"The Search" Line-by-Line!

[Athena28]

O'BRIEN: Major, I'm the last one to say it's hopeless, but given DS Nine's structural limitations, our available power supply, and the difficulty of defending a stationary target against a heavily armed mobile force, I'd say two hours is optimistic.

 

[MacLeod]

Bashir:
Regardless of the time, our casualties would be appalling.

 

[Kolrad]

KIRA: All right, let's say we let them board the station. That still doesn't mean we have to surrender.

 

[Enterprise1981]

DAX: What are you suggesting?

 

[Athena28]

KIRA: We can hide in the conduits, set up booby-traps, prepare ambushes. Try and hold out until we can get reinforcements.

 

[Enterprise1981]

ODO: We can try, but I don't think there'd be much of a station left by the time they got here.

 

[Athena28]

DAX: That leaves us with two options. Abandon the station and make a stand on Bajor or collapse the entrance to the wormhole.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRA: I want a third alternative. I cannot believe that we can't... (A console starts beeping.)

 

[Ziz]

DAX: Some kind of large subspace surge has just activated our security sensors.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRA: Where is it?

 

[MacLeod]

DAX:
Bearing one four eight, mark two one five. Distance: three hundred meters.

 

[Enterprise1981]

O'BRIEN: Three hundred meters? That's almost inside our shield perimeter.

 

[BlueStuff]

DAX: From the intensity and the harmonic signature, it could be a cloaked ship, but I've never seen an energy dispersal pattern like this.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRA: It's too close for comfort, whatever it is. Red Alert. Raise shields, energise phaser banks, stand-by to lock photon torpedoes on...

 

[BlueStuff]

DAX: The energy signature's fluctuating. It's decloaking.
(It's Starfleet, NX 74205, which makes it a prototype for its class.)
DAX: It's definitely a Federation starship but I've never seen that design before.

 

[Enterprise1981]

O'BRIEN: A Federation ship with a cloaking device? (and so soon after TNG's "The Pegasus" aired?)

 

[BlueStuff]

DAX: It's hailing us.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRA: On screen.

 

[BlueStuff]

SISKO [on viewscreen]: Hello, Major. Sorry to startle you, but I wanted to test the Defiant's cloaking device.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRA: The Defiant?