Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Quickening (1996)

Ellen Wheeler: Ekoria

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• Doctor Bashir : Some people don't like to be around the sick; it reminds them of their own mortality.

  Ekoria : Doesn't bother you?

  Doctor Bashir : Sometimes. I prefer to confront mortality, rather than hide from it. When you make someone well, it's like you're... chasing death off, making him wait for another day.

• [Bashir tells Ekoria about his teddy bear Kukalaka, his first "patient" when he was a child] 

  Doctor Bashir : I must have sewn and stitched and repatched every square inch of that bear.

  Ekoria : Why were you so determined to keep him together?

  Doctor Bashir : Well, I wouldn't be much of a doctor if I gave up on a patient, would I?

• Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : Ekoria... where did you get all this food?

  Ekoria : I've been saving it for the hospital - for my death. But something tells me I'm not going to need it anymore.

• Ekoria : Maybe you should go home. Maybe my people don't deserve your help.

  Doctor Bashir : Oh, they've just been suffering so long, they've lost hope that things can be better.

  Ekoria : It's more than that. We've come to worship death. - I used to wake up and look at myself in the mirror and be disappointed I hadn't quickened in my sleep. Going to Trevean seemed so much easier than going on living.