Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

The Gift (1997)

Kate Mulgrew: Capt. Kathryn Janeway

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• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I can tell by the expression on your face that you've got some bad news.

  Tuvok : I have no expression on my face; however, you are correct.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [summarizing Tuvok's report]  I've got an Ocampan who wants to be something more and a Borg who's afraid of becoming something less. Here's to Vulcan stability.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Ah... Tuvok's meditation lamp. I was with him when he got it six years ago, from a Vulcan master who doubled the price when he saw our Starfleet insignias.

  Kes : I'm sure it was the logical thing to do.

• [last lines] 

  Seven of Nine : Red.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : What?

  Seven of Nine : The child you spoke of, the girl. Her favorite color was red.

• [Janeway shows Seven of Nine the picture of a little girl] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Do you remember her? Her name was Annika Hansen. She was born on Stardate 25479, at the Tendara Colony. There's still a lot we don't know about her. Did she have any siblings? Who were her friends? Where did she go to school? What was her favorite color?

  Seven of Nine : Irrelevant! Take me back to the Borg!

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : She may have been raised by Borg, raised to think like a Borg, but she's with us now, and underneath all that technology she is a human being, whether she's ready to accept that or not - and until she is ready... someone has to make the decisions for her.

• Seven of Nine : You have imprisoned us in the name of humanity, yet you will not grant us your most cherished human right: to choose our own fate. You are hypocritical, manipulative. We do not want to be what you are! Return us to the Collective!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You lost the capacity to make a rational choice the moment you were assimilated. They took that from you, and until I'm convinced you've gotten it back, I'm making the choice for you. You're staying here.

  Seven of Nine : Then you are no different than the Borg.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : One voice can be stronger than a thousand voices.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [to Seven of Nine]  The Borg modifications you made to our vessel are disrupting our warp drive. We need your help to remove them, your... expertise, your cooperation.

  [firmly] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You must comply.

• The Doctor : I'm afraid we have a decision to make, a difficult one. Her human immune system has reasserted itself with a vengeance. Body armor, Borg organelles, biosynthetic glands - they're all being rejected. Her life is in danger. I have little recourse but to remove the Borg technology.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Which is the last thing Seven of Nine would want.

  The Doctor : Hence the difficult decision. If a patient told me not to treat them, even if the situation were life-threatening, I would be ethically obligated to honor that request.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : This is no ordinary patient.

• Seven of Nine : You are an individual. You are small. You can not understand what it is to be Borg!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : No, but I can imagine. You were part of a vast consciousness, billions of minds working together, a harmony of purpose and thought, no indecision, no doubts, the security and strength of a unified will - and you've lost that.

  Seven of Nine : [taking this in]  This drone is small now. Alone. One voice. One mind. The silence is unacceptable! We need the others!