Kathryn Janeway quotes from Star Trek: Voyager

Kathryn Janeway

Commander Tuvok finished his analysis of your shuttle and presented me with 37 different ways of repelling a Kobali attack.

Did he include your pot roast?

Kathryn Janeway

We've known each other for how long?

Tuvok

Approximately 20 years.

Kathryn Janeway

We served on three starships together. I was present at your daughters Kol-anar. I consider you one of my closest friends.

Tuvok

And I regard you with the same esteem.

Kathryn Janeway

I've always been honest with you but you've been keeping something from me.

Tuvok

I don't know what you mean.

Kathryn Janeway

[grave voice] Don't you? It took exhaustive research, sifting through teraquads of data, separating fact from rumor, but eventually I arrived at the truth.

Tuvok

[concerned] Captain...?

Kathryn Janeway

[Turns around smiling and holding a birthday cake] Happy birthday.

Tuvok

Thank you.

Kathryn Janeway

So...it's not long before you hit the big three digits?

Seven of Nine

You're acting like a child.

Icheb

I'm trying to save your life.

Seven of Nine

Only because you've grown too dependent on me.

Icheb

So you think I need to learn to rely on other people?

Seven of Nine

Yes !

Icheb

What about you? You've refused to rely on a single member of this crew. You hid your condition from the rest of us. You deactivated the Doctor, and now you're rejecting my help. You're the one who needs to rely on others. [to Janeway] Isn't that what people on this ship do? They help each other?

Janeway

Whenever we can.

Icheb

[to Seven] If the Captain were dying, you'd risk your life to save her, wouldn't you? [to Janeway] And when you respond to a distress call, you're risking the life of everyone on this ship to respond to the aid of strangers.

Kathryn Janeway

He's right.

Seven of Nine

Captain, he's just a child.

Kathryn Janeway

I don't think he is. Not anymore.

Seven of Nine

Doctor!

The Doctor

Don't look at me.

Icheb

Please. Just let us help you.

Janeway

Doesn't seem like my first command is shaping up the way I expected.

Chakotay

"In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself astray in a dark wood, where the straight road had been lost."

Janeway

I didn't know Dante's Inferno was on the Maquis' reading list.

Chakotay

Actually, I borrowed your copy.

Janeway

My fiancé gave me that book as an engagement gift. I've never leant it to anyone.

Chakotay

Not yet. Anyway, I agree with Dante. If you always see the road ahead of you, it's not worth the trip.

Janeway

A solider and a philosopher. Your intelligence file doesn't do you justice.

Chakotay

With all due respect, it's a little presumptuous to think you have the right to change everyone's future.

Janeway

From what I've seen, they'll thank me.

Chakotay

All you've seen are bits and pieces. You're getting the whole picture.

Janeway

Really? Just what am I missing?

Chakotay

It's not "what". It's "who". People like Seven of Nine. A Borg drone who'll become a member of this crew after you help her recover her humanity. Or Tom Paris. A former convict who'll me our pilot, chief medic, and a husband to B'Elanna Torres.

Janeway

That angry woman I just met?

Chakotay

She's gonna be your chief engineer. Two crews, Maquis and Starfleet, are going to become one. And they'll make as big a mark on the Delta Quadrant as it'll on them. By protecting people like the Ocampans. Curing diseases. Encouraging peace. Children like Naomi and Icheb are gonna grow up on this ship and call it home. And we'll all be following a captain who sets a course for Earth and never stops believing that we'll get there.

Janeway

Are you going to be lecturing me like this for the next seven years?

Chakotay

Don't worry. You'll always get the last word.

Janeway

Mind if I ask you one last question?

Chakotay

Will I have to break the Temporal Prime Directive to answer it?

Janeway

Maybe, just a little. For two people who started off as enemies, it seems we get to know each other pretty well. So I've been wondering.... just how close do we get?

Chakotay

Let's just say there are some barriers we never cross.

Janeway

It's strange, thinking there's a piece of your life you don't know anything about.

Chakotay

Sounds a lot like the future.

The child... cured me?

The Doctor

Well I was the one who devised the treatment.

Kathryn Janeway

Doctor...

The Doctor

Yes, of course--the child cured you.

Please, grant me a Warriors death, I beg of you.

Kathryn Janeway

Sorry, there'll be no mercy killings on my Bridge.

Janeway

(to Replicator) Coffee, black.

Make it yourself!

Janeway

He needs to be parented.

Q

And how exactly am I supposed to do that? Q was the first child in the continuum, which makes me the first parent. I don't even know where to begin.

Janeway

You could start by spending time with him.

Q

Yugh!

Aunt Kathy....

Janeway

Don't you Aunt Kathy me!

Are you the EMH?

Tom Paris

[playing as an EMH] Please state the nature of the medical emergency.

Our doctor's dead--we got wounded! [Walks him over to two patients lying on the biobeds] They're both badly hurt. Who should we treat first?

Tom Paris

Uhh... [begins scanning a patient with a tricorder] second-degree plasma burns. [walks over to another patient and begins scanning] He's got an aortic rupture. Get him to the surgical bay now! [the Ensign picks up the patient and walks him over to the surgical bay, a character who looks like Chakotay walks in carrying a wounded officer]

Chakotay

[To Tom Paris] You! Over here! [Tom Paris walks over to the injured character and gazes at him because the officer is based off of his own physical parameters]

Tom Paris

Nice mustache.

What?

Tom Paris

Umm... nothing. [Begins scanning the officer] He's got a mild concussion. I'm going to have to treat the others first.

Chakotay

I need Lieutenant Marseille on the bridge. You'll treat him now.

Tom Paris

As I understand it, my job is to treat the critical patients first. So if you'll excuse me... [Tom Paris walks over to the critically injured patient, but Chakotay raises a force field]

Chakotay

I don't know who you think you are, hologram, but to me you're just another piece of technology.

Tom Paris

But apparently, I'm a piece of technology that's in demand, so why don't you go back to the bridge and let me do my job?! [Captain Janeway walks into sickbay]

Janeway

What's going on here?

Chakotay

Our medical hologram is refusing to treat Mr. Marseille. [Janeway walks over to Tom Paris]

Janeway

Are you malfunctioning?

Tom Paris

I don't think so.

Janeway

I need my helmsman back to his station.

Tom Paris

Lieutenant Marseille is not seriously hurt. This man will be dead in five minutes if I don't operate. [Janeway looks over to Chakotay]

Janeway

Drop the force field. [Chakotay complies. Janeway walks over to the critically injured patient, pulls out a phaser, and kills him] That patient is dead. Now you're free to treat Lieutenant Marseille. [Tom Paris is shocked]

Chakotay

The urge to explore is pretty powerful.

Kathryn Janeway

But it can't justify the loss of lives, whether it's millions or just one.

Welcome to the house of Korath, Admiral

Janeway

(sarcastically) I love what he's done with the place.

(shouts angrily in Klingon)

(shouts angrily back in Klingon)

Janeway

What was that about?

He said your demeanor was disrespectful.

Janeway

Oh dear. I hope you told him I didn't mean to be rude.

Actually, I told him that if he didn't show you more respect, I would break his arm.

Janeway

Oh, you are your mother's daughter.