Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Emissary (1993)

Armin Shimerman: Quark

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Quotes 

• Quark : Commander, I've made a career out of knowing when to leave. And this Bajoran provisional government is far too provisional for my taste. And when governments fall, people like me are lined up and shot.

  Commander Benjamin Sisko : There is that risk. But then, you are a gambler, Quark.

  Odo : And a thief.

  Commander Benjamin Sisko : You know, Quark, that poor boy is about to spend the best years of his life in a Bajoran prison. I'm a father myself. I know what your brother must be going through. The boy should be with his family, not in some cold jail cell. Think about it. It's up to you.

  [He exits] 

  Odo : You know, at first, I didn't think I was going to like him.

• Commander Benjamin Sisko : My officers, Bajoran engineers, all their families depend on the shops and services of this promenade. If people like you abandon it, this is going to become a ghost town. We need someone to step forward and say "I'm staying. I'm rebuilding". We need a community leader, and it's going to be - you, Quark!

  Quark : [guffaws]  Community leader!

  Odo : Seems reasonable. You have all the character references of a politician.

• Commander Benjamin Sisko : It's really quite simple, Quark. You're not going to leave.

  Quark : Not going to leave? But we're packed and ready to go.

  Commander Benjamin Sisko : Unpack.

  Quark : I don't understand, Commander. Why would you want me to stay?

  Constable Odo : I'm curious myself. The man is a gambler and a thief.

  Quark : I'm not a thief.

  Constable Odo : You are a thief!

  Quark : If I am, you haven't been able to prove it for four years.

• Quark : New rules?

  Major Kira : You can't cheat every customer who walks through the door anymore, Quark. You are a community leader now.

  Quark : Very well, very well, perhaps we could discuss these new rules over a drink.

  [Kira suddenly grabs Quark at his shirt] 

  Major Kira : [invidiously]  If you don't take that hand off my hip, you'll never be able to raise a glass with it again.

  Quark : Oh, I love a woman in uniform!

• Quark : Never trust ale from a god-fearing people, or a Starfleet commander that has one of your relatives in jail.

• [Quark's first line of the series] 

  Quark : Nog! What's going on?