"The Sound of Her Voice" Line-by-Line

LISA: Oh, so you've decided to spend your valuable time conversing with your patient again. That's three days in a row. You must be swamped with paperwork by now. I feel awful keeping you from your duties like this.

 

BASHIR: I managed to catch up with all my paperwork this afternoon, thank you very much.

 

LISA: Let me guess. Thanks to your amazing, genetically engineered brain, you not only did your work, you did the work of ten other doctors at the same time.

 

Bashir: Well... You've answered the next question I was going to ask you, which is: how are you feeling? I can hear that you're in your usual acerbic good mood.

 

LISA [OC]: Wrong again, my superhuman friend. As a matter of fact I'm not feeling well at all.

 

BASHIR: Tell me.

 

Lisa: (over comm) The last injection didn't do the trick. I feel this heavy weight on my chest. It's getting harder to breathe and every time I move my head, the cave starts spinning.

 

[Ready room]

Sisko: Come in.

(Bashir enters.)

Sisko: What is it?

 

BASHIR: Captain Cusak's run out of triox. She's beginning to feel the effects of CO2 poisoning.

 

SISKO: Already? I thought she had at least a day's worth of injections.

 

BASHIR: So did I, but it apparently the last vial was tainted somehow, probably in the crash.

 

SISKO: How long does she have?

 

BASHIR: No more than two days.

 

SISKO: That's not good. We're still three days away.

 

Later on the Bridge...

Bashir: We need more speed.

 

O'BRIEN: Speed's not the problem. I could increase the warp plasma ninety seven gigahertz. That would increase our velocity to warp nine point five and save us almost a full day.

 

WORF: The problem on the Defiant is how to maintain structural integrity when we go above Warp 9.

 

O'BRIEN: Exactly. At those kinds of speed the ship literally starts tearing herself apart.

 

Sisko: Is there any way to strengthen the structural integrity field?

 

O'Brien: Not without bleeding power from some other source.