Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

One Small Step (1999)

Robert Beltran: Cmdr. Chakotay

Quotes 

• Chakotay : Do you remember what you wanted to be before you were assimilated?

  Seven of Nine : I was assimilated when I was a child.

  Chakotay : I knew I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was six.

  Seven of Nine : [hesitates, then sighs]  A ballerina.

  Chakotay : [smiles]  Maybe it's not too late.

  Seven of Nine : It was a juvenile fantasy.

  Chakotay : Those are the ones that stick with you.

• [Seven makes improvements to the computer core, which seem to affect secondary systems on the ship] 

  Seven of Nine : I've explained the value of these enhancements on several occasions, but Lieutenant Torres chose to ignore me. I thought a demonstration would be more persuasive.

  Chakotay : Well, I doubt this one's going to change her mind.

  Seven of Nine : Clearly, Voyager is not yet ready for assimilation.

  [Chakotay gives her a funny look] 

  Seven of Nine : A joke. The Doctor suggested that I defuse tense situations with humor.

• [Seven, Chakotay and Paris are trapped inside an anomaly while searching for a ship of 300 years old] 

  Chakotay : I made a mistake. I put the mission at risk.

  Seven of Nine : You put our lives at risk!

  Chakotay : Well, we don't make it out, someone's bound to come looking for us in a few hundred years.

  [Seven gives him a funny look] 

  Chakotay : Defusing a tense situation with humor. Remember?

• Seven of Nine : [in the module]  There's an active data file. It appears to contain log entries.

  Chakotay : [badly injured, in the Delta Flyer]  Can you play them for us?

  Seven of Nine : I believe so.

  Chakotay : Consider it my last request.

• Chakotay : Remember, when you set foot in that module, you'll be stepping into history.

  Seven of Nine : History is irrelevant.

  Chakotay : Irrelevant? Do me a favor - when you're over there, download whatever you can from their database; and, also, take a minute to look around, so you can tell us what it was like.

  Seven of Nine : There may not be time... but I'll try.

• Chakotay : This anomaly is as old as anything we've ever encountered. I could spend a lifetime studying the things it's collected.

  Seven of Nine : And leave Voyager without a first officer.

  Chakotay : They'd manage.