Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Quickening (1996)

Alexander Siddig: Doctor Julian Bashir

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• Doctor Bashir : I'm gonna tell you a little secret, Jadzia. I was looking forward to tomorrow, to seeing Kira again, casually asking 'How was the nebula? And, oh, by the way, I cured that blight thing those people had'.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : It's not a crime to believe in yourself, Julian.

  Doctor Bashir : These people believed in me, and look where it got them. Trevean was right. There is no cure. The Dominion made sure of that. And I was so arrogant, I thought I could find one in a week!

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Maybe it was arrogant to think that. But it's even more arrogant to think there isn't a cure just because *you* couldn't find it.

• Doctor Bashir : Some people don't like to be around the sick; it reminds them of their own mortality.

  Ekoria : Doesn't bother you?

  Doctor Bashir : Sometimes. I prefer to confront mortality, rather than hide from it. When you make someone well, it's like you're... chasing death off, making him wait for another day.

• [Bashir tells Ekoria about his teddy bear Kukalaka, his first "patient" when he was a child] 

  Doctor Bashir : I must have sewn and stitched and repatched every square inch of that bear.

  Ekoria : Why were you so determined to keep him together?

  Doctor Bashir : Well, I wouldn't be much of a doctor if I gave up on a patient, would I?

• Doctor Bashir : I thought this was a hospital, and that you were a healer.

  Trevean : I am. I take away pain.

• Doctor Bashir : First thing I have to do is run a complete bio-spectral analysis on an asymptomatic individual.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : [to Ekoria]  Loosely translated that means he needs a volunteer.

• [Bashir has developed a vaccine against the blight] 

  Doctor Bashir : The vaccine isn't difficult to make. But seeing that everybody gets it will be a huge task.

  Trevean : Oh, not a task. A privilege. Can you show me how to make it?

  Doctor Bashir : I was hoping you'd ask that.

• [last lines] 

  Doctor Bashir : People are still dying back there.

  Captain Sisko : Yes. But their children won't.

  Doctor Bashir : That's what I keep telling myself, sir.

  [Sisko leaves] 

  Doctor Bashir : [to his computer]  Initiate re-shuffling sequence.

• Doctor Bashir : Is it my imagination, or are the stars a little brighter in the Gamma Quadrant?

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Is it my imagination, or has Julian lost his mind?

• Doctor Bashir : I just want to do what I can to help, I'm not making any promises.

  Trevean : Take care that you don't. Because we have dealt with people who give false hope before. Believe me, their deaths make the blight look like a blessing.

• Ekoria : Maybe you should go home. Maybe my people don't deserve your help.

  Doctor Bashir : Oh, they've just been suffering so long, they've lost hope that things can be better.

  Ekoria : It's more than that. We've come to worship death. - I used to wake up and look at myself in the mirror and be disappointed I hadn't quickened in my sleep. Going to Trevean seemed so much easier than going on living.

• Doctor Bashir : I didn't realise you made house calls.