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	O'Brien: "I've been told that I've already been charged, indicted, convicted, and sentenced. What would I need with a lawyer?" Kovat: "Well, Mr. O'Brien, if it sounds immodest of me I apologize, but the role of public conservator is key to the productive functioning of our courts. I'm here to help you concede the wisdom of the state."
	O'Brien: "I've been in service to the Federation — Starfleet — all my adult life. No one has ever questioned my loyalty. No one in my entire life has ever had cause to ask, 'Miles O'Brien, are you a criminal?' I took an oath to defend the Federation and what it stands for. I don't steal from them, I don't lie to them... I'm no angel, but I try to live every day as the best human being I know how to be. I need my little girl to wake in the morning and look up at me and see a man she can respect! Until now, she always could." Odo: "Being accused of a crime is not a disgrace, Chief. Some of the great figures of history have shared the honor with you." O'Brien: "I didn't figure on dying a martyr." Odo: "Not all of them were martyrs. Not all of them died. Some of them were just innocent men, like you."
	Makbar: "The offender Miles O'Brien, human, officer of the Federation's Starfleet, has been found guilty of aiding and abetting seditious acts against the state. The sentence is death; let the trial begin."
	Odo: "I regret that I have no teeth to offer your Bureau of Identification."
	Kovat: "Wh- -wh- what happened?!" Odo: "... you won." Kovat: "...they'll kill me."
	Keiko: "How can you schedule an execution before a trial even begins?" Makbar: "We believe in swift justice."
	O'Brien: "I do have just one question." Kovat: "Yes, certainly." O'Brien: "Have you ever won a case?" Kovat: (smiles and shrugs innocently) "Winning isn't everything. "