Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Basics, Part I (1996)

Robert Beltran: Cmdr. Chakotay

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Quotes 

• Commander Chakotay : Why would these factions of Kazon, loyal to no one, all have the same agenda, and why would that agenda focus on a nonessential area of the ship?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I don't know, but it feels like we're being pecked to death by ducks.

• Kolopak : Centuries ago, when the women of our tribe were raped by white conquerors, many gave birth to their children, and we did not reject them. They were accepted by the tribe. One was a direct ancestor of ours, Chakotay. His name... was Ce Acatl. He became a great leader of our people. Here is a man who was given life without his mother's consent. Are you so different from her? And is your child so different from Ce Acatl?

  Commander Chakotay : [after a pause]  No.

  Kolopak : Mm... He is your son, Chakotay, and he is a child of our people.

• [in a vision, Chakotay is talking to his father about his and Seska's son] 

  Commander Chakotay : He was born without my consent. I had no part in it.

  Kolopak : No part in it? Well, it's been a long time, so forgive me, but it seems that I *had* to play a part before your mother could conceive.

• Seska : What do you think of your son, Chakotay? He has your eyes, don't you think? Thank goodness he doesn't look too Human. You all have such weak foreheads.

  Commander Chakotay : May he grow up never knowing the contempt his father has for his mother.

• Commander Chakotay : [regarding Seska's distress call over Chakotay's baby]  Do you think it's a trap?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Do I think Seska is capable of manipulating you and me with this? Oh, yes.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [the problem with Seska allying with the Kason]  She knows you, Chakotay. She knew how you'd react when you saw your son in danger.

  Commander Chakotay : I have a duty to this crew. I can't just leave and go looking for the child.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : And I'd never consider letting you go into a Kazon-Nistrim stronghold by yourself. If we do this, we do it together. That's something else Seska would know, too.

• Commander Chakotay : You still have pride in the Nistrim, don't you, Teirna? Even after what they did to you. I remember that pride in your eyes when you pounded me with your fists, while I was tied to a chair, and I can see it in your eyes now, and that scares the hell out of me.

  Teirna : You must scare easily, Federation.