Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Homefront (1996)

Brock Peters: Joseph Sisko

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• Captain Sisko : You've lost weight.

  Joseph Sisko : You think so?

  Jake Sisko : The doctors said you have to keep your weight up.

  Joseph Sisko : Don't you start too. I've a vat of crayfish in the back that needs cleaning and it's got your name on it.

• Captain Sisko : But you're feeling okay?

  Joseph Sisko : Just point me in the direction of a party and a pretty girl and I'll show you how good I feel!

• Joseph Sisko : We have rights, Ben, including the right to be as stubborn or thickheaded as we want.

• Joseph Sisko : Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, what the hell has gotten into your head? You actually thought I was one of them, didn't you?

  Captain Sisko : I don't know. I wasn't sure.

  Joseph Sisko : This business has got you so twisted around, you... you can't think straight. You're seeing shapeshifters everywhere! Maybe you ought to think about something for a minute. If I was a smart shapeshifter, a really good one, the first thing I would do would be to grab some poor soul off the street, absorb every ounce of his blood and let it out on cue whenever someone like you tried to test me. Don't you see? There isn't a test that's been created a smart man can't find his way around.

• Joseph Sisko : Ben, at my age, staying healthy is a full time job, and I am too old to work two jobs!

• Jake Sisko : You should be in bed.

  Joseph Sisko : Jake, the only time you should be in bed is if you're sleeping, dying, or making love to a beautiful woman. I'm not tired, I... I'm not dying; and the truth is, I'm too old for beautiful women.

• Joseph Sisko : I'm not sleeping. I'm checking my eyelids for holes.

• Captain Sisko : I didn't know you liked Creole food.

  Nog : I don't. I like tube grubs, and your father is the only person on this planet who can get me live ones.

  Joseph Sisko : I've been thinking of adding them to our menu. Of course I'll have to cook them for our Human customers, serve them with a nice remoulade.

  Nog : Cook them? What good are tube grubs if they don't wiggle on the way down?

• [Joseph Sisko has refused two Starfleet officers to be blood-tested] 

  Joseph Sisko : You take these two vampires and tell them to either sit down and grab a menu or get out of my restaurant!

  Captain Sisko : Jake, get them a menu!

  Head Officer : But sir...

  Captain Sisko : I would recommend the Shrimp Creole.

• Joseph Sisko : [referring to Odo]  I have to admit... I'm a little suspicious about anyone who doesn't eat.

• Joseph Sisko : [serving trout to a customer]  Go on, take a bite. It won't bite you back.

• Joseph Sisko : I wish I could, but what you're asking me to do is wrong. You can't go around making people prove they are who they say they are. That's no way to live and I'm not going along with it.