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	Bashir: "No one is expendable."
	Bashir: (to Odo) "Besides, I think we'd all feel a bit better with someone here to watch over Quark." Quark: "I take that as a personal insult, Doctor." Bashir: "You should."
	Ornithar: "I can't help you to locate the Founders, because I do not know who they are or if they even exist. If the Founders exist, they clearly do not wish to be contacted, and that is good enough for me." Sisko: "Who is the Karemma's Dominion contact for trade, administration and defense?" Ornithar: "Our only contact with the Dominion has been through the Vorta. I have no idea who they report to. All I know is that when the Vorta tell you to do something, you do it. Because if you do not, they send in the Jem'Hadar, and then you die. "
	Kira: "And this is the ship that Starfleet sends us to fight off an attack by the Dominion?" Sisko: "We're not going to fight the Dominion, at least, not yet anyway. Our mission is to take the Defiant into the Gamma Quadrant and try to find the leaders of the Dominion, the Founders. We have to convince them that the Federation does not represent a threat to them." Bashir: "What if they don't believe you?" Sisko: "That's why I asked for the Defiant. She may have flaws, but she has teeth, and I want the Dominion to know that we can and will defend ourselves, if necessary."
	Sisko: "Hello, Major. Sorry to startle you, but I wanted to test the Defiant's cloaking device." Kira: "The Defiant?" Sisko: "I've brought back a little surprise for the Dominion."