Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Equinox (1999)

John Savage: Captain Rudy Ransom

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• Captain Rudy Ransom : It's easy to cling to principles when you're standing on a vessel with its bulkheads intact, manned by a crew that's not starving.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : It's never easy, but if we turn our backs on our principles, we stop being human.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm putting an end to your experiments, and you are hereby relieved of your command. You and your crew will be confined to quarters.

  Captain Rudy Ransom : Please, show them leniency. They were only following my orders.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Their mistake.

• Captain Rudy Ransom : When I first realized that we'd be traveling across the Delta Quadrant for the rest of our lives, I told my crew that we had a duty as Starfleet officers to expand our knowledge and uphold our principles. After a couple of years, we started to forget that we were explorers, and there were times when we nearly forgot that we were human beings.

• Captain Rudy Ransom : Starfleet Regulation 3, paragraph 12: "In the event of imminent destruction, a captain is authorized to preserve the lives of his crew by any justifiable means."

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I doubt that protocol covers mass murder.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I couldn't help but notice, your crew calls you by your first name.

  Captain Rudy Ransom : When you've been in the trenches as long as we have, rank and protocol are luxuries. Besides, we're a long way from Starfleet Command.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I know the feeling.

  Captain Rudy Ransom : You seem to run a pretty tight ship.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We've been known to let our hair down from time to time, but I find that maintaining protocol reminds us of where we came from, and hopefully where we're going.

• Captain Rudy Ransom : [before being led away]  It's a long way home, Captain.