"Inquisition" Line-by-Line

[LeadHead]

Bashir: But that was two hundred years ago. Are you telling me you've been working on your own ever since? Without specific orders? Accountable to nobody but yourselves?

 

[Enterprise1981]

SLOAN: You make it sound so ominous.

 

[LeadHead]

Bashir: Isn't it? Because if what you say to me is true, you function as judge, jury and executioner, and I think that's too much power for anyone.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SLOAN: I admit it takes exceptional people to do what we do. People who can sublimate their own ambitions to the best interests of the Federation. People like you.

 

[Orac]

Bashir: Me?

 

[Athena28]

SLOAN: You have all the qualifications to be a very useful member of Section 31.

 

[Orac]

Bashir: A few minutes ago, you were calling me a traitor and now you want to recruit me?

 

[Leandar]

Sloan: Well, you're intelligent, you're resourceful, you've always been fascinated by covert operations. Why else would you spend so much time in Quark's holosuites playing spy?

 

[LeadHead]

Bashir: You're serious.

 

[Orac]

Sloan: We're on the same team. We believe in the same principles that every other Federation citizen holds dear.

 

[Athena28]

BASHIR: Yet you violate those principles as a matter of course.

 

[LeadHead]

Sloan: In order to protect them.

 

[Athena28]

BASHIR: No, I'm sorry, but the ends don't always justify the means.

 

[Orac]

Sloan: Really. How many lives do you suppose you've saved in your medical career?

 

[Enterprise1981]

BASHIR: What has that got to do with anything?

 

[Athena28]

SLOAN: Hundreds? Thousands? Do you suppose that those people give a damn that you lied to get into Starfleet Medical? I doubt it. We deal with threats to the Federation that jeopardize its very survival. If you knew how many lives we've saved, I think you'd agree that the ends do justify the means. I'm not afraid of bending the rules every once in a while if the situation warrants it, and I don't think you are either.

 

[Enterprise1981]

BASHIR: You've got the wrong man, Sloan.

 

[Athena28]

SLOAN: I don't think so. In time, you'll come to agree with me.

 

[Enterprise1981]

BASHIR: Don't hold your breath.

 

[Orac]

Sloan: All I ask is that when you get back to Deep Space Nine, you consider what I've said.