Alexander Siddig credited as playing...
Doctor Julian Bashir
- Lt. Commander Worf: There are six trials we must face on the path to Kal'Hyah. This is the first - deprivation. We now begin a fast that will continue until the day of the wedding.
- Doctor Bashir: That's four days away.
- Martok: It is a short time, I know, but we must make the best of it.
- Captain Sisko: What are the other five trials?
- Lt. Commander Worf: Blood, pain, sacrifice, anguish, and death.
- Doctor Bashir: Sounds like marriage alright.
- Chief O'Brien: How would you know?
- Doctor Bashir: Miles...
- Chief O'Brien: Yeah...
- Doctor Bashir: It's working. I've had a vision about the future. I can see it so clearly.
- Chief O'Brien: What is it?
- Doctor Bashir: I'm gonna kill Worf. I'm gonna kill Worf. That's what I'm gonna do. I can see it clearly now, I'm gonna kill... him.
- Chief O'Brien: Kill Worf.
- Doctor Bashir: Kill Worf.
- Chief O'Brien: Kill Worf... Kill Worf.
- Lt. Commander Worf: As you probably know by now, Jadzia and I will be married here on the station in six days.
- Doctor Bashir: There's nothing more romantic than a wedding on DS9 in springtime.
- Chief O'Brien: When the neutrinos are in bloom.
- Doctor Bashir: [Quark is taking down the Klingon decorations in his bar] What's going on?
- Quark: Haven't you heard? The wedding's off!
- Chief O'Brien: Off? Why?
- Quark: She says it's because he's a pigheaded, stubborn man who puts tradition before everything else. He says it's because she's a frivolous, emotional woman who refuses to take him or his culture seriously. You can see the problem.
- Chief O'Brien: They're both right.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Now begins the trial of blood.
- Martok: Let rivers flow from our veins.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Who will be first?
- [O'Brien, Sisko and Alexander clandestinely move one step backwards, while Bashir, somewhat groggy, stays put]
- Lt. Commander Worf: I did not expect it to be you, Doctor.
- Doctor Bashir: [looks around] Neither did I.
- Lt. Commander Worf: [referring to a number of pugil sticks] These... are Ma'Stakas.
- Doctor Bashir: What, er... what do we do with them?
- General Martok: At the conclusion of the wedding ceremony, you will use them to attack Worf and Dax.
- Chief O'Brien: Obviously. Don't you know anything?
- Lt. Commander Worf: The tradition dates back to the wedding of Kahless and Lukara, who were nearly killed by Molor's troops, moments after they were married. Until the ceremony, you should keep these with you at all times.
- Captain Sisko: I trust this combat is non-lethal?
- General Martok: It is a symbolic attack only.