Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Invasive Procedures (1993)

Avery Brooks: Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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• [DS9 is hit by a plasma storm] 

  Commander Sisko : I assume the promenade is secure?

  Doctor Bashir : Oh yes, sir, I've struck the sails and battened the hatches, so to speak.

• Verad : I'm... I'm... sorry about all this, a- Please, believe me, I-I wish I didn't have to do this.

  Commander Sisko : Then don't.

• [Verad has taken over the Dax-symbiont] 

  Commander Sisko : Remember when we first met?

  Verad Dax : Pelios Station.

  Commander Sisko : Anastasia?

  Verad Dax : And that trip we took to the Cliffs of Bole?

  [they laugh] 

• Mareel : [referring to Sisko]  Why are you wasting your time with him?

  Verad Dax : Because he's my friend! Now go watch the others.

  Verad Dax : [to Sisko]  We are still friends, aren't we, Benjamin?

  Commander Sisko : I hope so. Come with me down to the infirmary and prove it.

  Verad Dax : I can't do that.

  Commander Sisko : [stony-faced]  Then you're not the Dax that I know. Our friendship is over!

• Verad Dax : Well, Benjamin, I guess this is goodbye. Not many friendships last over two lifetimes. I wish we could have made it three.

  Commander Sisko : You'll be seeing me again, Verad.

• [Sisko has persuaded Mareel to help him save Jadzia and Verad] 

  Mareel : If you hurt him - I'll kill you.

  [she hands Sisko her phaser and communicator] 

  Commander Sisko : I don't doubt it.

• [Sisko threatens Verad Dax with a phaser] 

  Verad Dax : Don't be ridiculous, you're not going to shoot me.

  Commander Sisko : What makes you so sure?

  Verad Dax : This is Dax you're talking to, Benjamin. We both know that if you shoot me, even on stun, you risk killing the symbiont.

  Commander Sisko : If I let you go, Jadzia dies.

  Verad Dax : But Dax will live. What's one girl's life compared to eight lifetimes of knowledge and experience? - You're not going to shoot me. You know that, and so do I. Goodbye, Benjamin.

  [he walks past Sisko into the shuttle] 

  Commander Sisko : Verad!

  [Verad turns around] 

  Commander Sisko : Don't call me Benjamin.

  [shoots him] 

• [first lines] 

  Ben Sisko : Station log, stardate 47182.1. DS9 has been temporarily evacuated due to a violent plasma disruption. Until the disturbance ends, the station has only a skeleton crew.