Kira Nerys: What do Klingons dream about?
Worf: Things that would send cold chills down your spine, and wake you in the middle of the night. No, it is better that you do not know. Excuse me.
Kira Nerys: I can never tell when he’s joking.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 6 – “Rejoined”
Miles O’Brien: She says that I’m trying to live like a bachelor again. That I’m expressing a subconscious desire to push her out of our quarters.”
Julian Bashir: Now, that is ridiculous! I mean, if anything, by spending your free time in the bedroom, a place you intimately associate with Keiko, you’re actually expressing a desire to be closer to her, during her absence. It’s quite touching, really!
Miles O’Brien: Exactly! Exactly! See, you understand! Now why can’t she see that? Why can’t she be more like, uh…
Julian Bashir: More like…?
Miles O’Brien: Err, um, a man, more like a man.
Julian Bashir: So. You wish Keiko was a man.
Miles O’Brien: I wish I was on this trip with someone else, that’s what I wish.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 3 – “Hippocratic Oath”
Welcome to “Friday Favorites” which highlight some of my favorite movie-related things.
Star Trek: First Contact is without a doubt my favorite Star Trek film, even over Wrath of Khan. I’m well aware that I have a bias towards the Next Generation crew, but there is so much in First Contact that makes me pick it over the other 10 films. It has a great screenplay by longtime Trek writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, which gives all of the characters moments to shine and shows an intimate familiarity with the universe. The same goes for Jonathan Frakes, who directs the film with a light touch that can only come from years of working with the same cast and crew. It has some of the best action of the series and a great villain in the Borg. The non-TNG cast are great, especially James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard. The effects are a huge step up from previous efforts and the new Enterprise-E is gorgeous. Beyond all that, the film has some interesting ideas both about our past and our future.
There’s one moment that really cements the film in my mind, but it requires a bit of plot background. Continue reading
Quark: I want you to try something for me. Take a sip of this.
Garak: What is it?
Quark: A human drink. It’s called root beer.
Garak: Uh, I don’t know…
Quark: Come on, aren’t you just a little bit curious?
[Garak sighs, takes a sip and gags]
Quark: What do you think?
Garak: It’s vile!
Quark: I know. It’s so bubbly, and cloying, and happy.
Garak: Just like the Federation.
Quark: But you know what’s really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it.
Garak: It’s insidious!
Quark: Just like the Federation.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 1 – “The Way of the Warrior”
Julian Bashir: They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavicle.
Garak: But I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt did serious damage to their egos.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 1 – “The Way of the Warrior”
Odo: It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice… is that sometimes, they make the wrong choice.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3: Episode 24 – “Shakaar”
Sisko: Why didn’t you just say so?
Odo: Well sometimes I have to remind you just how good I am.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3: Episode 17 – “Visionary”
Odo: But don’t worry – I plan to investigate the Klingons, the Bajorans, Quark, the visiting Terrelians…
Sisko: You think Quark had something to do with this?
Odo: I always investigate Quark.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3, Episode 17 – “Visionary”
Odo: There’ll be no live vole fights on the Promenade, Quark.
Quark: I would never be party to anything so cruel and inhumane. But, of course, if some Cardassians happened to bring their voles along and they happened to get into a fight, I could hardly be held responsible for…
Odo: Oh, yes you could.
Sisko: And you will be.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3: Episode 15 – “Destiny”
Dr. Julian Bashir: Causing people to suffer because you hate them… is terrible. But causing people to suffer because you have forgotten how to care… that’s really hard to understand.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3, Episode 11 – “Past Tense: Part I”
The Love Pirate 