Treachery, Faith, and the Great River Line-by-Line

[Orac]

Founder: So you keep saying.

 

[May 20]

WEYOUN7: I assure you, Founder. He will be dealt with.

(She leaves.)

 

[Orac]

Damar: Did you notice her face? How parched it looked?

 

[May 20]

WEYOUN7: You heard her. These rooms are too hot.

 

[Orac]

Damar: I wonder. I'm telling you she's not well.

 

[Athena28]

WEYOUN7: She's not the Founder you should be worried about. Contact Olmerak and order those ships to intercept the runabout.

 

[May 20]

[Runabout Rio Grande]

(Weyoun uses a chopstick to spear a piece of salami from a pizza.)

WEYOUN: That was filling.

 

[Orac]

Odo: I would hope so. You sampled the replicator's entire menu.

 

[CaptVader]

WEYOUN: I enjoyed the different textures.

 

[Athena28]

ODO: You mean tastes, don't you?

 

[CaptVader]

WEYOUN: Not at all. The Vorta sense of taste is quite limited. About the only foods we really enjoy are kava nuts and rippleberries.

 

[Orac]

Odo: Ah. I take it this is also a result of your genetic programming?

 

[May 20]

WEYOUN: It's the Founders' way of making sure we remember our past. You must know the story of how the Founders created the Vorta?

 

[Orac]

Odo: No, but I have the feeling you're going to tell me all about it.

 

[May 20]

WEYOUN: The Vorta used to be quite different from what we are today. We were forest dwellers. Small, timid, ape-like creatures living in hollowed out trees.

 

[CaptVader]

ODO: Eating nuts and berries.

 

[Orac]

Weyoun 6: And living in fear of the many predators that would hunt us for food. One day, a wounded changeling came stumbling through the forest fleeing from a mob of angry solids.

 

[CaptVader]

ODO: Why were they chasing him?

 

[Orac]

Weyoun 6: What does it matter? Solids have always feared and distrusted shape-shifters, you know that. Well, a family of Vorta hid the changeling from his pursuers. And in return for saving his life, the changeling promised the Vorta that one day we would be transformed into powerful beings. That we would become an important part of a great new empire that would stretch across the Galaxy.

 

[Athena28]

ODO: And the changeling kept his word.