Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Field of Fire (1999)

Alexander Siddig: Doctor Julian Bashir

Quotes 

• [Bashir is talking about the mythology around the Alamo] 

  Doctor Bashir : ...There was this notion that a man could have a special relationship with a weapon. Some frontiersmen even went so far as to give their rifles names, female ones at that, thus changing the relationship between owner and object to something resembling man and woman.

  Chief O'Brien : Hm. Maybe I'll start calling my tricorder 'Sally'.

• [the crew are analyzing Illario's death] 

  Chief O'Brien : [scanning the corpse]  That's odd... According to these readings, the bullet only traveled eight or nine centimeters.

  Captain Sisko : Then the killer must have fired at point blank range.

  Odo : I don't think so. There are no powder burns on the body.

  Doctor Bashir : What are powder burns?

  Odo : At close range, chemically propelled weapons leave residual combustion products on the skin and clothing of the victims.

  Captain Sisko : How did you know that?

  Odo : I read 20th century crime novels - Raymond Chandler, Mike Hammer, that sort of thing.