Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Alice (1999)

Robert Duncan McNeill: Ensign Tom Paris

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• [last lines] 

  Tom Paris : From now on, I promise, no more affairs with strange ships.

  B'Elanna Torres : What about the Delta Flyer?

  Tom Paris : We're just friends.

• B'Elanna Torres : So, I finally get to meet the other woman.

  Tom Paris : Well, don't be too critical; she's a long way from finished.

  B'Elanna Torres : When have you ever known me to be critical?

  Tom Paris : [laughs]  Is that a trick question?

• Harry Kim : Alice?

  Tom Paris : Well, I've got to call her something.

  Harry Kim : How about 'The Lost Cause'?

  Tom Paris : [chuckles]  Alice Battisti *was* the lost cause.

• [first lines] 

  Tom Paris : All right, all right, hold on - if you were married in 2304 and your daughter was conceived during your eleventh pon farr, that would make you... 162 years old.

  Tuvok : Incorrect.

  Harry Kim : Come on, Tom, the man's not a day over 140. We know you were at least 100 when you joined Starfleet the second time, so I'm guessing you're around... 133?

  Tuvok : Also incorrect. I'm afraid you both lack sufficient data to reach a logical conclusion.

  Tom Paris : Come on, Tuvok, tell us.

  Tuvok : I see no reason to enlighten you.

  Harry Kim : Don't tell me Vulcans are embarrassed about their age.

  Tuvok : On the contrary. We value the wisdom that comes with advancing years.

  Tom Paris : In that case, how *wise* are you?

  Tuvok : Wise enough to end this inquiry.

• Tom Paris : Look at those lines. It's a work of art. That ship wasn't assembled, it was sculpted. I think I'm in love...

  [on seeing 'Alice' for the first time] 

• Tom Paris : Even B'Elanna thinks restoring this ship is worthwhile.

  Chakotay : Maybe, if we had the manpower to restore it.

  Tom Paris : No, I'll do all the work myself, on my own time. And, if I need a hand, Harry's offered to help.

  Harry Kim : I have?

• Neelix : There's nothing like having your own ship. I remember when I first laid eyes on my little freighter, Baxial.

  Tom Paris : No, don't tell me - love at first sight!

  Neelix : Actually, I thought she was the ugliest thing I ever saw.

  [both laugh] 

  Neelix : But she grew on me. Eventually, I, I couldn't imagine being without her. You know, she's still down in the shuttle bay. Why don't we get her and Alice together and go on a double date?

  Tom Paris : Yeah. You pack the picnic basket, I'll bring the deuterium.

• [Paris tells Alice about his very first flight experience] 

  Tom Paris : ...But then... came this moment of clarity, when suddenly everything made sense.

  Alice : The clouds parted.

  Tom Paris : I was flying! - No matter how many starships I've piloted since then, I'm still chasing that feeling.

  Alice : Tomorrow you'll catch it. Only this time, there won't be any clumsy controls to get in the way. Just you - me - and the stars.

• Alice : "And Daedalus fashioned wings from wax and feathers, and used them to escape his prison."

  Tom Paris : That's one of my favorite myths.

  Alice : I know.

  Tom Paris : But you left out the part where Icarus flew too close to the sun and his wings melted.

  Alice : Poetic license.

• Tom Paris : My arms, they feel numb.

  Alice : Who needs arms when you have wings?

• Tom Paris : I'm sorry - for everything.

  B'Elanna Torres : It wasn't your fault.

  Tom Paris : But I remember all of it - everything I said, everything I did... It was like I was sleepwalking.

  B'Elanna Torres : The important thing is, you woke up.

  Tom Paris : Yeah... Thanks for being my alarm clock.

• Tom Paris : Congratulations, Tuvok. You just saved us from a flotilla of hostile trash.

  [after Tuvok has raised shields and charged weapons against a junkyard] 

• Abaddon : She doesn't like being manhandled.

  Neelix : Temperamental?

  Abaddon : Sensitive. She demands respect, like any fine piece of machinery.

  Lt. Tom Paris : Sounds like you're sorry to let her go.

  Abaddon : Well, in some ways, she's like the daughter that I couldn't marry off - but that doesn't mean I'd trade her to just anyone.