- Tuvok: Offspring can be disturbingly illogical, and yet profoundly fulfilling. You should anticipate paradox.
- [B'Elanna suddenly collapses but remains conscious]
- Icheb: I'm detecting another life sign.
- Seven of Nine: [looking around] Where?
- Icheb: Inside Lieutenant Torres. It could be a parasite.
- [Seven takes the tricorder and finds that Torres is pregnant]
- Chakotay: Have you checked the warp core for radiation leaks today?
- B'Elanna Torres: No, why?
- Chakotay: You have a certain... glow about you.
- Harry Kim: Maybe that's what pregnancy's for: time to let reality sink in - before your life spins out of control.
- Tom Paris: Six years in the Delta Quadrant and nothing has ever scared me as much as hearing our baby had a problem.
- Harry Kim: It's all over now. No more late nights on the holodeck, no more racing the Delta Flyer...
- Tom Paris: Don't you think you're exaggerating just a little?
- Harry Kim: I've seen it happen. The new dad gets tied down with family, old friends drop away...
- Tom Paris: It's fatherhood, Harry, not exile.
- Harry Kim: If you say so.
- B'Elanna Torres: It's another beautiful day in the Delta Quadrant.
- Tom Paris: What'd you have for breakfast?
- [Tom is having marital problems with B'Elanna]
- Tom Paris: What am I supposed to do?
- Harry Kim: Maybe you should tell her you understand.
- Tom Paris: What good would that do?
- Harry Kim: It might make her less defensive; and then maybe it would be easier for her to see your point of view.
- Tom Paris: Yeah... What if she can't?
- Harry Kim: Like I said, my couch is your couch.
- The Doctor: I've been expanding my database in obstetric and pediatrics.
- B'Elanna Torres: You haven't found ANOTHER problem, have you?
- The Doctor: No, not at all, but I HAVE put together a prenatal enrichment program.
- B'Elanna Torres: Why am I not surprised?
- The Doctor: I'd like to start with trans-abdominal vocalization.
- B'Elanna Torres: Let me guess, you're going to sing to my fetus.
- Tom Paris: Well, forget about The Doctor. Forget the Captain, all the godfathers...
- B'Elanna Torres: Maybe you're right.
- Tom Paris: I know I am. This isn't about their expectations or hopes... or... doubts. None of this belongs to them.
- B'Elanna Torres: It belongs to us. All of it.
- Tom Paris: Lucky us.
- The Doctor: I don't mean to be indelicate but, weren't you trying to get pregnant?
- B'Elanna Torres: Well, of course. I mean, we knew we wanted a family.
- Tom Paris: But the odds against human-Klingon conception are so high.
- The Doctor: Well, apparently you've beaten the odds. May I be the first to congratulate you.
- B'Elanna Torres: I just don't see any reason to have to label the baby. I don't wanna know the gender, I don't wanna have to pick a name yet.
- Tom Paris: Okay. Okay. Mommy knows best.
- B'Elanna Torres: "Mommy?"
- [young B'Elanna overhears the adults talking past bedtime at the campfire]
- John Torres: I'm sure B'Elanna overreacted.
- Carl: What makes you say that?
- John Torres: She's too damn sensitive.
- Carl: What do you mean? She's a greta kid.
- John Torres: You haven't been around her much the last couple of years. She's gotten moody, unpredictable, argumentative... just like her mother.
- Carl: I thought you loved Miral's intensity.
- John Torres: Everything's become a fight with her. I guess the older I get, the less intensity I can handle. Now, it's funny how Mom and Dad always turn out to be right.
- Carl: What do you mean?
- John Torres: Mom warned me not to marry Miral.
- Carl: Mom loved Miral.
- John Torres: Sure, she did, but she never thought I had the constitution to live with a Klingon, and now I'm living with two of them.