Colm Meaney credited as playing...
Chief Miles O'Brien
- [Dr. Bashir is frustrated that O'Brien isn't paying attention to him during lunch]
- Chief O'Brien: Look, Julian... you said you wanted to have lunch. And we're having lunch.
- Doctor Bashir: Yes, but I was hoping for a little more conversation with my plomeek soup.
- Chief O'Brien: Ah. My mother taught me, if you try to combine talking and eating, you'll end up doing neither very well.
- [first lines]
- Doctor Bashir: I mean, if you ask me, modern theatre has been on the decline since the late 23rd century. Just look at the plays to have come out of Earth in the last 50 years and compare them to the works of Willenheld or Barton or Chow-Yun.
- [O'Brien silently enquires if he can have Bashir's bread]
- Doctor Bashir: Yes, yes. Modern playwrites have become obsessed with writing human interpretations of alien theatrical works while ignoring completely our own unique culture heritage in the hope of... Chief, are you listening to me?
- Chief O'Brien: What?
- Doctor Bashir: I thought so.
- Chief O'Brien: I heard every word you said.
- Doctor Bashir: And what do you think?
- Chief O'Brien: About what?
- Doctor Bashir: Any of it.
- Chief O'Brien: I don't know. Look, what do you want me to say?
- Doctor Bashir: Say you agree. Say you disagree. Say you hate theatre. Just say *something*!