Avery Brooks credited as playing...
Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
- [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 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 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]
- [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!
- [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.
- [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.