O'Brien: Try one. You'll like it.
Keiko: Too early for me
O'Brien: You sure?
Keiko: It's so sweet.
O'Brien: It's a natural sweetness from the sap of the jumja tree. It's full of vitamin C.
Keiko: Since when did you become such an expert on jumja sticks?
O'Brien: Oh, Neela told me.
Keiko: Did she? So, is she working out any better than the last one?
O'Brien: Who, Neela? She's terrific. She's even taught me a thing or two.
Keiko: I'm glad to hear her expertise doesn't end with jumja sticks .
O'Brien: No, she's a good engin Hold on.
Keiko: What?
O'Brien: Well, you're not thinking? Well, Keiko.
Keiko: Just keeping you on your toes, O'Brien.
O'Brien: Oh, very funny.
Keiko: Be careful who you share your jumja with.
Keiko: Now, as we discussed in yesterday's lesson, the wormhole was diskovered by Commander Sisko and Lieutenant Dax earlier this year. Does anyone know what makes this wormhole so unusual? Jake?
Jake: It's stable?
Keiko: It's stable. That's right, Jake. It's the first stable wormhole known to exist.
Winn: Please, continue.
Keiko: A stable wormhole is very important because it allows us to travel secure in the knowledge that neither end will shift locations. Who knows why the wormhole is stable? Because it was artificially constructed. Commander Sisko encountered the entities who created the wormhole when he
Winn: Excuse me. By entities, do you not mean the Prophets?
Keiko: Yes, on Bajor the entities are worshiped as prophets. Our studies of the wormhole have shown that it was formed by unique particles we call verterons that are apparently self-sustaining in nature. This begins to explain how a ship at impulse can safely pass through
Winn: Ships are safely guided through the passage by the hands of the Prophets.
Keiko: In a manner of speaking.
Winn: Not apparently in your manner of speaking.
Keiko: Perhaps we should discuss this after class.
Winn: Do you believe the Celestial Temple of the Prophets exists within the passage?
Keiko: I respect that the Bajoran people believe that it does.
Winn: But that's not what you teach.
Keiko: No, I don't teach Bajoran spiritual beliefs. That's your job. Mine is to open the children's minds to history, to literature, to mathematics, to science.
Winn: You are opening the children's minds to blasphemy, and I cannot permit it to continue.
O'Brien: Sorry I couldn't get here sooner. Another fusion reactor went down. How's it going?
Neela: Done.
O'Brien: Done? Did you remember to re-initialize the isolinear coprocessor?
Neela: I did it exactly like you showed me. Should I test it?
O'Brien: Let me. You know us old folks. We like to feel useful.
O'Brien: Not bad, not bad at all. If you keep this up, I'll be out of a job.
Neela: I doubt that.
O'Brien: Let's close it up.
O'Brien: Not that one. That's a security seal. You need an E-J-Seven interlock to close it.
Neela: E-J-Seven?
O'Brien: It's okay, I have one here.
O'Brien: Bloody hell.
Neela: What's wrong?
O'Brien: My E-J-Seven's missing. It was here yesterday.
Neela: Maybe you left it in Ops.
O'Brien: No, I don't misplace my tools.
Sisko: I'm not exactly surprised.
Keiko: You knew this was going to happen?
Sisko: A confrontation like this was inevitable. Sometimes I wonder if we'll ever find the common ground we need to bring Bajor into the Federation.
Sisko: Major, would you join us?
Sisko: We've been talking about an incident this morning at school.
Kira: I heard. Vedek Winn has been meeting with some of the Bajoran civilians about it.
Sisko: What do you know about her?
Kira: She's from an orthodox order. She has some support to become the next Kai. Probably not enough.
Keiko: The question is, how much support does she have on this station?
Kira: She has mine.
Keiko: You can't possibly believe teaching the facts about the wormhole amounts to blasphemy?
Kira: I think some revisions in the school curriculum might be appropriate. You teach a lot of Bajoran children.
Keiko: I'm not going to let a Bajoran spiritual leader dictate what can or can't be taught in my classroom.
Kira: Then maybe we need two schools on the station. One for the Bajoran children, another for the Federation.
Sisko: If we start separating Bajoran and Federation interests
Kira: A lot of Bajoran and Federation interests are separate, Commander. I've been telling you that all along.
Sisko: Nobody's saying that there can't be spiritual teaching on this station, Major, but can't it be in addition to what's taught in Mrs O'Brien's classroom?
Kira: But if she's teaching a fundamentally different philosophy
Keiko: I'm not teaching any philosophy. What I'm trying to teach is pure science.
Kira: Some might say pure science, taught without a spiritual context, is a philosophy, Mrs O'Brien.
Sisko: My philosophy is that there is room for all philosophies on this station. Now, how do you suggest we deal with this?
Kira: I'm not sure you can.
Winn: I can't tell you how much I've looked forward to this moment. I'm honored to meet the Emissary to the Prophets.
Sisko: If you'd let me know you were coming, Vedek Winn, I would have greeted you sooner.
Winn: I did not wish to bother you with my insignificant visit.
Sisko: I'd hardly call it insignificant.
Winn: Thank you, Emissary.
Sisko: I wish you wouldn't call me that. I'm Commander Sisko or Benjamin, if you like.
Winn: But you are the Emissary. Don't you know the cherished place you have earned in the Bajoran spiritual life?
Sisko: I'm not sure I'm comfortable in that role.
Winn: The course the Prophets choose for us may not always be comfortable. But we must follow it.
Winn: May I? Still the disbeliever. I once asked Kai Opaka why a disbeliever was destined to seek the Prophets, and she told me one should never look into the eyes of one's own gods. I disagreed. I told her I would do anything to look into their eyes. She suggested that I sit in darkness for a day and quite properly so. She cannot be replaced and I miss her deeply.
Sisko: It's important to me that we resolve your problems with the school.
Winn: The prophets have spoken to me through the orbs, Emissary. I understand my duty to defend the Bajoran faith. The teacher has dishonored the Celestial Temple. If she does not recant, I cannot be responsible for the consequences.
Neela: This still seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through to find one tool.
O'Brien: With that interlock, someone could access every critical system on the station.
Dax: Chief, have you seen Ensign Aquino recently?
O'Brien: No, now that you mention it.
Dax: He didn't report for duty this morning. The computer says he's not on the station, but he didn't log out.
O'Brien: Have you talked to Odo?
Dax: I guess I'd better.
Neela: Scanners are ready.
O'Brien: Computer, show location of any independent tritanium sources.
Neela: Level three, section five.
O'Brien: That's the tool locker. I've been through everything in there three times. What's that?
Neela: Looks like something in a power conduit on level twelve, section eight.
O'Brien: What would tritanium be doing in there? Computer, shut down that conduit. Reroute power flow.
Computer: Conduit deactivated.
O'Brien: Come on.
Neela: Over here, Chief.
O'Brien: That's a tritanium composite, all right. Looks like our missing interlock.
Neela: It must have been melted by the conduit's plasma flow.
O'Brien: That still doesn't explain how it got here in the first place. Hey, I'm picking up traces of organic material. Whatever it was, it's been pretty well cooked by this conduit. Let's take a sample to Doctor Bashir, see what he can make of it.
O'Brien: Ensign Aquino made a log entry the night he disappeared about some sort of plasma flow irregularity in the conduit. He indicated he was going to fix it.
Keiko: So it was an accident.
O'Brien: Well, I guess so. Bashir has confirmed that the remains were human.
O'Brien: I'm sure the DNA trace will show it's Aquino. I'll have one, please, unless you're feeling adventurous today.
Vendor: Sorry, we're all out.
O'Brien: What? What are all these?
Vendor: These aren't for sale.
O'Brien: Not for sale, huh?
O'Brien: How would you like a jumja stick
Keiko: Miles.
Odo: Is there a problem?
O'Brien: You're damned right there is.
Vendor: I don't have to sell anything to them if I don't want to.
Odo: Why wouldn't you want to sell to them?
Keiko: Miles, can we go? Let's go.
Vendor: Seek the Prophets.
Odo: Seek them yourself.
O'Brien: Maybe you were right. Maybe we've no business here. I'll put in for a transfer and
Keiko: No. I can't run away from this now. What's this?
Winn: If we abandon the Prophets, then everything we have. Here's Mrs O'Brien now.
Keiko: Good morning.
Winn: Are you Mister O'Brien?
O'Brien: That's right.
Winn: A pleasure to meet you. I've just been hearing many wonderful things about your wife from the parents of these children. She apparently is an excellent teacher.
O'Brien: Yes, she is, and she doesn't deserve what you're doing to her.
Winn: I feel your anger toward me, and I forgive you for it. Mrs O'Brien, if I've misjudged you, I am terribly sorry. Have I? Is there a place in your school for the Prophets?
Keiko: No.
Winn: I admire you for standing by your convictions even though I disagree with them. Please believe me, I want to find a way to allow these children to stay in your school.
Keiko: I'm sure the children and their parents are happy to hear you say that.
Winn: Let me be the one to make the first concession. I will no longer request that you teach anything about the Celestial Temple. Just don't teach anything about the wormhole at all.
Keiko: Ignore it?
Winn: Find other ways, other things to teach the children.
Keiko: And when we get to theories of evolution or creation of the universe, what then?
Winn: We'll face those issues when we come to them.
Keiko: I'm a teacher. My responsibility is to expose my students to knowledge, not hide it from them. The answer is no.
Winn: I've tried to be reasonable.
Sisko: If Aquino turned off the conduit to fix the relay, why did it reactivate.
O'Brien: The Cardassians only equipped those power conduits with one flow regulator per level. The computer could've realigned it. When the power flow was rerouted back, it could've caught him inside.
Dax: You don't sound entirely convinced.
O'Brien: No, it all adds up only, well, I don't know.
Sisko: Spit it out, Chief.
O'Brien: He borrowed one of my tools without asking.
Kira: It was four in the morning. Maybe he didn't want to disturb you.
O'Brien: The repairs could've waited. He was a Starfleet engineer. You don't take a Chief's tools without asking. It's unheard of.
Odo: Are you suggesting it might not have been an accident?
O'Brien: I don't know what I'm suggesting. I only know what I know. He should've asked.
Sisko: Constable, maybe you ought to take a closer look into this. Dismissed. Hi.
Jake: Can I talk to you for a minute.
Sisko: Sure. I heard about what happened at school. Did Mrs O'Brien call off classes?
Jake: No. There was only me and four other kids left, but she still kept the school open. She changed the lesson to teach us about Galileo. Did you know that he was tried by the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth moved around the sun?
Sisko: Tried and convicted. His books were burned.
Jake: How could anyone be so stupid?
Sisko: It's easy to look back seven centuries and judge what was right and wrong.
Jake: But the same thing is happening now with all this stuff about the Celestial Temple in the wormhole. It's dumb.
Sisko: No, it's not. You've got to realize something, Jake. For over fifty years, the one thing that allowed the Bajorans to survive the Cardassian occupation was their faith. The Prophets were their only source of hope and courage.
Jake: But there were no Prophets. They were just some aliens that you found in the wormhole.
Sisko: To those aliens, the future is no more difficult to see than the past. Why shouldn't they be considered Prophets?
Jake: Are you serious?
Sisko: My point is, it's a matter of interpretation. It may not be what you believe, but that doesn't make it wrong. If you start to think that way, you'll be acting just like Vedek Winn, Only from the other side. We can't afford to think that way, Jake. We'd lose everything we've worked for here
Jake: You're worried, aren't you? What're you going to do?
Sisko: I'm not sure, but I think I've got to find some help.
Bareil: I'm sorry for keeping you waiting, Commander.
Sisko: Vedek Bareil?
Bareil: No need to pay tribute to me.
Sisko: Pay tribute? I was just. Usually when I meet one of Bajor's spiritual leaders, the first thing they do is grab my
Bareil: Ear? It's unpleasant, isn't it?
Sisko: I've been far too polite to admit it.
Bareil: I was five the first time one of the monks grabbed my ear. He was a stern old crow who could virtually squeeze the pagh out of you with his thumb and forefinger, and as a chronic misbehaver I was his favorite victim. I swore one of my life's goals would be to do away with that archaic ritual.
Sisko: You can count on the Federation's support.
Bareil: I hope you don't mind if I do a little planting while we talk. All those hours of listening to a hundred and twelve vedeks talking at once made me yearn for the sanctity of my arboretum.
Sisko: Is this yours?
Bareil: I began my service at the monastery as the gardener. I had no other ambition but to grow the most lovely Feloran bromeliads on the planet. Unfortunately, the Prophets did not allow me that peaceful life. I understand my friend Vedek Winn has brought her blessings to your station.
Sisko: I was hoping you might be able to arrange an audience with the Assembly so I could discuss our school.
Bareil: Why me?
Sisko: You are the leading candidate to become the next Kai. Your ideology is quite different than Vedek Winn's.
Bareil: You have been correctly informed. I'm sorry, Commander. The Vedek Assembly will not see you.
Sisko: Why not?
Bareil: Some fear you as the symbol of a Federation they view as godless. Some fear you as the Emissary who has walked with the Prophets. And some fear you because Vedek Winn told them to. We're all very good conjuring up enough fear to justify whatever we want to do. Today, I am only a Vedek. If the Prophets will it, someday I may be Kai, and I can be a better friend to you then.
Sisko: In other words, being my friend now might hurt your chances.
Bareil: The Prophets teach us patience.
Sisko: It appears they also teach you politics.
Bareil: I'm sorry you made this long trip for nothing, Commander. Please stay and enjoy the gardens as long as you like.
Sisko: Is it my imagination or are we a little short handed today?
Kira: Three Bajoran crewmen didn't report for duty. They said they weren't feeling well.
Sisko: Do you think it's contagious, Major?
Kira: It's too early to tell.
Sisko: Are your people willing to throw away everything we've accomplished during the past seven months?
Kira: Everyone knows if the Federation leaves the Cardassians will be back.
Sisko: With all due respect, Major, protecting your borders is not the primary reason the Federation is here and it's not why I'm here. I'm here to build a trusting relationship with your people and I'd like to start feeling that somebody, somebody on your side is giving something back to that effort.
Kira: I think I've given you all the support I can, short of
Sisko: It's not enough.
Kira: I thought there was room for all philosophies on this station.
Sisko: You tell our sick Bajoran crewmen they better get well immediately or they'll recover on their way to their next assignment.
Kira: Yes. Sir.
Odo: Commander, Doctor Bashir has found some new evidence about Ensign Aquino you should see.
Bashir: Sir, I've finally managed to reconstruct the victim's DNA. It's definitely Aquino, but the power flow in the conduit didn't kill him. You see, the plasma disruption in his cellular membranes indicates that he was exposed to a directed energy diskharge before he was placed in the conduit.
O'Brien: A directed energy diskharge? From a phaser?
Odo: Set to kill.
Sisko: Could this murder be related in any way to the tensions over the school issue?
Kira: If you're suggesting he was killed by a Bajoran just because he was with the Federation, I
Bashir: The analysis proves he was killed the night before Vedek Winn arrived. There wasn't any school issue yet.
Sisko: Any ideas about a motive? All right, then let's start from the beginning. Ensign Aquino goes to repair to a power conduit.
Odo: One moment, Commander. I'm not convinced of that.
Kira: But the log
Odo: It could have been altered by our killer to cover his tracks. I've checked the turbolift records the night of the murder. Aquino did take a turbolift to level three, but not to the power conduit where he was found.
Dax: Where did he go?
Odo: Runabout pad C.
O'Brien: A runabout? What was he doing at a runabout at four in the morning?
Odo: Apparently, he was getting murdered.
O'Brien: Everything in the runabout seems to be perfectly normal.
Neela: It doesn't look like the airlock systems have been tampered with.
O'Brien: Let's run a level one diagnostic of the runabout's computer interface, then we'll call it a day.
Neela: I already have. Everything's normal.
O'Brien: I don't even know what we're looking for. If something happened around here, it's been pretty well covered up.
Neela: Did you know him well?
O'Brien: Aquino? Barely at all. Just the welcome aboard, if you need anything speech. You?
Neela: Not really. Bajoran and Starfleet officers don't really socialize that much.
O'Brien: How come?
Neela: I don't know. I guess we just keep to ourselves.
O'Brien: You're not like that with me.
Neela: You're not like the others. You know. You don't put on any airs. You're just nicer.
O'Brien: Look, I'll close up here. Why don't you take off?
Neela: You sure?
O'Brien: Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure.
Neela: Good night.
O'Brien: On your toes, O'Brien.
Quark: You were looking for me? Don't tell me. There's a Bajoran convention on the station I didn't know about? Thanks, Odo. I need to call in more dabo girls
Odo: It's not a convention. They're from an orthodox spiritual order coming to support Vedek Winn's efforts to keep the Bajoran children out of school.
Quark: Orthodox? In that case, I'll need twice as many dabo girls. These spiritual types love those dabo girls.
Odo: This is not what I wanted to talk to you about. What do you know about the murder of Ensign Aquino?
Quark: You wound me. All the years together. I thought you knew me. Odo, I am not a killer.
Odo: No, but most of your friends are.
Quark: True, and I would gladly sell one of them to you if I could. But unfortunately, none of them have taken credit for the death of the Starfleet officer. Sorry.
O'Brien: Odo!
Odo: Keep your ears open.
Quark: Are you kidding? That's the seventh rule of acquisition.
O'Brien: This is a security bypass module.
Odo: You found it at runabout pad C?
O'Brien: No, that's just it. It wasn't at pad C. That was clean as a whistle. Just to be safe, I ran a diagnostic across the board. This showed up at runabout pad A.
Odo: Pad A.
O'Brien: Aquino never went anywhere near pad A. It doesn't make sense.
Odo: On the contrary, it makes perfect sense. Ensign Aquino goes to runabout C because some sensor shows an anomaly in the security net there. He interrupts whoever is tampering with it and is killed. The killer puts the body in the conduit and instead of going back to pad C, which might be traced with Aquino's turbolift log, he changes his plan and moves to pad A.
O'Brien: But what was the plan? Everything else seems normal.
Odo: I'd guess somebody wanted to steal a runabout.
O'Brien: We're not missing any.
Odo: It's curious. He goes to a lot of trouble to defeat the security net and then doesn't go through with
O'Brien: The school!
O'Brien: Keiko! Keiko!
Keiko: Miles!
Security: Stand back, please. Clear the way.
Sisko: What've you got?
Kira: I'm reading traces of cabrodine and infernite, common explosives, both easily obtained.
Odo: Then we're looking at a simple home-made bomb.
Winn: Where is Mrs O'Brien?
Sisko: Her husband took her home.
Winn: Was she hurt? Was anyone hurt?
Sisko: No.
Winn: The Prophets have been kind today.
Sisko: The Prophets had nothing to do with what happened here today. This was the work of a disturbed and violent mind who listened to your voice, not the Prophets.
Winn: Is the Emissary holding me responsible for this act of terrorism?
Sisko: The Commander of this station is.
Winn: May the Prophets forgive you for abandoning them.
Sisko: You claim the Prophets as your personal constituency, Vedek Winn. I'm not convinced that's justified. Who do you speak for? An order that is barely listened to in your Assembly. So you come here looking for a more receptive audience.
Winn: Is that what your friend Vedek Bareil told you? He's as misguided as you are. No, that's not fair. You are not simply misguided as I once thought. Now I see that you want nothing less than to destroy us.
Sisko: Destroy you?
Winn: You live without a soul, Commander. You and your Federation exist in a universe of darkness and you would drag us in there with you. But we will not go.
Sisko: You have just made your first mistake, Vedek.
Winn: Have I?
Sisko: The Bajorans who have lived with us on this station, who have worked with us for months, who helped us move this station to protect the wormhole, who joined us to explore the Gamma Quadrant, who have begun to build the future of Bajor with us. These people know that we are neither the enemy nor the devil. We don't always agree. We have some damn good fights, in fact. But we always come away from them with a little better understanding and appreciation of other. You won't succeed here. The school will reopen. And when your rhetoric gets old, the Bajoran parents will bring their children back.
Winn: We'll see.
Sisko: How is she, Chief?
O'Brien: She's pretty shaken up, sir, but she's planning to hold classes tomorrow in one of the small cargo bays, if that's okay.
Sisko: You tell her Jake'll be there on time.
O'Brien: It'll make her feel a lot better to hear that, sir.
Sisko: Anything new on Aquino?
O'Brien: Yes, sir. I found a security bypass module at runabout pad A. It looks like someone might have wanted to steal a runabout. That's probably why Aquino went there in the first place. I've put security seals in place at all three pads and I'm checking for any other anomalies.
Dax: Benjamin. There's an incoming transmission from Vedek Bareil on board a Bajoran transport.
Sisko: On screen
Bareil: Commander, I've decided to accept your gracious invitation.
Sisko: Invitation?
Bareil: You did invite me to tour your facility?
Sisko: Yes, yes, of course, Vedek. We'd be honored. Unfortunately, we have some damage on our Promenade. We won't have time to clean up before you arrive.
Bareil: Yes. I heard about it. Perhaps I can help you clean it up.
Sisko: That would be very much appreciated.
Bareil: It's the least a friend can do. I look forward to seeing you again.
Winn: My dear, you should not be here.
Neela: Vedek, they found out about the runabout.
Winn: I see.
Neela: I have no way to escape.
Winn: Then we must accept that as the will of the Prophets.
Neela: But if I go through with this now, I will be caught and executed.
Winn: The sacrifices the Prophets call on us to make are great sometimes, my dear, but the rewards they give will last through eternity.
O'Brien: What the hell? Computer, identify subprogram labeled ANA
Computer: That file is protected by a personal security access code.
O'Brien: On whose authority?
Computer: Chief of Operations Miles O'Brien.
O'Brien: Me? I never saw this file before. Override command.
Computer: Unable to comply. State security code to release protection.
O'Brien: Lieutenant, I've got to do a manual isolation of an anomalous file. It's in the security field subsystem, labeled ANA.
Dax: That file is going to be protected by a series of encryption sequences. I'll run an adaptive program.
O'Brien: For once we're lucky for once we're working with a Cardassian computer. It shouldn't have any more than seven sequences.
Dax: Beginning decryption.
O'Brien: Online. Patched to subroutine ANA.
Odo: Clear the way. Clear the way, please.
O'Brien: That's it! Computer, access subprogram ANA. code four one zero zero R L X.
Computer: Accessing.
O'Brien: Identify commands within the file.
Computer: Commands are sequential overrides of security fields approaching runabout pad A.
O'Brien: The forcefields. Display sequence on screen.
Dax: Right to the Promenade.
O'Brien: Computer, run a level three sensor sweep through the Promenade. Report any anomalous reading.
Computer: Working.
O'Brien: An escape route.
Dax: Escape from what?
O'Brien: You got me.
Computer: One anomalous reading detected.
O'Brien: Identify.
Computer: A subspace relay was activated in the Security Office nine minutes, seven seconds ago.
O'Brien: Activated to do what?
Computer: Unknown. Insufficient data.
O'Brien: I'm going down there.
Dax: I'll run a diagnostic on the other security systems, and I'll call you as soon as I have anything.
O'Brien: Promenade.
Winn: I expected you sooner, Bareil.
Bareil: It seems our paths have grown apart. Perhaps we can bring them together again.
Winn: I would like nothing better than that.
Bareil: Come with me to the school. Let us both show our commitment to a peaceful resolution to this series of events.
Winn: Of course.
O'Brien: Computer, is the subspace device integrated into the isolinear coprocessor?
Computer: Confirmed.
O'Brien: O'Brien to Dax.
Dax: Go ahead.
O'Brien: It's in the isolinear co-processor.
Dax: Didn't you just repair that unit two days ago?
O'Brien: Yes, I did. With Neela.
Bareil: Looking around at your faces, I believe you feel the shame that I feel at this sight.
O'Brien: No, it's got to be the weapon detectors in the Promenade. That's the only thing those co-processors could possibly affect.
Dax: All weapon detectors appear to be functional, Chief.
O'Brien: That's got to be it. She's real. She's real good. She could make it look like they're normal. It's got to be the weapon detectors. O'Brien to Sisko
Bareil: Once our world was a center of learning. It attracted travelers from many other worlds
Sisko: Go ahead, Chief.
O'Brien: I'm not entirely sure.
O'Brien: I think the weapon detectors on the Promenade may have been disabled.
Sisko: What do you mean, you're not sure?
O'Brien: I mean, Neela may have disabled them.
Sisko: Your assistant?
O'Brien: Yes, sir.
Bareil: To reject violence as a solution, to join hands with all peoples and begin to trust again.
Sisko: No!
Neela: The Prophets spoke. I answered their call. The Prophets spoke! I answered their call!
Kira: It was all to get him here, wasn't it? The school, the protests, the bombing. You knew that would get him out of the monastery. You did it all to kill him, to stop him from becoming Kai.
Sisko: Neela insists she acted alone, unless you want to consider the Prophets co-conspirators.
Kira: She'll never tell us the truth. We'll never be able to prove that Winn was involved.
Sisko: You okay?
Kira: Okay? I've forgotten okay. I haven't seen okay in what seems like years. I was just sitting here thinking. Last year at this time, I was fighting the Cardassians in some nameless swamp. If you'd stopped by and told me that just one year later they'd be gone, I'd be wearing a uniform, up here in charge of protecting some
Sisko: Protecting your Celestial Temple.
Kira: I envied Vedek Winn because she was a true believer. I wanted my faith to be as strong as hers.
Sisko: Maybe it is. I've got a report to put together for Starfleet. You ought to get some rest.
Kira: I'd rather help you. Commander, I heard what you said to Vedek Winn at the school. I just wanted you to know you were right what you said about the Bajorans, at least about me. I don't think you're the devil.
Sisko: Maybe we have made some progress after all.


Sisko: This is the emblem of the Alliance for Global Unity. They call themselves the Circle.
O'Brien: What gives them the right to mess up our station?
Odo: They're an extremist faction who believe in Bajor for the Bajorans.
Sisko: I can't loan you a Starfleet runabout without knowing where you plan on taking it.
Kira: To Cardassia Four to rescue a Bajoran prisoner of war.
Kira: Come on. We have a ship waiting.
Jaro: What you did today, Major, was declare war on Cardassia. Thankfully, they declined the invitation.
Sisko: What if I told you that I knew someone who could bring stability to Bajor. Someone who could unite the factions and give us a chance to do our job.
Sisko: But Bajor doesn't need a man. It needs a symbol, and that's what you are.
Jaro: The Navarch needed to return here to assume his new post. He's been made the Bajoran liaison officer to Deep Space Nine.
Sisko: I already have a liaison officer.
Jaro: Not anymore you don't. Major Kira is no longer assigned to this post. She's been recalled to Bajor. And now, the continuation.
Jaro: Frankly, Commander, I'm surprised at your reaction.
Sisko: Oh, I don't think much surprises you, Minister.
Jaro: But I expected you to be celebrating. I was under the impression that Major Kira has been nothing but trouble to you since
Sisko: Who gave you that impression?
Jaro: Common knowledge.
Sisko: Major Kira has my complete respect. She's been invaluable in establishing this command post. And now she's been dismissed without anyone consulting me and I don't appreciate it.
Jaro: Commander, Starfleet doesn't consult us when they wish to promote one of their officers.
Sisko: Are you suggesting that this is a promotion for Kira?
Jaro: Certainly it is. We must find the proper spot for her. After all, she's the one who brought Li Nalas back to us.
Sisko: Well then, that's a different matter.
Jaro: I'm glad you see it.
Sisko: Yes, of course I do. For a minute I was thinking to myself, there's a warm wind blowing in from Minicoy.
Jaro: I'm sorry?
Sisko: Just an old saying where I come from. It all started with a famous Ambassador from Minicoy who used to bluster, exaggerate, and dissemble to get what he wanted. Not at all like you or me. He was a bag of hot air and everyone recognized him for what he was.
Jaro: May I assume you are satisfied with the assignment of Li to fill your vacant post?
Sisko: I thought you'd want Li to stay in the capital to strengthen the provisional government.
Jaro: Frankly, I'm not sure it's safe in the capital with what's going on these days.
Sisko: The Circle?
Jaro: The fires and graffiti were a nuisance, but two days ago, one of my fellow ministers was attacked and beaten. We can't risk the same thing happening to Li Nalas. Look at it this way, Commander. We're entrusting you with Bajor's greatest hero. Could you have a better liaison officer than Li Nalas? I think not.
O'Brien: Commander, your son's been waiting to speak with you on the com.
Sisko: Jake?
Jake: Dad? I'm outside our quarters. Could you come down for a minute?
Sisko: Is something wrong?
Jake: I really think you ought to come down, Dad.
Sisko: On my way.
Sisko: What's the problem?
Jake: Look.
Kira: Come in.
Odo: You're not?
Kira: Leaving? I really don't have much choice, do I
Odo: You're not just leaving, Major. You're surrendering.
Kira: You break the rules, you pay.
Odo: Wait a minute. I want to be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules.
Kira: Well, I guess I broke one too many.
Odo: Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years. Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules, they're all meaningless to you because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say you're in slim company.
Kira: I'll miss you too, Odo.
Odo: Have you asked Sisko for help?
Kira: I'm sure he'll do whatever he thinks is best for the station.
Odo: You haven't even gone to him?
Kira: Well what do you want me to do, Odo?
Odo: Fight for what you want. It's what you do best.
Kira: Maybe I just want a vacation.
Odo: Idiotic bureaucracy. Now I suppose they'll expect me to break in a new man.
Kira: A great man. Li Nalas can handle the job, believe me.
Odo: You did fairly well at it once I smoothed your rough edges.
Kira: Ha!
Odo: What's so funny?
Kira: I thought you did fairly well, once I smoothed your edges.
Kira: Yes?
Dax: Am I disturbing anything?
Kira: Stick around, you can help me cry in my synthale.
Dax: I thought I'd better return this epidellic lotion.
Kira: No, if you like it
Dax: Oh, it's wonderful.
Kira: Well then, keep it.
Odo: How can you be chatting about skin lotion at a time like this?
Dax: Do you have any idea where you'll be stationed?
Kira: Come in. Not yet. They say that after I've taken some leave time, I've earned a desk at the foreign affairs building somewhere. Doctor.
Dax: Foreign affairs building?
Bashir: I came to give you my best.
Dax: Well that's rather dull.
Bashir: I beg your pardon?
Kira: Dull is a polite word for it.
Odo: Doctor, if you were Kira, wouldn't you at least be complaining to Commander Sisko?
Bashir: Look, I just wanted to wish you good luck.
Kira: Thank you, Doctor.
Bashir: Complaining about what?
Odo: Never mind, Doctor. If she doesn't care, why should we?
Bashir: Have they given you any reason yet?
Dax: Did they give you any alternative?
Kira: I do care. No, they haven't. No, they didn't. I really ought to finish packing.
Bashir: You said she doesn't care. You mean about leaving
Kira: By all means, come on in.
Odo: She's done well here. She ought to stay here. And I'd say she needs a little support from her friends, Doctor.
Bashir: Well, yes, certainly, but if her orders
O'Brien: Er.
Kira: Chief. Come in.
O'Brien: I didn't mean to intrude. I just
Bashir: Don't worry, Chief. It's all been said.
Odo: I have a good deal more to say, thank you, Doctor.
O'Brien: Look, I could come back.
Dax: Odo, leave her alone. This is Kira's decision to make. Unless of course you want me to talk to Sisko.
Kira: I knew what I was doing. I knew the risk.
Odo: That's not what she asked.
O'Brien: I'd just like to say, Major, it's been a pleasure serving with you.
Kira: Come in.
Bashir: Will somebody please explain this conversation to me?
Quark: A party! For you, I would've reduced my catering rates.
Odo: It's not a party.
Quark: Whatever.
Odo: What's that?
Kira: A bottle of my favorite synthale, I think. That's very thoughtful, Quark.
Odo: It's also very small.
Quark: I was anticipating a far smaller gathering. I thought, perhaps, an intimate farewell drink, a sympathetic smile, a shoulder to cry on.
O'Brien: As I was saying, Major
Quark: You'd be surprised how often that works with women.
Kira: Is this a joke? Did you plan this?
Bashir: Nobody could have planned this.
Kira: We're open for business. Come on in. Join the crowd. Vedek Bareil.
Bareil: I hope I'm not interrupting.
Kira: No. Please come in. These are my These are my friends. I had no idea you were coming to the space station.
Bareil: Nowadays it's probably wiser not to announce those things.
Odo: How bad is it on Bajor, Vedek?
Bareil: The violence has seriously escalated. It almost seems there are more weapons on the streets now than during the occupation.
Kira: How could that be? Where would they be coming from?
Bareil: I try to concentrate on more spiritual matters.
Kira: Yes, of course, I mean, I didn't mean to suggest that you
Bareil: I understand your duties here are finished.
Kira: Yes, they are.
Bareil: Do you have any immediate plans?
Kira: I haven't really had much chance to give it any thought.
Bareil: Then perhaps I have the perfect solution. Come and stay at our monastery for a while. It can help when the spirit gets a little bruised.
Kira: Thank you.
Li: Major?
Kira: I just want you to know that if there's anything I can do to help?
Li: Major, I'm sorry. I didn't want this job.
Kira: Neither did I. I mean, back when I was sent here in the first place. But it turned out better than I expected. I'm sure it will for you as well.
Li: I don't even know what I'm supposed to do here. How does a Navarch fit into this command structure?
Sisko: As I understand the position, you report directly to the Prophets. But from time to time, I might ask for your help.
Li: Commander, anything you need from me, I will try my best to do, but I know that I can never replace Major Kira.
Sisko: No one could.
Kira: Thank you, sir. Request permission to disembark.
Sisko: I'm going to get you back, Major. I promise that to both of us.
Kira: Docking bay three.
Bareil: May I make a friendly observation?
Kira: It's crooked.
Bareil: It's crooked.
Kira: I've been adjusting it for an hour. It looks fine from over here, but then I go over there and. This isn't working, Bareil
Bareil: It's only a row of stones.
Kira: No, it isn't. It's me. The stones are straight. I'm the one who's crooked.
Bareil: Is that really how you see yourself?
Kira: Sometimes. Sometimes I even like being that way. If I stay here long enough, I'm sure I could destroy your entire arboretum.
Bareil: Perhaps you'd rather try your hand at woodcrafts.
Kira: Can I tell you something very personal?
Bareil: Of course.
Kira: And you won't tell.
Bareil: I'm a Vedek.
Kira: I have absolutely no artistic skills. I was the worst fingerpainter at the four year old level. My parents were humiliated.
Bareil: It'll be our secret.
Kira: The point is, I'm useless here.
Bareil: So?
Kira: So? I need to feel useful.
Bareil: It might be interesting to explore useless for a while. See how it feels.
Kira: You don't know me.
Bareil: I'm beginning to. It's time, isn't it?
Kira: Time?
Bareil: Come inside with me.
Kira: I really should finish the
Bareil: Come.
Kira: I've never been to this part of the monastery before.
Bareil: May it be the first of many visits.
Kira: Bareil, maybe we should talk about
Kira: Oh, Bareil. All my life I've dreamed of this.
Bareil: It is the third orb, the orb of prophecy and change.
Kira: What do I do?
Bareil: Be useless, Nerys. Allow the prophets to guide you.
Kira: The Chamber of Ministers.
Kira: Dax.
Dax: Listen to them, Kira.
Kira: I can't hear them.
Dax: It's all right. Listen.
Winn: Can you hear them now, child?
Jaro: I hear them, Major. They're calling to me.
Bareil: Don't listen to him, Nerys. Allow yourself to hear them. They are calling to you.
Winn: Blasphemy.
Bareil: Listen to them, Nerys.
Kira: Help me to hear them. I don't know how.
Bareil: But you do.
Bareil: You do.
Bareil: You do.
Officer: Last night alone we had dozens of beatings. They're everywhere, then we go looking for them and they're nowhere.
Odo: Which would suggest they have powerful friends to warn them, and protect them.
Officer: Probably. We've got to put a stop to this before it gets out of hand. The provisional government is bringing troops into the capital,
Odo: Troops?
Officer: That will put an end to the Circle. You keep your eyes open up there, old friend.
Odo: I always do.
Odo: No, I haven't made any progress in finding the ones who assaulted you.
Quark: It's over, Odo.
Odo: The investigation isn't closed, it's just a matter of
Quark: No, you don't understand. It's over.
Odo: What are you talking about?
Quark: Everything. Bajor. The provisional government. The Federation being here. All of it. We've got to leave. Well, I do anyway. You can just turn into a couch.
Odo: You mean because of this Circle business? They're just a bunch of hooligans who use violence to get attention.
Quark: I happen to know they've got enough weapons and explosives and supplies to support an army.
Odo: How do you know that?
Quark: I've been asking questions of people who don't answer questions from people like you.
Odo: Where would the Circle be getting so many weapons?
Quark: The Kressari.
Odo: The Kressari? That doesn't make sense. The Kressari don't even have a military. They're botanic DNA traders,
Quark: Well they're not delivering flowers these days. I know, Odo.
Odo: Computer, when's the next Kressari vessel due here?
Computer: The Kressari vessel Calondon is scheduled to arrive in thirty six hours.
Odo: Do you know where these weapons are being sent to on Bajor?
Quark: No, not exactly.
Odo: Find out.
Quark: Are you out of your mind? My plan is to put as much distance as possible between me and Bajor, thank you very much.
Odo: Quark. I hate to do this, but I guess I'll have to.
Quark: That's not fair.
Odo: I haven't done anything yet.
Quark: Whatever you're going to do, it's not fair.
Odo: You're a deputy.
Quark: It's not. What?
Odo: You're a deputy. I want you to find out where the weapons are going on Bajor. Meanwhile, I'm going to find out exactly where they're coming from.
Quark: You and me, a team?
Odo: That's right.
Quark: Goodbye.
Odo: Either that or I'm putting you in a cell.
Quark: That's not fair! On what charge.
Odo: Impeding an investigation. Unless you want to reveal the identities of the people you've been talking to.
Quark: You know I can't do that.
Odo: It's your choice. You're a deputy, or you're a prisoner.
Quark: I'm a deputy.
Sisko: I've got to go to Bajor. Odo has some information that suggests we may be facing a coup. I've got to check things out
Li: Is there any way I can help?
Sisko: Your Military contacts. See if you can get a feeling for how much support the provisional government has.
Li: No problem. What about the station while you're gone?
Sisko: Dax and Mister O'Brien can handle things in Ops. If you need any other help
Li: Help? I can't even sneeze without three people handing me handkerchiefs. But I was thinking we might want to establish a curfew. Another cargo bay was vandalized last night.
Sisko: Good idea. I've asked Odo to assign you a bodyguard.
Li: That's not necessary.
Sisko: I think it is. Docking bay one.
Kira: Woodcrafts. Definitely the way to go.
Bareil: Is that where the Prophets led you?
Kira: Yeah, lots of hammers and nails and saws surrounded by monks and vedeks. Very safe and secure
Bareil: You don't want to talk about it.
Kira: No.
Bareil: Can I tell you something very personal?
Kira: I'm not a Vedek but I can keep a secret.
Bareil: The last time I encountered the third orb, you were a part of my vision.
Kira: Me?
Bareil: It's the reason that I came to the station, to invite you here.
Kira: What part did I play in your vision?
Bareil: It's not important. I was just wondering if I was part of yours.
Kira: No. No, you weren't.
Bareil: How could there be a storm on a day as lovely as this?
Kira: That's not thunder. I know that sound. That's gunfire.
Winn: How pleasant to come upon such a flowing exchange of spiritual harmony.
Bareil: Vedek Winn.
Winn: We've met before, haven't we? Major? Major?
Kira: Kira Nerys.
Winn: That's right. Major Kira. From the space station. What brings you here?
Bareil: I do, Vedek Winn.
Winn: Good for you, Vedek Bareil. After working so hard, you deserve a little recreation.
Bareil: Major Kira is here to explore her pagh.
Winn: A worthy endeavor for someone who has led such a life of violence, child. And I'm sure the Assembly would have had no objection to your encounter with an orb had Vedek Bareil consulted us.
Bareil: No one has ever been held to that formality.
Winn: You're right, of course. But I've always consulted with the Assembly in advance. I think of it as a courtesy, nothing more, nothing less. How long will you be with us, Major?
Kira: I'm not sure.
Winn: Feel free to stay as many days as you like. Even a week, if necessary.
Krim: Have them withdraw from the Northeast quadrant. Move them to join the fourteenth column south of the city.
Sisko: General Krim. I'm Benjamin Sisko. We met during a session of the executive committee last year.
Krim: I remember, Commander. I was impressed by your talk.
Sisko: As I recall, you disagreed with all of it.
Krim: Yes, but you presented your arguments well. What can I do for you?
Sisko: I understand you're in command of the forces defending the city.
Krim: I'd hardly call it defending the city.
Sisko: There is concern in some quarters that the military is unwilling to confront the forces of the Circle.
Krim: I don't know with whom you've been speaking, Commander.
Sisko: I've been observing troop movements. Every time there is a potential confrontation, the military withdraws to a safer position.
Krim: You can't possibly appreciate that this is Bajoran against Bajoran.
Sisko: I can appreciate that the provisional government will stand only if the military supports it.
Krim: We are all patriots, Commander.
Sisko: We have intelligence that the Circle is being armed by the Kressari.
Krim: The Kressari? I hadn't heard that.
Sisko: We've been trying to track the movements of their shipments. If we can determine where they're stored
Krim: I'd like to know.
Sisko: You'll be the first one I contact.
Krim: Thank you.
Sisko: There is one other thing, General. My first officer, Major Kira Nerys.
Krim: Yes, I know Major Kira.
Sisko: I understand she hasn't been reassigned yet. It would mean a great deal to me to get her back.
Krim: That's out of my purview, Commander. You might want to discuss it with Minister Jaro. Commander Sisko, you told me about the Kressari before you asked the favor regarding Kira. You could've tried to trade that information for the favor.
Sisko: I wouldn't do that.
Krim: I'll remember that about you.
Dax: He's calling again.
Li: What do you think we should do?
Dax: I think he's getting tired of seeing me smile.
Li: Anything new from O'Brien or Odo?
Dax: They haven't come up with anything yet.
Li: All right. Put him on the screen. I will give this a try.
Li: I am First Officer Li Nalas. Can I help you?
Zef'No: Somebody had better be able to help me. I have been delayed for six hours. I can assure you the Kressarian government will lodge a formal protest
Li: My apologies. Apparently has been some confusion with your manifest interface with our computer inventory system that had to be
Zef'No: Yes, yes I know all that. I didn't know they were going to be opening every container in my cargo hold. You understand these are highly sensitive herbaceous materials?
Li: I'm sure that all necessary precautions are being.
Zef'No: This is ridiculous. I have a schedule to keep.
Li: We should be able to have this all cleared up in a few minutes.
Zef'No: That's what I was told a few hours ago.
Dax: Dax to O'Brien.
O'Brien: Yes, Lieutenant.
Dax: We don't want to hold up the Kressari any longer than necessary.
O'Brien: Well, there isn't much more we can accomplish for now
Dax: The ship's due back here the day after tomorrow. Perhaps we'll be able to correct any additional problems then.
O'Brien: Yeah, we'd come to the same conclusion. O'Brien out. Fair voyage to you, Captain.
Zef'No: Prepare for immediate departure.
Sisko: Major.
Kira: Commander. I didn't hear you.
Sisko: I'm sorry if I interrupted your meditation.
Kira: Daydream.
Sisko: Daydreaming. I think I remember doing that a long, long time ago.
Kira: I've diskovered it's like riding a bicycle. It comes back to you right away.
Sisko: Can I bring you back to reality for a minute?
Kira: Back to reality, or back to DS Nine?
Sisko: Are you still interested?
Kira: A lot has happened here. I encountered an orb, Commander. It's given me a great deal to think about.
Sisko: They do have a way of doing that, don't they? Well, I just came to let you to know that we haven't given up yet, but for the moment there seem to be some bigger problems for the leaders down here.
Kira: I heard the gunfire in the distance.
Sisko: That distance is getting closer. The Circle is for real, Major. They've been armed for a coup and I'm not at all convinced that the military's going to back the provisional government.
Kira: I didn't realize. We've been so isolated.
Sisko: Well, I guess I'd better get back.
Kira: Commander. Me too.
Sisko: I told you I haven't given up.
Zef'No: Begin transport.
Cardassian: I think you'll find everything's in order.
Zef'No: Very well. If you'll sign off on the shipment, we'll be on our way.
Cardassian: Return transport.
Jaro: Good afternoon.
Kira: So, you're involved with the Circle.
Jaro: I am the Circle, Major.
Kira: Now I understand why you wanted to ship Li Nalas off to the station.
Jaro: The last thing I need right now is a great war hero capturing the devotion of the Bajoran people.
Kira: How can you betray your own government?
Jaro: Major, I don't have to tell you. I've heard your opinion of this government. Government. They can't even agree it is a government, so they call it provisional. It's just another word for powerless. I won't allow the Bajoran people to be powerless any more. We have been doormats to the Cardassians and now the Federation. Any great power that happens by. We will not be that again. We are a people who brought art and architecture to countless planets. We don't deserve to be victims.
Kira: If you want to change the government, Minister Jaro, you vote to change it. You don't sneak up from behind it with a dagger.
Jaro: We'll discuss politics another time. I need to know, please, what the Federation will do once our objective becomes clear. Major, I've heard you have no love for the Federation. I'm not an unreasonable man. I'm willing to send you back to the station if that's what you want. I'll give you that station after we get rid of Starfleet. Now, do you believe they will continue to support the provisional government?
Kira: How about our own military? I'd worry about them first if I were you.
Jaro: What will the Federation do, Major? What will Sisko do? You know him better than any Bajoran. No one despises the Cardassians more than I, Major, but we did learn a few things from them. Like how to encourage people to talk.
Man: Let's go.
Sisko: Bareil said there were no signs of a struggle.
Bashir: Maybe somebody saw them leave.
Sisko: That's what we need to find out.
O'Brien: What if they transported her off the grounds?
Sisko: Let's hope they didn't. Now, we can't expect much help from the local authorities. They've got their hands full.
Li: Commander. I should be able to get some cooperation. If my name carries any weight, let's use it.
Sisko: Good. When's Odo due back?
O'Brien: Not for another twelve hours.
Quark: Who needs Odo when you've got his number one deputy?
Dax: Quark, this isn't the time.
Quark: No, this is exactly the time. I think I know where you can find Kira.
Sisko: Go on.
Quark: You see, Odo blackmailed me into helping him, a matter I've been meaning to bring to your attention, Commander.
Sisko: Quark.
Quark: I managed to find out where the Circle's headquarters is. In the labyrinths beneath the Perikian Peninsula.
Sisko: Sisko to Security.
Security: Go ahead.
Sisko: I need a couple of officers to go on a rescue mission to Bajor. Report to runabout pad C.
Security: On our way.
Sisko: Doctor, Lieutenant, you're with me. Mister O'Brien, you'll be our pilot. Configure the runabout sensors for a full sweep of the peninsula. Once we find the base, I'll be depending a great deal on your famous transporter talents.
O'Brien: Aye, sir.
Li: Commander, I'm going.
Sisko: No, it's too dangerous.
Li: Don't you understand? I can do this. I don't know what it means to be a Navarch. But I can fight in the trenches and I take orders well. Besides, I owe her one.
Sisko: Dax, you're in charge.
Quark: We can discuss appropriate compensation for this at a more convenient time.
Voice: Two men, sector D. Take your position.
Rebel: Yes, sir.
Sisko: Only five but they've got more firearms than a galaxy class starship.
Bashir: Where the hell's it coming from?
Sisko: All right, straight power play, nothing fancy. Expect heavy resistance. Anyone who finds Kira, pin this on her and call for transport immediately. Let's do it.
Bashir: Kira!
Bashir: Chief, get us out of here!
Kira: We don't have time for this. Ouch.
Bashir: Do not talk.
Sisko: We have to assume Jaro will move quickly now that we've got you back.
Kira: Li's the only chance we've got.
Li: Me?
Kira: Jaro knows you're the only force that could stop him. If we could get him to the Chamber of Ministers.
Sisko: It's much too great a risk. He'd be dead before he had a chance to speak.
Odo: Courtesy of a Cardassian weapon. The Circle's being supplied by the Cardassians.
Kira: What?
Odo: I borrowed the proof. It's got a Gul's thumbscan on it.
Kira: The Circle hates the Cardassians.
Odo: They don't know it is the Cardassians. They think they've been buying from Kressari traders.
Li: I don't understand. Why would the Cardassians want to help Jaro if he hates them?
Bashir: Because it gets them what they want the most.
Sisko: Rid of us. They're just using Jaro. Once the Federation is forced to leave
Li: The Cardassians come back. We've got to do something. I've got to do something.
Sisko: Sisko to Ops.
Dax: Go ahead.
Sisko: Dax, open a channel to Bajor.
Sisko: Tell them that Navarch Li Nalas wants to address the Chamber of Ministers on subspace.
Dax: I can't do it, Benjamin. All frequencies
Dax: To Bajor are jammed. We lost all communication with the planet five minutes ago.
Kira: Then it has started.
Sisko: Get me Admiral Chekote at Starfleet Command.
Jaro: I feel the Prophets smiling on me today, Vedek.
Winn: The Prophets have rarely encountered a pagh as forceful as yours, Minister Jaro.
Jaro: So what's it to be, Winn?
Winn: Be?
Jaro: Don't tease me.
Winn: I can't interpret the prophecies for you, Essa.
Jaro: I know the future. It belongs to me. I don't need your interpretation.
Winn: Then what?
Jaro: Your support.
Winn: I've made it very clear to you how I feel.
Jaro: Your public support.
Winn: Support from the Vedek of an order so small as mine surely would not be significant.
Jaro: You stand for a return to orthodox values, as do I. We're a match made by the Prophets.
Winn: I wish there were more with that opinion. Unfortunately, as my Assembly approaches the selection of a new Kai, I fear my voice is rarely heard.
Jaro: That can change.
Winn: Can it?
Jaro: Think of the prestige of having the new leader of Bajor being a member of your order.
Winn: If you are the new leader.
Jaro: Have the Prophets given you reason to doubt it?
Winn: I didn't say that.
Jaro: Then let them bless my ascension. Tell the people the Prophets are with me.
Winn: That's a lot to ask.
Jaro: I know that.
Winn: I need more than just prestige, Essa.
Jaro: I know that too.
Winn: The people need leadership to return to the old values. Yours and mine.
Jaro: I can think of no one more worthy of being the next Kai than you, Winn. I shall do everything in my power to see that you are.
Winn: The Prophets are smiling on you today, Minister.
Sisko: Dax?
Dax: I have Admiral Chekote on subspace.
Sisko: In my office.
O'Brien: Commander. Two assault vessels are headed this way on direct course from Bajor. They're giving all non-Bajorans seven hours to evacuate.
Sisko: Admiral, are you up to date on my communiqués?
Chekote: I think so, Commander. How's it look?
Sisko: Not good. Jaro has the military, communications have been cut off and assault vessels are on the way here.
Chekote: Are you preparing to withdraw?
Sisko: Admiral, we've just obtained evidence that the Circle's been receiving weapons from the Cardassians. If we withdraw, we'll be giving Bajor and the wormhole back to them.
Chekote: Damn. That's a hell of a turn. How can these Bajorans get in bed with the Cardassians?
Sisko: They don't even know the Cardassians are involved.
Chekote: Then you're saying it's a genuine political revolution internal to Bajor.
Sisko: Supported by the Cardassians.
Chekote: But internal to Bajor. The Cardassians might involve themselves in other people's civil wars, but we don't. The Prime Directive applies, Ben.
Sisko: Admiral.
Chekote: Would you say our people on the station are in danger?
Sisko: Yes.
Chekote: There's no other choice but to evacuate. We'll have to worry about the long term political implications down the road. That's an order, Commander.
Sisko: Chief, how long will it take us to evacuate Deep Space Nine?
O'Brien: I'd say we could have all our people out and away in three hours.
Sisko: I mean a complete evacuation. I intend to take all Starfleet instruments, materiel. In fact, all Federation property of every kind. How quickly can we do that?
O'Brien: Sir, that'll take days. A week, for all I know. But those assault ships are going to be here in seven hours.
Sisko: Then I guess some of us won't quite be done by the time they get here. To Be Continued...


Sisko: This is the emblem of the Alliance for Global Unity. They call themselves the Circle.
O'Brien: What gives them the right to mess up our station?
Odo: They're an extremist faction who believe in Bajor for the Bajorans.
Sisko: I can't loan you a Starfleet runabout without knowing where you plan on taking it.
Kira: To Cardassia Four to rescue a Bajoran prisoner of war.
Kira: Come on. We have a ship waiting.
Sisko: What if I told you that I knew someone who could bring stability to Bajor. Someone who could unite the factions and give us a chance to do our job.
Sisko: But Bajor doesn't need a man. It needs a symbol, and that's what you are.
Jaro: The Navarch needed to return here to assume his new post. He's been made the Bajoran liaison officer to Deep Space Nine.
Sisko: I already have a liaison officer.
Jaro: Not anymore you don't. Major Kira is no longer assigned to this post. She's been recalled to Bajor.
Quark: It's over. Everything. Bajor, the provisional government, the Federation being here, all of it. We've got to leave.
Sisko: The provisional government will stand only if the military supports it.
Krim: We are all patriots, Commander.
Jaro: I am the Circle, Major.
Kira: How can you betray your own government?
Odo: The Circle's being supplied by the Cardassians.
Kira: What?
Odo: I borrowed the proof. It's got a Gul's thumb scan on it.
Kira: The Circle hates the Cardassians.
Odo: They don't know it is the Cardassians. They think they've been buying from Kressari traders.
Jaro: Think of the prestige of having the new leader of Bajor being a member of your Order.
Winn: If you are the new leader.
O'Brien: Commander, two assault vessels are headed this way on a direct course from Bajor. They've given all non-Bajorans seven hours to evacuate. And now, the conclusion.
Sisko: Starfleet feels it has no other choice. The Federation is here at the invitation of the Bajoran provisional government.
Bashir: No more provisional government, no more invitation.
Sisko: Governments can break off relations with an edict. It's not so easy when it comes down to our level. Lieutenant Bilecki here is engaged to a young man from Bajor. Ensign Kelly. Ensign Kelly's daughter and a Bajoran girl worked together on a prize-winning science fair project. All of us who have served on the station for the past year have made Bajoran friends. We've come to care about what happens to these people. I know I do. So I've decided to stay. Just to make sure the evacuation is conducted properly.
O'Brien: You'll need someone to oversee the inventory process, sir.
Bashir: Packing up all my medical supplies could take quite a while, Commander.
Sisko: Before you volunteer too quickly, understand what you're getting into. We'll be trying to delay the takeover of the station as long as possible. Hopefully as long as it takes to expose the Cardassian's involvement in all this. It won't be easy. The Bajoran assault forces have been told that the Federation is their blood enemy. Jaro and the Circle would love nothing more than to have my head and yours and present them to the Chamber of Ministers. This is your last chance to leave here in one piece. Some of you have families. Some are on temporary assignment. I wouldn't blame anyone for getting out now while you can. I mean that. Anyone who wants to evacuate is dismissed.
Sisko: Non-Bajorans won't be safe here. Our families, children have to be evacuated. I'm sure many of the Bajorans who have worked with us will want to leave too. There's a lot to get done. The assault vessels will be here in less than five hours. Dismissed.
Quark: Hundreds of people to evacuate and only three tiny runabouts available. Do you know what that means?
Rom: It means a lot of people will be left behind. Tragic. Yes, brother, your compassion never ceases to amaze me
Quark: It means we're going to make a fortune.
Rom: We are?
Quark: People will pay anything for a seat on those ships.
Rom: You can't make me. I won't sell my seat.
Quark: Rom
Rom: No, I won't stay and be killed just to fill your pockets.
Quark: Rom, do you actually believe that I would sacrifice my own brother's life for personal profit?
Quark: It would have to be the deal of a lifetime.
Rom: Yes, my lifetime.
Quark: Listen to me. We're both going to escape. But our bags will be packed with all the gold-pressed latinum we can carry.
Jake: Nog!
Nog: I've been looking all over for you.
Jake: What ship you on?
Nog: Rio Grande.
Jake: I'm on the Ganges.
Nog: It'll be okay. We'll see each other at the Hanolan colony in a few days.
Jake: That's not where I'm going.
Nog: But my dad told me
Jake: My ship's going to the Korat system. I guess that's where they're taking all the Starfleet families.
Nog: This'll be over in no time. We'll be back in school driving Mrs O'Brien crazy again in a few days.
Jake: Just when I think I've found a new home, made a new friend, it always seems like I got to leave.
Nog: Hey, Human.
Jake: Cut it out.
Nog: Has there ever been one of your kind and one of mine who were better friends?
Jake: Never.
Nog: And if our fathers couldn't break us up, no stupid coupe day. Coupe dey
Jake: Coup d'état. It's French.
Nog: No stupid French thing will either. We'll see each other again soon. That's a promise.
Odo: Mister Sisko, Nog. This is no time to be fooling about. Get yourselves wherever you're supposed to be.
O'Brien: Is that everything?
Keiko: Sure.
O'Brien: Keiko, please, don't go like this.
Keiko: Like what?
O'Brien: I don't have any choice.
Keiko: Don't you?
O'Brien: He needs me.
Keiko: We don't?
O'Brien: We can't just let the Cardies have the wormhole.
Keiko: They can have the whole Gamma Quadrant for all I care. Miles, come with us.
Molly: Where are we going?
O'Brien: On a ride, sweetheart
Molly: Are you coming too, Daddy?
O'Brien: Soon, baby. I'll come as soon as I can. I'll walk you to the airlock.
Dax: I've scanned every subspace communication window to find a frequency to Bajor. They've got them completely jammed.
Kira: Then we have no choice. We'll have to take the proof to the Chamber of Ministers.
Li: Jaro's forces will be scanning for any incoming vessels.
Sisko: A runabout could handle a Bajoran patrol. Unfortunately I don't have one to give you
Li: The Lunar Five base?
Kira: You think there's still a ship there?
Li: We managed to get a few sub-impulse raiders underground before the Cardassians hit us, but that was ten years ago.
Kira: Can one of the evacuation vessels take a detour and drop me off?
Sisko: What if you get there and those raiders won't fly?
Kira: Then I'll just have to wait to hear from you, I guess.
Sisko: You may be waiting a long time. Dax, do any of your former hosts have experience with sub-impulse thruster configurations?
Dax: Yes. Tobin Dax.
Kira: Tobin? I don't think I've heard about this one.
Dax: My second host. Barely a sex life and no imagination, but he knew phase coil inverters like no one else.
Sisko: Major Kira could use his experience today.
Quark: I have no time for this foolishness! I still have to pack!
Sisko: What's the problem?
Odo: He's been brokering seats on the evacuation vessels.
Sisko: Where did you get more seats?
Quark: Everybody always asks the brokers where they get their extra seats, and all I can say is, it's my business to find preferred seating for a select list of clients
Sisko: I have got more than two hundred people who want to get off this station. Where did you get more seats?
Quark: A few trades. A person here or there who changed his mind about leaving at the sight of a reasonable stipend.
Bashir: Bashir to Commander Sisko.
Sisko: Go ahead.
Bashir: We're having a bit of a panic at the airlocks, sir. Far more passengers than we can handle have shown up
Bashir: And they all claim to have made arrangements to leave.
Quark: I might have overbooked slightly.
Sisko: On my way.
Quark: It's an accepted Ferengi transit practice. I feel perfectly justified. I have complete faith in Commander Sisko's ability to straighten this out.
Odo: I'll pass that on. He'll be so pleased to know that he has your confidence.
Quark: As I'm no longer needed, my brother is waiting for me on the ship. Hey, Odo, you'll miss me. You know you will. Say it.
Odo: I'll miss you, Quark.
Quark: You said it,
Odo: I'll miss the aggravation, the petty theft, the bad manners.
Quark: Odo. Take care of yourself.
Sisko: Don't you understand? There isn't room for everyone. We have to get our families, our children and non-Bajorans
Li: Where are you running to? This is Bajor. We are Bajorans. We fought a war to regain our homeland. How can you abandon it like frightened Cardassian voles? These ships are for our guests who must leave because it is no longer safe for them here. However, we are Bajorans. And I say that we stay and we solve our problems together. Are you willing to join me?
Sisko: As soon as the passenger lists are confirmed, get these ships out of here.
Bashir: They're almost ready to go, sir. The Rio Grande is full and so is the Orinoco.
Sisko: Get them launched.
Bashir: Aye, sir.
Sisko: Are you ready?
Jake: I've been thinking. I really think it'd be better if I stayed. Look, I just don't want anything to happen to you.
Sisko: That makes two of us.
Jake: What's this?
Sisko: A letter I wrote you.
Jake: A letter?
Sisko: Just some things.
Jake: I'll read it as soon as I get on the ship.
Sisko: Wait a while. I'll see you in a couple of weeks.
O'Brien: That's everyone.
Sisko: Sisko to Ganges. Proceed with launch.
Kira: Acknowledged. Good luck, Commander. Kira out.
Quark: No! No! Wait!
Quark: My ship, the Rio Grande, my brother's on it. He's got my ticket.
Bashir: That ship was full, sir. I checked the list myself and Quark's name wasn't on it. His brother Rom did go aboard, but he was with a dabo girl.
Quark: A dabo girl? What?
Sisko: Looks like he sold your seat.
Quark: No, you don't understand. You don't understand! I can't stay here. I'll be hung. Call the ships back! I'll pay anyone five bars of gold pressed latinum for a seat. Ten bars. Twenty.
Day: Clear.
Day: No resistance at all. Minister Jaro's prediction was correct. The Federation has tucked its tail between its legs.
Krim: Where are the Bajoran officers who worked Starfleet? Where is Li Nalas?
Day: Perhaps they knew this old station could never withstand a siege and they abandoned it with Starfleet.
Krim: The most strategic position in the entire sector, at the mouth of the wormhole. Had I been Federation commander, I would not have abandoned it so easily.
Kira: Can you believe a year ago I was living in a camp like this, only not quite so nice.
Dax: Have I mentioned how allergic Trills are to insect bites?
Kira: Really?
Dax: Well, he biochemical connections between the host and symbiont can't tolerate the. Oh! Whoa! What's that? Is that a spider or a dog?
Kira: Palukoo. The Bajoran moons are full of them.
Dax: I suppose you used to make them your pets and sing songs about them around the campfire.
Kira: No, we used to eat them. There it is.
Dax: Are you sure this thing is supposed to fly?
Kira: I've been in a lot worse.
Dax: I guess the Bajoran resistance must have had a lot of short pilots.
Kira: No, just short engineers. They were always building these things without thinking.
Dax: Encouraging.
Kira: Bend your knees, you'll fit.
Kira: The real trick will be to fire up these thrusters after all this time. It was hard enough to get them running when they were being used every day.
Dax: We'll get them fired up. You don't need to worry about that.
Kira: You're sure, huh?
Dax: Yep. I have no intention of getting stuck here eating palukoos.
Day: We should advise Minister Jaro of our success immediately.
Krim: You're too eager to receive his plaudits, Colonel. What's the status of the internal security net?
Officer: Completely disabled, General.
Krim: Scan the Operations Center for organic material.
Officer: Organic?
Krim: The station's security chief is apparently missing. The shape-shifter. It's possible he left with the evacuation ships or perhaps there's something more here than meets the eye.
Officer: Yes, sir.
Krim: Scan six times an hour at random intervals.
Bajoran: Minister Jaro on subspace, sir.
Day: Minister, I'm pleased to inform you that we've encountered no resistance so far.
Jaro: Good news. Then the Federation has withdrawn.
Day: We monitored the evacuation of three vessels several hours ago
Jaro: When I announce that we've secured the station, it will certainly impact the
Krim: Minister, I urge caution. The battle for this station hasn't even begun yet.
Jaro: You expect the enemy to return, General?
Krim: I'm not convinced they ever left. The internal security net has been sabotaged. We have no way of tracking the movements of anyone on board, which suggests someone didn't want to be that easily found.
Jaro: Kira?
Krim: Perhaps. She is unaccounted for. So too is Security Chief Odo. So is Li Nalas.
Jaro: You're right. Li Nalas would never abandon Bajor. He must still be there.
Jaro: Let me re-emphasize that you are to take every necessary step to keep Li Nalas alive. Dead, he's a martyr. Alive, he seals our victory.
Day: Understood.
Winn: Once you have him, Li will see the wisdom of giving you his support.
Jaro: I'll offer him anything he wants to make sure he does. Short of becoming the next Kai, of course.
Winn: You have a unique ability to build a consensus, Essa. Bajor has been waiting for a leader like you.
Jaro: Leaders like us.
Winn: If I am so favored by the Vedek Assembly.
Jaro: You don't have to worry about that. Twenty six hours after I'm sworn into office, I'll direct the Vedek Assembly to elect you Kai. Together, we will rebuild Bajor.
Kira: You got it!
Dax: Don't turn the engines off. We'll never get them started again.
Kira: Let's go!
Dax: Thank you, Tobin.
Kira: Dax, come on.
Dax: The hell with it. If it's going to fly, it's going to fly.
Kira: Problem?
Dax: No. Everything's wonderful.
Dax: Ow!
Kira: The knees. Listen to that sound. That sure brings back some memories.
Dax: How did you ever win a war in these things?
Kira: We were the insects, Lieutenant. The Cardassians were just as allergic as Trills. Is the proximity system working?
Dax: I think so.
Kira: All right. Let's see if we can get out of here without bouncing off any walls.
Krim: You're be playing right into their hands.
Day: If you're so convinced they're still here, how can you sit and wait for them to attack?
Krim: They have no interest in attacking.
Day: What makes you so sure?
Krim: Because I understand military tactics. They are vastly outnumbered. If we divide our forces
Officer: The primary sensor array was sabotaged, sir. As soon as we tested it, the subnet shorted out.
Day: You can let your engineers play with the machines. I'm sending out search parties.
O'Brien: Eat hearty. The replicators crash in sixteen minutes. This'll have to last awhile.
Sisko: Combat rations, Chief? Couldn't you replicate something a little more palatable?
O'Brien: You don't like combat rations?
Sisko: A french onion soup would have really been nice.
O'Brien: Miracle of science, these little combat rations. Timed release formula of all the nutrients the body needs for three days. I love 'em. Only thing I miss about the Cardassian front.
Sisko: Sisko to all units. You can thank Chief of Operations Miles O'Brien
Bashir: You haven't made any friends, here, Chief. Or should I say, Chef.
O'Brien: Julian.
O'Brien: Well, I would have expected you of all people to appreciate the nutritional value of combat rations.
Bashir: Actually, when I was in Med school, I designed an incredible candy bar which was far superior in food value.
Quark: Am I the only one who doesn't think this is funny?
Odo: Odo to Sisko.
Sisko: Go ahead.
Odo: Stand by. There's a patrol approaching. I'll get back to you in a minute.
Odo: A five-man unit is about to begin a search of the cargo deck.
Bashir: That puts them closest to me, Commander.
Sisko: Stand by, Doctor.
O'Brien: Maybe we should send him with a little more experience. Someone who can run the show, like Li.
Sisko: No, I need him here with us. Doctor, move your unit to cargo bay six. You know what to do. And let me re-emphasize, use deadly force only if absolutely necessary.
Bashir: Aye, sir. We're on our way.
Quark: Happy hunting.
Bashir: I wouldn't get too close to that. It's thorium isotope.
Bashir: Prolonged exposure could have very nasty consequences.
Bashir: Bashir to Sisko.
Sisko: Go ahead.
Bashir: Mission accomplished.
Bashir: We have our first five prisoners of war.
Kira: Preparing to establish a high altitude orbit of Bajor.
Dax: Navigational sensors aren't functioning.
Kira: No problem.
Dax: No problem? Big problem. Without navigational sensors
Kira: we'll have to fly by the seat of our pants.
Dax: Great. Seat of the pants technology.
Kira: You Starfleet types are too dependant on gadgets and gizmos. You lose your natural instincts for survival.
Dax: My natural instincts for survival told me not to climb aboard this thing. I'd say they were functioning pretty well.
Kira: I know the terrain of Bajor. We ought to be able to recognize a landing site by
Kira: What the hell was that?
Dax: I have no idea. None of the sensors are functioning.
Kira: Someone's firing at us. Initiating evasive maneuvers.
Dax: I'm reading the EM signature of an impulse engine.
Kira: Let's see what we're dealing with.
Kira: Welcoming committee from Jaro.
Dax: We'll never outrun them in this.
Kira: You're right. We'll have to even the match.
Dax: And how do you intend to do that?
Kira: New playing field. I'm taking us down into the atmosphere. They won't be able to use their impulse engines down there. If they want a fight, they'll have to fight on our terms.
O'Brien: Come on. Get down.
O'Brien: O'Brien to Sisko.
Sisko: Go ahead.
O'Brien: They've got us pinned down in here.
Sisko: On our way, Chief.
O'Brien: Now!
Kira: All right. They've gone to thrusters. That evens things up a little.
Dax: If you consider two against one even.
Kira: There is one problem.
Dax: One?
Kira: The guys flying those ships?
Dax: Yeah?
Kira: Used to be the guys flying these ships. Test the phaser banks.
Dax: Full power.
Kira: Good.
Dax: Not so good. The phaser locks are dead. There's no way to aim.
Kira: Sure there is.
Dax: I know, I know. Seat of the pants.
Kira: With your eyes, Lieutenant, not your pants. Just point at them and fire.
Dax: You fly, I'll shoot.
Kira: Hang on.
Kira: Where the hell's the other one?
Kira: I think we found him.
Dax: Thruster power is falling.
Kira: They must have hit a plasma conduit.
Dax: Got any fire gear?
Kira: Check under the seat.
Dax: I think I've got something. Got it. That's it?
Kira: That's it.
Dax: Might as well jettison the plasma tank. The thrusters are gone.
Kira: Plasma tank ejected. Can you see any openings where we could put down?
Dax: Six kilometers ahead at two o'clock.
Kira: Er, anything a little closer?
Dax: How much closer?
Kira: How about right here.
Soldier: Sir, up here. One of the Ferengi's holosuites is in use.
Day: Don't try it. Get their weapons.
Sisko: This is Commander Benjamin Sisko. Please listen very carefully. The Cardassians are supplying the weapons for this coup,
Day: Ridiculous. No Bajoran would ever accept help from them.
Sisko: Jaro doesn't know. The Cardassians are using the Kressari to deliver the weapons to the Circle.
Day: That is a Federation lie.
Sisko: The proof is on its way to Bajor. Once this evidence is presented, the coup will end. We don't want to fight you or hurt anyone. Your officers will be our guests for awhile. I hope they won't mind Starfleet combat rations.
Krim: Day, what the hell is going on?
Day: I was taken prisoner. The Federation is behind all this. Sisko spoke to me.
Krim: So, Commander, you didn't abandon your post after all. What did he say?
Day: Nothing of consequence.
Krim: Why did he let you go?
Day: I promised them amnesty. A promise I have no intention of keeping.
Officer: General, the security net is back online.
Krim: Scan for their communication devices.
Officer: Not picking up a thing, sir.
Krim: Then they must be in a shielded location.
Day: The Cardassians used duranium composite to shield all the conduits.
Krim: Then that's where we'll find Commander Sisko.
Dax: They've found the raider and now they're spreading out. We can't stay here.
Kira: I'll slow you down. The only thing that's important now is to get the evidence to the provisional government.
Dax: It would be a lot more convincing if it comes from you.
Kira: No, the evidence speaks for itself. You have to leave me. That's an order, Lieutenant.
Dax: The Federation officially left Bajor yesterday. You're no longer my commanding officer.
Kira: I can't walk.
Dax: Yes, you can.
Kira: You are being a fool, Dax.
Dax: Don't talk to your elders that way.
Man: You two check over there.
Odo: Odo to Sisko. I hope you're not still on level five.
Sisko: No, we're on three. Why?
Odo: Because they're about to fill the conduits with anesthizine gas, starting with level five.
Sisko: Chief?
O'Brien: It's a good idea. Kind of thing I might've come up with. We've got to get out of here, and soon.
Sisko: We should have heard something from Kira and Dax by now.
O'Brien: If they didn't make it, we're all fighting for a lost cause here.
Sisko: We still have an ace in the hole.
Li: Me?
Sisko: Mister O'Brien, get the units ready to move out.
O'Brien: Aye, sir.
Sisko: Jaro's plan depends on the military's support. Without it, the coup fails.
Li: You think I can sway the Generals.
Sisko: Right now there's only one General I'm concerned with. The one that's here. He's picked the wrong side and we've got to convince him of that. Would he rather follow a politician or Bajor's greatest war hero
Li: I've done everything I can to help. I'd die for my people but
Sisko: Sure you would. Dying gets you off the hook. Question is, are you willing to live for your people? Live the role they want you to play. That's what they need from you right now.
Bareil: Kira! Kira, you're safe. You're at the monastery.
Kira: How did I? The last thing I remember
Bareil: The entire city saw your ship go down. The searchers who found you were from my order.
Kira: Dax?
Bareil: She's fine. She's changing clothes.
Kira: We've got to get to the Chamber of Ministers. The Cardassians
Bareil: I know. Lieutenant Dax told me.
Bareil: Careful. Careful, you've just had a broken hip mended.
Kira: How long have I been here?
Bareil: Six hours.
Kira: Six hours? We have to get out of here. The Chamber of Ministers
Dax: Good, you're up. Here, put this on.
Kira: Why are we?
Dax: It's the only way we can get to the Chamber of Ministers.
Bareil: Members of religious orders are the only ones who can travel safely in the streets. I'm going to escort you.
Kira: No. No, we have to go alone, Bareil. I can't be responsible for your safety.
Bareil: Of course you can't. But I can be responsible for yours.
Kira: No.
Bareil: Please, don't argue.
Dax: So what do you think?
Kira: Think?
Dax: The nose?
Kira: It's flattering.
Dax: I'm thinking of keeping it.
Bashir: Quark, leave it!
Quark: I can't leave it. It's all that I am. My personal mementos, my family album.
Bashir: It's filled with gold-pressed latinum and you know it.
Quark: Who told you?
Bashir: Your mother did. The day you were born.
Quark: Never make fun of a Ferengi's mother! Rule of Acquisition number thirty-one.
Sisko: Sisko to Bashir. We're in position.
Bashir: We're stationed above airlock fourteen, sir, awaiting your signal.
Sisko: You've got it. Just make as much noise as you can before you surrender, Doctor.
Bashir: We'll make them think there are two hundred of us instead of twenty, sir. Bashir out. Twenty-one. Come on. Now!
Quark: Fine. Fine. I'm coming.
Day: Proceed with level three.
Officer: General, the enemy has attacked our position at airlock fourteen.
Krim: They have attacked?
Day: We must have flushed them out. Seal all airlocks. Lock all docking clamps. This is Colonel Day. All security units to airlock fourteen.
Krim: Let me see what's going on down there
Officer: Surveillance cameras have been sabotaged.
Krim: How many of our men are stationed by that airlock?
Officer: Four, sir.
Security: Security to General Krim. The enemy forces at airlock fourteen have surrendered. We've taken several prisoners.
Krim: Bring their leaders to me for questioning.
Security: Aye, sir.
Li: Please don't resist, General. We don't wish to use deadly force. My name is Li Nalas. Perhaps you've heard of me.
Jaro: Guards, stop that woman.
Winn: What is this blasphemy?
Kira: I am Major Kira Nerys and I've come with proof that Cardassians are behind Minister Jaro's attempt to take control of the government.
Jaro: Major Kira has long been an outspoken opponent of the provisional government, of reason, of progress and now finally, of me. I am honored to be included, Major, but I have no intention of allowing you to disrupt the orderly transition of power with these wild charges.
Kira: This is a manifest PADD from a Kressari vessel. It bears the thumbscan of a Cardassian Gul who transferred weapons to that ship. Those weapons were taken by the Kressari to the Circle. This coup will deliver Bajor back into the hands of its greatest enemies. Are you willing to live under Cardassian rule again?
Jaro: I assure you there is nothing to these accusations.
Winn: Then you should have no objection to an inspection of this manifest, Minister.
Jaro: Of course not. We'll adjourn for the time being. And let me say that I completely support this investigation and fully intend to cooperate.
Krim: Colonel, you deliberately withheld information that was to be communicated to me.
Day: Information?
Krim: Regarding the Cardassians.
Day: Lies. That's all they were.
Krim: We have been told the Chamber is in recess while evidence of Cardassian involvement is being examined.
Sisko: The Circle is broken, Colonel.
Krim: I'm returning to the surface immediately to consult with the Ministers. I expect I will be asked to resign. Commander, since the provisional government has prevailed, I believe it is appropriate to return the command of this station to Starfleet. Well fought, sir.
Day: No!
O'Brien: Commander!
Li: Off the hook, after all.
Kira: Somehow, you figured now that he was here, things would be better, you know. He'd find a way to make things better because he was a man who could do that. A great man. I wish I knew where we could find others like him.
Sisko: Major, there are heroes all over Bajor. I'm sitting with one.
Kira: I'm sorry, I don't feel like celebrating tonight. Excuse me.
O'Brien: Sir, can I ask you something?
Sisko: Sure.
O'Brien: About Li Nalas.
Sisko: Mm hmm.
O'Brien: Listening to Kira talk about all he was, all he did, all he was going to do, she makes him sound like he was larger than life. like he was some kind of military genius. But the Li Nalas I
Sisko: Chief, Li Nalas was the hero of the Bajoran resistance. He performed extraordinary acts of courage for his people and died for their freedom. That's how the history books on Bajor will be written, and that's how I'll remember him when anybody asks.
O'Brien: Yes, sir.
Dax: Dax to Sisko. The Ganges has just docked at pad C, Benjamin.
Sisko: Acknowledged.
O'Brien: Excuse me, sir.
Jake: Dad!