Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Mortal Coil (1997)

Robert Beltran: Cmdr. Chakotay

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• Chakotay : You're being called back to your life again, Neelix. Don't turn your back on it. We're your family now.

  Neelix : It's not enough.

  Chakotay : It is for us. "His function on this crew is diverse." That's what Seven of Nine said about you. Even our Borg understands how important you are on this ship. It's not just the duties you perform; it's the way you make people feel when you're around.

  Neelix : That Neelix is gone.

  Chakotay : I don't think he is.

• Neelix : [witnessing his own death on the holodeck]  Nothing.

  Chakotay : What?

  Neelix : I died, and there was nothing. There was no one there. No Forest.

  Chakotay : Forest?

  Neelix : The Great Forest. The afterlife. I was taught that when I died, my ancestors would be there, waiting for me by the Guiding Tree. My sisters, my mother and father, my cousins, everyone who was killed in the war. I took great comfort in knowing that we'd all be together again one day. But it's not true.

  Chakotay : Maybe we pulled you back before any of that could happen.

  Neelix : No. I was dead for 18 hours, I should have... experienced something. I should remember *something*. It's just a story. A myth. There is no Guiding Tree. No gathering of the ancestors.

  Chakotay : You can't be certain of that. Don't throw away a lifetime of faith because of one anomalous incident. Death is still the greatest mystery there is.

  Neelix : I was there. I experienced it. There was nothing.

• Chakotay : Monsters in the replicator? Who else on this ship can handle that?

• Chakotay : Don't throw away a lifetime of faith because of one anomalous incident. Death is still the greatest mystery there is.

  Neelix : I was there. I experienced it. There was nothing.

• Chakotay : Neelix wasn't a Borg drone.

  Seven of Nine : We will adapt.

• Chakotay : A vision quest isn't just a dream you dismiss after your first cup of coffee.