Jill Sayre credited as playing...
Mardah
- 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?
- 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...