Avery Brooks credited as playing...
Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
- Gul Dukat: [of the Bajorans] I hated everything about them! Their superstitions, and their cries for sympathy, their treachery and their lies. Their smug superiority and their stiff-necked obstinacy. Their earrings, and their broken, wrinkled noses!
- Captain Sisko: You should have killed them all, hm?
- Gul Dukat: Yes! Yes! That's right, isn't it? I knew it! I've always known it! I should've killed every last one of them! I should've turned their planet into a graveyard the likes of which the galaxy had never seen! I should have killed them all.
- [Sisko clubs him over the back with a metal pole]
- Captain Sisko: And that is why you're not an evil man?
- Gul Dukat: No more pretense, no games! Just you, me and the truth.
- Captain Sisko: What do you know about the truth? You bend the truth into whatever shape suits you.
- Gul Dukat: About my daughter... You and Major Kira took care of her for almost a year. I wanted to thank you for that, it was very generous.
- Captain Sisko: Ziyal was a very special young woman. It was a pleasure to have her with us, even if it was only a short time.
- Gul Dukat: A short time is all she ever had.
- Captain Sisko: Is there anything I can get for you?
- Gul Dukat: Hmm. A bottle of kanar and an Orion slave girl would be nice.
- Captain Sisko: [smiling in spite of himself] I'll see what I can do.
- [first lines]
- Captain Sisko: Captain's log, stardate 51408.6. I've been aboard the Honshu for two days now, and I still haven't spoken to him, although the doctors have assured me that he's made a full recovery. Maybe that's what I'm afraid of. Maybe I prefer to think of him as a crazy man, a broken man. He'd be less dangerous that way. As terrible as it sounds, there's a part of me that wishes he were dead. But that's a thought unworthy of a Starfleet officer. He lost an empire, he lost his daughter, and he nearly lost his mind. Whatever his crimes, isn't that enough punishment for one lifetime?
- [last lines]
- Captain Sisko: You know, old man, sometimes life seems so complicated. Nothing is truly good or truly evil. Everything seems to be a shade of gray. And then you spend some time with a man like Dukat, and you realize that there is such a thing as truly evil.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: To realize that is one thing. To do something about it is another. So what are you going to do?
- Captain Sisko: I'll tell you what I'm not going to do: I'm not going to let him destroy Bajor. I fear no evil. From now on, it's him... or me.
- Major Kira: He's patronizing you!
- [sardonically]
- Major Kira: "You were a soldier and you had to carry out your orders." He doesn't believe that lame excuse any more than I do.
- Gul Dukat: This is growing tiresome.
- Capt. Benjamin Sisko: Dukat? Dukat! I thought you wanted to talk to me.
- Gul Dukat: Yes! But Nerys won't leave well enough alone. She's always interfering! Always trying to upset me!
- Capt. Benjamin Sisko: Maybe we should just ignore her. Let's pretend that the Major's not even here.