- Quark: I think I figured out why Humans don't like Ferengi.
- Sisko: Not now, Quark.
- Quark: The way I see it, Humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.
- Sisko: Quark, we don't have time for this.
- Quark: You're overlooking something. Humans used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi: slavery, concentration camps, interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you... we're better.
- Quark: As a wise man once wrote: "Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever".
- [Rule of Acquisition #102]
- Nog: I'm telling you, Jake, something's happened to them. Maybe they were attacked by a wild animal.
- Jake Sisko: You heard my dad, there aren't any wild animals, just insects and plants.
- Nog: Maybe they were attacked by a vicious tree.
- [Quark is making a racket calling for the Jem'Hadar]
- Eris: If we escape, do we have to take him with us?
- Sisko: He's not so bad.
- Eris: Doesn't he realize he's not accomplishing anything?
- Sisko: Don't be so sure. We need to know what the Jem'Hadar plan to do with us, which means we need to get their attention. And if there's one thing I know...
- Third Talak'talan: [from the background] That's enough!
- Sisko: ...it's that Quark is hard to ignore.
- [Sisko and Quark have been captured by the Jem'Hadar]
- Third Talak'talan: A Ferengi, and a human. I was hoping the first race I'd meet from the other side of the anomaly would be the Klingons.
- Sisko: I'm sorry to disappoint you.
- Third Talak'talan: It's too late for apologies. The Dominion will no longer stand by and allow ships from your side to violate our territory.
- Quark: Uh, well, what did he say?
- Odo: What did who say?
- Quark: Commander Sisko, about my idea?
- Odo: You mean, using the monitors throughout the station to sell merchandise?
- Quark: Stop torturing me, Odo, tell me what he said.
- Odo: Guess.
- Quark: He said yes!
- Odo: Guess again.
- Quark: It would triple my profits. How can he refuse?
- Odo: Maybe it's because he doesn't like you.
- Quark: Don't be ridiculous. Major Kira's the one who doesn't like me; Sisko...
- Odo: ...doesn't like you either.
- Quark: What'd I ever do to him?
- Odo: Oh, I could think of one or two things.
- Quark: Oh, one or two things, that's nothing. So do you think there's any way I can, uh, change his mind?
- Odo: Ha!
- [and leaves]
- [last lines]
- Major Kira: She'll be back. The question is who she'll bring with her.
- Sisko: If the Dominion comes through the Wormhole, the first battle will be fought here. And I intend to be ready for them.
- Quark: [screams] I'm on fire!
- [screams more]
- Quark: I'm on fire!
- Sisko: Quark!
- [puts out fire]
- Sisko: Are you alright?
- Quark: No, I am not alright! My ears itch, my nose is running, I'm eating foreign bugs, now look at me! One minute, I'm trying to pick out a couple of bugs out of that jumbo-whatsit-pot, then the next thing I know... woosh!
- Third Talak'talan: We gain more knowledge every day. And now we have you to help us learn more.
- Sisko: I don't plan on telling you anything.
- Third Talak'talan: I won't be the one asking the questions.
- Sisko: Who will?
- Third Talak'talan: I was really hoping to meet a Klingon.
- Captain Keogh: Lieutenant, have you ever thought of serving on a starship?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I'm happy where I am.
- Captain Keogh: Good.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: [about Captain Keogh] Don't you find him just a little arrogant?
- Sisko: Funny, he said the same thing about you.
- [Jake and Nog are observing some Jem'Hadar from a distance]
- Nog: I don't know who they are, but they don't look friendly.
- Jake Sisko: I wish we could get closer.
- Nog: I don't think they'll look any friendlier close up.
- [Jake is trying to fly the runabout at impulse speed]
- Nog: At this speed it'll take weeks to get home!
- Jake Sisko: Actually it'll take about five years.
- [a Jem'Hadar ship has made a suicide run against the Odyssey and caused it to explode]
- Chief O'Brien: [aghast] We were retreating. There was no need for a suicide run.
- Sisko: They're showing us how far they're willing to go.
- Sisko: I want to know why we are being held here.
- Third Talak'talan: That's not my concern.
- Sisko: Then why won't you let us go?
- Third Talak'talan: Because the Founders don't want you released.
- Sisko: And who are the Founders?
- Third Talak'talan: That's not *your* concern.
- Sisko: You know, Jake, we really need to get away more often.
- Jake Sisko: I'm ready whenever you are. I'm sure Nog is, too.
- Third Talak'talan: Here is a list of vessels we've destroyed for violating our territory.
- Major Kira: [picking up the list] Where'd you get this datapad?
- Third Talak'talan: From the Bajoran colony on our side of the anomaly. You should be proud. I hear they fought well for a spiritual people. I hope we won't have to repeat this lesson.
- Nog: [Jake and Nog are trying to fly a Runabout without a functional autopilot but can't even get it out of the planet's orbit] Can't we reassemble the autopilot?
- Jake Sisko: If Chief O'Brien taught me anything, it's that it's a lot easier taking things apart than putting them back together.
- Quark: [to Sisko; complaining about the nature] It isn't so much of the *humidity*... and the *insects*, and the *stench* of these flowers.
- Quark: [During dinner, Sisko is offering Quark more food. Quark refuses by uses his spoon to hold Sisko's label back; trying poorly to conceal his disgust] I still say there's some dirt in the sauce... and these bugs...
- [sticks his finger in the food and holds it up]
- Quark: Look at this! They get into everything... it's disgusting!
- Sisko: I though Ferengis liked eating bugs.
- Quark: Only *certain* bugs. Ferengi Bugs!
- Quark: [screaming angrily at Sisko after getting his sleeve caught on fire] No, I am NOT alright! My ears itch, my nose is running, I am eating foreign bugs! Now... Look at me!
- [points at his burned sleeve of his loudly colored shirt]
- Quark: One minute I am trying to pick a couple of bugs out of that jumba-whats-it pot, then next thing I know... *WHOOSH!*
- Sisko: Quark, calm down. Look, do us all a favor. Sit down and try to stay out of trouble.
- Quark: [irately] *What did I do?*
- Nog: [an embarrassed Nog hisses at Quark and runs off in shame into the shrubbery]
- Nog: [as a Jem'Hadar ship launches from the planet below them] Computer, evasive manoeuvres! Fire phasers! Launch torpedoes! And escape pods!