quark : It's clear, it's clear.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Better be.

• [Kira's last line of the series] 

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Better be.

• [outside Dominion headquarters] 

  Garak : We have a problem.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Only one?

  Garak : It's a rather large problem. The cargo bay door is made of neutronium.

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Then the explosives we brought aren't even going to make a dent.

  Garak : You see the problem.

  Ekoor : What do we do?

  Damar : I don't know. But I'm through hiding in basements.

  [Garak begins to laugh] 

  Damar : I fail to see what is so funny, Garak.

  Garak : Well, isn't it obvious? Here we are, ready to storm the castle, prepared to sacrifice our lives in a noble effort to slay the Dominion beast in its lair...

  [Kira begins to laugh hysterically] 

  Garak : ... and we can't even get inside the gates!

  [They all start laughing] 

  Colonel Kira Nerys : Maybe... maybe we could go up to the door and ask the Jem'Hadar to let us in!

  Damar : Or just send the shapeshifter out to us!

  [They laugh even harder] 

  Garak : [sobers gradually]  As I said, we have a problem.