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"The Homecoming"/"The Circle"/"The Siege" Line-by-Line!
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CREWWOMAN (over comm): Commander, there's a call for you from the Tygarian freighter docked on upper pylon two.
SISKO: Put it through.
Doek (on screen): Commander Sisko, I am Romah Doek, executive officer of the Nanut. We were preparing to depart the station for the Gamma Quadrant when we discovered a Bajoran citizen trying to stow away on ship. I was hoping you'd know what to do with him.
(Doek pulls Li Nalas into view.)
[SISKO'S OFFICE]
SISKO: The Nanut isn't scheduled to return from the Gamma Quadrant for two years.
[SISKO'S OFFICE]
SISKO: The Nanut isn't scheduled to return from the Gamma Quadrant for two years.
Li: Commander, I'm going to tell you a story. You may even believe it.
LI: During the occupation I was a member of a minor resistance cell, the name is unimportant. One day, this was in the mountains surrounding the Sahving valley, we were ambushed by Cardassian troops. Only three of us managed to escape. We hid in the hills for two days. Finally the lack of food and water forced us down into the valley. We made our way to a ridge overlooking a small lake. As I was the only one still carrying a phaser, I went ahead to scout for the enemy. Halfway down the embankment, I slipped and went sprawling on my back down to the edge of the lake just as a huge Cardassian emerged from the water. He must have just finished bathing. He stood there, frozen in surprise, dressed only in his underwear, shivering from the cold. I lay there looking up at him too stunned to even move, and it was only when he reached for a phaser rifle that was lying across his clothes on a nearby rock that I realised I was still holding my own phaser, and I shot him. His body fell on top of me, and that's how my companions found us a moment later. One of them recognised him as Gul Zarale, responsible for the massacre of half a dozen Bajoran villages. Now I tried to tell them what happened, but they had already convinced themselves that I had killed Zarale in some kind of savage struggle, which is what they insisted on telling every Bajoran that we met. And no matter how hard I tried to deny it, the story continued to spread until it seemed all of Bajor had heard it. Soon every victory won by the resistance was attributed to my leadership. Stories of my brilliance, my daring, my courage grew more and more unbelievable, yet the people insisted on believing them. My reputation even followed me into the labor camp where my mere presence seemed to inspire my fellow prisoners. And I had done nothing but shoot an unarmed Cardassian in his underwear. I'll never forget the look on his face as he died. He was so embarrassed. So you see, Commander, I have done what Bajor needed me to do. I have allowed myself to be a slave to my reputation all of these years, and now it is enough.
(Did I just stumble into work and accidentally get the world record longest LBL quote?
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(Did I just stumble into work and accidentally get the world record longest LBL quote?
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(I think you may have. )
SISKO: They still need you.
)SISKO: They still need you.
SISKO: Perhaps not. But Bajor doesn't need a man. It needs a symbol and that's what you are. No one's asking you to lead troops into battle or to kill a hundred Cardassians with your bare hands. I saw you in front of the crowd on the Promenade. They look at you and they see strength and honor and decency. They look at you and see the best in themselves.
SISKO: No. It's based on a legend. And legends are as powerful as any truth. Bajor still needs that legend. It needs you.
KIRA: Opening mooring clamps on Docking Bay Six.
SISKO: Minister Jaro. Li.
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