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One of the best stories humanity ever produced was a draft of a rewrite of the Epic of Gilgamesh written by a Ecuadorian poet in 1935. It was tossed into a fireplace by an angry boy and lost forever. Another of humanity's best was told 65,000 years ago and was overheard by a small tribe of embarked Neanderthals boating down a river in what is now northern Georgia. A short woman at the bank scrubbed a wooden idol in the water and sang an ancient tale in an unknown language. These two are eclipsed by everything produced by two brothers at the coast of what is now Cameroon between 503 BC and 490 BC, which they shared with some family and friends, and were beloved by everyone except a sour uncle.

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Dax's quip to Worf: "Yeah, but I'm a lot better looking than he was."

From the script of the episode "Way of the Warrior".

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E01: The Way of the Warrior, Part 1

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(In Purgatory’s Shadow)

(Doctor Bashir, I Presume?) the way these were aired practically back to back.

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HE IS SO TRAUMATIZED.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E17: Accession

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"OUT-Standing."

Sisko, in a meeting: My policy is if you see something, say something.

Bashir: I saw a squirrel in a tree today!

Sisko, completely monotone: Outstanding.

Sisko: This is what I’m talking about people.

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O'brien: Alright, so the vampire's gravestone is— Bashir: Cenotaph. O'brien: What? Bashir: It's only a gravestone if it marks the location of a body. A monument honouring someone whose body isn't present is a cenotaph. O'brien: I'm... not sure that's how it works if the body gets up and walks away on its own. Bashir: There's a precedent for gravestones being reclassified as cenotaphs if the body is later removed and reinterred elsewhere. There's no rule that says the body itself can't do the removing. O'brien: Okay, but the body is very much coming back. That's kind of what we're here to accomplish. Bashir: So it's a temporary cenotaph. O'brien: And naturally our greatest concern here is avoiding semantic ambiguity. Bashir: Semantic ambiguity is how vampires get you.

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Worf, as a character, was so restricted on Next Gen. He really got to run on DS9.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S06E16: Change of Heart 

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Frenemies.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E26: Broken Link

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These two are such vibes. I love it.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E13: Crossfire

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He was a union man.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E16: Bar Association

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He will be here once and never again!

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S03E03: The House of Quark

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S05E01: Apocalypse Rising 

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The thing I somehow tend to forget about Garak is that he is absolutely bone-chillingly terrifying, and in any other show he would be a villain. For some reason the writers of DS9 decided to make all of the horror that is Garak into a big joke and the next thing you know I’m giggling like a schoolgirl and saying, “Oh, you rascal!” while Garak snaps Quark’s neck from behind.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S06E14: One Little Ship

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My favorite thing about Body Parts (s4e24) is that Garak was obviously never going to kill Quark. He just decides to spend an afternoon in the holosuites demonstrating his terrifying skills for kicks. Then he solemnly promises Quark that he will definitely kill him very soon –

And you never see him again in that episode. He just goes to the Replimat and orders a spice pudding and eats it while reading poetry or something.

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