Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Repentance (2001)

Jeri Ryan: Seven of Nine

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• Iko : You're not afraid of me.

  Seven of Nine : There's no reason to fear someone in your condition.

  Iko : You were never afraid of me, not even when I tried to kill you. It's nice to look into someone's eyes and... not see fear.

• [last lines] 

  [Iko has been sent to his death according to Nygean law] 

  Seven of Nine : It's unfair.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I think so, too, Seven, but we have to try not to judge their system.

  Seven of Nine : That's not what I meant. Iko was executed for taking a single life. As a drone, I took thousands, but I was never punished.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You lost twenty years of your life to the Borg. I'd say that's punishment enough.

• Iko : When I was a child, I'd... lie under the stars for hours. I'd stare at them until I could see the shapes.

  Seven of Nine : Shapes?

  Iko : Faces and animals made out of stars

  Seven of Nine : You're referring to constellations.

  Iko : I named them. There was Paedos the Warrior and... Gezid the Beast. No matter how hard he tried, Paedos could never catch Gezid.

• The Doctor : It doesn't feel right.

  Seven of Nine : You may experience unusual sensations while your matrix realigns.

  The Doctor : I was referring to the arrangement the captain's made with the Nygeans. No matter how terrible the crimes these men committed, it seems wrong to hand them over to be executed. This is a Federation starship, not the Barge of the Dead.

  Seven of Nine : Would you have preferred the captain release them?

  The Doctor : Of course not. They're dangerous men.

  Seven of Nine : Executing them ensures they'll never pose a threat to anyone again.

  The Doctor : So would life sentences - the operative word being life.

  Seven of Nine : Confining them for life requires significant resources. The Nygeans may not think it worthwhile.

  The Doctor : What about rehabilitation? Given the chance, some of these men might become productive members of society one day.

  Seven of Nine : Their victims won't have the same opportunity.

• The Doctor : Quite frankly, I'm surprised you're not troubled by such a... barbaric system.

  Seven of Nine : I'm simply being objective. You often encourage me to see both sides of an argument.

  The Doctor : Well... this is one occasion when my programing won't allow me to be objective. Killing is wrong, no matter who's doing it.

• Seven of Nine : It seems inefficient to save the life of someone who's about to be executed.

  The Doctor : If the Nygeans insist on killing him, there isn't much I can do about it, but I won't let them do it on Voyager.