Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Begotten (1997)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

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• Lt. Commander Worf : Constable... why are you talking to your beverage?

  Odo : It's not a beverage. It's a Changeling.

• Captain Sisko : Why would the Founders send such helpless creatures out into space?

  Odo : To find out if the species they encountered posed any threat. What better way to gauge another race than to see how it treats the weak and vulnerable.

• Major Kira : I got into this because the O'Briens needed my help. I never wanted a baby. But now... I just wish I could hold him in my arms - and never let him go.

  Odo : I think I know how you feel, Nerys.

• Captain Sisko : Maybe you should contact Dr. Mora.

  Odo : Mora? Why?

  Captain Sisko : Well, he managed to find a way to communicate with you. He obviously knows what he's doing.

  Odo : Maybe so, but... I'd prefer to do this alone.

  Captain Sisko : That's your call. But it's, er... always nice to have someone around to help change the diapers.

• Odo : What are you doing?

  Dr. Mora : I'm measuring its volume. It's been here a week and it's only grown 17%. After three days in my lab you were twice that size.

  Odo : Well, maybe I was anxious to grow up, so I could get out of there.

• Odo : Oh, you'd just love to get your hands on it, wouldn't you? You could sell tickets on the Promenade. "Dr. Mora's Chamber of Horrors, open for business. Right this way...!"

• Dr. Mora : By the Prophets, Odo, I wasn't even sure you were a lifeform.

  Odo : I wasn't sure about you either.

• Dr. Mora : If it wasn't for me, you'd still be sitting on a shelf somewhere in a beaker labeled 'unknown sample'.

  Odo : If it wasn't for me, you'd be a nobody. Starfleet wouldn't hire you to judge a science fair!

• Dr. Mora : You formed a connection with this Changeling. That is something I was never able to do with you.

  Odo : That's not true. I respected you.

  Dr. Mora : You feared me.

  Odo : You didn't know what I was, you... were experimenting on what looked like a lump of organic residue. That's what I'd still be if it weren't for you.

  Dr. Mora : You don't know how much it means to me to hear you say that.

• Dr. Mora : I suppose it's all my fault. If I hadn't poked and prodded you so much, you may have grown up in a less forbidding disposition.

  Odo : Something tells me, no matter what we do to that Changeling, it's going to have a more pleasant disposition than mine. It's just the way I am.

• Odo : Do you ever think about having children?

  Quark : Huh?

  Odo : See, I never did. It just seemed like too much trouble. But then, fate dropped one into my lap. And I couldn't be happier.

  [snickers] 

  Odo : Cheers!

• Odo : It's strange. Over the past few months I came to accept the fact that I'd never have any contact with my people again. They... rejected me, they turned me into a humanoid. Part of me was lost forever.

  [snickers] 

  Odo : But that... little... ball of goo back in the lab changed everything. I feel as if I'm... experiencing what it is to be a Changeling again. And somehow, being a Solid... doesn't seem so bad anymore.

• Quark : What are you up to?

  Odo : I am happy, Quark, can't you just accept that?

  Quark : No. It doesn't fit. If you're happy, there's something very wrong in the world. The center cannot hold.

• Doctor Bashir : If that is a Changeling, maybe we should get it into a security field.

  Odo : That won't be necessary.

  Doctor Bashir : But if it gets out of that container it could be dangerous.

  Odo : It's not going anywhere, Doctor. It doesn't know how. It's just a baby.

• Odo : I think I finally understand how much I meant to you... and what you must have gone through when I left.

  Mora : You had to find your own way in the world.