Avery Brooks credited as playing...
Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
- Commander Sisko: [about Mardah] Quark may call her a dabo girl; but she's twenty years old. She's a woman, and Jake is a sixteen-year-old boy. It has to stop.
- Chief O'Brien: Well, why did you invite her over, if you don't mind my asking?
- Commander Sisko: Curiosity, mostly. I want to see what I was up against.
- Chief O'Brien: What if it turns out you like her?
- Commander Sisko: She's a dabo girl, she's dating my son - I don't want to like her.
- Jake Sisko: Mrs. O'Brien used to say that Mardah should try to get some of her stories published.
- Mardah: Jake, they aren't that good.
- Jake Sisko: Yes, they are.
- Mardah: Nothing like your poetry.
- Jake Sisko: You don't have enough faith in yourself.
- Commander Sisko: P-poetry - y-you write... poetry?
- Jake Sisko: Well - sort of. Not... not really.
- Mardah: Now who doesn't have enough faith in himself?
- Mardah: [to Sisko] He writes some of the most beautiful things I've ever read. That's what won me over.
- Commander Sisko: [becoming more and more bewildered] Er... His... poetry?
- Mardah: And the way he plays dom-jot.
- [Jake winces]
- Commander Sisko: You play dom-jot?
- Mardah: Oh, your son can play. He's quite the hustler.
- Commander Sisko: A hustler?
- [Sisko has just met the baby found in the wreckage of a ship]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You are positively glowing! I haven't seen that look on your face since...
- Commander Sisko: ...since Jake stopped wearing diapers.
- Chief O'Brien: [seeing Jake walk by with Mardah] I thought you were gonna lower the boom on those two.
- Commander Sisko: Well, I was; but some things came up at dinner I didn't expect.
- Chief O'Brien: Ah - got to know her a little better, decided you liked her after all?
- Commander Sisko: No, actually I got to know Jake a little better. Have you ever played dom-jot with him?
- Chief O'Brien: Nope.
- Commander Sisko: Don't.
- Mardah: Jake seemed like just another teenage boy at first. But there's more to him than that.
- Commander Sisko: I'm beginning to realize that myself...
- [Sisko has been ordered to send the Jem'Hadar to another starbase]
- Commander Sisko: There will be a complete team of xenobiologists and exopsychologists waiting for him.
- Odo: So they're going to study him, like a laboratory specimen.
- Commander Sisko: Well, he'll be very well treated.
- Odo: [sarcastically] So he'll be a well treated specimen.
- Commander Sisko: But there are times when I would give almost anything for the days when I could make Jake happy... just by lifting him over my head.