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Best Episode Crowning Moment Of Sadness
Best Episode: Star Trek Deep Space Nine
This is a vote-off for the Best Episode EVAH for this series.
At issue:
+74 (yeas:75 nays:1)
Season 6: In the Pale Moonlight

Sisko: So... I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning of all... I think I can live with it... And if I had to do it all over again... I would. Garak was right about one thing: a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it... Because I can live with it... I can live with it. Computer – erase that entire personal log.
+33 (yeas:35 nays:2)
Season 1: Duet

Marritza: Persecuting Cardassians goes far beyond your job, Major . . . it's your passion.

—-

Kira: You are Marritza, aren't you...

Marritza: You mistake me for that bug? That whimpering nothing? Oh, you stupid Bajoran girl. Don't you know who I am? I'm your nemesis. I'm your nightmare. I'm the Butcher of Gallitep.

Kira: The Butcher of Gallitep died six years ago. You're Aamin Marritza, his filing clerk.

Marritza: That's not true! I am alive! I will always be alive!!! It's Marritza who is dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman. Who, every night, covered his ears because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming... for mercy... of the Ba-jor-ans... *breaks down weeping uncontrollably* Covered my ears every night... because I couldn't bear to hear the horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors and do nothing... Marritza's dead. He deserves to be dead.

...

Kira: You didn't commit those crimes. And you couldn't stop them. You were only one man...

Marritza: No, no, don't you see? I have to be punished, we all have to be punished. Major, you have to go out and tell them that I'm Gul Darheel. It's the only way!

Kira: Why are you doing this?...

Marritza: For Cardassia! Cardassia will only survive if it stands in front of Bajor and admits the truth! My trial will force Cardassia to acknowledge its guilt! And we're guilty, all of us! My death is necessary!

Kira: ... what you're asking for is another murder... enough good people have already died. I won't help kill another.
+28 (yeas:38 nays:10)
Season 5: Trials and Tribble-ations

Sisko: In the old days, operations officers wore red, command officers wore gold —

Dax: And women wore less.

Bashir: I think I'm going to like history.
+26 (yeas:35 nays:9)
Season 6: Far Beyond the Stars

Benny Russell: You can deny me all you want but you can't deny Ben Sisko. He exists! That future, that space station, all those people, they exist in here! In my mind. I created it. And every one of you knew it, you read it. It's here. Do you hear what I'm telling you? You can pulp a story but you cannot destroy an idea! Don't you understand? That's ancient knowledge, you cannot destroy an idea. That future – I created it, and it's real! Don't you understand? It is real. I created it. And it's real! It's REAL!
+23 (yeas:25 nays:2)
Season 4: The Visitor

Jake: Dad...are you OK?

Sisko: I am now, son. I am now...
+14 (yeas:14 nays:0)
Season 2: The Wire

Garak: Living on this station is torture for me, Doctor. The temperature is always too cold, the lights always too bright. Every Bajoran on the station looks at me with loathing and contempt. So one day I decided I couldn't live with it anymore. And I took the pain away.
+10 (yeas:12 nays:2)
Season 4: Hard Time

O'Brien: When we were growing up, they used to tell us humanity had evolved, that mankind had outgrown hate and rage. When it came down to it, when I had the chance to show that no matter what anyone did to me I was still an evolved human being . . . I failed.
+9 (yeas:10 nays:1)
Season 7: Treachery, Faith, and the Great River

Odo: Has it ever occurred to you that the reason you believe the Founders are gods is because that's what they want you to believe? That they built it into your genetic code?

Weyoun: Of course they did; that's what gods do. After all, why be a god if there's no one to worship you?
+7 (yeas:8 nays:1)
Season 6: Rocks and Shoals

Kira: We used to have a saying in the Resistance. If you're not fighting them, you're helping them.
+7 (yeas:7 nays:0)
Season 3: The Die Is Cast

Garak: You know what the sad part is, Odo? I'm a very good tailor.
+6 (yeas:6 nays:0)
Season 3: Civil Defense

Bashir: You know, I've been here nearly three years and I was just finally starting to think of this place as home.

Kira: Your home was built by Cardassians, Doctor. Don't ever forget that.
+6 (yeas:7 nays:1)
Season 7: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Sloan: The Federation needs men like you, doctor. Men with conscience, men who can sleep at night. And you're also the reason that Section 31 exists: to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your sense of right and wrong.
+3 (yeas:7 nays:4)
Season 5: Children of Time

Odo: He did it for you, Nerys. He loved you.

Kira: That makes it right?

Odo: I don't know. He thought so.
+3 (yeas:5 nays:2)
Emissary
+2 (yeas:5 nays:3)
Season 5: The Assignment

O'Brien: You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to.

Keiko: No, it helps to talk about it. Besides, I don't want to forget how hard you fought for me.
+2 (yeas:2 nays:0)
Season 6: You are Cordially Invited

"Kill Worf ..." "Kill Worf ..." "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH"
+2 (yeas:3 nays:1)
Season 5: Apocalypse Rising

The attempt to expose a changeling within the Klingon Empire; interesting twist at the end.
+1 (yeas:2 nays:1)
Distant Voices
-2 (yeas:1 nays:3)
Captive Pursuit
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