• Jean-Luc Skywalker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This one from DS9: Rocks and Shoals has always stuck with me.

    Sisko: And when they’ve reached this point, we’ll have them in a crossfire.

    Gordon: They won’t have a chance.

    Garak: That is the point. In case you’ve forgotten, we’re in a war.

    O’Brien: There are rules, Garak, even in a war.

    Garak: Correction. Humans have rules in war. Rules that tend to make victory a little harder to achieve, in my opinion.

    Gordon: So we just shoot them down?

    Neeley: They wouldn’t hesitate if the situation was reversed.

    Nog: But we’re not the Jem’Hadar. It is our duty to —

    Sisko: THIS ISN’T A VOTE!

    (stunned, everyone turns and looks at Sisko)

    Sisko: The decision’s mine. And Mister Garak is right. We are at war. Given the choice between us or them, THERE. IS. NO. CHOICE. Let’s move out.