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[asterroc]

Challenge: Identify the following quote/paraphrase *without* internet assistance.

"I am ****, and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. Remember - victory is life."

I am asking b/c I first heard this in one context, and have just come across it again, and I am curious where else it might have been used and where the origin is.

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[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

i was about to say, "obedience is victory, and victory is life" is the mantra of Jem'Hadar soldiers. sometimes they just say "victory is life." i don't know the whole quote, though. actually...was it that episode where the crew of the Defiant helped out that group of Jem'Hadar and they ended up killing Weyoun?

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

'net search shows that it is in fact a Jem'Hadar quote.

Jem'hadar, Ferengi - I'm sure there was one desi writer for Trek.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

what does Jem'Hadar derive from? i think i read somewhere that Ferengi meant...i can't remember now what it meant. something negative, i think?

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Jamhadar / Jamadar = guard.
Firangi = "Frank," originally. Essentially used to mean gringo, outsider, or just plain "white dude" now. So the Ferengi were British.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Firangi = "Frank," originally

huh - i'm indian and i never knew that!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

"Identify the following quote/paraphrase *without* internet assistance."

I'm trying to figure out if there's anywhere ELSE it might have come from.

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Well, I was confirming the source, since two posters had already chimed in with DS9.