Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Scientific Method (1997)

Kate Mulgrew: Capt. Kathryn Janeway

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• Captain Janeway : I never realized you thought of me as reckless, Tuvok.

  Tuvok : A poor choice of words. It was clearly an understatement.

• Captain Janeway : You are Security Chief. Don't thirteen department heads report to you every day?

  Tuvok : Yes.

  Captain Janeway : Well, straighten them out!

  Tuvok : Shall I flog them as well?

• Takar : You're not behaving very rationally.

  Captain Janeway : That's what you were trying to accomplish, wasn't it? Hm? Pumping up my dopamine levels to push me to the edge, keeping me awake for four days straight with the constant pain of your devices drilling into my skull? Well, this is the culmination of your work, and guess what - you're gonna be right here to collect the final data.

• Takar : What do you hope to accomplish by this?

  Captain Janeway : Flying into a binary pulsar? It seems like I'm trying to crush this ship like a tin can.

  Takar : It's more likely that you're trying to intimidate us.

  Captain Janeway : You're welcome to stick around and find out.

• The Doctor : [while giving Janeway a quite vigorous massage]  You work absurdly long hours under constant stress, eating on the run without sufficient exercise or rest. Your body is crying out for mercy.

  Captain Janeway : [with a painful expression]  It certainly is right now.

• [Janeway is getting a massage from the Doctor when she is called to the bridge] 

  Captain Janeway : On my way!

  [is about to leave her quarters, still covered with only a towel] 

  The Doctor : Captain!

  Captain Janeway : I know what you're going to say, Doctor, but I can't neglect my responsibilities.

  The Doctor : Actually, I was going to suggest a change of outfit.

• Takar : I can kill you and your crew in an instant.

  Captain Janeway : Go ahead. Without us, you won't be able to prevent this ship from being torn apart by the pulsars, and even with my crew working together I'd say the odds of us getting through this are, what - one in ten?

  Tuvok : One in twenty, at best, Captain.

  Captain Janeway : I am willing to take that chance. Are you?

• Alzen : I had hoped you might be more cooperative once you realized the importance of our work.

  Captain Janeway : Sorry. These lab rats are fighting back.

• Captain Janeway : This ends right now.

• Captain Janeway : I hope you were exaggerating about those odds, Tuvok.

  Tuvok : I was not.

• Captain Janeway : [confronting them about their relationship]  I don't usually pry into the personal lives of my crew, but in this case I have to question your recent conduct.

  Tom Paris : I guess Tuvok...

  Captain Janeway : Tuvok? I haven't heard a word from Tuvok, b ut you two have been making enough of a public display that half the ship is gossiping about it.

  B'Elanna Torres : Believe me, that wasn't our intention...

  Captain Janeway : [getting very stern]  You are senior officers, and I expect you to maintain the standard for the rest of the crew, but this adolescent behavior makes me question my faith in you - both. If you choose to pursue a relationship, that's your business, but you consider yourselves under orders to use better jugdment about it. Is that understood?

• Captain Janeway : What you're doing isn't self-defense. lt's the exploitation of another species for your own benefit. My people decided a long time ago that that was unacceptable, even in the name of scientific progress.

• Tuvok : Good morning, Captain.

  Captain Janeway : That's a matter of opinion.

• The Doctor : Commander Chakotay is suffering bone decalcification, tissue necrosis, decreased visual acuity - all classic signs of aging - but they've developed within hours.

  Chakotay : Any theories?

  The Doctor : There's a rare genetic disorder called progeria which causes children to age prematurely, but there's never been an adult case, and it was supposedly eradicated two centuries ago. Even so, I took a close look at your DNA. These segments regulate your body's metabolism. My scans indicate that they've been hyperstimulated somehow.

  Captain Janeway : What's the prognosis?

  The Doctor : I can't speculate on that until I've identified the cause.

• Alzen : We WILL be continuing our research. If you make no further attempts to interfere, I assure you that the fatality rate will be minimal, though there may be some deformities. And, I would be willing to share our final data with you.

  Captain Janeway : You can't possibly expect me to accept that.

  Alzen : If you don't, then the entire experiment and its subjects will be terminated.