(laughing) curzon dax. curzon. of course. have fun. what is he doing here? i've always wanted to go to risa and this seemed perfect. he wouldn't give me time off unless we promised to take him. i hope this isn't a problem. quark: why should it be a problem? we're going to have a wonderful time. now, if you don't mind, risa awaits. sorry. jadzia... [captioning sponsored by the u.s. department of education let's see... that's a tarkalean tea for you a raktajino for you and an extra large prune juice. leeta, you're on vacation, not at quark's. you don't have to serve us. oh, it gives me something to do. space travel's so dull. have you ever noticed how all stars look the same? excuse me hand-squeezed. get it yourself. i'm on vacation. how much longer till we get there? dax: another six hours. six hours? tell the ferengi to return to his cabin. you call that a cabin? it's a cot and a waste disposal unit. it's so small even i can't stand up in there. look. i'm developing a slouch. tell the ferengi to return to his cabinnow. quark... what's he going to do? turn ar

curzon spent more time with klingons than you ever did. you may have lived among my people but you are not a klingon. i am. (sighs) what happened to you, worf? you're a paragon of klingon honor and discipline but when it comes to the klingon passion for life, the exuberance the enjoyment of the moment you are constantly holding yourself back. why? that is not the issue here. i think it is. i do not wish to lose you, jadzia. then talk to me,please. (sighing) you know from the age of seven i was raised by humans on the farmworld of gault. it was a sparsely populated world no more than 20,000 inhabitants. it often seemed as though everyone knew everybody else but one thingwasfor certain. the uncontrollable one. i was the biggest, the strongest the most fearless child on the entire planet. i fought hard, played hard, did as i pleased. what changed? when i was 13, i was captain of my school soccer team. we had made the championships, and i was determined to win. near the end of the second half, with the score tied my team got a corner kick. bot

an old friend of curzon' s from the diplomatic corps. she sasa that representatives from federation worlds near the klingon border are already urging a prprmptive strike. sounds like war may be inevitable. but right now, there's not much we can do about it either way. archanis four is a long way from here. ( sneeeeng ) two, three... i say she stops at seven. i say eight. mr. worf? ten. oh, i hate being pregnant! i win. my nose hasn't stopped itching for weeks. dax: we've noticed. is there anything dr. bashir can do? i'm bajoran. human women get nauseous. we sneeze. besides, dr. bashir's hands are fufu right now. how is the constable? no news yet. i doubt that he would wish to be seen in sucuca weakened state. what if he wants some company-- someone to take his mind off his problems? that is doubtful. odo values his privacy. he does not like to socialize. i think it's all an act. it is not an act. he told me so himself. but you were socializing with him when he said it. captain, was dax's last host as argumentative as this one? worse. tha

you're becoming more like curzon all the time. i don't know how to take that. consider it a compliment. and the next timeigo off half-cocked on some wild-eyed adventure think back to this moment captain, ops has cleared us for departure. very well. engine room, standby impulse power. engine room, bridge. standby impulse power. standby impulse power. stand by to increase deuterium injection rate. configure driver coils for impulse speed. set e.p.s. taps at level three. ops. seal the airlock and release docking clamps. close exterior hatches depressurize the airlock. detach umbilicals, clear all moorings. sisko: thrusters at station keeping. initialize deflector field. docking clamps released. helm, ease us out. port and starboard thrusters at one-quarter. distance from docking ring, 50 meters. sixty... seventy... eighty. bring g about, old man. hard to port, ten degrees pitch. minimal power to aft thrusters. let the momentum bring us around. hold at five degrees pitch. we're coming around too fast. i see it. ease off on the port thrusters. pulse starboard ththst