"Take Me Out To The Holosuite" Line-By-Line

[Gul Re'jal]

[Sisko's quarters]

(Sisko is getting a back rub.)
KASIDY: Oh, that's quite a knot. Your back is like a minefield of bruised muscles.

 

[ElimGarak.93-99]

SISKO: Aargh, you tell me something I don't know, ow.

 

[Gul Re'jal]

KASIDY: Okay. You're lifting your foot at the plate.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SISKO: What?

 

[LeadHead]

Kassidy hands Sisko a bat.

Kassidy: Here, take a swing.

Sisko stands up to take a swing, as predicted, his left foot lifts.

Kassidy: Stop. Right there, lok, you're lifting your foot in the back swing. It's been messing up your whole rhythm.

Sisko angrily slams the bat into the side of a chair.

Kassidy: Not that bad. I know that look. It's the "I'd really like to smash something, but she'll think I'm crazy" look. Well, don't let me stop you. They're your quarters. Smash away if it'll make you feel better.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SISKO: The only way I'll feel better is to beat Solok tomorrow.

 

[Gul Re'jal]

KASIDY: So, do I get to hear the Solok story now? And before you say no you'd better consider the fact that if you don't tell me, you won't have a third baseman.

 

[Orac]

Sisko: We were in the same class at the Academy. One weekend I was with some friends at a bar off campus, the Launching Pad. and Solok came in with some Vulcan cadets. He said they were doing research on illogical human bonding rituals. We didn't take kindly to that.

 

[ElimGarak.93-99]

KASIDY: And you'd had a few drinks.

 

[Gul Re'jal]

SISKO: One or two. We got into a debate. Solok said that Vulcans were naturally superior to humans and other emotionally handicapped species. Of course I took the opposite position. So there I am, drunk and debating logic versus emotion with a smug and very sober Vulcan. Well, to make a long story short, I decided the best way to prove that humans were every bit the equal of Vulcans was to challenge him to a wrestling match.

 

[ElimGarak.93-99]

KASIDY: Wrestling?

 

[Gul Re'jal]

SISKO: All I wanted to do was to wipe that arrogant look off his face, so in the heat of the moment I challenged him.

 

[ElimGarak.93-99]

KASIDY: And?

 

[Gul Re'jal]

SISKO: I ended up in the Infirmary with a separated shoulder, two cracked ribs and a very bruised ego.

 

[ElimGarak.93-99]

Kasidy is laughing.

KASIDY: Oh, Ben. I don't mean to laugh, but what did you expect? A Vulcan has three times the strength of a human.

 

[Athena28]

SISKO: And they're faster, too. But you're right. I got what I deserved. And if it had ended right there, it would have been fine. But it didn't. Solok took every opportunity to remind me of the match. He used to point me out whenever I walked across the campus. In fact he wrote five psychology papers about our match. I became the living embodiment of why Vulcans were inherently superior to humans.

 

[ElimGarak.93-99]

KASIDY: You don't mean he was gloating? A Vulcan?

 

[Athena28]

SISKO: That's exactly what I mean. He may have hidden it beneath that Vulcan calm, but he loved every minute of it. And you'd think that once we graduated it would have stopped, but it didn't. Over the years, Solok wrote over a dozen papers on Vulcan human comparative profiles and in the beginning of every paper is an analysis of that damned wrestling match.

 

[ElimGarak.93-99]

KASIDY: And now he comes to your station and announces that he put together a baseball team.

 

[Leandar]

Sisko: He doesn't care about baseball. All he wants to do is rub my nose in it one more time. But now he is using my game, my game!