Kathryn Janeway quotes from Star Trek: Voyager

Q

[to Janeway] May I speak to you in your chambers, Captain?

Kathryn Janeway

You've been in my chambers enough for one visit.

Tuvok

Would it affect your decision if I pointed out that encroaching on a territory of an alien species is prohibited by Starfleet regulations?

Kathryn Janeway

No, it wouldn't.

Tuvok

Captain, you have managed to surprise me.

Kathryn Janeway

We're a long way from Starfleet, Lieutenant. I'm not about to waste 15 months because we've been run into a bunch of bullies.

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?

Kathryn Janeway

Let me guess; no one else in the universe will have you?

Q

Nonsense! I could have chosen a Klingon Targ, a Romulan empress, a Cerelian microbe..

Kathryn Janeway

Really?! I beat out a single cell organism?! How flattering.

Kathryn Janeway

I don't see how a baby is going to end a war...?

Q

What the Continuum needs right now is an infusion of fresh blood, a new sensibility...

Q

Admit it, it has been a while..

Kathryn Janeway

And it's going to be a while longer!

Q

Foreplay with a Q can last for decades.

Kathryn Janeway

Sorry, but I'm busy for the next sixty or seventy years.

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.

Janeway

Sorry, but I'm busy for the next 60 or 70 years.

Q

Oh, I see, this is one of those silly human rituals. You're playing hard to get.

Janeway

As far as you're concerned, Q, I'm impossible to get.

You would be willing to die for them? A loyal friend...and a foolish one.

Kathryn Janeway

[Returns calmly to her command chair, sits down and smiles] Battle Stations.

Harry Kim

It just seems familiar.

Tuvok

Perhaps you are experiencing a paradoxical, state dependent, associative phenomenon.

Kathryn Janeway

Déjà vu.

Kathryn Janeway

I never realised you thought of me as reckless, Tuvok.

Tuvok

A poor choice of words. It was clearly an understatement.

Reverse course, or be destroyed...

Janeway

With all due respect, unless you have something bigger in your torpedo tubes, I'm not turning around. But, I am more than happy to discuss this issue with you...

No discussion! No compromise!

Tuvok

They are in retreat.

Chakotay

His bark is obviously worse than his bite

Janeway

Krenim vessels, this is the captain of Voyager. You may have noticed we have a defense against your torpedoes now. I suggest you stand down.

Tuvok

No response.

Janeway

Their mistake. Bring the ship about. We're going through their space whether they like it or not.

Seven of Nine

Your chief engineer and security officer were nearly lost today. That is unacceptable.

Kathryn Janeway

To you, maybe. But not to me or my crew. Our experience with the Mari gave us an insight into a culture we've never encountered.

Seven of Nine

But that is irrelevant.

Kathryn Janeway

No, it's how we gain knowledge.

Seven of Nine

It is puzzling.

Kathryn Janeway

What's that?

Seven of Nine

You made me into an individual. You encouraged me to stop thinking like a member of the Collective, to cultivate my independence and my humanity. But when I try to assert that independence I am punished.

Kathryn Janeway

Individuality has its limits. Especially on a starship where there's a command structure.

Seven of Nine

I believe that you are punishing me because I do not think the way you do. Because I am not becoming more like you. You claim to respect my individuality, but in fact you are frightened by it.

Kathryn Janeway

As you were.

Tuvok

It's unfortunate we can't study this phenomenon in more detail. We may not have the opportunity again.

Janeway

Let's hope we never do.

Tuvok

A curious statement from a woman of science.

Janeway

I'm also a women who knows when to quit. Take another look at your tricorder. Omega's too dangerous. I won't risk half the quadrant to satisfy our curiosity. It's arrogant and irresponsible. The final frontier has some boundaries that shouldn't be crossed–and we're looking at one.