Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Caretaker (1995)

Roxann Dawson: B'Elanna Torres

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• B'Elanna Torres : Who is she to be making these decisions for all of us?

  Chakotay : She's the Captain.

• B'Elanna Torres : What do you think you're doing? That array is the only way we have to get back home!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm aware everyone has families and loved ones at homes they want to get back to. So do I. But I'm not willing to trade the lives of the Ocampa for our convenience. We'll have to find another way home.

  B'Elanna Torres : What other way home is there?

• Ocampan Doctor : I hope you're feeling better. I know how frightening all this must be for both of you. I've brought some clothes, if you care to change.

  B'Elanna Torres : Why are you holding us here?

  Ocampan Doctor : You are not prisoners. In fact, we consider you honored guests. The Caretaker has sent you to us. As long as you are not violent, you are free to leave your quarters.

  Harry Kim : What's wrong with us? What are these things?

  Ocampan Doctor : We really don't know. You must be hungry. Would you care to join me on the courtyard for a meal?

• Ocampan Nurse : Are you in pain?

  B'Elanna Torres : Are you watching us? I thought we weren't supposed to be your prisoners.

  Ocampan Nurse : I wasn't watching you. I was coming to give you something. I don't know if it will help. It's a medicine. There are people who have broken from tradition and left the city. The colony grows fruits and vegetables. They discovered quite by accident that the moss that grows on certain fruit trees has healing properties. I'm sorry for what has happened to you.

  Harry Kim : We appreciate this, but the only way we're gonna survive is if we can get to the surface and find our own people.

  Ocampan Nurse : The elders would say that's against the Caretaker's wishes.

  B'Elanna Torres : What do you say?

  Ocampan Nurse : The Caretaker's been behaving strangely for the past several months; abducting people, increasing the power supply.

  Harry Kim : Power supply?

  Ocampan Nurse : He's tripled the energy he sends us. They say we have enough stored now to run the city for five years.

  Harry Kim : And nobody knows why?

  Ocampan Nurse : When we ask, we're told to trust the Caretaker's decisions. One person I know did get to the surface. We never saw her again.

  Harry Kim : How?

  Ocampan Nurse : The ancient tunnels that brought us here still exist. Over the years, small breaches in security barriers have appeared, just large enough for someone to get through, but it still requires digging through meters of rock to get out.

  B'Elanna Torres : Can you get us tools to dig with?

  Ocampan Nurse : It would take days, maybe even weeks to break through. You have to rest. Conserve your strength.

  Harry Kim : Please. It's our only chance.

• B'Elanna Torres : Who are you?

  Harry Kim : My name is Kim. Harry Kim. I'm an ensign on the Starship Voyager. I was kidnapped from the array just like you were. I don't know where we are.

  B'Elanna Torres : What was Starfleet doing at that array?

  Harry Kim : We were looking for you, actually. One minute, we're-we're in the Badlands, the next...

  B'Elanna Torres : You mean you were trying to capture us.

  Harry Kim : [sarcastic]  Yeah. Consider yourself captured. Oh, I know I have a-a phaser here somewhere.

  B'Elanna Torres : I don't find this at all amusing, Starfleet.

• Harry Kim : We're underground.

  Ocampan Doctor : Our society is subterranean. We've lived here for over 500 generations.

  B'Elanna Torres : But before that, you lived on the surface?

  Ocampan Doctor : Until the warming began.

  Harry Kim : The warming?

  Ocampan Doctor : When our surface turned into a desert and the Caretaker came to protect us. Our ancient journals tell us he opened a deep chasm in the ground and led our ancestors to this place. Since then, he has provided for all our needs.

• Harry Kim : Is this how the Caretaker communicates with you?

  Ocampan Doctor : He never communicates directly. We try to interpret his wishes as best we can.

  Harry Kim : I'm curious to know how you've interpreted the Caretaker's reason for sending us here.

  Ocampan Doctor : We believe he must have separated you from your own species for their protection.

  B'Elanna Torres : Their protection?

  Ocampan Doctor : From your illness. Perhaps he's trying to prevent a plague.

  B'Elanna Torres : We weren't sick until we met your Caretaker.

  Ocampan Doctor : From time to time, he asks us to care for people with this disease. It's the least we can do.

  B'Elanna Torres : There have been others, like us?

  Ocampan Doctor : Yes.

  B'Elanna Torres : Where are they?

  Ocampan Doctor : Your condition is serious. We don't know exactly how to treat it. I'm afraid the others did not recover.

• Harry Kim : You know, I spent my whole life getting ready for Starfleet. And on my very first mission, I'm gonna die.

  B'Elanna Torres : We're not finished yet. I know a few things that old sneezy didn't teach in his survival course.

  Harry Kim : Sneezy?

  B'Elanna Torres : Commander Zakarian. Remember? He must have been allergic to everything.

  Harry Kim : You went to the academy.

  B'Elanna Torres : Actually made it into the second year before we, uh... we mutually agreed that it wasn't the place for me.