Chakotay quotes from Star Trek: Voyager

Chakotay

Is your body armor designed to handle rapid pressure fluctuations?

It can defeat most hostile environments. I once tracked a silicon-based lifeform through the neutronium mantle of a collapsed star.

Tom Paris

I once tracked a mouse through Jefferies tube thirty two.

The Doctor

[To Quarren] I want to see your version of what happened.

Tom Paris

We've already drained two phaser banks, and it hasn't did anything!

Tuvok

Perhaps if you looked at your console once in a while instead of chasing the female ensigns, you'd see otherwise.

Harry Kim

Tom's right; this war was supposed to be over in five minutes!

Chakotay

[To Tom Paris] You have a better idea, lieutenant?

Tom Paris

As a matter of fact, I do: fighter shuttles. A direct assault.

[To Tom Paris] Led by you? Good luck.

Tom Paris

Watch your mouth, hedgehog!

Chakotay

I haven't heard a single good idea.

Tom Paris

Then propose something, first officer! Earn your rank for once! [Chakotay punches Tom Paris in the stomach while Neelix, Harry Kim and Tuvok try to separate them]

Kathryn Janeway

Gentlemen... [the fight continues] Gentlemen! [Captain Janeway pulls her phaser out and shoots a console, which breaks the fight] Save it for the holodeck! We've got a war to fight. We've only been attacking the Kyrian military instillation--a mistake. We should target the general population.

Excellent idea, captain. I've examined the Kyrian genome and they'd be vulnerable to any number of biological weapons.

Kathryn Janeway

How soon could you have one ready?

Within the hour.

Kathryn Janeway

Dismissed.

Tom Paris

Look at this, it looks like the quantum drive is being routed through the main deflector.

Chakotay

Is that what's creating the slipstream?

Tom Paris

It looks that way.

Tuvok

Fascinating. Can you make it stop?

Chakotay

B'Elanna, why are you intentionally trying to hurt yourself?

B'Elanna

I don't know.

Chakotay

Are you trying to commit suicide?

B'Elanna

Ff! No!

Chakotay

Then why?

B'Elanna

Because.. Because, if I sprain my ankle, at least I feel something.

Chakotay

What do you mean?

B'Elanna

I'm not trying to kill myself! I'm trying to see if I'm still alive.

Chakotay

I don't understand.

B'Elanna

When you look at those corpses, how do you feel?

Chakotay

Sad, angry, maybe a little guilty that I wasn't there to die with them.

B'Elanna

Not me. I don't feel anything at all.

Chakotay

B'Elanna, the Maquis were like our adopted family, I can understand you trying to block out that kind of pain.

B'Elanna

You don't understand. It's not just the pain. I don't feel anything. Not about my dead friends, not about Tom, you, my job.

Chakotay

Maybe you're afraid if you let yourself start to feel something, you might not be able to stop.

Chakotay

You're going to have to find another way to deal with this.

B'Elanna

I don't know how.

Chakotay

We'll figure it out, together.

Chakotay

In just a few minutes--if all goes as planned--we will have changed history; the past fifteen years erased. We don't have to do this.

[sarcastically] Now you tell me.

Chakotay

"Shield Generators?"

Harry Kim

"Online."

Chakotay

"Plasma flow?"

Harry Kim

"Stable."

Chakotay

"Comm. link?"

Harry Kim

"Secure."

Chakotay

"Lunch?"

Harry Kim

"(pause) Salami sandwiches."

B'Elanna

Why do I get the feeling you're not just interested in tachyon fields?

Chakotay

This could be the greatest anthropological find of my career. If there's an intelligent species down there, we'll be able to track their development. Not just for days or weeks, but for centuries.

B'Elanna

Watch them discover new and better ways of beating each other over the head.

Chakotay

They won't necessarily follow the Klingon model.

B'Elanna

As opposed to the human model?

Chakotay

Anterian cider. Not the replicated stuff. There are only a couple of bottles left, and I don't want Mr. Neelix getting his hands on them.

Icheb

Well, then you should store them with the salvaged Borg components. Neelix never inventories those containers. He says they give him the creeps.

Chakotay

Officer level thinking, Icheb.

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.

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.