Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)
Parallax (1995)
Robert Duncan McNeill: Lt. Tom Paris
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Quotes
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Lieutenant Tom Paris : Wait a minute, wait... wait a minute - let me get this straight: we were cruising along at warp seven. Then we picked up a distress call and moved in to investigate. But now you're saying that the other ship is actually just a reflection of us and that the distress call is actually just the Captain's opening hail. But we picked up the distress call before she sent the hail. How could we have been seeing a reflection of something we hadn't even done yet? Am I making any sense here?
Captain Kathryn Janeway : No. But that's okay.
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : Lieutenant - I understand you studied biochemistry at the Academy?
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Er, only two semesters.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Close enough. You just volunteered to become a field medic. Report to sickbay as soon as we're finished here.
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Tom Paris : If we don't get more power to the warp drive, we're going to have to get out and push.
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[last lines]
Lieutenant Tom Paris : [to a shrunk Doctor] You know, I like you better this way.
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Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Emitters online. I'm rerouting the damping field through the deflector grid.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Open a channel to the other ship.
[as a channel opens, they hear the garbled transmission]
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Ramping up field intensity.
Ensign Harry Kim : It's working. We're cutting through the distortions.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [hearing the transmission is still garbled] Re-modulate the EM band. See if you can clear it up a little more.
Ensign Harry Kim : Compensating for amplitude distortion.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : This is Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Starship Voyager to the vessel near the quantum singularity. Do you need help?
Commander Chakotay : That's your hail.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I'm applying the damping field to our visual scanners. I'll see if I can clarify the image.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : [seeing the other ship] It's the Voyager. It's us.
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : We've managed to find a replacement for the transporter chief, but we still need an astrogation plotter, a chief engineer, medical support personnel.
Commander Chakotay : [handing her a PADD] I've made a list of several Maquis crew members who would make good officers.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [giving it a once-over] B'Elana Torres? She was the one involved in that incident with Mr. Carey.
Commander Chakotay : That's right.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Just what job do you think she's suited for?
Commander Chakotay : Chief engineer.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're serious.
Commander Chakotay : Very.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [moving on] Regarding Sickbay... we still need a chief medical officer.
Neelix : What about that electronic man down in Sickbay?
Lieutenant Tuvok : It is an emergency medical hologram, and its abilities are limited. It can only operate within the confines of Sickbay.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Not to mention its lousy bedside manner.
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Lieutenant Tom Paris : "Sometimes you just have to punch your way through." I'll have to remember that one.
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Ensign Harry Kim : The rupture's over 50 million kilometers away. We don't have enough power to project a dekyon beam that far.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : We'll have to take a shuttlecraft.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : You'll need the best pilot you've got in that shuttle, Captain. That'll be me.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Getting there is the easy part, Mr. Paris. We need someone who's familiar with the finer points of temporal mechanics, and unless you've been hiding your credentials, I don't think that's you. B'Elanna, you're with me.
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Tuvok, take the main deflector offline. Mr. Kim, reroute the port and starboard plasma flow to the main deflector. We can use it to generate a warp field.
Lieutenant Tuvok : Deflectors offline.
Ensign Harry Kim : Initializing plasma flow.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Release the warp particles.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Scanning the singularity.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Anything?
Ensign Harry Kim : Not yet. Warp particles at full intensity.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : I'm picking up something; a slight irregularity. It could be a rupture in the event horizon.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Put it on screen.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : It is a rupture, Captain. It's 50 meters by... ten meters.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Oh, it's too small. It must have collapsed since we first passed through it.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : We found the crack. That's the important thing. Now, how do we make it bigger?
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Put a wedge in it and force it open.
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Commander Chakotay : It looks like we're running into more spatial distortions.
Ensign Harry Kim : I'm picking up a highly localized disturbance off the port bow.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : On screen.
[seeing the singularity]
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Tuvok?
Lieutenant Tuvok : It is another type-4 quantum singularity. Physical and temporal dimensions are identical to the one we encountered earlier.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Captain, according to these readings, we've returned to our previous coordinates. This isn't another singularity. It's the same one.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [going to Kim's station] Check the navigational logs. Confirm our position.
Ensign Harry Kim : Well, they show we've traveled 1.4 light-years away from the anomaly, but I've confirmed our position against the star chart. We're definitely back where we started. Doesn't make sense.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : They can't both be right. We're either still at the singularity or we're not.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Well, we can see the singularity, so I tend to believe that the external sensors are correct.
Lieutenant Tuvok : That would imply there was something wrong with the warp drive and the navigational logs.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Paris, lay in a course away from the singularity. This time at maximum warp. Ensign Kim, I want you to keep a sensor lock on the singularity. Verify that we're moving away from it. Engage.
Ensign Harry Kim : [the Voyager warps away] Distance from the singularity is 10 million kilometers and increasing.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Warp engines holding steady. All systems report normal.
Ensign Harry Kim : 11 million. 12 million.
[tapping buttons on his console]
Ensign Harry Kim : I don't get it. Mr. Paris, have we altered course?
Lieutenant Tom Paris : No, we're still steady on 310, mark 215.
Ensign Harry Kim : Then something's really wrong here. It's ahead of us again.