- B'Elanna Torres: I've been a coward about everything... everything that really matters.
- Tom Paris: No, you're being a little hard on yourself.
- B'Elanna Torres: No. I'm gonna die... without a shred of honor, and for the first time in my life that really bothers me.
- Neelix: Lieutenant... without knowing why there's a black cloud hanging over your head, may I suggest something?
- B'Elanna Torres: Go right ahead.
- Neelix: You have a... bit of a temper... that you keep reined in, and sometimes it builds up inside you until you explode at someone.
- B'Elanna Torres: I'd say that about sums it up.
- Neelix: I'm offering to be a pressure valve.
- B'Elanna Torres: A what?
- Neelix: You may use me to blow off steam. When you're angry, come see me, call me names, insult me, question my parentage - I won't take it personally, and you won't need to keep things bottled up inside anymore.
- B'Elanna Torres: That may be the nicest offer I've had in a long time.
- B'Elanna Torres: I have to tell you the truth.
- Tom Paris: The truth about what?
- B'Elanna Torres: I... I love you.
- [Paris doesn't reply]
- B'Elanna Torres: Say something.
- Tom Paris: You picked a great time to tell me.
- Seven of Nine: [to solve a problem with the needy Caatati] I could design an energy matrix that would produce thorium in large quantities.
- Chakotay: If you've had this knowledge all along, why didn't you say so?
- Seven of Nine: I am not accustomed to thinking that way. Borg do not consider giving technology away, only assimilating it.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: And what do you suppose made you consider it now?
- Seven of Nine: I am not certain.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Maybe... it was just an unexpected act of kindness.
- Tom Paris: I tried to find you before, but you were on the holodeck.
- B'Elanna Torres: That's right.
- Tom Paris: You know, you left it running, and... there was a Klingon in there who didn't look too happy.
- Seven of Nine: I am finding it a difficult challenge to integrate into this group. It is full of complex social structures that are unfamiliar to me. Compared with the Borg, this crew is inefficient and contentious, but it is capable of... surprising acts of compassion.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Unexpected acts of kindness are common among our group. That's one of the ways we define ourselves.
- Tom Paris: Why is it we have to get beamed into space in environmental suits before I can initiate first contact procedures?
- B'Elanna Torres: Why is it that, if we're alone for more than thirty seconds, you start thinking about contact?
- Tom Paris: When we first met, you didn't have a very high opinion of me.
- B'Elanna Torres: That's putting it mildly. I thought you were an arrogant, self-absorbed pig.
- Tom Paris: [chuckles] Flattery won't get you any more oxygen. Do you think I've changed?
- B'Elanna Torres: A lot. Now you're a stubborn, domineering pig.
- B'Elanna Torres: I overslept this morning because I forgot to tell the computer to wake me, and then the acoustic inverter in my sonic shower blew out...
- Tom Paris: That'll make your hair stand on end.
- B'Elanna Torres: [discussing Seven of Nine] Bottom line is, I don't want her working in Engineering.
- Chakotay: The bottom line is, I'm giving you an order and you're gonna follow it, Lieutenant.
- Moklor: How have YOU proven yourself worthy?
- B'Elanna Torres: Um, I haven't built any empires, and I can't say that I've personally defeated any enemies in battle, but you have to realize I'm not living among warriors.
- Moklor: N'aww, then how do you expect to distinguish yourself?
- B'Elanna Torres: I don't know. I guess I'm doing the best I can.
- Moklor: Heh! A pitiful reply.
- B'Elanna Torres: Tell me something. When you hear about people like the Caatati, do you have any feelings of remorse?
- Seven of Nine: [after a pause] No.
- B'Elanna Torres: That's it? Just "no"?
- Seven of Nine: What further answer do you require?
- B'Elanna Torres: Oh, maybe some kind of acknowledgement of the billions of lives you helped destroy? A justification for what you did? Maybe... a little sense of guilt?
- Seven of Nine: Guilt is irrelevant.
- B'Elanna Torres: Heartwarming.
- Moklor: [guiding B'Elanna through the Klingon Day of Honor] A warrior must endure great hardship. To test YOUR mettle, you will endure the ritual of twenty painstiks. After that, you will engage in combat with a master of the bat'leth. Finally, you will traverse the sulfur lagoons of Gorath!
- B'Elanna Torres: You know, I don't think so. I didn't want to do this BEFORE you described it. Certainly not now. I'm leaving.
- Moklor: Not until you have completed the ceremony, p'tahk.
- Lumas: Because we have no resources, everyone treats us like vagrants, even criminals.
- Chakotay: We're not unsympathetic, but we have limited supplies. We can't possibly provide enough for all your people.
- Lumas: Forgive me, but, heh, from my perspective, you live in luxury. You don't suffer from debilitating diseases. You have many sources of energy... uh, replicators. Your crew is very well fed. Apparently, keeping your bellies full is more important to you than helping those less fortunate.
- Neelix: That's unfair. These are the most generous people you could hope to meet - but if we gave supplies to everyone who asked, we wouldn't have anything left.