- 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.
- Dr. Mora: I can't wait to see what next preposterous thing you're going to try. Who knows, maybe in a couple of months it may get so tired of your incessant chatter that it might actually do something.
- 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: I was under enormous pressure to come up with results, and I did. My technique worked. The fact that you are standing here whining about it proves it.
- [Odo is ecstatic after he managed for the first time to get the baby-Changeling to take on a shape]
- Dr. Mora: I smiled the first time *you* did that. Little did I realize you would end up hating me for it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- [Shakaar visits Kira while O'Brien is giving her a leg massage]
- Shakaar: Chief, would you mind leaving us alone for a minute?
- Chief O'Brien: I'm almost done.
- Shakaar: I'll take over.
- [he starts working on Kira's other leg]
- Major Kira: I think it's time...
- Chief O'Brien: You got to do it harder.
- Shakaar: I know what I'm doing.
- Major Kira: [in happy anticipation] It's time!
- Chief O'Brien: And you got to work *up* the legs.
- Major Kira: [emphatic] It's time!