Avery Brooks credited as playing...
Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
- [Sisko refuses to abandon Dax who has been injured]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: If you were hurt, I'd leave you behind.
- Commander Sisko: Then I'm glad I'm not the one who's hurt.
- Sisko: Major, I gave you a direct order.
- Major Kira Nerys: Court-martial me.
- Sisko: I can't. You're not in Starfleet.
- Jadzia Dax: [glaring at Sisko and Kira] If I were your superior officer, I'd court-martial both of you.
- Commander Sisko: First contact is our most important mission, Jake. It has to be handled delicately. You might say, it's sort of like... a... first date with a girl.
- Odo: [interrupting a patented Sisko rant at an alien species] Excuse me, Commander...
- Sisko: [not taking his eyes off the alien] Yes, Odo?
- Odo: Before you blame them, you might want to ask Quark just how this all started.
- Sisko: [Sisko turns his melt-neutronium gaze on Quark, the alien forgotten] Quark...
- Quark: I wish I could explain it... um... they just had a run of bad luck, and then they blamed me for their losses! And, uh...
- Odo: That's not what you said when you were groveling on the floor.
- Quark: [realizing he's caught] Oh, that's right. You were here for the groveling.
- Commander Sisko: You know what time you're s'pposed to go to bed? We never had any problems with it, until Nog.
- Jake Sisko: Dad, I'm fourteen!
- Commander Sisko: I'm glad we agree on something.
- Commander Sisko: Use your tricorders for proximity checks every two minutes. And if all else fails, just yell again, Doctor. We'll find you.
- [Commander Sisko is introducing his senior staff to the Wadi]
- Falow: [uninterested] Yes... yes... yes, now - where are the games?
- Commander Sisko: Games?
- Falow: We were told you had games... 'Quark's'. Take us to 'Quark's'.
- [Sisko looks at the others, dumbfounded]
- Major Kira: [motioning] Right this way.
- [she leads the Wadi away]
- Commander Sisko: First contact is not what it used to be.