- Chandra: [chanting] Allamaraine count to four./Allamaraine then three more./Allamaraine if you can see./Allamaraine you'll come with me.
- [Sisko refuses to abandon Dax who has been injured]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: If you were hurt, I'd leave you behind.
- Commander Sisko: Then I'm glad I'm not the one who's hurt.
- Major Kira Nerys: You mean... we were never in any real danger?
- Falow: [derisively] It's only a game.
- Sisko: Major, I gave you a direct order.
- Major Kira Nerys: Court-martial me.
- Sisko: I can't. You're not in Starfleet.
- Jadzia Dax: [glaring at Sisko and Kira] If I were your superior officer, I'd court-martial both of you.
- Lieutenant Primmin: Wait a minute, Odo, you can't just go storming onto their ship without their permission!
- Odo: [abashed] Oh, i-i-is that Starfleet policy?
- Lieutenant Primmin: That's right.
- Odo: Well, I'm not *in* Starfleet!
- Major Kira: We're playing for our lives here, Doctor. I don't think you're taking this very seriously.
- Doctor Bashir: On the contrary, Major, I find the stakes to be highly motivating.
- Odo: [interrupting a patented Sisko rant at an alien species] Excuse me, Commander...
- Sisko: [not taking his eyes off the alien] Yes, Odo?
- Odo: Before you blame them, you might want to ask Quark just how this all started.
- Sisko: [Sisko turns his melt-neutronium gaze on Quark, the alien forgotten] Quark...
- Quark: I wish I could explain it... um... they just had a run of bad luck, and then they blamed me for their losses! And, uh...
- Odo: That's not what you said when you were groveling on the floor.
- Quark: [realizing he's caught] Oh, that's right. You were here for the groveling.
- Commander Sisko: First contact is our most important mission, Jake. It has to be handled delicately. You might say, it's sort of like... a... first date with a girl.
- Commander Sisko: Use your tricorders for proximity checks every two minutes. And if all else fails, just yell again, Doctor. We'll find you.
- Commander Sisko: You know what time you're s'pposed to go to bed? We never had any problems with it, until Nog.
- Jake Sisko: Dad, I'm fourteen!
- Commander Sisko: I'm glad we agree on something.
- [Commander Sisko is introducing his senior staff to the Wadi]
- Falow: [uninterested] Yes... yes... yes, now - where are the games?
- Commander Sisko: Games?
- Falow: We were told you had games... 'Quark's'. Take us to 'Quark's'.
- [Sisko looks at the others, dumbfounded]
- Major Kira: [motioning] Right this way.
- [she leads the Wadi away]
- Commander Sisko: First contact is not what it used to be.
- [the Wadi Leader Falow has informed Quark that he has to choose one of his three remaining pawns symbolizing Sisko, Dax and Kira, to sacrifice in order to save the other two pawns]
- Odo: You can't ask him to do that.
- Falow: If you do not sacrifice one, all three will be lost.
- Quark: I can't. Please.
- Falow: [as cool as ice] Which player?
- Quark: I don't even know which one is which.
- Falow: [loud and cold] *Select* ONE to be sacrificed, or else the game is finished!
- Quark: [shouts] FINE! FINE.
- [Quark calms himself down]
- Quark: Fine! Fine.
- [Quark hovers his shaking hand over each pawn individually. He finds himself unwilling to sacrifice any of them]
- Quark: [breaking down] *I can't do it!* I beg of you. A terrible mistake has been made. This is all a misunderstanding! Please!
- [He gets down on his knees; voice breaking]
- Quark: I've learned my lesson... . I'll never cheat again. *I'LL NEVER CHEAT AGAIN!* PLEEAASE! Just don't make me do this! Anything but this!
- [Quark holds up his hands, begging]
- Quark: [wailing] PLEASSE! PLEASSE! PLLEEEAAASSSSE!
- [With a pitiful, heart-wrenching cry, Quark slumps to the floor, sobbing bitterly]
- Falow: [after a pause; convinced] Very well...
- Quark: [Quark stops crying and looks up, his eyes wide with expectancy] I don't have to make a sacrifice?
- Falow: No. You do not.
- [Quark heaves a sigh of relief]
- Quark: Commander, I'm a host. A host is an ambassador of good will. The more good will that I can generate, the longer they'll stay... the greater my profits.