DAX: Consider it a compliment. And the next time I go off half-cocked on some wild-eyed adventure, think back to this moment and be a little more understanding.
(Nog gets a message over his special hand-held communicator.) NOG: Captain. Ops has cleared us for departure.
[Defiant - Engineering] Nog [OC]: Stand by impulse power. O'Brien: Stand by impulse power. Stand by to increase Deuterium injection rate. Configure driver coils for Impulse speed. Set EPS taps at level 3.
^ finishing The Defiant makes its 180 degree turn, but keeps turning... Dax: Hold at 5 degrees pitch. Kira: We're coming around too fast.
Actually left out some dialogue... DAX: Port and starboard thrusters at one quarter. Bearing one eight zero mark zero. (the Defiant pulls out in reverse) KIRA: Distance from docking ring, fifty meters. Sixty, seventy, eighty. SISKO: Bring us about, old man. DAX: Hard to port. Ten degrees pitch. Minimal power to the aft thrusters. Let the momentum bring us around. (Defiant does a one-eighty but keeps turning to a three sixty.) DAX: Hold at five degrees pitch. KIRA: We're coming around too fast. DAX: I see it. Ease off on the port thrusters. Pitch back to zero degrees.