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	Sisko: "I guess it's time to meet Major Kira." O'Brien: "Sir, we you ever served with any Bajoran women?" Sisko: "No, why?" O'Brien: "I was just wondering, sir."
	Sisko: "Is something bothering you, Major?" Kira: "You don't want to ask me that, Commander." Sisko: "Why not?" Kira: "Because I have a bad habit of telling the truth! Even when people don't want to hear it." Sisko: "Perhaps I want to hear it." Kira: "I don't believe the Federation has *any* business being here." Sisko: "The provisional government disagrees with you." Kira: "The provisional government and I don't agree on a lot of things, which is probably why they sent me to this god-forsaken place!"
	Sisko: "That's enough!" Odo: "Who the hell are you?" Kira: "Odo, this is our new Starfleet commander." Odo: [To Sisko] "I don't allow weapons on the Promenade. That includes phasers."
	Picard: "Commander, yes! Please, come in! Welcome to Bajor." Sisko: "It's been a long time, Captain." Picard: "Have we met before?" Sisko: "Yes, sir. We met in *battle*. I was on the Saratoga at Wolf 3-5-9."
	Odo: "The man is a gambler and a thief." Quark: "I'm not a thief." Odo: "*You* are a *thief*."
	Quark: "Commander, I've made a career when to leave. And this Bajoran provisional government is far too provisional for my tastes. When governments fall, people like me are lined up...and shot." Sisko: "There is that risk. But then you are a *gambler*, Quark." Odo: "And a thief."
	Sisko: "Sisko. Ben Sisko. I just graduated from Starfleet Academy. I'm waiting for my first posting." Jennifer: "Aah, a junior officer." Sisko: "Yeah." Jennifer: [Laughs] "My mother warned me to watch out for junior officers." Sisko: "Your mother is going to adore me." [Laughs] Jennifer: [Laughs] "You're awfully sure of yourself." Sisko: "It's not everyday you meet the girl you want to marry." Jennifer: "Do you use this routine a lot with women?" Sisko: "No, never before...and never again." Jennifer: "Sure."
	Quark: "What'll you have, Commander?" Sisko: "How's the local synthale?" Quark: "Ah, you won't like it. I love the Bajorans, such a deeply spiritual culture, but they make a dreadful ale. Never trust ale from a god-fearing people or a Starfleet commander who has one of their relatives in jail."
	Sisko: "He's a little *young* for you, isn't he?" Dax: "He's twenty-seven, I'm twenty-eight." Sisko: "*Three-hundred* twenty-eight, maybe." Sisko: "Did you tell him about that slug inside of you?" Dax: "Yes, Benjamin, he know's I'm a Trill. He finds it fascinating. He's never met a joined species before." Sisko: "I wonder if he'd been as fascinated if you still looked the way you did the last time I saw you." Dax: "Perhaps not."
	Picard: "This is your favorite transporter room, isn't it?" O'Brien: "Number three, yes, sir." Picard: "You know, yesterday, I called down here, and I asked for you without thinking. It won't be quite the same." O'Brien: "It's just a transporter room, sir." O'Brien: "Permission to disembark, Captain." Picard: "Permission granted."
	Dukat: "Good day, Commander." Sisko: "Gul Dukat." Dukat: "Excuse my presumption, but, this was my office only two weeks ago. I'm not used to being on this side of the desk. I'll be honest with you, Commander. I miss this office. I was not happy to leave it." Sisko: "Drop by anytime you're feeling homesick." Dukat: "You're very gracious."
	Sisko: "Dax, we might have just discovered the first stable wormhole known to exist."
	Kira: "Constable." Odo: "This is a security matter, I'm in charge of security." Kira: "Security here on this station. I cannot justify taking you into this wormhole. We have no idea what we're dealing with in there. It could become--" Odo: "Major...I was found in the Denorios Belt. I don't know where I came from ....no idea if there are any others like me. All my life I've been forced to pass myself as one of you, always wondering who I really am. Well the answers to a lot of my questions may be somewhere on the other side of that wormhole." [Pause] "You coming?"
	O'Brien: "Is the station's inertial mass low enough to break orbit?" Computer: "Procedure is not recommended." O'Brien: "Damn it, I didn't ask for an opinion. Just tell me whether or not we can get enough thrust with only a partial field established!" Computer: "Affirmative." O'Brien: "All right, *thank* you."
	Jasad: "I am Gul Jasad of the Cardassian Guard, Seventh Order. Where is our warship?" Kira: "With any luck, they're in the Gamma Quadrant, on the other side of the wormhole." Jasad: "What wormhole? Our sensors showed no indication of a wormhole in this sector." Kira: "That's because it just collapsed." Jasad: "What?!"
	Kira: "Red alert. Shield's up." O'Brien: "What shields?"
	Jasad: "This is your answer?" Kira: "You don't think Starfleet took command of this space station without the ability to defend it, do you?" Jasad: "Defend it?" [Laughs] "Your space station could not *defend* itself against *one* Cardassian warship." Kira: "You're probably right, Jasad. And if you were dealing with a Starfleet officer they'd probably...admit...we have a hopeless cause here. But I am just a Bajoran, who's been fighting a hopeless cause against the Cardassians ... all her life. So if you want a war...I'll give you one!"
	Picard: "I suspect that the sight of their warship being towed by a Federation Runabout took their heart out of their fight." Sisko: "We're not done with the Cardassians yet. Not with the strategic importance of that wormhole." Picard: "Well, you put Bajor on the map, Commander. This will shortly become a leading center of commerce and of scientific exploration. And for Starfleet, one of our most important posts."
	Bashir: "Where can someone practice with his phaser around here?"
	Quark: "New rules?!" Kira: "You can't cheat every customer who walks through the door anymore, Quark. You're our community leader now." Quark: "Well, perhaps we could discuss these new rules...over a drink." Kira: "If you don't take that hand off my hip, you'll never be able to raise a glass with it again."
	Quark: "Ohh, I love a woman in a uniform!"