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WIT AND WISDOM
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We prefer permanence, the reward of relationships that endure and grow deeper with the passing of time.
Janeway to Gath [#10 Prime Factors] All your hospitality, your graciousness, it was never about giving us pleasure. It's all been to gratify yourselves. We're nothing more than the latest novelty. Janeway to Gath [#10 Prime Factors] |  |
I don't have the luxury of throwing you in the brig for the rest of this voyage. I need you. I need every person on this ship.
I need you. But I also need to know that I can count on you.
You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's its power, and its flaw.
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Am I the only one so intent on getting home? Is it just me? Am I leading the crew on a forlorn mission with no real hope of success?
Janeway to Chakotay [#20 The 37's] |  |
Set a course for Planet Hell!
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What Seska did she did to all of us. Frankly, I find it more than a little self-indulgent of Chakotay to assume this is all about him.
Janeway to Torres [#27 Maneuvers] |
Who are we to swoop in, play god, and then continue on our way without the slightest consideration of the long-term effects of our actions?
In a part of space where there are few rules, it's more important than ever that we hold fast to our own. In a region where shifting allegiances are commonplace, we have to have something stable to rely on, and we do - the principles and ideals of the Federation. As far as I'm concerned, those are the best allies we could have.
Mr Kim, we're Starfleet officers. 'Weird' is part of the job.
I've known fear. It's a very healthy thing most of the time. You warn us of danger, remind us of our limits, protect us from carelessness. I've learned to trust fear. ... You know as well as I do that fear only exists for one purpose - to be conquered.
This is Kathryn Janeway. I've never liked saying goodbye, so I'll make this brief. But I want you all to know that serving as your captain has been the most extraordinary experience of my life. No captain could ask more than what this crew has given - bravery, compassion, and strength of character. But I think what I'll miss most is the fun, the times we joked together, the games on the holodeck. I'll remember the laughter more than anything. Although Commander Chakotay and I won't be with you for the rest of your journey, we know that you'll be the same steadfast crew for Mr Tuvok as you have been for us. We wish you a safe and speedy journey home. Our thoughts will be with you. Janeway out.
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Who wanted to muck around in the dirt when you could be studyng quantum mechanics? But I find it very satisfying now, watching the seeds sprout and grow.
Janeway to Chakotay [#41 Resolutions] |
Space must've seemed a whole lot bigger back then. It's not surprising they had to bend the rules a little. They were a little slower to invoke the Prime Directive and a little quicker to pull their phasers. Of course, the whole bunch of them would be booted out of Starfleet today, but I have to admit - I would've loved to ride shotgun at least once with a group of officers like that.
Those 'best qualities of humanity' you talked about aren't a simple matter of genetics. Love, conscience, compassion - they're attributes that mankind has developed over centuries, values that have passed from one generation to the next, taught by parents to their children. Creating a new kind of Q is a noble idea, but it will take more than impregnating someone and walking away. If you want your offspring to embrace your ideals, you're going to have to teach them yourself.
If you're bored, Mr. Paris, I'm sure I can find something else for you to do. The warp plasma filters are due for a thorough cleaning.
Helping others, Chakotay, that's part of who you are.
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But at what point is the risk too great? At what point do we come about and retreat to friendly territory? Could the crew accept living out the rest of their lives in the Delta Quadrant? I'm looking to all these captains, my comrades-in-arms. But the truth is: I'm alone.
Janeway to Chakotay [#68 Scorpion, Part One] |
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Three years ago I didn't even know your name. Today, I can't imagine a day without you.
Janeway to Chakotay [#68 Scorpion, Part One] |
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I'll tell you when we lost control of this situation, when we made our mistake: it was the moment we turned away from each other. We don't have to stop being individuals to get through this. We just have to stop fighting each other.
Janeway to Chakotay [#69 Scorpion, Part Two] |
We have something the Borg could never offer - friendship.
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I can't give you back to the Borg. But you're not alone. You're part of a human community now, a human collective. We may be individuals but we live and work together. You can have some of the unity you require, right here on Voyager
Janeway to Seven [#70 The Gift] One voice can be stronger than a thousand voices. Janeway to Seven of Nine [#70 The Gift] |
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I've got an Ocampa who wants to be something more and a Borg who's afraid of becoming something less. Here's to Vulcan stability."
Janeway to Tuvok [#70 The Gift] |
Unexpected acts of kindness are common among our group. That's one of the ways we define ourselves.
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Frankly, it's refreshing to take myself out of the 24th century every now and then. And a little disorganisation can be very encouraging to the imagination.
Janeway to Seven [#74 The Raven] |
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It seems to me that people have been getting a little too comfortable around here lately. They're late for their duty shifts, taking messhall privileges during non-designated hours, and a lot of people are spending more time on the holodeck than they are at their posts!
What you're doing isn't self-defence. It'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.
Abandon ship? The answer's no. I'm not breaking up the family, Chakotay. We're stronger as a team - one crew, one ship. The moment we split apart we lose the ability to pool our talents - we become vulnerable, we'll get picked off one by one. Now I say we make our stand together.
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Voyager can no longer sustain its crew. I promised myself that I would never give this order, that I would never break up this family, but asking you to stay would be asking you to die. You will proceed to the escape pods and evacuate this vessel. Set your course for the Alpha Quadrant. Along the way try to find allies, secure faster ships if you can, anything to get home. ... When we find each other again, and we will, we will find each other again, I expect all of you to be in one piece, with some interesting stories to tell. Good luck.
Janeway to the crew [#76 and #77 Year of Hell] |
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My only obsession is with saving my ship, my people. If I've been taking some chances in order to do that it's hardly a medical condition.
Janeway to the Doctor [#76 and #77 Year of Hell] Compared with what I've been through the past few months, court martial would be a small price to pay. Janeway to the Doctor [#76 and #77 Year of Hell] |
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We seek out new races because we want to, not because we're following protocols. We have an insatiable curiosity about the universe.
I dread the day when everyone on this ship agrees with me.
You know the rules, Tom. We can't pick and choose which laws we'll respect and which we won't.
It never fails to impress me: no matter how vast the differences may be between cultures people always have something somebody else wants, and trade is born.
 Leonardo da Vinci hologram screenshot is from earlier in the episode |
You've always said it's a poor apprentice who can't surpass her master. There are things in this world that I understand and you don't.
Janeway to Leonardo da Vinci hologram [#79 Concerning Flight] |
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I realise it may be difficult for you to help save this creature's life, but part of becoming human is learning to have compassion for those who are suffering, even when they're your bitter enemies. ... A single act of compassion can put you in touch with your own humanity.
Seven, what you call a threat, I call an opportunity to gain knowledge about this species. And in this case, maybe even show some compassion.
But you have to start learning the difference between having an impulse and acting on it.
I won't risk half the Quadrant to satisfy our curiosity. It's arrogant and it's irresponsible. The 'final frontier' has some boundaries that shouldn't be crossed.
Sometimes fear should be respected.
I think we're all feeling uneasy about this, and I'd be lying if I said I don't have concerns myself, and I think it's about loss of control. We always feel better if we think we're in charge of our circumstances. In stasis we give up that control and no Starfleet officer likes to do that.
This isn't about your independence or your superiority. This is about your fear.
I realise that I've been hard on you at times. But it was never out of anger or regret that I brought you on board. I'm your captain - that means I can't always be a friend.
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Sometimes you've got to look back, in order to move forwards.
Janeway to Seven [#94 Hope and Fear] |
Oh what I wouldn't give for a few Borg cubes about now, anything for a little distraction. Strange as it sounds, I almost long for the days when we were under constant attack, no time to stop and think how we got stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
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You realise you could all be hanged for mutiny. Looks like we need another option.
Janeway to senior staff [#95 Night] |
We're a very determined crew. So my suggestion is that you leave orbit and in the future if you come across anything that bears the insignia of the USS Voyager head in the other direction.
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Well, let's just say I usually go with my instincts and sort it out later at the Board of Enquiry. Those admirals and I are on a first-name basis, you know.
Janeway to Kashyk, about the Prime Directive [#104 Counterpoint] |
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There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew.
Janeway to Naomi Wildman [#109 and #110 Dark Frontier] |
This isn't about logic, it's about trust. She'll come through for us.
It's never easy but if we turn our backs on our principles we stop being human.
I don't want anybody to be uncomfortable on this ship.
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Space, literally it means 'nothing', a vacuum between stars and planets, but by the same token it means 'everything'. It's what connects all our worlds, Vulcan, Qo'noS, Talax, Earth.
Part of Janeway's speech at Lt. John Kelly's funeral [#128 One Small Step] |
This isn't sabotage, Seven. It's fan mail.
Maybe all it will take will be some personal attention from their Captain, maybe something more, but I won't abandon a member of this crew, no matter what their problems might be.
 Crewman Mortimer Harran |
And I wasn't meant to guide a ship across an unknown Quadrant.
Janeway to Crewman Mortimer Harran [#140 Good Shepherd] Oh, I've seen things I'd never've imagined, grown closer to people that I never thought possible. I wouldn't call myself a victim and I wouldn't trade the last six years for anything. Janeway to Crewman Mortimer Harran [#140 Good Shepherd] |
 Crewman Tal Celes |
You know, there's more to duty than the ability to manipulate algorithms. Everybody on Voyager has showed a courage far beyond what I expected.
Janeway to Crewman Tal Celes [#140 Good Shepherd] |
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Mind-melds. The last time I heard 'my mind to your mind' I had a headache for two weeks.
Janeway to Chakotay [#146 and #147 Unimatrix Zero] |
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We're always willing to go that extra light-year for a good cause.
Sometimes diplomacy requires a little sabre-rattling.
Once, a long time ago, I called this replicator a 'glorified toaster.' It never forgave me.
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Doesn't seem like my first command is shaping up the way I expected.
Janeway to Chakotay [#157 Shattered] |
Voyager getting stranded, all these deaths, this entire future -it's my fault. I've got to do something to change it.
If the temporal anomaly doesn't kill them, something else will: the Borg, telepathic pitcher plants, macroviruses - the Delta Quadrant is a deathtrap!
If we restore the time-line, remind me to cancel Mr Paris' holodeck privileges.
But the next page in that book says that when diplomacy fails, we need a backup plan.
Forget particle fountains and subspace inversions. There isn't an anomaly scarier than a thunderstorm on the plains, especially when you're six years old.
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Tuvok has been a Starfleet security officer for a very long time. Believe me, he's qualified.
Janeway to Yediq [#159 Repentance] |
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Your Honour, centuries ago in most places on Earth, only landowners of a particular gender and race had any rights at all. Over time those rights were extended to all humans and later, as we explored the galaxy, to thousands of other sentient species. Our definition of what constitutes a person has continued to evolve. Now we're asking that you expand that definition once more, to include our doctor. When I met him seven years ago, I would never have believed that an EMH could become a valued member of my crew, and my friend. The Doctor is a person, as real as any flesh and blood I've ever known. If you believe the testimony you've heard here, it's only fair to conclude that he has the same rights as any of us.
Captain's personal log, stardate 54973.4. We've begun outfitting Voyager with Admiral Janeway's upgrades. As soon as the major modifications are complete, we'll reverse course and head back to the nebula. Though I've had some strange experiences in my career, nothing quite compares to the sight of my future self briefing my officers on technology that hasn't been invented yet.
