- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [to a malfunctioning replicator] We're getting started on the wrong foot today, my friend.
- Chakotay: Captain?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'm sorry. I was talking to Voyager.
- Chakotay: It's nothing to be embarrassed about. I used to have long conversations with my Maquis ship.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Really? What did you two talk about?
- Chakotay: Oh, I can't tell you that. Captain-starship confidentiality.
- [the navigational sensors are malfunctioning]
- Tom Paris: I'm telling you, we rely too much on 24th-century technology, Captain. You give me a window and a sextant, and I guarantee I'll get you where you wanna go.
- [the ship suddenly goes to warp]
- Tuvok: We've jumped to warp 6.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Tom?
- Tom Paris: Don't look at me.
- Chakotay: How are the children?
- Neelix: Tucked in their alcoves, safe and sound.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I hope they weren't frightened.
- Neelix: Oh, why would they be frightened, Captain?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: They were in the dark for three hours.
- Neelix: Oh, no, not to worry! I told them a story to pass the time.
- Tom Paris: Let me guess, Mother Goose.
- Neelix: Certainly not! Some of those fairy tales can be frightening - ogres and child-eating monsters...
- Chakotay: It looks like that EM discharge did more damage than we thought. Transporter room 1 is out of commission, half the sonic showers are offline, and we temporarily lost artificial gravity on deck 5.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Any injuries?
- Chakotay: Ensign Mulcahey bumped his head on the ceiling.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Ouch.
- Neelix: Well, considering that Engineering was eight decks down, and the only way to get there was to crawl through pitch-black Jefferies tubes, it's fair to say that I was never more frightened in my life.
- [the Voyager computer has been taken over by an alien life form]
- Voyager Computer: Captain Janeway, report to Engineering.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Like hell I will.
- [she runs into a force field]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I won't be your prisoner. You'll have to kill me!
- Voyager Computer: Acknowledged.
- Neelix: We can either debate comparative xenobiology or I can continue with the story. Now, it's up to you.