25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #12 “Hard Time”

O’Brien:  When we were growing up, they used to tell us humanity had evolved, that mankind had outgrown hate and rage. But when it came down to it, when I had a chance to show that no matter what anybody did to me I was still an evolved human being…I failed. I repaid kindness with blood. I was no better than an animal.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #13 “Favor the Bold”

Sisko:  There’s an old saying: “Fortune favors the bold.”  Well…I guess we’re about to find out.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #14 “By Inferno’s Light”

Gowron:  Think of it.  Five years ago no one had ever heard of Bajor or Deep Space 9, and now, all our hopes rest here.  Where the tides of fortune take us, no man can know.
Sisko:  They’re tricky, those tides.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #15 “The Magnificent Ferengi”

Quark:  Ferengi can be just a tough as Klingons.
Rom:  They can?
Quark:  Of course they can. They just need the opportunity, the training…and a couple of bars of latinum as incentive.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #16 “Rejoined”

Dax:  In the end, all that matters is how we feel and what we do about it, because either way, we’re the ones who have to live with the consequences.
Kahn:  That’s the tricky part though, isn’t it? Living with the consequences.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #17 “Crossover”

Kira:  I’m Kira Nerys.
Intendant:  That makes two of us.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #18 “The Wire”

Bashir:  Out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren’t?
Garak:  My dear Doctor, they’re all true.
Bashir:  Even the lies?
Garak:  Especially the lies.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #19 “The Die is Cast”

Odo:  Home! I want to go home!
Garak:  And you will, I promise. As soon as this is all over, I promise I’ll take you back to Deep Space 9.
Odo:  No! Not the station. Home with my people.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #20 “Waltz”

Dukat:  I should’ve killed every last one of them! I should’ve turned their planet into a graveyard the likes of which the galaxy had never seen! I should’ve killed them all!

Sisko:  And that is why you’re not an evil man.

25 Favorite Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | #21 “Civil Defense”

Garak:  I always knew your shortsightedness would be your downfall.

Dukat:  I don’t see you coming up with any ideas, tailor.

Kira:  Look, if you two are finished with the insults, we could use some help here.