Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Initiations (1995)

Robert Beltran: Cmdr. Chakotay

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Quotes 

• Kar : I know that you're in my territory. And if you want to live to become that wrinkled old man, you're going to have to do what *I* say.

  Chakotay : Well, it looks like you just saved my life. Twice more and we'll be even.

• [Chakotay tries to reason with Kar who has attacked his shuttle] 

  Chakotay : Look, son, my starship is only a few light years away...

  Kar : I am not your son, Federation. I am your executioner!

• Kar : You won't stop me from earning my name, Federation.

  Chakotay : Not Federation - Chakotay! That's *my* name.

  Kar : Did you have to earn it?

  Chakotay : No. Not exactly.

  Kar : Then your name means nothing!

• Chakotay : It may mean something to you to die a violent death, but I'd like to get out of this without killing or being killed.

  Kar : You'd rather die in your sleep, a wrinkled old man?

  Chakotay : Sounds about right.

• Chakotay : What's so different about us, aside from the fact that I keep saving your life and you keep threatening to kill me?

• Chakotay : Your name, my uniform - not much difference. We both have to earn them.

• [Chakotay is performing the Pakra, a ritual commemorating the anniversary of his father's death] 

  Chakotay : A-koo-chee-moya. I pray on this day of memories, to speak to my father - the one whom the wind called... Kolopak. Though I'm far from his bones, perhaps there is a spirit in these unnamed skies who will find him, and honor him with my song. A-koo-chee-moya.

• Chakotay : My people taught me, a man does not own land. He doesn't own anything but the courage and loyalty in his heart. That's where *my* power comes from.

• Razik : [referring to Kar]  Why did you save him? It's a very ineffective way of waging war.

  Chakotay : I'm not at war with you.

  Razik : I wish I could say the same.

• Razik : You may not think you're at war with us, Federation Commander Chakotay. But everything you are is a threat to us. The Kazon fought long and hard for their independence from uniforms like yours.

  Chakotay : Uniforms maybe. But not like mine.

  Razik : Your uniforms. Your laws. Your technology. You are not welcome here.

• Kar : You should have let me die.

  Chakotay : I'm not in the habit of killing children.

• Chakotay : Why are you so eager for me to kill you?

  Kar : Because there are worse things than being killed by your enemy.

• [Kar was about to kill Chakotay in his sleep, but has backed down at the last moment] 

  Chakotay : Why didn't you go through with it?

  Kar : I am a coward.

  Chakotay : I don't believe that. I don't believe you do either. I think maybe you're beginning to realize I'm not your enemy. And only a fool would kill a friend.

  Kar : If you are my friend, then you're my only one.

• [last lines] 

  Chakotay : A-koo-chee-moya. I pray on this day of memories, to speak to my father - the one whom the wind called Kolopak. Father, if you can hear me among these unnamed stars, I ask you to continue to watch over me as you've always done. I ask you also to watch over a boy called Karden, who has a difficult path to travel. A-koo-chee-moya.