Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Scientific Method (1997)

Roxann Dawson: Lt. B'Elanna Torres

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Quotes 

• [Tuvok has caught Torres and Paris kissing in Engineering] 

  B'Elanna Torres : Do you think he'll say anything to the Captain?

  Tom Paris : I don't know.

  B'Elanna Torres : Well, how did he sound? Annoyed? Amused?

  Tom Paris : He sounded Vulcan.

• Seven of Nine : I am unaccustomed to working in a hierarchy. In the Collective, there was no need to ask permission.

  B'Elanna Torres : If you're going to be a member of this crew, get used to it. Procedures exist for a reason; we've got to work together, follow the same set of rules...

  Seven of Nine : [at B'Elanna's sudden stop]  Lieutenant?

  B'Elanna Torres : [musing]  I was given that lecture once... by Captain Janeway when I first joined this crew.

  B'Elanna Torres : [turning to Seven]  If I could adjust to Starfleet life, so can you.

  Seven of Nine : Of course. I am... "sorry" for the inconvenience.

• [last lines] 

  [Paris speculates that the aliens may have been tampering with his and Torres's hormones] 

  Tom Paris : Well, when you think about it, you did have a pretty abrupt change of heart a couple of weeks ago. What made you realize that you loved me all of a sudden?

  B'Elanna Torres : Just a feeling. So, our whole relationship might be based on some... alien experiment.

  Tom Paris : You never know.

  B'Elanna Torres : Well, I think that explains it.

  Tom Paris : I guess we should just... call it off, then.

  B'Elanna Torres : I think so.

  Tom Paris : Thank God we found out in time.

  B'Elanna Torres : Thank God.

  [they kiss lovingly] 

  Tom Paris : I don't know about you, but... I'm curious to see how this experiment turns out.

• B'Elanna Torres : Then we're agreed. Just a little bit more careful in public and we don't say anything to anybody.

  Tom Paris : At least for now.

  B'Elanna Torres : Now? Sounds like you see a future in this.

  Tom Paris : Hm. I would never be so presumptuous.

  B'Elanna Torres : Smooth recovery, Lieutenant.

  Tom Paris : I thought so.

• 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?

• Seven of Nine : There is no need for anger. I had no intention of causing a problem.

  B'Elanna Torres : What, "sorry" isn't in the Borg vocabulary?