%- ST:VOY quotes from Jamahl Epsicokhan's reviews; collected by Hans-Wolfgang Loidl "Gentleman, welcome aboard Voyager. Mister Kim, at ease before you sprain something." -- Janeway, "Caretaker" %% "I still have a series of tests to perform, but, other than his irritating lapses into nostalgia, I see nothing wrong with him." -- Doctor, "Cathexis" %% "B'Elanna is the only one I know who tried to kill her animal guide." -- Chakotay, "The Cloud" %% "What we don't know about death is far, far greater than what we do know." -- Janeway, "Emanations" %% Tuvok: "My wife and I have been married for 67 years." Lidell: "I'm sure she's a fine, dispassionate woman." -- Lidell, "Ex Post Facto" %% Baxter (to Kes): "If I had to get treatment for something serious--if I needed surgery, for instance--would he be performing it?" Doc: "Of course, and quite expertly, too." Baxter: "I dunno. I'd have to think twice about that." Doc: "Fine... and if you were lucky, you wouldn't die on the table while you were making up your mind." -- Doc, "Eye of the Needle" %% "That's the way you respond to every situation, isn't it? If it doesn't work, hit it. If it's in your way, knock it down. No wonder I got kicked out of the academy." -- Human B'Elanna to Klingon B'Elanna, "Faces" %% Janeway: "I want it ready by the end of the day." Torres: "No, Captain. When I say tomorrow, I mean tomorrow. I don't exaggerate." -- Torres, "State of Flux" %% "It brings on the spirit of the bear and gives us strength to swing our swords." "It's more likely to bring on profuse sweating, convulsions and acute delirium. This is a fungus common to sub-arctic climates and, let me assure you, quite poisonous." "Yes, but those it does not kill it makes strong. A most hearty plant." -- Freya and the Doctor, "Heroes and Demons" %% "Those are consequences, Doctor Jetrel." -- Neelix, "Jetrel" %% "I cannot imagine that there are visible emanations which allow you to interpret my mood." -- Tuvok to Neelix, "Learning Curve" %% "I'm not just a doctor. I've been designed with the information from 2,000 medical reference sources and the experience of 47 individual medical officers. I am the embodiment of modern medicine." -- Doctor, "Parallax" %% Doctor: "Don't worry. I'm not going to kiss you. I'm only adjusting the restraint." Neelix: "I'll try to contain my disappointment." -- Neelix, "Phage" %% "You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's its power...and its flaw." -- Janeway to Tuvok, "Prime Factors" %% "We ate him. Because we are demons and we eat children...and I haven't had my supper yet." -- Paris to inquisitive kid, "Time and Again" %% "I suggest we increase the ventilation in the cargo bay before we are asphyxiated." -- Tuvok on safety measures in the presence of a running 1936 Ford, "The 37's" %% "I don't think we can afford to keep doing business as usual." -- Chakotay, "Alliances" %% "Why is it so dark in here? Somebody turn on the lights." -- Culluh, on the illumination of the Voyager bridge during red alerts -- Culluh, on the illumination of the Voyager bridge during -- red alerts, "Basics, Part I" %% Tuvok: "If you want to succeed in honing your telepathic abilities, you must learn to control these emotional outbursts." Kes: "Outburst? It was a giggle!" -- Kes, "Cold Fire" %% "Mr. Kim...we're Starfleet officers; weird is part of the job." -- Janeway, "Deadlock" %% "This ship will *not* survive the formation of the cosmos." -- Torres, "Death Wish" %% "When a bomb starts talking about itself in the third person, I get worried." -- Paris, "Dreadnought" %% "Who would've thought we'd be considering a generational ship when we were ordered on a three week mission?" -- Janeway on the issue of intra-ship procreation, "Elogium" %% "Unfortunately, our territorial claims change every day. Maps do not serve us well." -- Kazon sect leader Razik, "Initiations" %% "We could just skip pre-flight altogether." "Definitely not recommended, but sometimes necessary." "I'll remember that." -- Paris and Janeway demonstrating haste, "Innocence" %% "I'd like to apologize to anyone that 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." -- Paris, "Investigations" %% "We might as well put this ship on autopilot for all the freedom you give me to do my job." -- Paris to Chakotay, "Lifesigns" %% "You can't possibly believe that you and I could still..." "Don't flatter yourself. It was never that good." -- Chakotay and Seska, "Maneuvers" %% Tuvok: "Do you know what a mind meld is?" Suder: "It's...that Vulcan thing where you grab someone's head." -- Suder, "Meld" %% "Anyway, I got as far as Deep Space Nine, where I got into a bar fight with a Ferengi, and I was thrown into the brig by a very unpleasant shapeshifter..." -- Paris, on why he "missed" the *Voyager*, "Non Sequitur" %% "If you hear muffled screams, consider that a request for a beam-out." -- Paris, "Parturition" %% "My programmers didn't clutter me up with pithy Earth trivia. They programmed me with far more important data." -- The Doctor on proverbs, "Persistence of Vision" %% Doctor: "Did I program Mr. Paris to be so annoying?" Barclay: "Actually, I programmed him. I modeled him after my cousin Frank." -- Barclay, "Projections" %% "Don't make me laugh Starfleet...and don't make me pull rank on you either." -- B'Elanna to Harry, "Prototype" %% "Vulcans are capable of suppressing certain levels of physical pain. Beyond that we must simply endure the experience." -- Tuvok on torture, "Resistance" %% "We have to talk about this... I think we need to define some parameters about us." -- Janeway to Chakotay, "Resolutions" %% "I feel like I'm fading...just fading away. You don't know what that means to a hologram! My simulated virus is leading me to a simulated death." -- Doc, with a simulated illness, "Tattoo" %% Clown: "How am I supposed to negotiate if I don't know what you're thinking?" Doc: "I have a very trustworthy face." -- Doc, "The Thaw" %% "Here lies Thomas Eugene Paris: beloved mutant." -- Tom's epitaph to himself, "Threshold" %% "There's an old axiom: The whole is never greater than the sum of its parts. I think Tuvix might be disproving that notion." -- Chakotay, "Tuvix" %% "Tell me something, Tuvok. What does your logic tell you about navigating a maze that's constantly changing shape?" -- Chakotay, "Twisted" %% I don't think we can afford to keep doing business as usual." -- Chakotay, who should be saying this to the creators of -- Voyager, "Voyager, Second Season" %% "Hi, my name's Harry read-me-like-a-book Kim." -- Kim, "Alter Ego" %% "Sticks and stones won't break my bones, so you can imagine how I feel about being called names." -- Doc, "Basics II" %% "Did you know that fracturing a clavicle on the wedding night is actually considered a blessing on the marriage?" "As a matter of fact, I didn't." -- Doc and Janeway, on Klingon mating rituals, "Blood Fever" %% "There's a massive struggle going on inside you--a battle to the death--between you and the clamp. You have to use whatever force you can to defeat it." -- Zio, "The Chute" %% "Maybe I could stand with an apple on my head and you could phaser it off." "Sounds great. If I miss I get to be captain." -- Janeway and Chakotay, discussing "Talent Night", "Coda" %% "Everyone seems to be treating me like I'm still a child. I'm three years old now. If I'm attracted to someone it's my business, not the whole ship's." -- Kes, "Darkling" %% "You've been on this ship for two years. I think by now you'd have learned that the first duty of any Starfleet officer is the truth. You violated that duty, Neelix--and there will be consequences." -- Janeway, "Fair Trade" %% "Is he another Sage?" "Have you ever seen a Sage give away money?" -- Lowly citizens, regarding the disguised Neelix-Ferengi, -- "False Profits" %% "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'." -- 29-year-old Tuvok, "Flashback" %% "I won't sacrifice this ship and crew based on a ten-second conversation. I need proof!" -- Janeway, displaying prudence, "Future's End, Part I" %% "Divine intervention is unlikely." -- Doc, "Future's End, Part II" %% "I thought Klingons didn't get nauseated. You have a redundant stomach." -- Paris to Torres, "Macrocosm" %% "Well, it's time to be going. The old ball-'n-chain really hates it when we're late." -- Family man Q, "The Q and the Grey" %% "She showed me everything--no apologies, no requests for forgiveness, just the truth." -- B'Elanna Torres, "Remember" %% "Mr. Neelix, you're wallowing... wallowing in useless remorse. I'll have to ask you to stop. It's bad for the patient." -- Doc, "Sacred Ground" %% "You filled your memory with nonsense." "It was only during my off-hours." "You're supposed to be OFF during your off-hours!" -- Zimmerman hologram and the Doctor, "The Swarm" %% "I wonder how long their ideals will last in the face of that kind of power." -- Chakotay, on the 'New Collective', "Unity" %% "I won't stop until you're broken and helpless. There's nowhere you can go to get away from me. I'll be relentless and merciless just like you." -- Kes to Tieran, battling for her mind, "Warlord" %%