Season 2

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Initiations

Chakotay (to Kar): "My name was a gift.  From my tribe.  I cherish it.  Every day of my life.  Just as I cherish the Federation uniform."

Chakotay (to Kar): "My people taught me a man does not own land.  He doesn't own anything but the courage and the loyalty in his heart.  That's where my power comes from."

Chakotay (to Kazon children): "So they brought you here to see your first human.  Take a good look.  You won't see any hate in my eyes.  I'm a gentle man from a gentle people who wish you no harm."

Chakotay (to Kar): "It may mean something to you to die a violent death, but I'd like to get out of this without killing or being killed."

Chakotay: "Why are you so eager for me to kill you?"
Kar: "Because, there are worse things than being killed by an enemy."

Chakotay (to Kar): "I think, maybe, you're beginning to realize I'm not your enemy.  And only a fool would kill a friend."

Chakotay: "For some reason that escapes me at the moment, I keep saving your life.  If you want to hate me for it, fine, but I'd appreciate it if you'd keep it to yourself."

Chakotay: "Well, it looks like you just saved my life.  Twice more, and we'll be even."

Kar: "You'd rather die in your sleep, a wrinkled old man?"
Chakotay: "Sounds about right."

Neelix: "Don't worry, Captain.  You can count on me to keep those nefarious Kazon at bay."

Neelix (to Kazon): "Think about the cost of replacing all those weapons. Awfully hard to come by in this region.  And it would make you so vulnerable to your enemies."

Neelix: �For the Kazon, live ammunition is a very effective teaching tool.� 

Razik: "Why did you save him?  It's not a very effective way to wage war."

Non Sequitur

Kim: "You once told me that you used to treat life like one big game.  Rules, players, winners, losers.  You never took any of it seriously; until you lost. 
Alternate Paris: "You know, you're starting to annoy me."
Kim: "You also told me that you were afraid of what would happen to you if you didn't take Captain Janeway up on her offer.  And now I see why."  
Alternate Paris: "What do you see, Ensign?"  
Kim: "A loser and a drunk.  I guess in this reality, that's all you'll ever be."

Kim (to Lt. Lasca): "Why does everyone say 'relax' when they're about to do something terrible?"

Kim (to Alternate Libby): "It was another lifetime; I'm doing the best I can."

Kim: "You're the last person I expected to help me."
Alternate Paris: "Let's just say, it's been a long time since anyone gave a damn about my future, including me.  I don't know if I'm supposed to be on Voyager like you've told me.  But it sounds a whole lot better than the life I have here.  I'm willing to take my chances, Ensign."
Kim: "Call me Harry.  You always did."

Kim (to alternate Paris): "I owe you one."

Lasca (in response to Kim claiming illness to delay meeting): "Harry, you better be dying."

Alternate Libby (to Kim): �So, if we haven�t seen each other in months, where have you been?� 

Alternate Paris (injuring his hand after hitting security guard): "There goes my bank shot."

Parturition

Chakotay: " It's shrouded vapors cover it like a curtain.  EM disturbances all over the atmosphere.  The people in stella cartography have already nicknamed it 'Planet Hell'."
Janeway: " Set a course for 'Planet Hell', Commander."

Doctor: "I am a doctor, not a voyeur."

Doctor (to Kes re: Neelix and Paris fighting over her): "You should consider it a high compliment.  Throughout history, men have fought over the love of a woman.  Why, I can quote you autopsy reports from duels as far back as 1538."

Doctor (to Kes re: Paris' attraction to her): "Whenever you walk into the room, his respiration increases, his pupils dilate, and the coloration of his ears turns decidedly orange.  Until I noticed the pattern, I thought he was suffering from Tanzian flu."

Doctor (re: Neelix's jealousy): "I'm sorry.  It's in my program.  I see something wrong, I must attempt to diagnose it."
Kes: "There are some things you can't cure."

Janeway: "Am I discerning a personal problem here gentlemen?"
Neelix: "Frankly, yes, Captain."
Janeway: "Solve it."

Kes: "On my homeworld, it's so much simpler:  You choose a mate for life.  There's no distrust, no envy, no betrayal."
Doctor: "Your world must have very dry literature."

Kim: "If it works, use it."

Kim: "I'm sure they'll both be fine."
Kes: "Unless they kill each other."

Neelix (to Paris): "It's typical of Kes that she would befriend someone like you, someone who really needs a friend."

Neelix: "I'll kill you."
Paris: "It's too late.  I'm betting your hair pasta already did the trick."

Neelix (to Paris): "You sub-class genus."

Neelix: "I had no right to push that pasta into your lap."
Paris: "Well, look at it this way, saved me from having to eat it."

Neelix (re: eating): "I'll find something for us.  Of course, it might not meet your personal culinary standards."
Paris: "Don't worry.  I've learned to lower my standards since you became cook."

Neelix: "I'd say it's becoming more evident that we chose the wrong cave."

Neelix: "I don't know how it is in your quadrant, but in mine, we don't abandon a newborn -- thing."

Paris (to Neelix re: Kes): "If you ever doubt yourself, just look into her eyes, see the way she looks at you.  You'll never doubt yourself again."

Paris: "And as far as I'm concerned, I'll just be her friend; I mean, if you don't mind."
Neelix: "I don't pick Kes's friends for her.  Just my own."

Paris (to Kes): "I'm famous for my dirty tricks, you know."

Paris: "Nothing personal, but I just don't have an affinity for hair in my food."

Paris: "I think I'm in trouble."
Kim: "What's new?"
Paris: "I think I'm in love."
Kim: "What's new?"

Paris: "Everything you heard those guys saying about me, well, it's true.  But it's not who I am anymore; at least not who I want to be.  This upside-down mission to the wrong side of the galaxy has given me a second chance.  And I don't intend to blow it."

Paris: "If you hear muffled screams, consider that a request for a beam-out."

Tuvok: "That was my ingenious plan, Commander."

Persistence of Vision

Bothan ( to Kes): �You�re a powerful little thing.� 

Chakotay ( to Torres): �I�m the Chakotay you want me to be, the one who loves you.� 

Doctor: "This is certainly a brilliant feat of engineering."

Doctor: "My programmers didn't clutter me up with pithy Earth trivia.  They programmed me with far more important data."

Mark (to Janeway): "Someone else is in your thoughts now."

Janeway: "Maybe it's better to look those feelings in the eye than to keep them locked up."

Janeway: "I suggest you don't look at the viewscreen."
Paris: "It's not even tempting."

Janeway: "I haven't been unfaithful."

Janeway: "Why did you do this to us?"
Bothan: "Because I can."

Torres: " I'm surprised to see you here, Captain.  Isn't this the day that you're usually on the holodeck with your novel?"
Janeway: " I thought, after our recent experience, that I'd take a brake from fantasy for a while."
Torres: " I don't blame you.  I think it had quite an impact on all of us.  Do you think it's true, that the alien was reading our minds, creating images from our own experiences?"
Janeway: " It seemed that way.  He had an uncanny ability to bring buried thoughts out into the open.  Why?"
Torres: " Well, it's just, I experienced something I'd rather not admit."
Janeway: " I know.  Me too.  But in a way, maybe he did us all a favor.  Maybe it's better to look those feelings in the eye, than to keep them bottled up inside."
Torres: " I guess.  I'll have to think about that.  Well, I have an early watch tomorrow so I'd better turn in.  Good night, Captain."
Janeway: " Good night, B'Elanna.  Sweet dreams."
Torres: " Thanks. You too."

Tattoo

Chakotay (to Tuvok): "The logical course isn't always the right course."

Chakotay (to alien re: Chakotay's father, Kolopak): "We weren't on very good terms when he died.  Once he was gone, I didn't know how to reconcile our differences, how to heal our old wounds.  I returned to my colony and continued the fight in his name.  I took the mark that he wore to honor his ancestors."

Doctor (to Ensign Samantha Wildman): "Choose the word that would best describe you pain.  Burning, throbbing, piercing, pinching, biting, stinging, shooting ...."

Doctor: "Well, Ensign, unfortunately pregnancy causes its fair share of discomforts and you'll have to learn to live with them.  That's just the way it is."

Doctor: "I'm tired of the whining, cranky attitudes we see around here.  I intend to serve as an example of how one's life and duties do not have to be disrupted by simple illness."
Kim: "Doc, I don't feel well."
Doctor: "Neither do I and you don't hear me complaining."

Doctor: �Interesting sensation, blowing one�s nose -- my first time.� 

Doctor (to Janeway): "You can't leave me like this.  I need help.  Now.  Get me somebody who can treat the computer and make me feel better immediately."

Doctor: "I feel like I'm fading -- do you know what that means to a hologram?"

Doctor: "My simulated virus is leading me to a simulated death."
Kes: "It's nothing to worry about.  I just added a couple of hours to his computer program.  He'll be fine in about 45 minutes.  Knowing when it would end didn't exactly make it a fair test, did it Doctor?"
Doctor: "She's far more devious than I ever suspected."

Kes: " Don't you have any compassion for the way she feels?"
Doctor: " Every member of this crew is an adult.  I won't coddle them.  Compassion is your department.  Fortunately, you have enough for both of us."
Kes: " You've never been sick or in pain.  I wish, that just once in your life, you could know what it's like; how it makes you feel vulnerable and a little afraid.  Then you'd understand."
Doctor: " I don't have a life.  I have a program."

Kolopak (to young Chakotay): "The past is a part of you, no matter how hard you try to reject it."

Kolopak (to young Chakotay): "You've always been curious about other societies.  And that is why I allowed you to read about them because I believe that ignorance is our greatest enemy."

Kolopak: "It's said the Sky Spirits honored the land above all else.  Maybe it's because this land yields so many different kinds of life.  Maybe they wanted us to become friends with everything in nature, including the bugs!"
Young Chakotay: "Sorry, Sky Spirits, I will never make friends with bugs."
Kolopak: "Maybe that's why they keep biting you."

Kolopak: "From the day you came out of your mother upside down, I knew the spirits had chosen you to be a Contrary."
Young Chakotay: "No one chooses for me.  I choose my own way.  And if that makes me a Contrary, I'll have to live with it."

Kolopak: "You will never belong to that other life.  And if you leave, you will never belong to this one.  You will be caught between worlds."

Kolopak: "Listen to him, Chakotay."
Young Chakotay: "Yes, father. I hear him. I finally hear him."

Paris (re: going to warp in a cyclone): "The ship might make it without inertial dampers, but we'd all just be stains on the back wall." 

Cold Fire

Doctor: "Vulcans make the worst patients."

Kes: "Tuvok, I'm sorry."
Tuvok: " You are probably feeling the emotion known as remorse, possibly guilt.  I advise you to look on this incident as a learning experience."
Kes: "Tuvok, I almost killed you."

Tanis (to Kes): "Focus on the goal, not the task."

Tanis (to Kes): "What your eyes show you is only the surface of reality.  Look deeper."

Tanis: "Hurt people, help them, give life, kill.  It's all the same."

Tuvok: "Try to maintain your emotional equanimity.  You should not be concerned with success or failure."

Tuvok: "Without the darkness, how would we recognize the light?  Do not fear your negative thoughts.  They are a part of you.  They are a part of every living thing; even Vulcans."
Kes: "You?"
Tuvok: "The Vulcan heart was forged out of barbarism and violence.  We learned to control it, but it is still a part of us.  To pretend it does not exist is to create an opportunity for it to escape."

25. Cold Fire

"There are people, but there's so little life." -- Tanis to Kes about Voyager.

"Vulcans make the worst patients." -- the Doctor.

Maneuvers

Chakotay:  "Whatever she wants us for it better be good. I had you right where I wanted you."
Torres:  "What are you talking about?  I was ahead, 19-7."
Chakotay:  "I was just lulling you into a false sense of security."
Torres:  "Sure you were."
Chakotay:  "I'll win the next couple of points and then you'll start to tense up."
Torres:  "I don't tense up!"
Chakotay:  "Easy, B'Elanna, it's only hoverball!"

Janeway: �Your optimism may be premature, Mister Kim, but it�s also infectious.� 

Janeway: "My gut tells me we should go after Chakotay.  But my better judgment tells me we should honor his request."
Torres: "I would never want you to ignore your better judgment, Captain.  But, let me ask you this.  In your opinion, how would the loss of our first officer affect this crew?  What would it do to the morale on this ship?  Maybe, this is an instance where your gut is giving you better advice."

Janeway: "How do you expect me to keep order when the first officer takes it upon himself to run off like some cowboy because he decides it's a good idea?  What you did was commendable; the way you did it was not.  You set a terrible example, and on a personal level, you've made my job more difficult."
Chakotay: "If that's so, I regret it."
Janeway: "I'm putting you on report, in case that means anything anymore."
Chakotay: "It means something to me, Captain.  It means I've let you down, and for that, I'm truly sorry."

Seska: (re: Chakotay in bed): "It was never that good."

Torres: "It's about Chakotay."
Janeway: "That's not exactly my favorite subject right now, Lieutenant."

Torres:  "You're taking this all very personally, aren't you?"
Chakotay:  "Why shouldn't I?"
Torres:  "You are not responsible for what happened."
Chakotay:  "Oh, no? I let her join the Maquis.  I took her into my confidence. I even... got intimately involved with her."
Torres:  "So you have lousy taste in women.  Look, Chakotay, she fooled us all.  She was my best friend, or at least I thought."
Chakotay:  "I, for one, am through being manipulated by her."
Torres:  "Are you sure?  Because she's affecting you.  That's just where she wants you.  Don't tense up."
Chakotay:  "So now I'm getting advice about controlling my emotions from you." 

Resistance

Augris: "It seems you've been making more enemies than friends since you arrived from -- the Alpha Quadrant, is it?  Some think even that story's a lie."
Chakotay: "But not you."
Augris: "Of course not.  I'm here to help."

Augris (to Caylem): "And now, your foolishness has condemned another innocent woman."

Caylem (re: Janeway): "My little girl is home."

Caylem: "I didn't want to lose her.  I didn't want you to grow up without a mother."

Chakotay: "It there's any chance for a diplomatic solution, we have to pursue it."

Darod: "No one will forget what he did here today.  I'll make sure of that."

Janeway (to Caylem): "She wanted me to tell you something.  She forgives you.  We both do."

Neelix: "The Mokra are paranoid and hostile.  They have little use for diplomacy."

[Discussing what may have happened to Captain Janeway]
Tuvok: "We have insufficient evidence to dismiss either conclusion."
Torres: "I guess that's the Vulcan way of telling me to hope for the best."

Torres: " I'm sorry.  I guess I always assumed that Vulcans didn't feel pain like the rest of us, that you were able to block it out somehow, until I heard.  Was that you I heard?"
Tuvok: " Vulcans are capable of suppressing certain levels of physical pain.  Beyond that, we must simply endure the experience."
Torres: " How can you say that so calmly?  You must feel some anger at what they did to you, some desire to fight back."

Tuvok (to Torres while both are being held prisoner): "Under the circumstances, physical resistance is ineffective.  We are -- fighting back by refusing to give them any information."

Prototype

Automated Unit 3947: "We terminated the Builders.  When it was anticipated that the war would end, the Builders no longer required our services and attempted to terminate us.  In doing so, they became the enemy.  We are programmed to destroy the enemy.  It is necessary for our survival."

3947: "It would be inadvisable for your captain to provoke us."

3947: "According to my observations, there is now sufficient reason for greater optimism."
Torres: "You took the words right out of my mouth."

Doctor: "If there has been a change in the dress code, I certainly wish someone would have informed me."

Doctor: "I shouldn't have to remind you.  I'm a doctor --"
Torres: "Not an engineer, right?"

Janeway (to Torres): "Unfortunately, extinction is often the natural end of evolution."

Janeway: "Who are we to swoop in, play God, and then continue on our way without the slightest consideration of the long-term effects of our actions?  I share your scientific curiosity and I admire your compassion, but the answer is no."

Kim: "You may think you're tougher than everybody else, B'elanna Torres, but I can go without sleep just as long as you can."
Torres: "Don't make me laugh, Starfleet.  And don't make me pull rank on you either."

Neelix: "I was using six spices, but the omelet needed seven."
Torres: "Let me guess, leola root?"

Paris: "I don't need a diversion.  Just give me a chance, I'll get her out."
Chakotay: "You don't mind if the rest of us give you a little help, do you , Paris?  I'd hate to lose another shuttlecraft."
Paris: "Your concern for my welfare is heartwarming."

Torres: "You're cutting me off?"

Torres: "The individual energy codes.  Is that why the builders added them?  To prevent the procreation of the units?  My god, what have I done?"
3947: "You have terminated the prototype."
Torres: "Yes, I have."
3947: "You will build another."
Torres: "Never."
3947: "Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, I told 6263 you were not our enemy."
Torres: "I never wanted to be your enemy."

Torres: "39 -- Do you mind if I call you '39'?"
3947: "I am 3947."

Alliances

Chakotay: "Like it or not, it seems we're in a situation where the rules have changed, and maybe, if we're going to survive out here, we have to start changing too.  Starfleet works well in the Alpha Quadrant.  But out here, maybe we should be thinking more like the Maquis.  The Maquis had to survive on their own.  We were up against insurmountable odds.  We had to create our own opportunities for success because nobody was willing to help us.  Sound like anybody you know?"
Janeway: "If you're suggesting we abandon our principles just because we're out of hailing range --"
Chakotay: "-- I don't think we can afford to keep doing business as usual."

Chakotay: "You may be willing to die for Federation principles, but they're not."

Chakotay: "Make a deal; an alliance."
Janeway: "With the Kazon?"

Cullah: "A woman and a trabe; how can we listen to them?"

Hogan: "Nothing's going to come of all this.  B'Elanna, you were Seska's friend.  Couldn't you get word to her.  Try to work things out."
B'Elanna: "No, I couldn't."
Hogan: "I don't understand why."
B'Elanna: "Hogan, it's gone too far.  Seska isn't the person we thought she was.  I don't trust her any more."
Hogan: "Even if it means us getting home in one piece?  Or do you agree with our Captain, that holding on to our technology is worth dying for?"
B'Elanna: "Who are you to be second guessing Captain Janeway?  The hardest thing you have to worry about is keeping that dilithium chamber filled.  She is doing the best she can to get us home. and if you don't like the way she's doing it. I really don't want to hear about it.  Is that clear?"
Hogan: "Perfectly."

Janeway: "I'll destroy this ship before I turn any part of it over to the Kazon."

Janeway: "In a part of space where there are few rules, it's more important than ever that we hold fast to our own.  In a region where shifting allegiances are commonplace, we have to have something stable to rely on.  And we do; the principles and ideals of the Federation.  As far as I'm concerned, those are the best allies we could have."

Janeway: "You can't have it both ways, Commander.  If you want to get in the middle with the Kazon, you can't start complaining that you might get dirty."

Janeway: "Cullah, I found the idea of an alliance with you distasteful.  I was willing to explore the possibility, but now I see my instincts were dead-on.  This meeting is over."

Mabus: "How can this one ship survive?"
Janeway: "Not by making deals with executioners."

Mabus: "You've ruined what would have been the greatest step toward peace in decades."
Neelix: "Peace?  A massacre?"
Mabus: "I could have decimated the Kazon leadership.  It would have taken them years to recover."
Janeway: "You planned this whole thing and used our good will to make sure you were successful."
Mabus: "You don't know the Kazon.  There's no dealing with them.  Violence is all they understand."
Janeway: "Or perhaps it's all you understand."
Mabus: "You're naive, Captain.  It's clear that you have no understanding of the harsh realities of this part of space.  What I tried to do was done as much for you as it was for us."
Janeway: "I'm not grateful and I want you off my ship."
Mabus: "You're going to need us.  The Kazon will be determined to seek revenge.  How can this one ship hope to survive?"
Janeway: "Not by making deals with executioners.  Energize."

Tuvok: "I do not see that it is a particularly good idea to form an alliance with the blood enemies of the Kazon.  We risk uniting all the factions against us."
Janeway: "The only thing the Kazon agree on now is that we are their common enemy.  It's hard to imagine it getting much worse."

Threshold

[On a planet where both Paris and Janeway appear as amphibians/lizards]
Chakotay: "I'm not sure which one is the Captain."
Tuvok: "The female, obviously."

Chakotay (re: seeing Janeway and Paris transformations with their babies): �I don�t know how I�m going to enter this into the log.� 
Tuvok: "I look forward to reading it."

Doctor: "It looks like he's having an allergic reaction.  What did he ingest?"
Torres: "Just a cup of Neelix's coffee."  
Doctor: "It's a miracle that he's still alive."

Doctor: "I have some tests I'd like to run on your majesty before I release you back into the realm of ordinary humans."
Paris: "You may proceed."

Doctor (re: Paris appearing amphibian/lizard): "It's possible Mister Paris represents a future stage in human development, though I can't say it's very attractive."

Doctor: "Congratulations, you're human again."

Doctor: "You're too stubborn to die, Mister Paris."

Janeway: "Can you wake him?"
Doctor: "I don't see why not.  Wake up, Lieutenant!"

[The two amphibians/lizards found on the planet representing Janeway and Paris had baby amphibians/lizards with them]
Janeway: "I've thought about having children.  But I must say, I've never considered having them with you."
Paris: "Captain, I'm sorry.  I don't know what to say except I don't remember very much about, you know."
Janeway: "What makes you think it was your idea?"

Janeway: �There�s no way to put the genie back in the bottle.� 

Neelix: "'Infinite velocity'?  Got it!  So that means 'very fast'."

Paris: "This is the first time in ten years I feel I have a life to risk.  Please, please let me make the flight."
Janeway: "You're sure about this."
Paris: "I've never been so sure about anything.  Please."
Janeway: "Good luck, Lieutenant."

Paris: "You know anything about quantum warp theory or multispectral engine design?"
Neelix: "No, but I'm a quick study."

Paris: "For a moment, I was everywhere.  I mean everywhere, Captain."

Paris: " Big funeral, lots of pretty girls all crying.  Except Torres, Torres doesn't cry, you ever noticed that?  I don't trust people who don't cry."

Paris (considering his headstone): "Here lies Thomas Eugene Paris; beloved mutant."
[Doctor irradiates Paris as part of his treatment]
Paris: "Oh, great.  Now it'll read 'beloved, radioactive mutant'."

Paris: "Do you cry?"
Doctor: "It's not in my program."

Paris (to Janeway): "Yeah, but I'm starting to realize that it's not other people's opinions I should be worried about.  It's mine."

Paris (to Neelix): �Neelix, you�re a genius.� 

Meld

Doctor: "DNA doesn't know how to lie, Lieutenant."

Doctor: "All of us have violent instincts.  We evolved from predators -- well, apart from me, of course:  I was programmed by you predators."

Doctor (to Tuvok): "You're on your way back to being normal, though I'm not sure how the word normal applies to a species that suppresses all their emotions."

Doctor: �Obviously it takes a certain personality type to be attracted to the life of an outlaw.� 

Doctor (to Janeway): "Vulcan mind-melds.  Utter foolishness.  Anybody with an ounce of sense wouldn't share his brain with someone else.  Would you?  I certainly wouldn't."

Neelix (to Tuvok): "Your voice says to go away, but your heart wants me to make you smile!"

Neelix: "I will not rest until I see you smile."
Tuvok: "Then you will not rest."

Neelix: " And if people want to take off their clothes and chase one another around, it certainly wouldn't hurt morale around here."

Paris: "Harry, Harry, Harry!  Never ever play with anyone, not even your best friend, if he says, 'Let's make it interesting'."

Paris: "I didn't think Starfleet would have a problem with it."
Chakotay: "With a senior officer running a gambling operation and skimming profits from each day's proceeds.  Now why would Starfleet have a problem with that?"

Paris: "Now there's a tough job; filling out reports.  But somebody's got to do it."

Lon Suder (to Tuvok re: violence): "Studying it and knowing it are two different things.  Aren't they?"

Suder: "In a way, a mind-meld is almost an act of violence, isn't it?  Penetration, your will dissolving mine, the joining.  It seems to me that a mind-meld might be fatal if you lost control."

Suder (to Tuvok): "You're right.  It is disturbing; never knowing when that impulse may come, or whether or not you can control it when it does.  You live on the edge of every moment, and yet in its own way, violence is attractive too.  Maybe because it doesn't require logic.  Perhaps that's why it's so liberating."

Suder (to Tuvok): "If you can't control the violence, the violence will control you.  Be prepared to yield your entire being to it, to sacrifice your place in civilized life, for you will no longer be a part of it, and there's no return."

Suder: �Just because I�m a Maquis doesn�t make me a killer.� 

Suder: "To execute me, I see, and calling it that makes it more comfortable for you."

Suder: "We both know that I am prepared to die, but are you prepared to kill?"

Tuvok: "Why did you kill him, Mister Suder?"
Suder: "No reason."
Tuvok: "That is not a satisfactory answer.  You must have had some motive."
Suder: "I didn't like the way he looked at me."

Tuvok:  "Do you know what a Vulcan Mind Meld is?"
Suder:  "It's that thing where you grab someone's head."

Tuvok: "You are not invulnerable, hologram.  A few well chosen commands to the computer and you will cease to exist."

Tuvok: �Morale is irrelevant to a Vulcan.� 

Tuvok (to Janewa)y: �You disgust me.  All you humans do.� 

Tuvok (to Janeway) "Sitting here, attempting to meditate, I have counted the number of ways I know of killing someone using just a finger, a hand, a foot.  I had reached 94 when you entered."

Dreadnought

Chakotay: "I expect everyone to show up for meetings on time and properly dressed."
Paris: "Yes, sir."

Dreadnought's Cardassian Computer Voice:  "Cardassian ATR4017.  Attempting to active systems."
Torres:  "I never thought I'd be glad to hear that voice again."
Dreadnought's Maquis Computer Voice:  "Voice analyzer functioning.  Unable to identify."
Dreadnought's Cardassian Computer Voice:  "Attempting to activate systems."
Dreadnought's Maquis Computer Voice:  "No additional presence detected."
Torres:  "Check those diagnostics, Dreadnought.  You're talking to yourself.  I believe you're having an identity crisis."

Dreadnought: "Although this vessel is Cardassian in design, it has been appropriated by the Maquis.  Please stand down your weapons."
Janeway: "You stand down your weapons and I'll stand down mine."

Dreadnought: "The probability of being in the Delta Quadrant, 75,000 light years from last known location, is negligible."

Janeway: "Could Seska be responsible?"
Torres: "No, Captain.  I am."

Janeway: "Doctor, I forgot about you."
Doctor: "How flattering."

Kellan: "Your reputation precedes you, Captain.  We've been told that you've threatened many races since your arrival in this quadrant."

Kellan: "You would sacrifice yourselves to benefit a people you didn't even know two days ago?"
Janeway: "To save two million lives?  That's not a hard decision."

Paris: "When a bomb starts talking about itself in the third person, I get nervous."

Paris: "I didn't like his attitude."
Torres: "Was he right about your reports?"
Paris: "We're in the Delta Quadrant, nowhere near Starfleet, what difference --?  Yeah, he was right. I'm the one whose been wrong.  Wrong about a lot of things."

Torres: "Chakotay looked at me -- I didn't know him very well then -- and all he said in that damned soft voice of his was that I'd hurt him.  That he thought he had earned my trust and loyalty."

Torres: "So, when I was just over there and you shut yourself off, you were lying to me?"
Dreadnought: "Acknowledged."

Torres (to Dreadnought): "Who would have thought, two years ago, after all those weeks we spent together, perfecting your program, that we'd end up out here, trying to kill each other."

Tuvok: "It is logical have a second-in-command in case you are injured and unable to complete the mission, Captain.  I request permission to remain."
Janeway: "Permission granted."

Death Wish

Janeway:  "Where are we now?"
Paris:  "We seem to be tethered to some sort of plant."

Janeway: "Based on my research, you have been many things; a rude, interfering, inconsiderate sadistic --"
Q: "You've made your point."
Janeway: "-- Pest.  And oh, yes, you introduced us to the Borg, thank you very much.  But one thing you have never been is a liar."
Q: "I think you've uncovered my one redeeming virtue.  Am I blushing?"

Janeway (to Quinn): "Q, now that you're mortal, you have a new existence to explore, an entirely new state of being, filled with the mysteries of mortal life, pleasures you've never felt before.  I like this life, Q.  You might too.  Think hard before you give it up."

Neelix: "She never told me she liked rarebits.  What is a rarebit, anyway?'

Q (after Quinn made all the men disappear): "Is this a ship of the Valkyries, or have you human women finally done away with your men altogether?"

Q: �I guess that�s what we get for having a woman in the Captain�s seat.� 

Q:  "Has Jean-Luc been whispering about me behind my back?"

Q: "Facial art -- oooh -- how very wilderness of you."

Q (to Quinn): "Oh, we've all done the scarecrow, big deal."

Q (to Janeway): "Did anyone ever tell you you're angry when you're beautiful?"

Q: "My, my, now I guess we get to find out whether the pants really fit."

Q: "Without Q (Quinn), there would have been no William T. Riker and I would have lost at least a dozen opportunities to insult him over the years."

Q: "I'm a born-again Q."

Q (to Quinn): "This is your own doing.  You could live a perfectly normal life if you were simply willing to live a perfectly normal life."

Q: "May I see you in your chambers, Captain?"
Janeway: "You've been in my chambers enough for one visit, sir."

Quinn: "And you can't take me by force.  I'll stalemate you for eternity if I have to!"
Janeway: "The hell you will!  The vaunted Q Continuum!  Self-anointed guardians of the universe!  How dare you come aboard this ship and endanger this crew with you personal tug of war!"

Quinn (to Janeway): "Captain, you are an explorer.  What if you had nothing left to explore?  Would you want to live forever under those circumstances?"

Quinn (to Tuvok): "As the Q have evolved, we've sacrificed many things along the way.  Not just manners.  But mortality, and a sense of purpose, and a desire for change, and a capacity to grew.  Each loss is a new vulnerability, wouldn't you say?"

Quinn (to Janeway): "I was the greatest threat the Continuum had ever known.  They feared me so much they had to lock me away for eternity.  And when they did that, they were saying that the individual's rights will be protected only so long as they don't conflict with the state.  Nothing is so dangerous to a society."

Quinn (to Janeway): "I traveled the road many times.  Sat on the porch, played the games, been the dog, everything.  I was even the scarecrow for a while."
Janeway: "Why?"
Quinn: "Because I hadn't done it."

Quinn:  "Can't you see, Captain?  For us, the disease is immortality."

Quinn: �Because the one thing I want to do more than any other is to die.� 

Quinn: "I die not for myself, but for you."

Quinn: "You surprise me again, Mister Tuvok, which is a rare and special gift to a Q.  Thank you."

Torres: "This ship will not survive the formation of the cosmos."  
Q: "Yes, but just think of the honor of having your DNA spread from one corner of the universe to the other. You could be the origin of the human form."

Torres:  "He says his name is Q."
Janeway:  "Red Alert!"

Tuvok (to Quinn): "I am curious.  Have the Q always had an absence of manners?  Or is it the result of some natural evolutionary process that comes with omnipotence?"

Tuvok (to Q): "And you find nothing contradictory in a society that outlaws suicide but practices capital punishment?"

Lifesigns

09/13/2000

Chakotay: "... making decisions is part of being a leader.  ..."
Paris: "Being a leader also means knowing when to give your people a little leeway and let them be creative."

Chakotay: "If you have a problem, I'd like to know what it is."
Paris: "Yeah, I've got a problem.  My problem is you."

Chakotay: "Sometimes, I'm not going to agree with your suggestions, but making decisions is part of being a leader.  Maybe someday you'll understand that."
Paris: "Being a leader also means knowing when to give your people a little leeway and let them be creative.  We might as well put this ship on autopilot for all the freedom you give me to do my job."
Chakotay: "I didn't come here for a lecture from you on how to do my job."

Doctor: "... my program contains over fifty million gigaquads of data which, I don't have to tell you, is considerably more than the most highly developed humanoid brains."

Doctor: "There are serious limitations to being a hologram.  First of all, we can only exist within environments equipped with holo-emitters, such as sickbay.  ...  I'm this ship's emergency medical holographic program."
Danara Pel: "You're a computer simulation?"
Doctor: "An incredibly sophisticated computer simulation."

Doctor: "By the way, Danara, I wanted to tell you, I'm romantically attracted to you and wanted to know if you felt the same way."

Doctor (to Pel): "You said before you knew me, that you were just a disease.  Well, before you, I was just a projection of photons held together by force fields, a computerized physician doing a job.  Doing it exceptionally well, of course, but still, it was just a profession, not a life.  But now that you're here, and my programming has adapted, I'm not just working anymore.  I'm living, learning what it means to be with someone, to love someone.  I don't think I can go back to the way things either.  Danara, please, don't die."

Doctor (to Torres): "The procedure is quite simple.  I'll drill an opening into your skull precisely two millimeters in diameter and then use a neuralyte probe to extract a sample of your parietal lobe weighing approximately one gram"   
Torres: "It doesn't sound simple to me.  I still have nightmares about what those people did to me.  And now you want to crack open my head, cut out a piece of my brain, and give it to her."  
Doctor: "Your experience in the Vidiian prison suggests that Klingon DNA is resistant to the Phage. Losing a small amount of neural tissue is inconsequential."  
Torres: "Not to me it isn't."
Pel: "What you went through must have been very traumatic."
B'Elanna: "That's an understatement."

Doctor: "I've finished engrafting the Klingon neural tissue to your cerebral cortex.  ..."
Pel: "Your technique is very impressive."
Doctor: "It's all part of my programming.  For example, this exact procedure was developed by Dr. Leonard McCoy in the year 2253.  I'm equipped with the collective medical knowledge of more than 3,000 cultures.  Additionally ... my imaging system allows me to perform and, in many cases, improve upon the most delicate tactile maneuvers required by a dizzying array of surgical procedures."

Doctor: "My program was developed by Dr. Louis Zimmerman in a lab on Jupiter station.  I was activated on stardate 48308.  Since that time, I've performed 347 medical exams, healed eleven compound fractures, performed three appendectomies and, in my greatest feat of medical prowess, I once cured Mister Neelix of an acute case of the hiccups."
Pel: "You're very funny."
Doctor: "I am?  --  Well, several clinical studies have shown humor to be very therapeutic.  Consider it part of your treatment." 

Doctor: "... my program's malfunctioning."
Kes: "Romance is not a malfunction."
Doctor: "Romance is not part of my programming."
Kes: "Your programming's adoptive, isn't it?"
Doctor: "Yes."
Kes: "Then I'd say it's adopting."
Doctor: "What if -- I don't want it to adapt right now?"
Kes: "Why wouldn't you?"
Doctor: "Because I don't like what's happening to me.  --  I'm use to being in control of my faculties -- confident of my decisions.  But lately -- whenever Danara's program is deactivated and I should be concentrating on my work, I find myself think of nothing but her."
Kes: "Why don't you reactivate her?"
Doctor: "Because whenever I do that, I suddenly feel -- unsettled -- unsure of myself -- and I have no idea what to say.  Why would people seek out situations which induce such unpleasant symptoms?"
Kes: "Because when the other person feels the same way you do it's the most wonderful thing in life."

Doctor: "Mister Paris, I assume you have a great deal of experience at being rejected by women.  ...  ... what does one do to recover from the unpleasant symptom of romantic rejection?  ..."
Paris: "Sometimes, there's not a lot you can do to get over a woman you really care about.  ...  Of course, the first one is always the hardest to get over.  ...  But, eventually you start thinking about her less and less until finally, without realizing it, she's not on your mind anymore."
Doctor: "So the symptoms do subside over time?"
Paris: "For the most part.  But every now and then, even years later something reminds you of her -- a certain smell, a few notes of a song -- and suddenly you feel just as bad as the day she told you she never wanted to see you again.  If you want to know the honest truth, Doc, you never completely get over a woman you really cared about."

Doctor (to Pel): "Listen to me.  Nothing could ever change the way I feel about you, not a few scars, not some diseased skin, nothing."

Kes (to Pel): "The next time someone has something nice to say about you, maybe you should just take them at their word and feel good about yourself."

Paris:  "Sorry I'm late, but I have a very good excuse.  Picture this:  I'm just getting ready to leave the mess hall when Ensign Wildman goes into labor.  What else could I do but deliver the baby?  Oh, you should've been there, Harry.  There is nothing like bringing a new life into this world.  I think I missed my calling."
[Noticing no one was buying his excuse]
Paris: "What if I told you the turbolift got stuck on Deck Six?"

Paris: "I think you scared her off."
Doctor: "I did?"
Paris: "Your approach is all wrong."
Doctor: "What would be the right approach?"
Paris: "Women like romance.  They want men to make an effort -- take them someplace special."

Paris: "So when should I report back for duty?"
Chakotay: "When you decide to take your job seriously, we'll discuss it.  But right now, you're dismissed."
Paris: "Get your hands off me."
Janeway: "Mister Tuvok, please escort Mr. Paris to the brig."

Pel (to Torres): "As much as I want to go on living, I have accepted the fact that I will die soon.  I only want your help if you are willing to give it."

[Pel and Doctor go to holodeck]
Pel: "If I had a place like this to go to, I'd be there everyday."
Doctor: "Don't your people have recreational facilities?"
Pel: "Congregating in groups is strictly regulated.  It's considered to be a threat to public health."
Doctor: "A wise policy."
Pel: "I suppose.  Sometimes, I think my people spend so much time trying to save lives they don't know how to live anymore."

Pel (to Doctor): "Before I met you, I was just a disease.  But now, everything's different.  When people look at me, they don't see a disease anymore.  They see a woman, a woman you made, a woman you love, a woman you're not afraid to touch."

Pel (re: Neelix and bar patron): "They were just being nice."
Doctor: "Irritating, isn't it?"
Pel: "... I'm just not use to -- so much attention.  --  Where I come from, when you're sick as I am ... healthy people stay away from you.  ...  I forgot for a second that I don't look Like that anymore."

Pel: "What should I call you?  ...  I know you don't have a name.  --  Would it be all right if I gave you one?  ...  How about -- Shmullus?"
Doctor: "Shmullus?"
Pel: "It was my uncle's name.  He used to make me laugh, too.  --"
Doctor: "Doctor Shmullus.  I think I like the sound of that."

Pel: "It's not easy to feel good about yourself when you're used to living your life like that."
Kes: "Danara, I can't pretend to know what your life's been like.  But I do know, there's nothing sadder than a missed opportunity."

Pel: "What is it that we're supposed to be doing?"
Doctor: "I believe it's called parking."

Pel: "I'd rather live two more days like this, with you, than go on for who knows how long, wasting away a piece at a time."

Investigations

Chakotay: "Are you saying that Paris's insulting behavior; the gambling, being late for duty, mouthing off at me, was all a ruse?"

Chakotay: "In other words, you didn't trust me."
Janeway: "Commander, the simple fact is we needed a good performance.  I'm afraid we used you to help Tom provide it.  And you did a damn good job."

Doctor (to Neelix re: his appearance on a Briefing with Neelix): "I'm a doctor, not a performer."

Doctor (to Neelix re: having his appearance on a Briefing with Neelix postponed): "But I've already prepared today's topic -- How to Keep Your Nostrils Happy."

Janeway: "There has been a spy aboard Voyager, but it isn't Tom Paris."
Tuvok: "Lieutenant Paris is, in fact, part of our plan."
Chakotay: "Plan?"

Kim: "It's the job of a journalist to be independent."

Neelix (re: Paris' leaving Voyager): "When did you make this decision?"
Paris: "Truthfully?  About a minute and a half after I set foot on this ship a year ago."

Neelix: "I want to tell you about a friend of mine.  I first met this man almost a year ago, and to tell you the truth, I didn't like him much.  He seemed a little too cocky, a little too sure of himself.  A lot of people had questions about him.  He had proven he'd pretty much sell himself out to the highest bidder, go wherever the wind blew him, so people wondered could you trust this person when things got tough?  Would he stand side by side with you or would he let you down when you needed him most?  But the fact of the matter is he proved himself right from the beginning.  I wouldn't be alive right now if it weren't for him.  And the same goes for many of you.  It took me a while to realize it.  Like a lot of people, I was too caught up in first impressions to see the truth that was right in front of me.  I overlooked his bravery because I was focusing on his brashness.  I ignored his courage because I saw it as arrogance, and I resented his friendliness because I mistook it for licentiousness.  So while this man was giving us his best every minute of every day, I was busy judging him.  And now he's leaving.  I'm proud to say that, in spite of my narrow-mindedness, Thomas Eugene Paris became my friend.  I'm going to miss him.  No more laughs over a game of pool.  No more sitting up until the wee hours swapping stories.  No more complaints about my cooking.  Goodbye, Tom.  I think I speak for more of us than you might imagine when I say you're going to leave an empty space when you go.  I hope you find what you're looking for."

Neelix: "Well, I'm going to have plenty of material for tomorrow's Briefing With Neelix."

Paris: "... I've always considered myself a drifter.  ...  Freedom to do what you want, when you want.  No rules to follow, nobody depending on you...."

Paris: "Hello, Seska.  You're looking radiantly maternal."

Paris: "I'd like to apologize to anyone I might have offended, especially Commander Chakotay.  I gave him a pretty hard time.  Not that it wasn't a certain amount of fun, mind you."

Seska: "The Kazon tend to be excessive in their use of force."

Seska: "So Lieutenant Tom Paris was just a pretense."
Paris: "No.  No, it was me trying very hard to be someone I finally couldn't be."
Seska: "I never liked you, Tom.  I didn't trust you.  I don't trust you now."
Paris: "I can assure you the feeling is mutual."

Deadlock

Doctor: "Push, Ensign."
Ensign Samantha Wildman: "You push, damn it.  I'm sick of pushing."

Doctor (to Kim): "I am programmed to be heroic when the need arises.  By the way, Ensign, this other doctor, did he have a name?"

Janeway: "I'm not sure if I should be welcoming it on board or apologizing.  Voyager isn't exactly anyone's idea of a nursery.  And the Delta Quadrant isn't much of a playground."
Chakotay: "My father had a saying, Captain.  'Home is wherever you happen to be'."

Janeway: "I'm in no mood to donate any organs today."

Janeway: "I just saw myself cross the bridge and enter that turbolift.  It was very faint.  Almost like a ghost image.  And I looked like hell."

Janeway: "Captain, this isn't an illusion.  What you're seeing is real, but it's going to take some explaining."

Janeway: "The lives of both crews are at stake here.  I can't make unilateral decisions that might affect that other ship."

Alternate Janeway: "You're going to self destruct your ship."
Janeway: "What makes you say that?"
Alternate Janeway: "Because that's what I would do if your Voyager were intact and my Voyager were crippled, my crew wounded or dead.  I'd sacrifice my ship so that yours could survive."

Janeway: "This is my ship and my decision."
Alternate Janeway: "Captain, I'm not going to let you --"
Janeway: "-- I've made my decision.  Please don't make me call security and have you escorted off my ship, because -- you know I'll do it."

Janeway (to alternate self): "I don't suppose there's any way I can change your mind.  I know how stubborn you can be."

Janeway: "... I'm in no mood to donate any organs today."

Kim: "This really isn't my ship; and you're not really my captain.  And yet, you are and there's no difference.  But I know there's a difference.  Or is there?  It's all a little weird."
Janeway: "Mister Kim, we're Starfleet officers.  Weird is part of the job."

Paris: "This is ridiculous.  It's been seven hours.  How long does it take to deliver a baby."
Janeway: "As long as it takes, Mr. Paris."

Tuvok (to Kim): "I have learned that pregnancy and patience go hand-in-hand."

Tuvok: "One could say that you were both the doubter and the doubted."

Innocence

Alcia: "May this day find you at peace and leave you with hope."

Ensign Bennet (to Tuvok re: dying): "All this time, I thought I was so lucky, no family back home, nobody to miss.  Now it seems kind of sad not to leave anybody behind."

Chakotay: "I, very proudly, made the traditional gesture for hello, not realizing that males and females of their race use different styles of movement and I was actually propositioning the ambassador."

Chakotay: "Peace in your hearts.  Fortune in your steps."

Corvin: "Tuvok, do you have any children?"
Tuvok: "Yes, four children."
Corvin: "What are they like?"
Tuvok: "Well-behaved."

Doctor: "We don't often receive such distinguished guests here unless there's been some sort of accident.  I'm sure nothing unfortunate will happen to you on your visit here, but if it does, you can rest assured you will find yourself in very capable hands."

Group of Unruly children: "What are [your children] like?"
Tuvok: "Well-behaved."

Elani: "I don't want to stay here anymore.  I don't like it here."
Tuvok: "Your displeasure doesn't change our situation, nor does it bring us any closer to a solution."

Elani: "If Vulcans don't feel anything, does that mean you don't love them?"
Tuvok: "My attachment to my children cannot be described as an emotion.  They are part of my identity, and I am incomplete without them."

Janeway: "Sometimes you have to go in blind.  That's the exciting part."

Tressa: "I'm scared."
Tuvok: "We often fear what we do not understand.  Our best defense if knowledge."

Tressa: "My only regret is leaving my family, my grandson.  You remind me of him sometimes."
Tuvok: "You will still be with them in their thoughts.  As you will be in mine."

Tuvok (to Elani): "I do believe there is more within each of us than science has yet explained."

Tuvok: "I cannot protect you from the natural conclusion of life, nor would I try.  Vulcans consider death to be the completion of a journey.  There is nothing to fear."
Tressa: "I won't be afraid.  Not if you're with me."

Tuvok (to Corvin): "Vulcans believe that a person's katra, what some might call a soul, continues to exist after the body dies."

Tuvok (to Corvin): "I have never understood the practice in some cultures of describing ferocious creatures in an attempt to lull children to sleep."

Tuvok: "Vulcan parents never shield their children from the truth.  Doing so would only hinder their ability to cope with inevitable difficulties."

Tuvok: "Once you detach yourselves from your emotional responses you come closer to controlling them.  Eventually they will be a eliminated altogether."

Tuvok: "You exist only inside your mind."

Tuvok: "It is illogical for a society to kill its own children."

The Thaw

Doctor (to Janeway): "Fear can provide pleasure.  To seek fear is to seek the boundaries of one's sensory experience."

Doctor: "Excuse me.  You're not holding that properly."

Fear the Clown (to Torres): "You're like me; a little of this, a little of that."
[Fear created some flowers for Torres and in response, Torres knocks the flowers from his hand]
Fear: "My, what a temper.  That's from your mother's side, isn't it?"  

Fear: "Well, you certainly know how to bring a party to a halt."
Doctor: "I don't get out very much."

Fear: "A virus.  A virus.  He thinks I am a virus.  Well, perhaps I'll be a virus today.  Achoo!"

Fear: "How am I supposed to negotiate if I don't know what you're thinking?"
Doctor: "I have a very trusting face."

Fear: "Who is she to tell me what I have to do?"
Doctor: "She's the one out there with the "off" switch in her hand."

Fear: "Fear is the most honest of all emotions, Captain."

Fear: "What will become of me, of us?"
Janeway: "Like all fear, you eventually vanish."
Fear: "I'm afraid."
Janeway: "I know."
Fear: "Drat."

Janeway (to Tuvok): "The ability to recognize danger, to fight it or run away from it; that's what fear gives us.  But when fear holds you hostage, how do you make it let go?"

Janeway: "All we have to do now it to decide how to negotiate with an emotion."

Janeway: "If we can't remove the hostages from the environment, then we might be able to remove the environment from the hostages."

Janeway (to Fear): "I've known fear.  It's a very healthy thing most of the time.  You warn us of danger, remind us of our limits, protect us from carelessness.  I've learned to trust fear."
Fear: "Finally, someone who appreciates me.  Am I blushing?"

Janeway (to Fear): "You know as well as I do that fear only exists for one purpose; to be conquered."

Janeway: "I'm not Captain Janeway."
Fear: "Could have fooled me."
Janeway: "I'm afraid I did."

Kim: "Like the man said, ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’"

Kim: "This is not reality.  It's an illusion."
Fear: "When your only reality is an illusion, then illusion is a reality."
Kim: "Like the man said, the only thing you have to fear is fear itself."

Kim ( to Fear): �Are you a lifeform?  Or some kind of computer virus that penetrated this system?� 

Kim ( to Fear) : �You scared them to death.� 

Kim (to Fear): "I would rather die than spend the rest of my life in here with you."

Neelix: "A good joke just seems to make fear dissolve."

Torres: "There's no way an artificial intelligence can replace actual brain functions."
Doctor: "I'll choose not to take that personally, Lieutenant."

Viorsa: "You'll leave hope behind after a few months of this."

Tuvix

Chakotay: "How'd you fix it so quick?"
Tuvix: "I had a hunch."

Chakotay: "There's an old axiom: 'The whole is never greater than the sum of its parts'. I think that Tuvix might be disproving that notion."

Doctor: �... according to my tests, he�s quite correct when he says that he possesses Tuvok's knowledge and expertise.  He also possesses Tuvok's irritating sense of intellectual superiority and Neelix's annoying ebullience.  I would be very grateful if you would assign him to some duty, any duty, somewhere else."

Doctor: "There's nothing to worry about.  We've accounted for every variable."
Tuvix: "Except one.  I don't want to die."

Doctor: "I will not take Mister Tuvix's life against his will."
Janeway: "Very well, Doctor.  Please step aside."

Janeway: "Most people would say his writing is cold, analytical, detached.  But I've always found it to be concise, efficient, thoughtful."

Janeway: "I know that someday I may have to accept that he's not part of my life anymore."

Janeway (re: Tuvix): "... at what point did he become an individual, and not a transporter accident?"

Janeway: "Mister Tuvok, Mister Neelix; it's good to have you back."

Kes: "It's funny.  If something happened to Tuvok, if Neelix were here, he'd be the first person to comfort me; and if I lost Neelix, Tuvok would be the first person to guide me spiritually.  Now I don't have either of them."

Kim: "Identify yourself."
Tuvix: "I'm Lieutenant Tuvok; and I'm Neelix."

Neelix: "It's an exhilarating day, isn't it?"
Tuvok: "As you well know by now, Mister Neelix, I do not experience exhilaration."
Neelix: "You're acting more Tuvokian than usual this morning."
Tuvok: "I am who I am, Mister Neelix.  It is impossible for me to be more or less like myself."

Paris (re: Tuvix): �We�ve created a monster.� 

Tuvix: "A name can have a significant effect upon a person's sense of identity."

Tuvix: "Sex!"
Janeway: "I beg your pardon?"

Tuvix: "All right, everybody out."
Hogan: "On whose authority?"
Tuvix: "Chief of Security or Head Chef; take your pick."

Tuvix: "Captain Janeway tells me there's a place for me on this ship.  But I can't help feeling like some sort of imposter."

Tuvix: "Look at me, Captain.  When I'm happy, I laugh.  When I'm sad, I cry.  When I stub my toe, I yell out in pain.  I'm flesh and blood.  And I have the right to live!"

Tuvix: "Each of you is going to have to live with this.  And I'm sorry for that, for you are all good, good people, my colleagues, my friends.  I forgive you."

Tuvok: "Mister Neelix, do you think you could behave a little less like yourself?"

Resolutions

Chakotay (to Janeway re: camping): "Roughing it?  Let's see.  We have shelter, furniture, research equipment, tricorders, a replicator.  It's too rough for me."

Chakotay: "Even the eagle knows when to sleep."

Chakotay: "I can't sacrifice the present for a future that may never happen."

Chakotay: "Why do you have to see it as defeat?  Maybe it's simply accepting what life has dealt us; finding the good in it."

Chakotay: �Our tricorders don�t recognize it, but it sure packs a wallop.� 

Janeway: "I think we need to define some parameters, about us."
Chakotay: "I'm not sure I can define parameters, but I can tell you a story, an ancient legend among my people.  It's about an angry warrior who lived his life in conflict with the rest of his tribe.  A man who couldn't find peace, even with the help of his spirit guide.  For years he struggled with his discontent.  The only satisfaction he ever got came when he was in battle.  This made him a hero among his tribe, but the warrior still longed for peace within himself.  One day, he and his war party were captured by a neighboring tribe led by a woman warrior.  She called on him to join her because her tribe was too small and weak to defend itself from all its enemies.  The woman warrior was brave, and beautiful.  And very wise.  The angry warrior swore to himself that he would stay by her side, doing whatever he could to make her burden lighter.  From that point on, her needs would come first.  And in that way, the warrior began to know the true meaning of peace."
Janeway: "Is that really an ancient legend?"
Chakotay: "No.  But that made it easier to say."

Janeway: "Maybe you should call me Kathryn."
Chakotay: "Give me a few days on that one, okay?"

Janeway: "This is Kathryn Janeway.  I've never liked saying goodbye, so I'll make this brief.  But I want you all to know that serving as your captain has been the most extraordinary experience of my life.  No captain can ask for more than what this crew has given; bravery, compassion and strength in character.  But I think what I'll miss most is the fun; the times we joked together, the games on the holodeck.  I'll remember the laughter more than anything.  Although, Commander Chakotay and I won't be with you for the rest of your journey, we know you'll be the same steadfast crew for Mister Tuvok as you have been for us.  We wish you a safe and speedy journey home.  Our thoughts will be with you.  Janeway out."
Tuvok: "Thank you, Captain, Commander.  I am sure I speak for the entire crew when I say we will always remember your grace and courage.  And on a personal note, I would like to add that it has been a honor serving with you.  Live long and prosper."

Janeway: �Who wanted to muck around in the dirt when you could be studying quantum mechanics?� 

Kes: "I didn't know how I'd get through the rest of my life without him.  But then I started working with you, and I did not miss him so much anymore."
Tuvok: "I am honored by the comparison."

Kim: "Sir, I think you should know how many people on this ship disagree with you.  Everyone I talk to thinks we should give this a try."
Tuvok: "The people you talk to do not have the responsibility of commanding this vessel.  I do.  The safety of this crew is paramount, and I must do whatever I can to ensure that safety."
Kim: "But if we're willing to take the risk in order to help the Captain --"
Tuvok: "Ensign, I'm going to say this once and once only.  If you ever question my orders again, you will be relieved of duty permanently.  The next words I expect to hear from you are "yes, sir"."
Kim: "Yes. Sir."

Neelix: "The morale of the crew will suffer if we leave them behind."
Tuvok: "Not if, Mr Neelix.  When we leave them behind."

Torres: "This diagnostic report looks like it was written by a first year Academy Cadet.  There are mistakes.  It's incomplete."
Ensign: "I'm sorry, Lieutenant.  I guess I've been distracted."
Torres: "We've all been distracted, Ensign.  It's no excuse."
Ensign: "Yes Ma'am."
Torres: "I can't get anything done down here, nobody can concentrate."
Kim: "I know how they feel."
Torres: "I'm not feeling terrific myself, but I don't let that get in the way of my work."
Kim: "B'Elanna, I've been talking to some of the Starfleet crew.  They're not happy about what happened.  I was wondering how are the Maquis taking it?"
Torres: "How do you think they're taking it?  This isn't a Starfleet issue Harry.  It's affecting everyone."
Kim: "Then why don't we do something about it?"
Torres: "Do what?"
Kim: "I don't know.  It seems like we shouldn't just accept this."
Torres: "That's all well and good.  But, frankly, I can't think of anything else we can do.  If you have any ideas, I'll listen.  Otherwise, I think we should take a deep breath and move on."

Tuvok: "I am not certain what it is you expect me to do, Lieutenant."
Paris: "I guess, clearly something you can't do, which is to feel as rotten about this as we do."
Tuvok: "You are correct that I am unable to experience that emotion.  Nevertheless, I fail to see what the benefit would be."

Tuvok: "Ensign, you are relieved of duty.  Leave the bridge at once or I will have you put in the brig."

Tuvok: "If you are suggesting that I am not sensitive to the situation, nothing could be further from the truth.  I have lost a valued friend.  I am not immune to the effects of that loss."
Kes: "Then try to imagine what it's like for those of us who feel things deeply."

Tuvok: "None of you can appreciate what it means to be in command of a ship until that responsibility rests squarely on your shoulders as it does on mine.  It has been suggested that I take an action which would require me to disobey an order and knowingly put this crew in a life threatening situation.  In general, I believe it demonstrates faulty leadership to be guided by the emotions of a distraught crew.  However, as captain, I must not ignore the sensibilities of those I command.  We will contact the Vidiians.  This is my decision and mine alone.  You will all be absolved of responsibility in the matter.  I will accept any consequences which may ensue."

Basics, Part I

Chakotay: "Do you think it's a trap?" 
Janeway: "Do I think Seska is capable of manipulating you and me with this?  Oh, yes."

Chakotay: "I remember that pride in your eyes when you pounded me with your fists while I was tied to a chair and I can see it in your eyes now. And that scares the hell out of me."

Chakotay: "May he grow up never knowing the contempt his father has for his mother."

Chakotay (re: Seska's child alleged to be Chakotay's derived from a stolen DNA sample): "How do you take a child into your heart who is forced upon you by a mother's deception?"
Kolopak: "He knows nothing of deception.  He is innocent."

Cullah: "A fitting end for a people who would not share their technology.  Let's see if you manage to survive without it."

Doctor: "Help! Man overboard!"

Doctor: "I hesitate to offer suggestions in a field of endeavor that is not within my usual area of expertise." 
Janeway: "Your suggestions on any subject are always welcome." 
Doctor: "Really! In that case you may expect several more on a variety of matters in the near future."

Janeway: "Send in the cavalry."

Janeway: "If you choose to go after him, I know I speak for the entire crew, Starfleet and Maquis alike, when I say that we'll stand behind you."

Janeway: "Initiate self-destruct sequence."
Computer: "Unable to initiate self-destruct sequence due to damage to the secondary command processors."

Janeway (re: Kazon attacks): "It's like being pecked to death by ducks."

Kolopak: "Centuries ago when the women of our tribe were raped by white conquerors, many gave birth to their children.  We did not reject them, they were accepted by the tribe.  One was a direct ancestor of ours." 
Chakotay: "His name was Ce Acatl.  He became a great leader of our people.  Here is a man who was given life without his mother's consent.  Are you so different from her?  Is your child so different from Ce Acatl?" 
Chakotay: "No." 
Kolopak: "He is your son, Chakotay.  And he is a child of our people."

Neelix: "Do you really think it's likely that someone will find us, Captain?" 
Janeway: "You're the morale officer, Neelix.  You give me an answer." 
Neelix: "Help is on the way!"

Suder: �I just want to do something for the ship.� 

"Notice your mind working ... how it plans for the future, visits the past.  Notice those thoughts and set them aside.  Turn your attention to the white light that is your breath."

Basics, Part II

Chakotay: "Perspiring wastes water."

Chakotay: "Trapped on a barren planet and you're stuck with the only Indian in the universe who can't start a fire by rubbing two sticks together."

Chakotay: "... I'm better at tracking than starting fires." 
Tuvok: "I've completed a few weapons that might be appropriate...." 
Chakotay: "This is thoughtful of you, Tuvok.  But my tribe never used bows and arrows and I've never even shot one."
Tuvok: "This is mine.  I taught archery science for several years that the Vulcan Institute of Defensive Arts."

Doctor: "What am I supposed to do ... lead a revolt with the gang from Sandrine's.   Conjure up the holograms of Nathan Hale and Che Guevara?  I'm a doctor, not a counterinsurgent.  Get a hold of yourself.  You're not just a hologram, you're a Starfleet hologram."

Doctor: "Computer, what is the crew complement?"  
Computer: "There are 89 Kazon and one Betazoid on-board."  (The computer failed to mention the Cardassian, Seska, even though it specifically segregated out the Betazoid by race.)

Doctor: "... there are times when violence is required, to defend yourself, to defend your ship, to defend your crew." 
Lon Suder: "Yes, there is a logical use for violence, for everyone else."

Doctor: "One hologram and one sociopath may not be much of a match for the Kazon, but we'll have to do."

Doctor (to Suder in a recorded message): "You know what you have to do, and when to do it.  And I know, with our fate in your hands, we will prevail.  Good luck, Mister Suder."

Doctor: "You would have been proud of him, Mr. Tuvok."
Tuvok: "I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mister Suder.  'May your death bring you the peace you never found in life'."

Janeway: "Stop it.  There's no time to worry about blame.  Hogan was a good officer and a good man and our job is to make sure his is the last death for a long time!  I will not let this destroy my crew!"

Janeway: "If anyone balks at eating these, tell them it's an order from their captain."

Janeway: "Huddle together in groups.  That'll preserve body heat.  This is no time to be shy."

Janeway: "Take us away from our new home and set a course for the old one."

Neelix: "Waste nothing.  That's one of the first rules of survival."

Neelix: "If we put some bigger rocks around the fire, they'll reflect the heat better."

Neelix (to Chakotay re: natives): "I think the other two seem to be trying to figure out what to make of us.  In a manner of speaking, not in the culinary sense I hope."

Paris: "I should be able to come up with a plan in one hour."

Paris: "Doc, I hope you're receiving this, cause if you're not, I'm a dead duck."

Paris (as Kazon fighter attacks his shuttle and Paris subsequently destroys it):  "Damn it, I don't have time for this!  I don't have time for this.  I told you I don't have time for this."

Paris: "Welcome back, Captain."
Janeway: "Well done, Lieutenant."

Seska: "The Kazon-Nistrim have taken Voyager....  Does your program have any problem with that?"
Doctor: "One humanoid is pretty much the same as another, from a holographic point of view.  I'm programmed to provide medical care to anyone who needs it."
Seska: "Tell me, is it within your programs capabilities to lie or to be deceptive?"
Doctor: "I've learned that a bedside manner occasionally requires me to -- how shall I put it -- soft-pedal the truth.  But bald faced lying, calculated deceit -- I don't have much experience with that sort of thing.  If you really need me to be deceptive, I'm sure I could learn."

Seska: "I won't play ... games with a trick of light." 
Doctor: "Sticks and stones won't break my bones, so you can imagine how I feel about being called names."

Seska: "Why create a thoron leak if you're not hiding someone?" 
Doctor: "I would think it's obvious. To make you believe I was hiding someone. I've had your people crawling through the bowels of this ship for hours looking for an intruder."

Seska: "You're more talented in the art of deception than you led me to believe." 
Doctor: "I was inspired by the presence of a master."

Suder: "I'm going to have to kill some of them."
Doctor: "It is possible violence might be required to retake the ship."
Suder: "I've worked ... so hard over the last few months to control the violent feelings. I'm almost at peace with myself. I mean I see the day coming when I could be."

Suder: "It's an old Maquis trick.  Thoron particles neutralize tricorder sensors."

Torres: " I was on the decathlon team before I quit the Academy.  The track and field coach was furious with me."

Tuvok: "You may find nobility in the savage ... but he is only interested in killing you."

Flashback

Chakotay: "I've found that when you don't think about a problem, sometimes the solution comes to you." 
Tuvok: "It's difficult to forget when you're wearing a neuro-cortical monitor on your parietal bone." 
Chakotay: "Good point."

Doctor: "If you were human, I'd say you had a severe panic attack." 
Tuvok: "I'm not human." 
Doctor: "No kidding."

Doctor (to Tuvok): "I don't know what happened to you, but there can be any number of explanations.  Hallucination, telepathic communication from another race, repressed memory, momentary contact with a parallel reality, take your pick.  The universe is such a strange place."

Janeway (in response to Tuvok's making a cup of tea for Sulu): "You never brought me tea."

Janeway (After Tuvok uses the Vulcan Neck Pinch to disable female officer so Janeway would use her uniform as a disguise): "We could have just asked her." 
Tuvok: "Asking female officers for their clothing could lead to misunderstanding."

Janeway: "Mr. Tuvok, if I didn't know you better, I'd say you missed those days on the Excelsior." 
Tuvok: "On the contrary, I do not experience feelings of nostalgia.  But there are times when I think back to those days; of meeting Kirk, Spock and the others, and I am pleased that I was part of it." 
Janeway: "In a funny way, I feel like I was a part of it too." 
Tuvok: "Then perhaps you can be nostalgic for both of us."

Kim: "You mean he falsified his records." 
Janeway: "It was a very different time, Mr. Kim; Captain Sulu, Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy.  The all belonged to a different breed of Starfleet officer.  Imagine the era they lived in.  The Alpha Quadrant still largely unexplored, humanity on verge of war with Klingons, Romulans hiding behind every nebula.  Even the technology we take for granted was still in its early stages; no plasma weapons, no multi-phasic shields.  Their ships were half as fast." 
Kim: "No replicators, no holodecks.  You know, ever since I took Starfleet history at the Academy I always wondered what it would be like to live in those days." 
Janeway: "Space must have seemed a whole lot bigger back then.  It's not surprising they had to bend the rules a little.  They were a little slower to invoke the Prime Directive, and a little quicker to pull their phasers.  Of course, the whole bunch of them would be booted out of Starfleet today.  But I have to admit, I would have loved to ride shotgun at least once with a group of officers like that."

Sulu: "I may have to give you a promotion." 
Tuvok: "That was not my motivation, Captain. I am not attempting to curry favor in any way." 
Sulu: "Mister Tuvok, if you're going to remain on my ship you're going to have to learn how to appreciate a joke."

Sulu: "Ensign, you're absolutely right; but you're also absolutely wrong.  You'll find that more happens on the bridge of a starship than just carrying out orders and observing regulations.  There's a sense of loyalty to the men and women you serve with, a sense of family.  Those two men on trial; I served with them for a long time. I owe them my life a dozen times over.  And right now, they're in trouble and I'm going to help them.  Let the regulations be damned." 
Tuvok: "Sir, that is a most illogical line of reasoning." 
Sulu: "You'd better believe it."

Sulu (to Janeway after something goes wrong in Tuvok's mind and Janeway becomes visible to the personnel on Sulu's ship): "Who the hell are you?"

Ensign Tuvok (to Dmitri Valtane): "The human fascination with fun has led to many tragedies in your short but violent history.  One wonders how your race has survived having so much fun."

Tuvok (to Janeway): "Raising children of my own made me appreciate what my parents experienced raising me; and I came to realize that the decisions I made as a young man were not always in my best interests.  I understood their decision to send me to the academy; and that there were many things I could learn from humans and other species."

Tuvok: "Ever since I entered the Academy, I've had to endure the egocentric nature of humanity.  You believe that everyone in the galaxy should be like you, that we should share your sense of humor and your humor values."

Tuvok: "A structure cannot stand without a foundation."

Tuvok: "Mister Neelix.  I would prefer not to hear the life history of my breakfast."

Tuvok (to Janeway): "On this ship, I trust you more than anyone else."

Tuvok: "I suggest we conduct a tachyon sweep of the nebula.  It will reveal the presence of any cloaked ships."

False Profits

Arridor: "What happens when people lose their gods?  Despair.  Fear.  Confusion.  And how can you, as a moral people blithely tear down the spiritual structure that has supported a community since before their gods were flesh?  What would you be leaving them with?  -- Darkness.  Doubt.  Hopelessness."

Arridor: "It's time to invoke the unwritten rule. -- 'When no appropriate rule applies, make one up'."

Janeway: "What about your interference?  You've taken these people's religion and manipulated it for your own selfish purposes.  Pretended to be their sages." 
Arridor: "Who's to say that we aren't their Sages?" 
Janeway: "Don't be ridiculous."

Janeway: "Options?"
Kim: "There are none."

Janeway:  �We have to out Ferengi the Ferengi.� 

Kim: "So, we were thinking, if you can't bring the ship to the wormhole, bring the wormhole to the ship.  We've detected a subspace instability at our current location as a result of the wormhole's last appearance here."
Torres: "If we could somehow amplify and polarize that instability, we might be able to get the wormhole to reappear."

Kol: "Exploitation begins at home."

Merchant: "And may I say gentleman; you both have very fine shoes."

Grand Proxy (Neelix): "The 299th Rule of Acquisition:  'Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them.'  That way, it's easier to exploit them the next time."

Neelix: "I am the Holy Pilgrim and I've come to tell you there's another verse to the song.  It's -- 'Please don't burn the holy ones'."
Kafar: "I'm sorry, Holy Pilgrim, but that's not part of the song."

Paris: "This is where we picked up a replicator signature?"

Tuvok: "Captain, I must point out that the Ferengi are not members of the Federation.  They are not bound by the prime directive nor would it seem that the prime directive allows us to interfere with the internal affairs of this society as much as we may disapprove of what the Ferengi are doing."

Tuvok: "We must find a way to make it more profitable for them to leave." 
Janeway: "Or less profitable to stay.  We have to out-Ferengi the Ferengi."

Rule of Acquisition 22: "A wise man can hear profit in the wind."

Sacred Ground

Chakotay: "... you've never been one to put much trust in religious ceremonies.   Exactly what is it you hope to accomplish?"
Janeway: "If you're asking, whether I expect to speak to the ancestral spirits -- no, of course not."

Doctor: "I'm sorry Captain, but it appears that everything you went through was meaningless."

Guide: "You are fond of your little devices, aren't you?"
Janeway: "They've always served me well."

Guide: "... do you realize that all of this is meaningless.  The only thing that matters is finding your connection to the spirits."

Guide: "Everything you've gone through was meaningless.  You've been told that."

Janeway: "Can't you insist that the monks meet with me?"
Magistrate: "We have an agreement with the council.  They don't involve themselves with government and we don't interfere in their spiritual matters.  It's been that way for centuries and it's always worked well for us."
[Separation of church and state]

Janeway: "The captain of a starship is fully responsible for every member of her crew."

Janeway: "I've been reviewing the Federation's cultural database.  Most traditional spirit quest ceremonies involve some kind of physical challenge or test of endurance to prove the master of spirit over body.  My instinct tells me that this one will be similar.  A series of ordeal that will result in biochemical changes."
Chakotay: "Of course, there's always the possibility that the ancestral spirits really do control what happens in the shrine."
Janeway: "To each his own, Commander.  But I imagine if we scratch deep enough, we'd find a scientific basis for most religious doctrines."

Janeway: "I don't think that will be necessary."
Tuvok: "It is standard procedure to carry arms on an away mission.  Particularly when you don't know what to expect."
Janeway: "This is strictly an information gathering mission.  I don't want to appear hostile."

Janeway: "I've never been able to draw.  My sister was the artist in the family."
Guide: "And you were the scientist."
Janeway: "It's true.  When other children were outside playing games, I was doing mathematics problems."
Guide: "Mathematics?  I can see why you enjoyed it.  Solve a problem, get an answer.  The answer's either right or wrong.  It's very absolute."
Janeway: "I've always found that satisfying."
Guide: "I'm sure you did."

(Hissing)
Janeway: "What is that?"
Guide: "It's a nasset.  They're able to travel from this world into the spirit realm.  They serve as gatekeepers."
Janeway: "Gatekeepers!  Then I'm ready to enter the spirit realm."

Janeway: "I'm dying."
Guide: "Everyone dies eventually."

Janeway: "If there are other beings here, could I see them myself?"
Guide: "You mean you want proof that we exist."
Janeway: "That would be helpful."
Guide: "It's irrelevant."

Janeway: "You meant what you said, didn't you?  Everything I went through was meaningless?"
Guide: "Yes."
Janeway: "I did everything you asked of me.  You led me to believe that would allow me to help Kes."
Guide: "I haven't led you anywhere Kathryn.  You've taken me along wherever you wanted to go.  This was your ritual.  You set these challenges for yourself."
Janeway: "It's true that I came here with certain expectations. -- Are you saying that you simply -- fulfillment my expectations?"
Guide: "You'd have settled for nothing else."
Janeway: "I'm not ready to give up.  If there's still a way to save Kes, I want to try."
Guide: "You've come back to seek the spirits?"
Janeway: "I don't know what I'm seeking."
Guide: "Then I believe you are ready to begin."

Janeway: "Most of the challenges in life are the ones we create for ourselves."

Janeway: "It's a perfectly sound explanation, Doctor.  Very scientific."

Kes: "What do you think this means?"
Neelix: "Hard to tell.  A fertility symbol, maybe?"
Kes: "Or a blessing for good luck or wisdom."
Neelix: "Or happiness and love."
[Fertility, happiness, love - wonder what's on Neelix's mind.]

Kes: "I just want to take a look."

Magistrate: "You mustn't be here.  The shrine is protected."

Magistrate: "This is a sacred place.  Only the monks truly understand what happens here."
Kim: "Then we'll bring scanning equipment down and investigate for ourselves."
Magistrate: "Well, that's out of the question.  It would show disrespect for the spirits."

Magistrate: "Please understand, Captain.  I'm caught in a most difficult situation.  I'm an official of the government, not a spiritual leader.  I don't pretend to understand why the spirits do what they do."

Man 2:  "So -- your little adventure didn't quite work out the way you planned it.  You put yourself through a lot of trouble, and for nothing, didn't you?
Man 1:  "Don't feel bad.  You wouldn't believe some of the things people have done to themselves on their way to seek the spirits."
Janeway: "So there's no real ritual after all."
Man 1: "'Real' is such a relative term.  Most of the challenges in life are the ones we create for ourselves."
Woman: "And you are particularly hard on yourself, aren't you?"
Janeway: "I've always been driven to succeed."
Man 2: "Stubborn, I'd say.  You didn't really consider sitting here and waiting with us, did you?
Janeway: "Well I'm here now and I'm asking for your help.  I want to understand the purpose of waiting in this room."
Woman: "But isn't it enough to sit and be sociable.  We're good company."
Janeway: "That's what I'm supposed to do -- talk to the ancestral spirits."
Woman: "Oh -- first we were a test and now we're the ancestral spirits."
Janeway: "Are you?"
Man 2: "That would be nice and quantifiable for you, wouldn't it?  If the spirits were something that you could see and touch and scan with your little devices."
Man 1: "If you can explain everything, what's left to believe in?"
Janeway: "I know it's an important part of your religion to trust the spirits without question, but I wasn't brought up that way.  It's hard for me to accept."
Man 2: "So much for your tolerant, open-minded Starfleet ideals."
Janeway: "There's a difference between respecting the spiritual beliefs of other cultures and embracing them myself."
Man 2: "Fine!  Don't embrace a thing.  It's all the same to us.  Go on back to your ship and play with molecular micro scanner."
Woman: "You've tried all that already, but it didn't work, did it?  Kes didn't get better."
Janeway: "No she didn't."
Woman: "Why not?"
Janeway: "The doctor couldn't explain it."
Woman: "So it's inexplicable.  A miraculous non-recovery."
Janeway: "We haven't found the reason yet."
Woman: "But of course you will.  You'll find all the answers eventually.   With enough time and study and the right sort of tools.  That's what you believe, isn't it, as a scientist?"
Man 2: "Be honest."
Janeway: "Yes, that's what I've always believed."
Man 1: "Even when her science fails right before her eyes, she still has full confidence in it.  Now there's a leap of faith."
Woman: "Unconditional trust.  Now that's promising."
Janeway: "All right -- if you're saying that science won't help Kes, what will?"
Man 2: "You won't like it."
Janeway: "I'm willing to do whatever's necessary."
Man 2: "Kill her.  She's as good as dead already.  Finish the job.   Giver her another jolt of that -- what do you call it? -- biogenic field."
Woman: "Oh -- that would do it."
Janeway: "It would do what exactly?"
Man 2: "There you go again.  Always looking for a rational explanation.   Well there isn't one.  Your orbital scans and medical research have given you the facts.  And they tell you the biogenic field is lethal."
Woman: "If you believe the facts."
Man 1: "Let all of that go Kathryn.  Take Kes back into the shrine and trust the spirits to return her soul."
Janeway: "The ritual I went through was meaningless -- and Kes has done nothing to prepare herself.  How could either of us be ready to go through the field?"
Man 1: "If you believe you're ready, then you are.  There's no more to it than that."
Man 2: "But if you go in with any doubt, with any hesitation, then your both dead.   So -- what are you going to do, Captain?"
Janeway: "You know I won't stand by and watch Kes die if there's anything I can do to save her.  I want to believe it's possible.  I'm going to try."

Neelix: "You can cure her, can't you?"
Doctor: "I can't even speculate on a treatment until I know more about what caused her condition."