Here are some of my favorite quotes from the Voyager series. Some of them are funny, some are profound, and some are just worthy of mentioning. Suggestions for quotes to be added to this list are always welcome.
| Caretaker | |
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Janeway: "Mr. Kim, at ease before you sprain something." |
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Janeway: "Ensign, despite Starfleet protocol, I don't like being addressed
as 'sir.'" Kim: "I'm sorry ... ma'am." Janeway: "'Ma'am' is acceptable in a crunch, but I prefer 'Captain.'" |
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Janeway: "Would you like to take over?" Kim: "Yes, ma'am!" Janeway: "It's not crunch time yet, Mr. Kim. I'll let you know when." |
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Paris: "If I save your butt, your life belongs to me. Isn't that
some kind of Indian custom?" |
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Janeway: "We're alone. In an uncharted part of the galaxy. We've already make some friends here, and some enemies. We have no idea of the dangers we're going to face. But one thing is clear: both crews are going to have to work together if we're to survive. That's why Commander Chakotay and I have agreed that this should be one crew -- a Starfleet crew. And as the only Starfleet vessel assigned to the Delta Quadrant, we'll continue to follow our directive: to seek out new worlds and explore space. But our primary goal is clear. Even at maximum speeds, it would take 75 years to reach the Federation. But I'm not willing to settle for that. There's another entity like the Caretaker out there somewhere who has the ability to get us there a lot faster. We'll be looking for her. And we'll we looking for wormholes, spatial rifts, or new technologies to help us. Somewhere, along this journey, we'll find a way back. Mr. Paris, set a course ... for home." |
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| Parallax | |
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Paris: "If we don't get more power to the warp drive, we're going to have to get out and push." |
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| Time and Again | |
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Doctor: "Missing! The captain is missing! It seems I've found myself on the voyage of the damned." |
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Doctor (about Kes): "She is the healthiest member of her species I have ever seen. She is the only member of her species I have ever seen. You have a lovely brain. It will make a fine addition to our files." |
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| Phage | |
| Doctor: "I'm a doctor, Mr. Neelix, not a decorator." | |
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Doctor: "Don't worry, I'm not going to kiss you, I'm only adjusting
the restraint." |
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Doctor: "First they tell me there’s no doctor, so I have to be on
call 24 hours a day. And then they tell me there are no nurses, so I have
no one to assist me." |
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Janeway: "Tuvok, what would happen if we locked phasers and fired
at the source?" |
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| The Cloud | |
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Janeway: "Commander, set a new course. There's coffee in that nebula." |
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Chakotay: "B'Elanna's the only one I know who tried to kill her animal guide." |
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Janeway:: "I need to know if we did serious harm to that life-form." |
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Janeway: "Dismissed. That's a Starfleet expression for 'get out.' |
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| The 37's | |
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Paris: "Captain, I think I should tell you I've never actually landed
a starship before." |
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| Non Sequitor | |
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Kim: "Why does everyone say 'relax' when they're about to do something terrible?" |
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| Twisted | |
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Tuvok: "When every logical course of action is exhausted, the only logical course that remains is inaction." |
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Doctor: "How many times do I have to tell you, Madam? I'm a Doctor, not a bartender." |
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Chakotay (to Neelix): "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." |
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Sandrine: "If he won't play pool with you and he won't make love to me, then as far as I'm concerned, he can mop the floor." |
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| Parturition | |
| Doctor (to Janeway): "I'm a doctor, not a voyeur." | |
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Paris: "Keep a lock on us, Voyager. If you hear muffled screams, consider that a request for a beam-out." |
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| Tattoo | |
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Paris: "The ship might make it without inertial dampers, but we'd all just be stains on the back wall." |
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| Cold Fire | |
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Tuvok (to Kes): "Without the darkness how would we recognize the light? Do not fear your negative thoughts. They are part of you. They are a part of every living being." |
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| Prototype | |
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Doctor: "I shouldn't have to remind you ... I'm a doctor --" | |
| The Thaw | |
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Kim: "This is not reality -- it's an illusion." The Clown: "When your only reality is an illusion, then illusion is reality." |
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| Threshold | |
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Janeway (about unconscious Paris): "Can you wake him?" |
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| Meld | |
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Doctor: "All of us have violent instincts. We have evolved from predators ... Well, not me, of course. I've just been programmed by you predators." |
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Tuvok: "Do you know what a mind meld is?" |
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Doctor (to Tuvok): "You're on your way back to being normal, although I'm not sure how the word 'normal' applies to a species that suppresses all their emotions." |
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| Dreadnought | |
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Paris: "When a bomb starts talking about itself in the third person, I get worried." |
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| Death Wish | |
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Q (to Janeway): "Has anyone ever told you you're angry when you're beautiful?" |
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Janeway: "One thing you've never been is a liar." Q: "I think you've uncovered my one redeeming virtue! Am I blushing?" |
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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!" |
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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?" |
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Q: "Captain, may I see you in chambers?" |
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| Investigations | |
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Doctor (to Neelix): "I'm a doctor, not a performer." |
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| Deadlock | |
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Doctor (to Ensign Wildman in labor): "Push, Ensign!" |
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Kim: "It's all a little weird." |
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| Basics | |
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Seska: "I won't play these games with a trick of light." |
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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." |
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| Doctor: "I'm a doctor, not a counterinsurgent." | |
| Flashback | |
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Tuvok: "Mr. Neelix, I would prefer not to hear the life history of my breakfast." |
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Chakotay: "I've found that when you don't think about a problem, sometimes the solution comes to you." |
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| The Swarm | |
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Doctor: "All the sopranos seem to have the most irritating personalities. These women are arrogant, superior, condescending ... I can't imagine anyone behaving that way." |
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Torres: "I want to see if the data corruption is affecting your
optical sensors." (changes the Doctor's program) "What did that do?" |
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Doctor: "How extremely rude. May I remind you that I am, in a way,
your patient, who's suffering from an unknown and obviously debilitating condition.
I would think you'd be a little more sensitive to my needs." |
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Torres (about the Dr. Zimmerman hologram): "I can see where you
got your charming personality." |
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Dr. Zimmerman hologram: "You filled your memory with nonsense." |
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| Dr. Zimmerman hologram: "I have pointed out over and over again: I am a diagnostic tool, not an engineer." | |
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Janeway: "When I was in high school I snuck out of the house a couple
of times late at night. Had to tiptoe past my parents bedroom. That's kind
of how I feel right now." |
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| Future's End | |
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Janeway: "Time travel - from my first day on the job as captain, I swore that I would never let myself get caught up in one of these God-forsaken paradoxes. The future is the past, the past is the future ... it all gives me an headache." |
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Doctor (to Starling): "I'm a doctor, not a database." |
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Chakotay: "Only you, B'Elanna, can start a brawl in Astrotheory 101." |
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Doctor (to Starling): "If my history is accurate, southern California in the late twentieth century had no shortage of psychotherapists, competent and otherwise. I suggest you find one." |
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Anti-government dude: "God and Heaven help us!" |
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| The Q and the Gray | |
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Q: "The night is young, and the sheets are satin." |
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Q: "I know that you're probably asking yourself, 'Why would a brilliant,
handsome, dashingly omnipotent being like Q want to mate with a scrawny little
bipedal specimen like me?'" |
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Q: "Kathy, you can't leave. My cosmic clock is ticking. Besides,
you have no idea what you're missing. Foreplay with a Q can last for decades." |
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Chakotay: "I know I don't have any right to feel this way, but this
bothers the hell out of me." |
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Q: (to Paris and Kim) "Guys, I just don't understand your captain.
I've tried everything. Filling the bridge with roses, writing Drabian love
sonnets, serenading her in her bath." |
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Janeway: "I'm just not the right kind of woman for you, Q." |
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Chakotay: "How were Q and Captain Janeway able to reenter the Continuum
and you weren't?" |
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Torres (to Female Q): "You know, I'm really getting tired of this
superiority complex of yours." |
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| Blood Fever | |
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Vorik: "I hope she isn't too upset with me." |
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| Favorite Son | |
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Chakotay: "What's your next trick, Harry? Pull a shuttlecraft out of a hat?" |
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| Before and After | |
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Kim (to Paris): "So, how does it feel to be a grandfather?" |
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| Distant Origin | |
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Paris: "I'll see you tonight, B-Y-O-B." |
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| Displaced | |
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B'Elanna: "I'm not hostile, am I, Harry?"
Harry: "No, of course not ..." B'Elanna: "I'm forthright, I speak my mind, and that's very different from being hostile." Harry: "Very different." B'Elanna: "And if someone described me that way, they'd be way off the mark, right?" Harry: "Way off." B'Elanna: "Then why do you look like you're afraid for your life?" |
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Torres: "I've reconfigured his [the Doctor's] optical sensors. As
soon as they're aligned, he should be able to detect the microwave signature
of the portal." |
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| Worst Case Scenario | |
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Janeway: "With all due respect, Mr. Tuvok, loosen up." |
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Torres: "All I'm saying is that there is room in every good story
for a little bit of passion." |
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Paris: "I guess we should have known that Seska wouldn't let a little thing like death stop her from getting even." |
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| Scorpion | |
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Doctor: "I'll delete myself at the first sign of trouble. Well, maybe not the first sign." |
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Chakotay: "Echoing the greats. Ensign Hickman in astrophysics does
a passable Janeway." |
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Janeway: "This day was inevitable. We all knew it, and we've all
tried to prepare ourselves for the challenge ahead. But at what point is the
risk too great? At what point do we come about and retreat to friendly territory?
Could the crew accept living out the rest of their lives in the Delta Quadrant?
I keep looking to all these Captains, my comrades in arms. But the truth is,
I'm alone." |
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| The Gift | |
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Seven of Nine: "This drone cannot survive outside the collective." Doctor: "I beg to differ. Now that the Borg implants are being excised your human systems are free to thrive and thriving they are. As a matter of fact I --" (Janeway glares at him) |
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Janeway: "I can tell by the expression on your face that you have
some bad news." |
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Doctor: "We must find a way to suppress it or the last we'll see of Kes could very well be her molecules blowing through the ventilation docks." |
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Doctor (to Seven): "I also took the liberty of stimulating your hair follicles, a vicarious experience for me, as you might imagine." |
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| Day of Honor | |
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Paris: "If we could interplex the comm systems of both suits, we
might be able to make a phased carrier wave. Voyager would read the
signature and know it's from us." |
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| Nemesis | |
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Doctor (to Chakotay): "From the condition of your hypothalamus, I'd say that had you so mixed up they could have convinced you your own mother was a turnip." |
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| Revulsion | |
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Doctor: "The Captain has authorized me to recruit someone with advanced
medical training to help out in sickbay. Unfortunately, the most qualified
crewmember is you." Paris: "You want me to be the new nurse?" Doctor: "If that is the title you prefer. Report to sickbay at 0600 hours. Bring a tricorder and a smile." |
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Doctor (to Torres): "I didn't realize I'd struck a nerve. Perhaps you'd like a tranquilizer." |
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Doctor (to Paris and Torres): "I'm detecting elevated hormonal levels. If you two don't take it easy, I'll have to declare a medical emergency." |
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| Scientific Method | |
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Tuvok: "Good morning, Captain." Janeway (in a bad mood): "That's a matter of opinion!" |
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Janeway: "You are security chief. Don't thirteen department heads
report to you every day?" |
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Janeway: "I never realized you thought of me as reckless, Tuvok." Tuvok: Poor choice of words. It was clearly an understatement. |
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Torres: "This is really delicious." |
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| Random Thoughts | |
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Neelix: "I mean, you're involved now. You won't be availing yourself
of all the beautiful, fascinating, and very open-minded Mari women." |
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| Waking Moments | |
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Paris: "Neelix, did you have a rough night or something?" |
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Janeway: "Either I've become impervious to anti-matter explosions, or we're still dreaming." (as Janeway walks out of Engineering where the warp core supposedly breached) |
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| Message in a Bottle | |
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Doctor (to EMH Mark II): "If you'd disengage your vocal subroutines for one second, I'd explain!" |
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Doctor: "Refresh my memory: which of us has the terrible
bedside manner? |
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| EMH Mark II (to Doctor): "I'm a doctor, not a commando." | |
| Paris (to Kim): "I'm a pilot, Harry, not a doctor." | |
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Doctor: "Stop breathing down my neck! |
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Computer: "Specify attack pattern." |
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EMH Mark II: "Two holograms, alone. Starfleet on one side, Romulans
on the other. Alarms beeping everywhere ..." |
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| Hunters | |
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Doctor: "I am going to enter the force field now and start with a full scan of your mid-section. You should know I'm a hologram and can't be bent, spindled or mutilated, so don't bother trying." |
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Janeway: "Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's gotten me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it." |
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| Prey | |
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Hirogen hunter: "I once tracked a silicon based life form
through the neutronium mantle of a collapsed star." |
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Seven: "A lesson in compassion will do me little good if I am dead." |
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| The Killing Game | |
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Tuvok (to Neelix): "In any covert battle, logic is a potent weapon. You might try it sometime." |
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Neelix (as a drunk Klingon): "I'm as dry as the crater at Tarpahk, in the middle of the dry season. When it's dry." |
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Doctor: "Don't argue with the man. Run along. I'll reattach any severed limbs -- just don't displace them!" |
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Klingon #1: "Q'apla!" |
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Neelix (tentatively to the Klingons): "Ahem ... Pardon me, gentlemen.
I wonder if I might have a word with you." (the Klingons ignore him) Doctor: "They're Klingons, not kittens!" |
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| Vis-à-vis | |
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Paris (to Chakotay): "Since when is not wanting to spend time with the Doctor a capital offence? You'd have to throw the whole crew in the brig for that one." |
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| The Omega Directive | |
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Seven: "I have found a way to control Omega." |
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| Demon | |
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Paris: "We could set up a bicycle in the mess hall, attach a generator,
pedal home." |
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| Hope and Fear | |
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Janeway: "I'm your captain. That means I can't always be
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friend. Understand?" |
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| Night | |
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Paris (to Torres): "Why don't we make a schedule -- a fight rotation. We can optimize our resources. I can start one, then you can start one ..." |
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Doctor: "I go into a void every time I'm deactivated. Emptiness, complete and utter oblivion. I'll admit it was unsettling at first. The existential horror of it all." |
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| Drone | |
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Doctor: "Seven, get over to the helm so I can get a group picture. And smile like I know you can." |
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Doctor (to Torres): "I'm a doctor, not a Peeping Tom." |
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| Once Upon a Time | |
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Janeway: "If I have another cup of coffee, I'll jump to warp!" |
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| Gravity | |
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Doctor (to Paris and Tuvok): "I'm a doctor, not a battery." |
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Paris: "You know something? I always thought that beneath that cold
Vulcan exterior lay an even colder Vulcan interior, but now I'm convinced
you're a hopeless romantic." |
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| Bliss | |
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Naomi (to Seven): "My mom says two heads are better than one. Isn't that the Borg philosophy, too?" |
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Doctor: "I'm a doctor, not a dragon slayer." |
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| Dark Frontier | |
| Janeway (to Naomi): "There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship ... and never abandon a member of your crew." | |
| Course: Oblivion | |
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Doctor (about Tom and B'Elanna getting married): "I never thought I'd
see the day." Seven: "Given the volatile nature of their relationship, one might have predicted homicide rather than matrimony." |
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Doctor (on seeing Seven catch Torres' bridal bouquet): "Congratulations!" Seven: "On what?" Doctor: "You may not want to know." |
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| Someone to Watch Over Me | |
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Torres (reading Seven's PADD): "'Stardate 52648. 0300 hours. Intimate
relations resume--' How the hell do you know when we're having intimate relations?" |
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Doctor: "You're a woman, Seven!" |
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| Relativity | |
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Janeway (as she and Seven are about to be sent back from the 29th
century): "See you in the 24th century." |
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| Fair Haven | |
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Janeway: "I've become romantically involved with a hologram, if
that's possible." |
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| Blink of an Eye | |
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Torres: "Until we break orbit, the warp drive is off-line." |
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| Virtuoso | |
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Tuvok: "They're interfering with normal ship's functions." |
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| Tsunkatse | |
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Torres: "The Borg wouldn't know fun if they assimilated an amusement park!" |
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| Ashes to Ashes | |
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Seven (to the Borg children): "I've allotted one hour for recreational activity. There's no time for irrelevant conversation. Fun will now commence." |
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| Lifeline | |
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Doctor: (to Dr. Zimmerman): "I'm a doctor, not a zoo-keeper." |
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| Drive | |
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Doctor: (wanting to join Tom and B'Elanna on their' holodeck vacation) "Why don't I
just join you?" |
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Doctor: "What race? I was referring to your romantic getaway." Paris: "Oh, no." Doctor: "Don’t tell me you forgot." Paris: "Do me a favor, Doc. Keep an eye on my bio signs." Doctor: "What for?" Paris: "Because in about five minutes, there may be a medical emergency in engineering." |
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Torres: "Seems like the entire crew is coming down with 'race fever.'" Seven: "Perhaps you could persuade the Doctor to develop a vaccine." |
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Paris (to Kim): "No, actually I was just going to congratulate you. I mean, she's not a Borg, she's not a hologram, and she's not dead. Looks like you might have found yourself the perfect woman." |
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| Body and Soul | |
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Kim: "They're prison rations! My uniform probably tastes better." |
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| Flesh and Blood | |
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Doctor (to Iden): "I'm a doctor, not an engineer." |
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| Shattered | |
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Janeway: "Once a long time ago, I called this replicator a glorified toaster. It never forgave me." |
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| Q2 | |
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Q2: "We were just getting to the good part!" |
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| Friendship One | |
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Torres (yielding when Tom objects to her wanting to go on an away mission while pregnant): "Okay, you win -- but if we have another baby, you carry it and I go on the away missions." |
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| Endgame | |
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Janeway: "What was that about?" |
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Kim: "Maybe it's not the destination that matters. Maybe it's the journey." |
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Doctor: "Try to relax, Lieutenant." |
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Paris (shocked at the timing of Torres going into labor): "I can't
believe it." |
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