Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Explorers (1995)

Avery Brooks: Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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Quotes 

• [Sisko and Jake are sailing through space on the lightship] 

  Commander Sisko : Listen.

  Jake Sisko : I don't hear anything.

  Commander Sisko : Exactly. Not even the hum of an engine. It's almost like being on the deck of an old sailing ship. Except, the stars are not just up in the sky; they're all around us. Imagine how the ancient Bajorans must have felt - heading into space, in a ship like this one, not knowing what they were going to find, or who they were going to meet.

• Commander Sisko : [of Jake]  It's funny. A year or two ago, nothing would have stopped him from coming with me on an adventure like this. I guess I waited too long.

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : You'll have other adventures, Benjamin; they'll just be different. Believe me, I know, I've been a father a couple of times myself. Oh, I could tell you stories...

  Commander Sisko : You already have.

• [Gul Dukat has surmised that Sisko might encounter something unexpected during his flight on a Bajoran lightship] 

  Commander Sisko : Like what?

  Gul Dukat : Oh, I don't know. A Maquis ship, perhaps.

  Commander Sisko : Why would the Maquis have any quarrel with an unarmed ship sailing toward the Denorias Belt? They have nothing at stake here, nothing to prove. Or should I say, disprove.

  Gul Dukat : Commander, I contacted you out of concern for your safety. But you seem to be intimating that I've made some sort of threat.

  Commander Sisko : Ah, then I'm glad I was wrong. For a moment there, I thought that you had been put in charge of the Cardassian Ministry for the Refutation of Bajoran Fairy Tales.

• [Jake is encouraging his father to get a date] 

  Commander Sisko : I cannot believe that I'm getting advice about women from my son.

  Jake Sisko : Don't think of me as your son right now. Just think of me as... another guy. Another guy who happens to know a very attractive lady who wants to meet you.

• Commander Sisko : [to Jake]  We'll make a sailor out of you yet.

• [last lines] 

  Commander Sisko : What an amazing coincidence.

  Gul Dukat : Yes, isn't it? Welcome.