Avery Brooks credited as playing...
Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
- Doctor Bashir: A simple wide-spectrum antiviral agent should cure Mrs. Troi. And as for everyone else, well, they'll be back to normal in a day or two. Excuse me. I promised Nerys that I'd meet her in her quarters this evening.
- [he heads for the exit, but Sisko holds him back]
- Commander Sisko: I think you ought to postpone that visit... for a day or two.
- Commander Sisko: Doctor, I need your help.
- Doctor Bashir: [in passionate embrace with Kira] And I need yours, too. You got to get me away from Kira, I can't... keep my hands...
- Major Kira: What's worse, I can't keep my hands off him!
- Commander Sisko: [to Chief O'Brien about Quark] Easy, Chief. He doesn't know what he's doing.
- [points to Lwaxana, they all look at her]
- Lwaxana Troi: What are you looking at me for?
- [Cuts to sickbay]
- Lwaxana Troi: Zanthi Fever? Oh, that's ridiculous. That's impossible. That only affects older Betazoids.
- Doctor Bashir: That may be, but according to my tests, you show all the symptoms. Zanthi Fever is a virus which affects the empathic abilities of, uh, mature Betazoids. It causes them to project their emotions onto others.
- Commander Sisko: Then Mrs. Troi's amorous feelings for... someone on the station were being passed along to the people around her?
- Doctor Bashir: Not everyone. Only those within close proximity to her when she had an attack, and even then, they would've had to have been with some preexisting latent attraction.
- Commander Sisko: You're saying Dax...?
- Doctor Bashir: Only on a subconscious level. Best not to think about it too much if you ask me.
- Lwaxana Troi: I am terribly sorry, Commander. I hope I haven't caused too much trouble.