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WIT AND WISDOM
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Most of the species we've encountered have overcome all kinds of adversity without a caretaker. It's the challenge of surviving on their own that helps them to evolve.
Janeway to the Caretaker [#2 Caretaker, Part Two] |
We're alone, in an uncharted part of the galaxy. We've already made some friends here, and some enemies. We have no idea of the dangers we're going to face, but one thing is clear, both crews are going to have to work together if we're to survive. That's why Commander Chakotay and I have agreed that this should be one crew, a Starfleet crew. And as the only Starfleet vessel assigned to the Delta Quadrant we'll continue to follow our directive: to seek out new worlds and to explore space. But our primary goal is clear. Even at maximum speeds it would take 75 years to reach the Federation. But I'm not willing to settle for that. There's another entity like the Caretaker out there somewhere who has the ability to get us there a lot faster, and we'll be looking for wormholes, spatial rifts or new technologies to help us. Somewhere along this journey, we'll find a way back. Mr Paris, set a course, for home.
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Janeway to the crew [#2 Caretaker, Part Two] |
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In command school they taught us to always remember that manoevring a starship is a very delicate process. But over the years I've learned that sometimes you just have to punch your way through.
One of the nice things about being captain is that you can keep some things to yourself.
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I don't have the freedom to kill you to save another. My culture finds that to be a reprehensible and entirely unacceptable act.
Janeway to Motura [#5 Phage] |
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Personal log stardate 48546.2. Our journey is several weeks old now, and I have begun to notice in my crew and, in my myself, a subtle change as the reality of our situation settles in. Here in the Delta Quadrant we are virtually the entire family of man. We are more than a crew, and I must find a way to be more than a captain to these people, but it's not clear to me exactly how to begin. At the Academy we're taught that a captain is expected to maintain a certain distance. Until now I've always been comfortable with that distance....Maybe this is just the way it works, maybe the distance is necessary. Maybe more than ever they need me to be larger than life. I only wish I felt larger than life.
Janeway's personal log [#6 The Cloud] |
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There's coffee in that nebula.
Janeway, aloud on the bridge [#6 The Cloud] |
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Dismissed. That's a Starfleet expression for 'get out'.
Janeway to Neelix [#6 The Cloud] |
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