Colm Meaney credited as playing...
Chief Miles O'Brien
- Chief O'Brien: [reading] "It worked in Hamelin".
- [Bashir's note to his "solution" against the vole plague: a flute]
- Chief O'Brien: [to Quark; about the Cardassian voles] I believe I found a way to make the voles beg for mercy.
- Quark: What is it?
- Chief O'Brien: [pulls out a flashlight-like device and presses a button] Well, it's a sonic...
- [O'Brien is interrupted by an high-pitched agonized squeal from Quark]
- Quark: AUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
- [Quark collapses to the floor; screaming almost unintelligibly]
- Quark: STOP! STOP!
- [O'Brien turns the device off. Quark slowly stands up, looking dazed and experimentally slapping his ringing ears]
- Chief O'Brien: [worried] Are you all right?
- [Quark looks at him blankly]
- Chief O'Brien: [louder] Are you all right?
- Quark: [still unable to hear what O'Brien is saying] What?
- Gul Evek: You've got the station, you've got the voles. By the way, their mating season begins in about six weeks.
- Chief O'Brien: [sarcastically] Thanks for your help.
- Gul Evek: The Federation could always withdraw from Bajor.