- Tal Celes: Well, just don't trust me with the analysis. I guarantee I'll get it wrong.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Well, with that attitude, I'm sure you will.
- Tal Celes: This has nothing to do with attitude, Captain. You and I are wired differently. To you, this is nothing but data. To me, it-it's a monster with-with fangs and claws.
- Tal Celes: I don't deserve to be on your ship, Captain. And I'm not really a part of Voyager. I just live there.
- Mortimer Harren: We never should have left Voyager.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I've got news for you, crewman. Voyager isn't exactly a safe haven. We've been chased across the quadrant by far worse than whatever's out there - the Vidiians, Species 8472, the Borg... but I guess if somebody's hiding down on deck 15, they may not be aware of it.
- Mortimer Harren: I wasn't meant to be an explorer.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: And I wasn't meant to guide a ship across an unknown quadrant.
- Mortimer Harren: Then we're both victims of circumstance.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Oh, I've seen things I've never imagined, grown closer to people than I ever thought possible. I wouldn't call myself a victim, and I wouldn't trade the last six years for anything.
- Mortimer Harren: Then you've been deluded, by the inexhaustible human capacity to avoid the truth. You're the one hiding, not me.
- Tal Celes: [about the alien life form in Telfer's body] Maybe it was trying to scan you or something.
- William Telfer: If it wanted to get to know me better, it should have just asked me out for a drink.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Zeta particle derivation, Gamma wave frequency, Ion distribution, Flow rate of positrons: ZGIF - "Zero G is fun". That's how you remember the sequence.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: That's the nature of space exploration. It's unpredictable.
- Mortimer Harren: Which is why I don't like space exploration. Stumbling from star to star like a... a drunken insect careening toward a light source is not my idea of a dignified existence.
- Tal Celes: We might not have contributed much on Voyager, but what we do here matters. We're the crew here, and the crew does not abandon its captain.
- [Harren flies his escape pod toward the dark matter aliens]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Janeway to Harren, what're you doing?
- Mortimer Harren: If they have to deal with me, it should give you a few more seconds to get away. That's my theory, anyway.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [firmly] Resume your escape course now.
- Mortimer Harren: It's too late for that.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: You made a mistake, Harren. Don't make another one.
- Mortimer Harren: I'm done hiding, Captain. A few seconds of exposure to real life, maybe I'll understand what I've been missing.
- [last lines]
- Chakotay: What happened?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Huh... The good shepherd went after some lost sheep... and ran into a wolf.
- Chakotay: Did she find them?
- [Janeway looks at her three crewmen peacefully sleeping in sickbay]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I think she did.
- Mortimer Harren: You're standing in the way of cosmological history.
- Engineer: The cosmos is sixteen billion years old. It can wait another few minutes.
- Tom Paris: Then, what ARE you doing?
- [Harren slides over the PADD he has been working on, showing nothing but complicated calculations]
- Tom Paris: [frowning] Very interesting.
- Mortimer Harren: What do you find most interesting about it?
- Tom Paris: Your creative use of the minus sign.
- Chakotay: There are always a few who don't make it past their first year on a starship. Normally they're reassigned, but in our case, maybe we should relieve them of duty and let them pursue their own interests. It certainly wouldn't hurt general efficiency.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: They aren't drones, Chakotay. We can't just deactivate them.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Three people have slipped through the cracks on my ship. That makes it my problem.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Ever hear the Tale of the Good Shepherd? If even one sheep strayed into the wilderness, the shepherd left the safety of the flock and went after it.
- Seven of Nine: So you're intending to rescue them?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: In a manner of speaking. Maybe all it will take will be some personal attention from their captain, maybe something more, but I won't abandon a member of this crew... no matter what their problems might be.
- [the propulsion system of the Delta Flyer has been damaged]
- Mortimer Harren: We'll be able to do one eighth impulse, no more.
- William Telfer: That should get us to the rendezvous point with Voyager in about ten years. Think they'll wait for us?
- William Telfer: The analytical aspects of the subspace infrared algorithm are fourfold.
- Tal Celes: Unfortunately, I have a threefold brain.
- Crewman Mitchell: [snaps to attention] Captain on the deck!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: At ease. Junction room 16?
- Crewman Mitchell: Over there, Captain.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Of course. Crewman Mitchell, how have you been?
- Crewman Mitchell: Uh, never better, ma'am. Yourself?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Not bad. Not bad at all.
- [proceeds into the indicated direction]
- Crewman Mitchell: Uh, to the left, ma'am.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Thank you.
- William Telfer: Spend some time with us when we get back. You might enjoy yourself.
- Mortimer Harren: A hypothesis that would require testing. I'm a theoretician, remember?
- Mortimer Harren: I'm about to disprove Schlezholt's theory of multiple big bangs. Of course, I had to demolish Wang's second postulate to do it.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [breaking for lunch] Mortimer.
- Mortimer Harren: Even my mother didn't call me that.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Well, then, Mr. Harren, are you hungry?
- Mortimer Harren: No. Thank you.
- Mortimer Harren: Do you really believe that childhood environment is more important than genetically driven behavior patterns?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Just making conversation.
- Mortimer Harren: Conversation filled with unspoken assumptions, which I don't agree with. I'm a product of my nucleic acids. Where and how I was raised are beside the point, so if you're trying to understand me better, questions about my home planet are irrelevant.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: All right, then. How's your thirteenth chromosome? Missing a couple of base pairs in gene 178?