Brock Peters credited as playing...
Joseph Sisko • Preacher
- Benny Russell: Tell me, please - who am I?
- Preacher: Don't you know?
- Benny Russell: Tell me.
- Preacher: You are the dreamer. And the dream.
- [last lines]
- Captain Sisko: I have begun to wonder. What if it wasn't a dream? What if this life we're leading - all of this, you and me, everything - what if all of this... is the illusion?
- Joseph Sisko: That's a scary thought.
- Captain Sisko: I know, I know... But maybe, just maybe, Benny isn't the dream. We are. Maybe we're nothing more than figments of his imagination. For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere, far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell... is dreaming of us.
- Preacher: Write the words, Brother Ben, the words that will lead us out of the darkness onto the path of righteousness. Write the words, Brother Benny. Write the words!
- [Captain Swofford, commander of the USS Cortez and close friend of Sisko's, has presumably been killed in battle]
- Captain Sisko: I don't know how much more I can take. I don't know how many more friends I can lose. Every time I achieve a real victory, something like this happens, and everything seems to turn to ashes!
- Joseph Sisko: So what do you wanna do?
- Captain Sisko: Maybe it's time for me to step down. Let someone else make the tough calls.
- Joseph Sisko: I see. No one is indispensable, son, not even you. Whatever decision you make, I'll support. Of course, if Quentin Swofford was here, I bet he'd have a few things to say to you.
- Captain Sisko: But he's not here, and that's the whole point.
- Joseph Sisko: Question is, what're you going to do?
- Captain Sisko: The only thing I can do - stay here and finish the job I started. And if I failed...
- Joseph Sisko: [quoting from the bible] "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith."