I’d never felt more alone in all my life. Everyone went out of their way to look after me, especially Dax. She was my father’s closest friend, and I guess she felt responsible for me.

The Visitor (4x03)

Now, you’re sure you have no regrets or feelings of guilt about your former life? I can’t have you whining and complaining through time.

Spock + Smiling

Captain Kirk, Khan and Dr. McCoy in the animated episode Ephraim and Dot, from Star Trek: Short Treks (2019)

(Plus Ephraim trying everything to get into the ship)

Keep your ears open.
Are you kidding? That’s the seventh rule of acquisition.

But then it really got complicated, especially when Garak’s addiction and despair began to surface. He needed someone to share it with. 

Ira Steven Behr and Andrew Robinson in the DS9 documentary What We Left Behind

Give me a boost, Ensign.

I’ve been thinking about my conversation with Q. He admitted that he was responsible for my shifting through time. Now it occurred to me that he might be giving me a chance somehow to save humanity.

At oh eight hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion.