Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Afterimage (1998)

Andrew Robinson: Garak

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• Garak : Look at you. You're pathetic! A confused child, trying to live up to a legacy left by her predecessors. You're not worthy of the name 'Dax'. I knew Jadzia. She was vital, alive, she owned herself; and you - you don't even know who you are. How dare you presume to help me? You can't even help yourself! - Now get out of here, before I say something unkind.

• [Garak has tried to force open the door of an airlock] 

  Garak : I can't believe the way I humiliated myself back there. I just... wanted to get out. I couldn't breathe.

  Ensign Ezri Dax : If you were looking for fresh air, you sure were knocking on the wrong door.

• Ezri Dax : Do you remember anything traumatic happening to you when you were young? Something involving being trapped in a confined space?

  Garak : If I had been that careless, my father would have left me there, to teach me a lesson.

• Garak : They have no idea that I broke their code. All those Cardassians are going to die because of me!

  Ensign Ezri Dax : I suppose that's one way of looking at it.

  Garak : What other way is there?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : That by helping to end the war, you'll be saving lives.

  Garak : Save lives? And what lives would I be saving? Human? Klingon? Romulan?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : And Cardassian.

  Garak : No, not Cardassians! They're going to fight to the bitter end; the Dominion will see to that. Don't you understand? Don't you see? I wanted to believe that I was helping my people, liberating them. But all I've done is to pave the way for their annihilation. I'm a traitor!