"Children of Time" Line-by-Line

Kira: I had to see it again so I could be sure.

 

ODO: Sure about what?

 

KIRA: That this is where I belong. The path the Prophets laid out for me ends here.

 

ODO: But not this time, Nerys. The Captain's taking you back to DS9.

 

KIRA: I can't let him do that. Not if it's going to cost 8000 lives. No, we have to let history take its course, even if it means I have to die here.

 

[Mess hall]

O'BRIEN: What? Have you lost your mind?

 

BASHIR: Kira, if we don't go back to the station you'll die within a few weeks. There's nothing I can do for you here.

 

KIRA: I know that, Julian. I've accepted it. We've got to take the Defiant back in time, otherwise we're cheating fate.

 

O'BRIEN: Yeah, well, I wouldn't mind cheating fate all the way home to the station.

 

DAX: Neither would I. But if we go home, eight thousand people are going to cease to exist.

 

O'BRIEN: I don't know those people. But I have a wife and kids back home who need me.

 

KIRA: Your family will be fine, Miles. The Prophets will take care of them.

 

O'BRIEN: No offence, but I don't believe in your Prophets.

 

WORF: All Major Kira is saying is our families will survive no matter what we do. The colonists will not. If she is willing to sacrifice her life to save them, I am willing to remain here.

 

O'BRIEN: That's easy for you to say. You hardly see your son.

 

WORF: And you are afraid to face your destiny.

 

O'Brien: We can sit here and argue destiny until we're blue in the face, but the bottom line is nobody has the right to tell me I can't go home to my family!

 

SISKO: I want to go home as much as you do, Chief. I'm just listening to what everyone has to say.

 

O'BRIEN: So we're not actually considering this?

 

SISKO: No, we're not.