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Children of Time

By Kira
Posted at December 25, 2004 - 4:15 PM GMT

See Also: 'Children of Time' Episode Guide

Captain's Log: I can spell "Gamma quadrant": B-O-R-I-N-G. This sucks -- we're going back to the station.

Kira: Shakaar and I broke up.
Jadzia: That's awful. What happened?
Kira: Turns out the prophets are O/Kers.
Jadzia: I figured as much. Did you say something, Odo?
Odo: (shapeshifts a party hat back into his head) Not at all.

Jadzia: Oo! A planet with technobabble! Can we go check it out? Please?
Sisko: Is it safe?
Jadzia: If I say no can we still go?
Sisko: No.
Jadzia: Then it's safe.

(BOOM!)
Sisko: I thought you said it was safe.
Jadzia: It is.
(ZAP!)
Kira: Ow!
Jadzia: Except Kira's going to die.
(BANG!)
Jadzia: And we're stranded here.
Sisko: Not to worry -- I'm sure we'll be out of here in no time.
Miranda O'Brien: (over the comm) Funny you should mention time....

Miranda: Your crew founded this colony 200 years ago.
Sisko: Funny, I don't remember that.
Miranda: No, it hasn't happened yet.
Sisko: So we can stop it.
Miranda: It already happened.
Sisko: I hate time travel....

Yedrin Jadzia: It's really me, Ben.
Sisko: Oh yeah? Prove it.
Yedrin: Your middle name's not really "Lafayette."
Worf: It's not?
Yedrin: No, it's hilarious. It's --
Sisko: Okay, that's enough. I believe you.

Miranda: ...and this is our schoolhouse. Any questions?
Jadzia: Yes. Can we start the plot already?
Molly: I'm sure they'll get around to it.
O'Brien: "Molly"? Are you named after my daughter?
Yedrin: Actually --
Sisko: (clamping his hand over Yedrin's mouth) He says yes.

Molly: When the Defiant crashed here, all 48 crew had to sleep in here.
Sisko: 48?
Yedrin: You must be wondering who died.
Sisko: Actually, I'm just amazed that wasn't a 47 reference. But now that you mention it....
Yedrin: It's Kira.
Sisko: I smell a plot complication.

Yedrin: I have a plan to save the colony and let the Defiant leave. We'll create a duplicate of the Defiant and all its crew.
Sisko: Will the duplicate crew have to go by their middle names?
Yedrin: No.
Sisko: Then this sounds like a good plan.

Kira: How's Odo?
Bashir: Conveniently out of commission.
Kira: How am I?
Bashir: See above, but less conveniently....

Odo: Hello, Nerys.
Kira: I thought you were out of commission.
Odo: I'm Odo 2.0
Kira: But aren't you 200 years older than the other Odo?
Odo: Good point. Call me "Oldo."

Jadzia: There's a problem with our plan.
Sisko: The duplicates do have to use their middle names?
Jadzia: No. Yedrin faked the data. It won't work.
Sisko: Phew. You had me worried there for a minute.

Kira: I think we should stay here.
Bashir: But you'll die!
Kira: Safer than facing my 'shippers when we get back to the station.

Yedrin: Will you help us plant trees?
Sisko: By tomorrow nothing here will have ever existed. What's the point?
Yedrin: To guilt you into staying.
Sisko: Fair enough.

O'Brien: Your guilt planting won't work on me.
Molly: (pouting) Not even if I help you?
O'Brien: Nuts.

Kira: Sorry, Odo. We're staying here. I guess now we'll never know if things might have worked out between us.
Odo: You don't say....

Jadzia: Captain, the computer was reprogrammed so we avoided the anomaly. The colony is gone and we can go home now.
O'Brien: Yes! I mean, crud.
Kira: Crud! I mean, yes.

Jadzia: Well, that's a shame.
Sisko: It certainly is. I blame Yedrin, and by extension, you.
Jadzia: Quiet, Mo--
Sisko: Never mind. I take it back.

Odo: The future me tampered with the Defiant computer.
Kira: You son of a blatch! There were 8,000 people in that colony!
Odo: But it was the future me!
Kira: Fine. I'll pound the crap out of you later.
(The Defiant returns to the Alpha quadrant at Ludicrous Speed)

THE END

Find more episode info in the Episode Guide.


Kira is one of the contributors of Five-Minute Voyager, where sci-fi episodes are reduced to "fivers" of one-twelfth their original length.

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