Season 1

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Caretaker

Caretaker: "Aren't you contentious for a minor bi-pedal species?"

Chakotay: "Be creative."
B'Elanna Torres: "How am I supposed to be creative with a 39 year old rebuilt engine?"

Tuvok: "Perhaps you would care for a bath,"
Neelix: "A what?"

Tuvok: "Vulcans do not worry."

Trivia

U.S.S. Voyager - NCC-74656

Paris' full name:  Thomas Eugene Paris

Parallax

Chakotay: "Here."
Torres: "What's this?"
Chakotay: "The medical report on Lieutenant Carey."
Torres: "Lieutenant Carey is an idiot.  When I tell you --"
Chakotay: "I don't want to hear it.  You might be interested to know that the impact fractures along his cranium were pretty serve.  If you'd hit him just a little harder you could've driven some of those bones into his cerebellum."
Torres: "I didn't even come close to hitting him that hard."
Chakotay: "So, on the one side I'm facing a Vulcan who wants to court marshal you, and on the other I'm facing all the Maquis who are ready to seize the ship over this.  You've turned this into one lousy day for me, Torres."
Torres: "So how long do I have to stay in here?"
Chakotay: "Rest of the trip; 75 years."
Torres: "I've never found your twisted sense of humor very funny, Chakotay."
Chakotay: "Or I could send you back to work with the understanding that you'll apologize."
Torres: "Apologize.  He was the one who --"
Chakotay: "Not just a simple apology, a personal one over a hot cup of pejuta.  Bond with the man."
Torres: "I am not going to bond with him."
Chakotay: "You're going to need support from people like Carey."
Torres: "I don't need support from anybody."

Chakotay (to Janeway): "I have no intention of being your token Maquis officer."

Chakotay (re: Maquis personnel): "You're going to have to give them more authority if you want their loyalty."
Janeway: "Theirs, or yours, Commander?"

Doctor: "So it begins.  The trivia of medicine is my domain now.  Every runny nose, stubbed toe, pimple on a cheek becomes my responsibility."

Doctor (to Kes re: soil sample): "I am not just a doctor.  I've been designed with the information from two thousand medical reference sources and the experiences of forty-seven individual medical officers.  I am the embodiment of modern medicine.  How much dirt do you need...?"

Janeway: "I can give you a long and boring analysis.  Suffice it to say, I don't know what's going on!"

Janeway: "You don't understand, Commander.  This isn't about Torres.  My problem is with you."
Chakotay: "Me?"

Janeway (to Torres): "Some professors like students who challenge their assumptions, B'Elanna.  And so do some captains."

Janeway: "Feels like a real ship to me."

Janeway: "In Command School, they taught us to always remember that maneuvering a starship is a very delicate process.  But over the years, I've learned that sometimes -- you just have to punch your way through."
Paris: "I'll have to remember that one...."

Seska (to Torres re: Carey): "You should've broken more than his nose."

Torres: "I'm not bothered by what people think of me!"

Torres (re: her leaving Starfleet): "The problem was a system that didn't give anyone a chance to breathe."
Janeway: "We work under that same system on this ship."

Torres: "I hope that I can depend on you."
Carey: "I assure you, you'll never get less than my best."

Tuvok (to Kim): "I will never cease to be amazed by the human capacity for hyperbole."

Tuvok (to Chakotay): "Ms Torres is no longer a member of the Maquis, and, with all due respect, Commander, neither are you."

Time And Again

Doctor (to Kes): "Your brain is not on file."

Doctor: "Missing.  The captain is missing.  It seems I've found myself on a Voyage of the Damned.  Very well.  Please advise the highest ranking officer who is not missing to see me at his earliest convenience."

Doctor: "I seem to be the last to know just about everything around here!"

Janeway: "You have no idea what the consequences might be once you involve yourself."

L'Teeka (questioning Paris' and Janeway's arrival after they claimed to be the couple that arrived on the transport into the city):  "So where's the child?"
Tom:  "We ate him because we are demons and eat little children, and I haven't had my supper yet! 

Paris (to Kim re: Harry's girl): "Let go.  Let her have a husband and kids, and a good life -- while you and I have the Delaney sisters!"

Tuvok: "It would be a highly questionable decision in light of the Prime Directive."
Chakotay: "If it were me, I would have tried to get there."
Tuvok: "The issue is whether Captain Janeway would go there, not you Commander."

Phage

Janeway: "Tuvok, what would happen if we locked phasers and fired at the source?"
Tuvok: "The walls of this chamber reflect directed energy. The phaser beam would ricochet along an unpredictable path, possibly impacting our ship in the process."
Janeway: "All right, we won't try that."

Kes: "Give yourself some credit!"

Kes: "I know you're afraid. I just want you to know that, no matter what happens, I'll be here with you."

Kes: "We're going to get through this together!"

Motura: "According to my readings, you are not here."  
Doctor: "Believe me, I wish I weren't."

Neelix: "If I'm going to be in here awhile, now's as good a time as ever to tell you.  Your ceiling is hideous."
Doctor: "I'm a doctor, Mister Neelix, not a decorator."

Neelix (to Kess re: Paris): "He's just one big hormone walking around the ship."

The Cloud

Chakotay (ritual to help Janeway seek her animal guide): "A-koo-chee-moya ... we are far from the sacred places of our grandfathers.  We are far from the bones of our people.  But perhaps there is one powerful being who will embrace this woman and give her the answers she seeks."

Doctor (Torres): "Now there's an interesting concept; a hologram that programs itself.  What would I do with that ability?  Create a family?  Raise an army?"

Doctor: "I can only speculate about my programmer's motives."

Gaunt Gary: "Watch out for him, kid.  He can swallow your wallet without losing his smile."

Kes ( to Neelix): "I've never kissed anyone inside a nebula before." 

Kim: "There's and ancient Chinese curse:  'May you live in interesting times'.  Meal times are always interesting now that Neelix is in charge of the kitchen."

Kim: "Somebody picked your pocket, on earth?"
Paris: "Oh, they just do it for the tourists. They give it back, usually."

Eye Of The Needle

Doctor: "Captain Janeway has made me realize that I must function as more than an emergency medical replacement.  I must think of myself as a member of the crew."

Ex Post Facto

Paris: "What are you looking at?"
Kim: "Not the same thing that you're looking at, that's for sure."

Emanations

Chakotay (to Torres): "You're looking, but you're not seeing."

Doctor (to Chakotay): "The biopolymer residue is left behind when the tissues decompose.  In a sense, Commander, you were strolling through dead bodies."

Janeway: "This may not make much sense to you now; a young man at the beginning of his career.  But one of the things you learn as you move up the ranks and get a little older, is that you wish you had more time in your youth to really absorb all the things that happen to you.  It goes by so fast.  It's so easy to become jaded, to treat the extraordinary as just another day at the office.  But sometimes there are experiences is that transcend all that.  You've just had one, Mister Kim.  And I want you to live with it for a little while.  Write about it if you feel like it.  Paint.  Express yourself in some fashion.  The bridge will still be there in two days."

Janeway: "What we don't know about death is far greater than what we do know."

Prime Factors

Janeway (to Tuvok): "You are one of my most valued officers, and you are my friend.  It is vital that you understand me here.  I need you.  But I also need to know that I can count on you.  You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked.  We have forged this relationship for years, and I depend on it.  I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make."

Janeway: "Principles, Principles!  That's what it comes down to.  Do I compromise my almighty principles?  But how do I not compromise them, if it involves the chance to get the crew more than halfway home?  How do I tell them my principles are so important I would deny them that opportunity?"

State of Flux

Chakotay (to Tuvok): "You were working for her, Seska was working for them.  Was anyone on that ship working for me?"

Chakotay ( to Tuvok): �You damn Vulcans and your defined perimeters.� 

Chakotay (to Seska) "Chief Inspector Tuvok leaves no stone unturned."

Chakotay (to Tuvok): "Misery loves company."

Doctor (to Seska): "Ensign, you are Cardassian."

Janeway: "… if we can help, we should."

Janeway: "You know, I'm really easy to get along with, most of the time, but I don't like bullies, and I don't like threats, and I don't like you, Culluh."

Janeway: �... this may be an opportunity to make a friend.  And out here we can use all the friends we can get.� 

Janeway: "I don't like number three at all."

Neelix: "Stew them for a few hours in a light herbal broth and you won't even notice the mildew."

Seska: "I had only one agenda with you, Chakotay, and I never kept it secret."

Seska: "Do you think I gave you my heart to steal your Maquis secrets?"
Chakotay: "I was beginning to wonder."
Seska: "Let me tell you something.  Your secrets weren't good enough."

Seska (to Janeway and Chakotay): "You're a fool Captain.  And you're a fool to follow her."

Torres: �No, Captain.  When I say �tomorrow�, I mean tomorrow.  I don�t exaggerate.  Tomorrow is the best I can do.� 

Tuvok: "Curious how my failure, added to your own, should improve your feelings."

Tuvok: "Like all humans, you depend on feelings and instincts to guide you, and they invariably let you down."

Tuvok: "How may I be honest with you today?"

Heroes and Demons

Chakotay: "Every culture has its demons.  They embody the darkest emotions of its people.  Giving them physical form in heroic literature is a way of exploring those feelings."

Doctor: "I can describe every detail of every piece of equipment in this sickbay, from biobed to neurostimulator.  But I've never even seen a sky, or a forest, let alone Vikings and monsters.  I can't afford to fail.  But I don't know what to expect in that holodeck."

Freya: "He was like no other.  Hair straight and raven-black; eyes bright with fierce fire - the burning gaze of a hero."
Tuvok: "Grand eloquence notwithstanding that would qualify as a description of Mr. Kim."

Paris (after recovering the Doctor from the holodeck short one forearm): "I have him, Captain, more or less."

Tuvok: "I might point out, there are no demons in Vulcan literature." 
Chakotay: "That might account for it's popularity."

Unferth (to Doctor): "Your name means nothing to me."

Cathexis

Doctor (to Torres re: Chakotay's medicine wheel): "You might have asked before adorning my sickbay with animal remains."

Faces

Doctor: "If you think this is remarkable, you should see me remove a bunion."

Paris: "They're the ones with the guns, remember?"

Paris (to Human Torres): "Sometimes fear can be a good thing.  Keeps you from taking unnecessary chances.  Courage doesn't mean that you don't have fear.  It means that you've learned to overcome it."

Sulon: "I think Klingons are the most impressive species I've ever seen."

Talaxian Prisoner: "They'll get around to gutting you eventually."

Human Torres: "That's the way you respond to every situation isn't it.  If it doesn't work, hit it.  If it's in your way, knock it down.  No wonder I got thrown out of the Academy."  
Klingon Torres: "For which you should be eternally grateful."  
Human Torres: "Well, I'm not.  Your temper has got me into trouble more times than I ... Listen to me.  Listen to us.  This is ridiculous.  Do you realize that we are each fighting with our self."

Human Torres: "Brute force isn't going to do it!"

Human Torres: "Look at us! We’re each fighting with ourselves!"

Human Torres: "So she's saving my life again."

Klingon Torres (to Sulon): �I know I�m the first Klingon you�ve ever seen, so I�ll tell you; Klingons find honor as warriors on the battlefield, not as guinea pigs in a laboratory.� 

KlingonTorres (to Sulon): �Did you know that Klingon females are renowned in the Alpha Quadrant not only for their physical prowess, but for their voracious sexual appetites as well.� 

Klingon Torres (to Sulon): "Why not let your creature out of her harness?  Study her in action?"

Klingon Torres (to Human Torres): "I'm sorry I can't replicate you a souffl�."

Jetrel

Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel: "It was a scientific inevitability; one discovery flowing naturally to the next.  Something so enormous as science will not stop for something as small as man, Mister Neelix."

Jetrel: "It's good to know how the world works.  It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that all the knowledge of the universe, and all the power that it bestows, is of intrinsic value to everyone.  And one must share that knowledge and allow it to be applied; and then, be willing to live with the consequences."

Jetrel: "I'm simply a scientist.  Yes, I developed the weapon.  But it was the government, and the military leaders, who decided to use it.  Not I."
Neelix: "That must be a very convenient distinction for you.  Does it help you sleep at night?"

Jetrel: "The day we tested the Cascade, when I saw that blinding light, brighter than a thousand suns, I knew at that moment exactly what I had become."

Jetrel: "There is no way I can apologize to you, Mister Neelix.  That is why I have not tried."

Kes (to Neelix): "Before I met you, eight or nine years seemed like an eternity.  It never occurred to me that anyone could live longer.  Now that we're together, no matter how many years we have left, it doesn't seem like enough.  But the important thing is to cherish whatever time we have together, whether it's a day, or a decade."

Neelix: "Peace of mind is a relative thing...."

Neelix: "I fell in love with you without knowing how lonely it would be to live without you!"

Neelix: "You need to go on with your life.  Don't worry about me."

Neelix: "I never reported for duty.  I thought the war was unjust, that Talax was fighting for reasons that weren't worth killing for.  Or at least, that's what I told myself.  But the real reason I didn't report was because I was a coward."

Neelix: "I wanted to tell you that I forgive you."

Neelix (to Jetrel): "Did you every think that maybe your wife was right, that you had become a monster?"

Learning Curve

Tuvok: "If you do not learn from your mistakes, you will be doomed to repeat them."

Tuvok: "You may never know what conditions you might encounter.  You must be prepared for anything."

Tuvok:  "Crewman Gerron; what is the problem up there?  Keep going!"
Crewman Chell (about Tuvok):  "Maybe he'll slip and plunge to his death..."

Tuvok (to Maquis crewmembers):  "Your first command together was less than successful.  You are all dead."

The 37's

Chakotay: "It is a tempting prospect.  But when I hold it up against the prospect of seeing the sunrise over the Arizona Desert, or swimming in the Gulf of Mexico on a summer's day, there's just no comparison.  I want to go home."

Amelia Earhart: "Put yourself in my shoes, Captain.  If you were me, would you believe your story?"

Earhart: "Think I can take her for a spin?"

Fred: "You know how to make Jell-O?"
Neelix: "I even put in fruit cocktail."

Janeway: "Am I the only one so intent on getting home?  Is it just me?  Am I leading the crew on a forlorn mission with no hope of success?"
Chakotay: "You're not alone.  I want to get home too.  And there's not a day that goes by when I don't hear someone mention Earth."

Janeway: "I'm not sure I want to go in."
Chakotay: "No matter what happens, we'll make it.  Remember that."

Neelix: "I'm staying right here with Captain Janeway.  She'd be lost without me."

Fred Noonan: "You mean I'm not going to die?  Uh, Amelia, you got to forget what I just told you."
Earhart: "Fred, I already have."

Paris: "Captain, I think I should tell you I've never actually landed a starship before."  
Janeway: "That's all right, Lieutenant.  Neither have I."

Projections

Barclay: "Lewis, how would you rather think of yourself; as a real person with a real life, with a family that loves you or as some hologram that exists in a sickbay on a starship lost in deep space?"
Chakotay: "Just because you're made of projected light and energy doesn't mean you're any less real than someone made of flesh and blood.  It doesn't matter what you're made of.  What matters is who you are.  You're our friend.  And we want you back."

Barclay: "Don't panic!"

Barclay: "Well, I'm just not an alien."

Doctor: "Computer, delete Paris."

Doctor (re: bridge): "Well, it's bigger than I thought."

Doctor: "I'm not programmed to bleed!"

Doctor (re: picture of Dr. Zimmerman): "He looks a lot like me.  In fact, he looks exactly like me.  Computer, is this me?"

Kes: "I sometimes ask those kind of questions.  Who am I?  What am I doing here?  What's my purpose in life?  Doesn't everybody?"
Doctor: "Not me.  I know exactly who I am and what my purpose is.  I am the Emergency Medical Hologram aboard the Starship Voyager."
Kes: "Are you sure about that?"

Kim (to Doctor): "Barclay was part of the original engineering team that designed your program.  He was in charge of testing your interpersonal skills."

Neelix (seeing red stain on jacket): "Am I going to die?"
Doctor: "Not unless you're allergic to tomatoes."

Neelix (re: knocking out a Kazon in his kitchen): "No one gets the best of me in my kitchen!"

Elogium

Chakotay: "Feeding at 3,000 kilometers per second; not exactly leisurely dining, is it?"

Chakotay: "I'd call that an example of indiscreet shipboard fraternization."
Paris: "Sorry I missed it."

Janeway: "Who'd have thought we'd be considering a generational ship when we were ordered on a three-week mission.  And what are the consequences for children aboard a small ship without adequate services flying through often-hostile space?"

Janeway (to Chakotay): "Good work, Commander.  In the future, if I have any questions about mating behavior, I'll know where to go."

Janeway: �I think, eventually, people will begin to pair off.� 
Chakotay: �Including you?� 
Janeway: �As Captain, that�s a luxury I don�t have.� 

Kes: "I'm fine I just can't stop eating."

Kes (to Doctor): �You can�t mean that my body lacks dirt?� 

Kes (to Doctor): "But isn't that why we have minds?  To look beyond biological urges; to consider their consequences?  If I'm going to ask myself to look at those consequences, then I have to ask myself some questions.  Am I really ready to have a child?  Am I prepared to give that child the attention and devotion it deserves?  Am I capable of taking on such a huge responsibility?  There's so much I haven't done.  There's so much I want to study and learn.  I'm not sure I'm finished growing.  How could I help a child grow?"

Neelix: "Kes, please come out. You can eat anything you want."

Neelix: "Bringing a child into the world; it's a huge responsibility.  I know you'd want to be sure we're both up to the task.  I mean, somebody would have to keep their eye on the little guy all the time, or he'd be off sticking his finger into and EM conduit, or playing with plasma injectors --"
Kes: "That's right.  That's called being a parent."

Neelix: "I don't have anything to teach a daughter...."
Tuvok: "Why would it be any different from what you would teach a son?"

Neelix (to Kes): "Well, order the diapers.  We're about to become parents."

Neelix: "You're such an innocent!  I see the way he looks at you.  I used to look at women that way.  I know what it means!"

Tuvok (to Neelix): "I can only tell you that if you have considerable doubts about fatherhood, it would not be wise to enter into the process.  It is so much more overwhelming than one expects that I believe only the most committed should become parents."

Tuvok (to Neelix): "However, I must point out that, as illogical as it seems, being a father can have infinite rewards; far more than would seem possible.  My children occupy a significant portion of my thoughts, now, more than ever."

Tuvok: "It appears we have lost our sex appeal, Captain."

Twisted

Chakotay: "I imagine most people who have been in love have been jealous at one time or another."
Neelix: "I see.  It's a perfectly normal response.  Then why ... is it so unpleasant?"
Chakotay: "Jealousy's about the fear of losing someone we love.  There's no pain greater than that.  ...  Nothing makes us more vulnerable than when we love someone.  We can be hurt very easily.  But I've always believed that what you get when you love someone is greater than what you risk."

Chakotay: "Maybe this is one bear we can't wrestle to the ground."

Chakotay: "You know, Tuvok, I may not get another chance to say this:  I sometimes find you arrogant and irritating, but you're a hell of an officer."
Tuvok: "And since we are speaking candidly, may I say, sir, that I have not always been partial to your methods either."

Doctor: "I am a Doctor, not a bartender."

Doctor (to Sandrine): "You see these hands?  These are surgeon's hands, created by the most sophisticated computer imaging technology available.  They do not play games and they do not mop floors."

Gaunt Gary (to Paris): �Would you mind moving your foot, Tommy boy?  It�s blocking my shot.� 

Kim: " B'Elanna, shouldn't you be in engineering?  What are you doing here?"
Torres: " Just answer one question Starfleet.  Where is here?"
Kim: " What?"
Torres: " Where am I?"
Kim: " Outside holodeck two.  Are you feeling okay?"
Torres: " I've been walking in circles for the last twenty minutes trying to get to engineering."

Kim: "Are you afraid?"
Paris: "I chose this life.  And I guess I always knew it could come to this.  But, yeah, I'm afraid."
Kim: "Me too."

Kim (to Doctor): �What are you still doing on the holodeck, besides playing �doctor�, that is? 

Neelix (Jealous of Paris): "Did you see that?"
Chakotay: "See what?"
Neelix: "He -- he -- he did a lovely wrapping job.  Don't you think?"

Neelix: "Wait till you taste this cake.  Seven layers of Jibalian fudge -- and the icing is made from pure l'maki nuts, Kes' favorite."
Janeway: "Now make a wish and blow out the candles.  ..."
Torres: "Don't tell us.  The wish has to be a secret if it's going to come true."

Neelix: "... my tracking skills are legendary throughout the quadrant."

Neelix: "Kes, my sweet, you have many wonderful attributes.  Your sense of direction is not one of them."

Paris: "... it's an old Earth custom called a surprise party.  ..."
Kes: "Doctor, I'm so glad you're here.  ..."
Doctor: "I'm here in an official capacity, of course -- in case of medical emergency.  ...  Surprises have been known to cause acute hyperventilation, esophageal spasms and in extreme cases, even coronary arrests.  One can never be too careful."

Paris: "Birthday gifts are also an Earth tradition.  ...  ... who am I to fly in the face of tradition?"

Paris: "I don't suppose anyone here knows the way to the bridge?"

Sandrine (re: the Doctor): "If he won't play pool with you, and he won't make love to me, then as far as I am concerned he can mop the floor."

Sandrine: "All men are alike.  In the end, they always break your heart."

Torres: "How are we supposed to reverse something we don't understand?"

Torres: "Personally, I'd rather go down fighting."

Tuvok (re: space anomaly): "If we cannot go around it, then we will have to go through it."

Tuvok: "If we are, indeed, trapped in some sort of labyrinth then the logical course is to systematically eliminate all routes which do not lead us to our desired destination.  The route that remains will be the correct one.  ..."
Chakotay: "There's a flaw in your logic.  ...  You're assuming there's a logical pattern to this maze we're caught in but so far I haven't seen any evidence of that."
Tuvok: "Even within chaotic systems, there is a pattern of limited predictability.  ...  --"
[After going in separate directions, they encounter each other again.]
Chakotay: "...  What does your logic tell you about navigating a maze that's constantly changing shape?"

Tuvok: "When every logical course of action is exhausted, the only option that remains is inaction.  ...  If we continue desperately improvising solutions our own efforts may ultimately kill us."