Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Tacking into the Wind (1999)

John Vickery: Gul Rusot

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Quotes 

• Gul Rusot : You're still a Cardassian, Garak. You're not gonna kill one of your own people for a Bajoran woman.

  Garak : How little you understand me.

• [Rusot has provoked Kira into hitting him] 

  Gul Rusot : I guess... I hit a nerve.

  Colonel Kira : [strangling him]  No. *This* is hitting a nerve! Stop pushing me, or I'll make you realize just how many nerves you have in that miserable body.

• [first lines] 

  Kira : There. Right there. The explosion began at the intercooler matrix and your men were supposed to plant the bomb here, at the secondary plasma relay.

  Rusot : What difference does it make? The ship was destroyed.

  Garak : The intercooler was the obvious place for sabotage. Their security checks could have found the bomb and disarmed it before the ship left orbit.

  Rusot : But they didn't find it.

  Kira : That isn't the point. Your men ignored their instructions and their training.

  Damar : Let us not lose sight of the fact that the mission was a success.

  Kira : It was a success because the Jem'Hadar slipped up and we got lucky. Don't use those men again for anything other than routine reconnaissance.

  Rusot : They're five of my best men! Bronok is one of the most experienced...

  Garak : [Exasperated]  You've been told before. No names.

  Kira : Every cell has to be insulated from the cell above and the cell below. If I know the names of your men and I am captured...

  Rusot : Yes. I've heard the lecture.

  Kira : Well then, you shouldn't have to be reminded.

  Damar : It's been a long day. Why don't we take a break.

  Rusot : Good idea. The air in here is getting stale.