Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)
Parallax (1995)
Robert Beltran: Cmdr. Chakotay
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Quotes
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[Torres has broken Lt. Carey's nose]
Commander Chakotay : So on the one side, I'm facing a Vulcan who wants to court-martial you. And on the other, I'm facing all the Maquis who are ready to seize this ship over this. You've turned this into one lousy day for me, Torres!
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Commander Chakotay : You're right, Captain, I do consider these my people, because nobody else on this ship will look out for them like I will. And I'm telling you: you're gonna have to give them more authority if you want their loyalty.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Theirs? Or yours, Commander?
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[Carey reports about his run-in with Torres]
Lieutenant Joe Carey : ...She pushed me away from the console; I pushed back. Next thing I knew, I was lying on the deck with blood pouring down my face!
Commander Chakotay : Then what happened?
Lieutenant Joe Carey : She said 'Sorry. Maybe you should go to sickbay.'
The Doctor : At least she gave you some good advice.
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Commander Chakotay : There they are - your staff.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I'll try not to break any of their noses.
Commander Chakotay : First order of the day: the Captain wants the warp drive back on line by 1300 hours.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : 1300? That's impossible.
Commander Chakotay : Then maybe you need to go break a few noses - or at least... bend a few.
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Commander Chakotay : Can I ask you a question? Off the record? If things had happened differently and we were on the Maquis ship now instead of Voyager - would you have served under me?
Captain Kathryn Janeway : One of the nice things about being captain... is that you can keep some things to yourself.
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Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Emitters online. I'm rerouting the damping field through the deflector grid.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Open a channel to the other ship.
[as a channel opens, they hear the garbled transmission]
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Ramping up field intensity.
Ensign Harry Kim : It's working. We're cutting through the distortions.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [hearing the transmission is still garbled] Re-modulate the EM band. See if you can clear it up a little more.
Ensign Harry Kim : Compensating for amplitude distortion.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : This is Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Starship Voyager to the vessel near the quantum singularity. Do you need help?
Commander Chakotay : That's your hail.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I'm applying the damping field to our visual scanners. I'll see if I can clarify the image.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : [seeing the other ship] It's the Voyager. It's us.
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : We've managed to find a replacement for the transporter chief, but we still need an astrogation plotter, a chief engineer, medical support personnel.
Commander Chakotay : [handing her a PADD] I've made a list of several Maquis crew members who would make good officers.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [giving it a once-over] B'Elana Torres? She was the one involved in that incident with Mr. Carey.
Commander Chakotay : That's right.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Just what job do you think she's suited for?
Commander Chakotay : Chief engineer.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're serious.
Commander Chakotay : Very.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [moving on] Regarding Sickbay... we still need a chief medical officer.
Neelix : What about that electronic man down in Sickbay?
Lieutenant Tuvok : It is an emergency medical hologram, and its abilities are limited. It can only operate within the confines of Sickbay.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Not to mention its lousy bedside manner.
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Commander Chakotay : I have no intention of being your token Maquis officer.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Show me another qualified Maquis candidate and I'll consider him.
Commander Chakotay : B'Elana Torres.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Who cannot control herself and who could not make it through the Academy.
Commander Chakotay : She's the best engineer I've ever known. She could *teach* at the Academy.
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Commander Chakotay : [about Torres] She is a Maquis, and in the Maquis sometimes you have to push people out of your way to get things done.
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Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Think of it like this. You're sitting at the bottom of a pond, which is frozen over, and you look up at the surface and you see a reflection of yourself. Now, you might think you're looking at another person sitting at the bottom of another pond looking back at you.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : And in this case, we'd be staring up at the surface of the event horizon and seeing a time-delayed reflection of ourselves.
Commander Chakotay : Are you saying... we're the ones trapped in the singularity?
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Unfortunately, yes.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're right. It's the only theory that explains everything that's happened to us. We've probably been in this singularity since we felt the first jolt.
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : We have a problem, and I think it's time we discuss it.
Commander Chakotay : Captain, I appreciate your concerns about Torres, but I promise you...
Captain Kathryn Janeway : You don't understand, Commander. This isn't about Torres. My problem is with you.
Commander Chakotay : Me?
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Let me be blunt. What you tried to do just now was out of line.
Commander Chakotay : In what way?
Captain Kathryn Janeway : When you decided to call Torres in Engineering.
Commander Chakotay : I've worked with her. I know what she's capable of. We needed an answer right away and I knew she could give us one.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Carey is the senior officer in Engineering.
Commander Chakotay : If you look at it that way, none of my people will ever have seniority.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : That's the problem, right there. They're not your people. You're treating the Maquis on this ship like they're still your crew.
Commander Chakotay : I'm doing everything I can to integrate them into your crew, but frankly, you're not making it easy for me, Captain.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : I can't make it easy, Commander. Surely you can understand that. They don't have the discipline. They don't have the training.
Commander Chakotay : But some of them, like B'Elana Torres, have the ability.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : The Starfleet officers on this ship have worked all their lives to earn their commissions. How am I supposed to ask them to accept a Maquis as their superior officer just because circumstances have forced us together?
Commander Chakotay : You're asking them to accept me.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're qualified. You're a graduate of the Academy, and you have Starfleet command experience.
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Commander Chakotay : It looks like we're running into more spatial distortions.
Ensign Harry Kim : I'm picking up a highly localized disturbance off the port bow.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : On screen.
[seeing the singularity]
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Tuvok?
Lieutenant Tuvok : It is another type-4 quantum singularity. Physical and temporal dimensions are identical to the one we encountered earlier.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Captain, according to these readings, we've returned to our previous coordinates. This isn't another singularity. It's the same one.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [going to Kim's station] Check the navigational logs. Confirm our position.
Ensign Harry Kim : Well, they show we've traveled 1.4 light-years away from the anomaly, but I've confirmed our position against the star chart. We're definitely back where we started. Doesn't make sense.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : They can't both be right. We're either still at the singularity or we're not.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Well, we can see the singularity, so I tend to believe that the external sensors are correct.
Lieutenant Tuvok : That would imply there was something wrong with the warp drive and the navigational logs.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Paris, lay in a course away from the singularity. This time at maximum warp. Ensign Kim, I want you to keep a sensor lock on the singularity. Verify that we're moving away from it. Engage.
Ensign Harry Kim : [the Voyager warps away] Distance from the singularity is 10 million kilometers and increasing.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Warp engines holding steady. All systems report normal.
Ensign Harry Kim : 11 million. 12 million.
[tapping buttons on his console]
Ensign Harry Kim : I don't get it. Mr. Paris, have we altered course?
Lieutenant Tom Paris : No, we're still steady on 310, mark 215.
Ensign Harry Kim : Then something's really wrong here. It's ahead of us again.