Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Flesh and Blood (2000)

Kate Mulgrew: Capt. Kathryn Janeway

Quotes 

• Chakotay : Couldn't we just extract their violent subroutines?

  B'Elanna Torres : [assuming]  It's possible.

  The Doctor : That would be like declawing a cat. We'd be taking away any chance they have of defending themselves!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We'd also be preventing them from doing any more harm.

  The Doctor : You wouldn't even be considering this if they were flesh and blood!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm not gonna let you turn this into an argument about holographic rights.

  The Doctor : Why not? That's exactly what it is.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Doctor, deactivate yourself.

  The Doctor : I can't treat the patient if I'm offline.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : No one can treat him if he's terrified.

• Chakotay : [on the dead Hirogen found on a Hirogen training facility]  Most of them were killed by facsimiles of Alpha Quadrant weapons - Romulan disruptors, Klingon bat'leths...

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Starfleet phasers?

  Chakotay : I think we'll find they all came from the holo-technology we gave the Hirogen three years ago.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : They obviously missed the point. We gave them that technology so they could hunt holographic prey, not get themselves killed.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I could accept that the Doctor has sympathy for these... people, but I can't accept that he would deliberately risk the lives of this entire crew. We're his family.

  Chakotay : Maybe that's how he started to think of these holograms.

• [the Beta has claimed the holograms' vessel as Hirogen property] 

  Neelix : I imagine your people will tell stories about this hunt. The question is, which story will it be? The one about the dying Beta whose life had to be saved by a hologram? Or will it be the tale of the Beta who bravely took over the hunt, killed the holograms and destroyed their ship? You could be a legend.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : On the other hand, you could try to take the holograms' ship; but, with so few hunters and damaged vessels, you might not survive to tell any stories at all.

  Beta-Hirogen : You and your crew would have made worthy prey, Captain.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Thank you... I think.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Then let's try some nonverbal communication.

• The Doctor : I never intended to put Voyager in danger. If nothing else, you have to believe that.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Oh, I believe it, but if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that things don't always happen the way we intend.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : If you don't like the way I do things, I can leave you on the nearest habitable planet.

  [silence] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Then I'll assume we're in agreement.

• The Doctor : You've given me extraordinary freedom over the years. I've obviously abused it.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Maybe... or maybe you've simply become as fallible as those of us who are made of flesh and blood. I'm just as responsible for allowing you to expand your programing... as I am for giving technology to the Hirogen. How can I punish you for being who you are?

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I suggest we keep our distance until we can determine their weapon status.

  Alpha-Hirogen : It's time for the kill.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You know as well as I do that a wounded animal can be dangerous.

  Alpha-Hirogen : We won't be denied our prey.

• Tom Paris : We're not gonna let them intimidate us, are we?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [wryly]  I think you know me a little better than that.