Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Nemesis (1997)

Robert Beltran: Cmdr. Chakotay

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Chakotay : I wish it were as easy to stop hating as it was to start.

• Chakotay : Close your glimpses, and dream of your gloried brother.

• Rafin : If I didn't have the coward's trembles, I would have walked with you in the trunks, and it would be me and not he who went to the Way After.

  Chakotay : You weren't the one who pulled the trigger, Rafin, and there's no shame in being afraid of fighting. Having the trembles is natural.

  Rafin : How do you fathom that?

  Chakotay : Because I've been in battle before, fighting to free my people from a nemesis called the Cardassians.

  Rafin : These Cardassians... were they beasts?

  Chakotay : Let's just say they weren't very friendly. The point is: even though I believed in what we were doing, I always felt fear before a fight.

  Rafin : But you wrestled your trembles to rages, didn't you?

• Karya : Penno always tells it'll be brighter when the new light comes.

  Chakotay : Your grandfather's a wise man.

• Chakotay : Hate's not something I understand very well.

• Namon : You don't fathom the nemesis.

  Chakotay : No. I suppose I don't.

  Namon : Beg the power you believe in that you never will.

• Chakotay : You motherless beast!

• Chakotay : Then, the Kradin don't kill innocent civilians? They don't desecrate the Voris' dead?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I don't know, but the Kradin accuse the Vori of the same kinds of atrocities.

  Chakotay : I cared about the Vori, but I hated the Kradin. I wanted to kill every one of them.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Evidently, that was the point.

• Karya : My brother's a defender, too.

  Chakotay : Really?

  Karya : He left for the clash two plantings before. I was much smaller then. He was sturdy and pleasing to glimpse in his colors... like you.