Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Latent Image (1999)

Kate Mulgrew: Capt. Kathryn Janeway

Quotes 

• Seven of Nine : When you separated me from the Collective, I was an unknown risk to your crew. Yet you kept me on board. You allowed me to evolve into an individual.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're a human being. He's a hologram.

  Seven of Nine : And you allowed that hologram to evolve as well, to exceed his original programming. And yet, now you choose to abandon him.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Objection noted. Good night.

  Seven of Nine : It is unsettling. You say that I am a human being, and yet I am also Borg - part of me not unlike your replicator. Not unlike the Doctor. Will you one day choose to abandon me as well? I have always looked to you as my example, my guide to humanity. Perhaps I've been mistaken.

• [Janeway visits Seven in the cargo bay] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm having trouble... with the nature of individuality.

  Seven of Nine : You require a philosophical discussion?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : There's a time and a place for it. This is one of them.

• Seven of Nine : I am having trouble with the nature of individuality.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [laughs]  There's a time and a place for philosophical discussion. Two in the morning in my quarters isn't one of them.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Captain's log, supplemental - Our doctor is now our patient.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : After I freed you from the Collective... you were transformed. It's been a difficult process. Was it worth it?

  Seven of Nine : I had no choice.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : That's not what I asked you.

  Seven of Nine : If I could change what happened, erase what you did to me, would I? No.

• [Janeway orders a coffee from the replicator and tastes it] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Lukewarm. Now, I've told that replicator a dozen times about the temperature of my coffee. It just doesn't seem to wanna listen. Almost as if it's got a mind of its own. But it doesn't. A replicator operates through a series of electronic pathways that allow it to receive instructions and take appropriate action. And there you go, a cup of coffee; a bowl of soup, a plasma conduit, whatever we tell it to do. As difficult as it is to accept, the Doctor is more like that replicator than he is like us.

  Seven of Nine : He would disagree.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm sure he would. But I can't let that change my decision.

• [the Doctor enters the bridge as Janeway is having a trivial discussion with the crew] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : If this is another house call, it'll have to wait. As you can see, I've got a mutiny on my hands.

  The Doctor : A mutiny? I suppose that's better than a conspiracy.

  Seven of Nine : Doctor?

  The Doctor : Tell her, Captain. Describe how you tampered with my program, how it was you all along.

  Tuvok : Perhaps you should accompany me to sickbay, Doctor.

  The Doctor : Et tu, Tuvok?

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [of the Doctor]  It's as though there's a battle being fought inside him. Between his original programming... and what he's become. Our solution was to end that battle. What if we were wrong?

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : If one of my crew chose to put a phaser to his own head, should I let him?

  Seven of Nine : It would depend on the situation.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : It always depends on the situation, Seven.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead, Ensign Ahni Jetal. Her intelligence and her charm have made our long journey home seem not quite so long. As she continues on a journey of her own, we will keep her in our hearts... and in our memories.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : We gave him a soul, B'Elanna. Do we have the right to take it away now?

  B'Elanna Torres : We gave him personality subroutines. I'd hardly call that a soul.

• Capt. Kathryn Janeway : Doctor, I'm a little busy right now - helping a friend.