Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)
The Ascent (1996)
Armin Shimerman: Quark
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Quotes
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Odo : You know, if I were still a Changeling, I could've shapeshifted into a Vorian pterodactyl and flown that damn transmitter to the top of the mountain hours ago.
Quark : You're the one who wanted to be a Solid.
Odo : I never wanted to be a Solid.
Quark : Oh, please. I used to see you coming into the bar, watching Morn eat, eyeing my customers, as they gambled and flirted with the dabo girls, wishing you were one of them - not to mention your platonic friendship with a certain Bajoran Major.
Odo : [laughs disparagingly] If that's the kind of psychological insight you dispense with your drinks, it's a wonder you have any customers.
Quark : Deny it all you want, but the fact is, your people gave you what you wanted. You're one of us now, and I can finally sit on a chair and know with absolute certainty that it isn't you.
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Quark : You know, Odo, I used to think all your problems stemmed from the fact that you were a Changeling - isolated from your own kind, forced to live among strangers who didn't understand you. You couldn't eat, you couldn't drink, you couldn't sleep, you couldn't make love. Was it any wonder you had such a bad disposition? But you're not a Changeling anymore. You're one of us. Life is yours for the taking, all you have to do is reach out and grab it. But do you? No. Because Solid or Changeling, you're still a miserable, self-hating misanthrope. That's who you are, and that's who you'll always be.
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Quark : All we have to do is haul this transmitter to higher ground - more altitude, less atmosphere. Go high enough and we might be able to get a signal out.
Odo : And how much higher do we have to go?
Quark : Uh... carry the seven, take the square root, times pi... I'd say, er...
[points at the top of the highest mountain]
Quark : ...that high.
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Quark : [on the prospect of dying alone on the planet] My brother will get the bar. My nephew will be completely corrupted by the Federation, and become a Starfleet captain. And my bones will lie here and freeze, unsold, and unmourned.
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Quark : This whole runabout is alive with annoying little noises!
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Quark : Care for a game of Fizzbin?
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[Having been dragging an injured Odo up the mountain while carrying the transmitter, a wea, cold and exhausted Quark collapses in the dirt]
Odo : Quark?
Quark : [his face in the sand; defeated] It's over.
Odo : What do you mean it's over?
Quark : I can't move... We'll have to set up the transmitter here.
Odo : We're not high enough. You have to leave me here and go on by yourself.
Quark : [in despair] Don't you get it? I can't do it. I'm half frozen. I haven't eaten for days... . MY MUSCLES CAN'T WORK ANYMORE!
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Quark : [Odo is violently slapping him, trying to wake him up. Quark wakes up screaming] STOP HITTING ME!
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Quark : [about the Orion Syndicate; before the runabout crash-lands on a planet] I'm not a member. I just know people who know people who know some other people...
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Odo : [about the planet's frigid weather] How can it be so cold when the sun is shining?
Quark : It isn't much of a sun, this isn't much of a planet... and you've got a lot of nerve to complain when you're the one wearing the jacket!
Odo : [defensively] You agreed to take turns!
Quark : [under his breath] Under duress... .
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[Quark has tripped and fallen to the ground while carrying the transmitter]
Odo : [concern] Quark! Quark?
Quark : [groans] What?
Odo : [trying to conceal his concern] Uh... If you break that transmitter.
Quark : [snaps] I'm fine! *Thank you very much!*
[softly]
Quark : And so is the transmitter...
Odo : Here, let me help you up.
Quark : [Quark doesn't budge] No thanks! I think I'll just LAY here, and freeze to death!
Odo : [rolls his eyes] Al right, Alright... You made your point. I'll carry the transmitter for a while.
Quark : [as Odo helps him up; irate] And I get to wear the jacket!
Odo : But *I* get the trousers!
