Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Think Tank (1999)

Jason Alexander: Kurros

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• [last lines] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Looks like your ship's having difficulties.

  Kurros : A minor problem.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Well, I'm sure you'll find a solution. Just give it some... thought.

• Kurros : You know you will never be satisfied here among these people. Is this what you really want?

  Seven of Nine : Acquiring knowledge is a worthy objective, but its pursuit has obviously not elevated you.

• Kurros : There is nothing like a good problem to spark the synapses, is there, to open the mind to new possibilities, new... ways of seeing things? Of course, one must always confront self-doubt and fear, but that is a small price to pay for the... exhilaration of finding the perfect solution.

• Kurros : Bevvox founded our group more than one hundred years ago, after wandering the galaxy on his own for a few millennia.

  Seven of Nine : How old is this creature?

  [Bevvox utters a deep, gurgling hum] 

  Kurros : If you please, that is a sensitive topic with him.

• [Janeway and Seven are observing a type of jellyfish in a water tank] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : They must be studying it.

  Kurros : Actually, she is studying you.

• [Kurros tries to persuade Seven to join his group] 

  Kurros : We have a singular mission: to perfect our knowledge. Perfection sometimes necessitates selfishness. It is your life, not Voyager's, not Captain Janeway's or anyone else's. It is up to you to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

  Seven of Nine : I agree, but I can do that here.

• Kurros : I have come to offer our help with your Hazari paradox.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Paradox?

  Kurros : That is right. Is it an escape route, or is it a trap? Do they know that you know that they know? It is the best kind of puzzle - pure tactics, psychology.

• Kurros : You have a problem, Captain. I am the solution.

• Kurros : [eyeing Seven of Nine]  When we helped the citizens of Rivos Five resist the Borg, all we asked for was the recipe for their famous zoth-nut soup. Care for a taste?

  Seven of Nine : [flatly]  Another time, perhaps.

• Kurros : Without problems that test the limits of your abilities, you can not expand them.