- [the entire Voyager crew is having nightmares about the same alien]
- Captain Janeway: Tell me more about your dream. Where exactly did you see the alien?
- Tuvok: As a matter of fact, it was here in the turbolift.
- Captain Janeway: What happened?
- Tuvok: The alien simply stared at me, as if scrutinizing my appearance.
- Captain Janeway: That's what happened in my dream. What did you do?
- Tuvok: I returned to my quarters.
- Captain Janeway: Did the alien follow you?
- Tuvok: He did.
- Captain Janeway: And then?
- Tuvok: He watched me.
- Captain Janeway: Doing what?
- Tuvok: Getting dressed.
- Captain Janeway: *Getting* dressed?
- Tuvok: Yes.
- Captain Janeway: I don't suppose I should ask why you were undressed.
- Tuvok: I would prefer that you didn't.
- Neelix: ...and the next thing I knew, I was being boiled alive in a pot of my own leola root stew.
- B'Elanna Torres: Talk about a nightmare.
- Neelix: Well, it was perfectly seasoned.
- B'Elanna Torres: I wonder what a Vulcan nightmare would be like.
- Neelix: Alone, exiled on a planet where the only form of communication... is laughter.
- Tom Paris: Let's go skiing. How about... St. Moritz?
- B'Elanna Torres: We went skiing last time.
- Tom Paris: And you loved it. You're getting really good, you know.
- B'Elanna Torres: I just thought maybe we could run a program where the windchill factor wasn't thirty below zero... like... Fiji... or Samoa.
- Tom Paris: [scoffs] There's nothing to do there.
- B'Elanna Torres: And you can be warm while you're not doing it.
- B'Elanna Torres: We were just trading dream stories.
- Neelix: Tell us yours.
- Harry Kim: Oh, it was... nothing very interesting, just the usual... you know, uh...
- B'Elanna Torres: Who was she, Harry?
- [Harry stares at her flabbergasted]
- Harry Kim: The woman of my dreams.
- Dream Alien: [after one of the aliens suddenly disappears] What happened?
- Captain Janeway: Looks like he woke up.
- Chakotay: I found the cavern and your people. I'm there right now in the waking world, and it's all gonna be destroyed in less than two minutes, unless you deactivate that transmitter.
- Dream Alien: If you are there, you'll be killed too. I think you're lying.
- Chakotay: Oh, believe me, if I don't contact my ship, you and I are both gonna die in our sleep.
- The Doctor: Chief Medical Officer's log, stardate 51471.3 - With the neurogenic field neutralized, I've been successful in reviving the entire crew. Unfortunately, the experience has produced a troubling side effect for many of them - acute insomnia.
- The Doctor: And, Commander, I suggest we keep an open com-line. I may need to provide you with a verbal splash of cold water every now and then.
- Chakotay: [after waking from a lucid dream] Well, it was certainly one of the most interesting away missions I've ever been on.
- Captain Janeway: Wait a minute. If Chakotay was dreaming and he woke up, what are we doing here?
- Tuvok: Perhaps we are dreaming as well.
- B'Elanna Torres: Now I'm lost.
- Neelix: You're not the only one.
- Neelix: Maybe this is all one person's dream. If for example mine, and none of you are really here.
- B'Elanna Torres: Trust me, Neelix, I wish I weren't, but I'm here.
- Captain Janeway: We have to let the rest of the crew know what's happening, that as long as they know they're in a dream, they can't be harmed.
- B'Elanna Torres: And if the aliens try to stop us?
- Captain Janeway: Then we turn this dreamworld of theirs... into a nightmare.
- Chakotay: I wonder... do they ever wake up? How did they evolve this way?
- Captain Janeway: We may never know. Sometimes first contact is last contact.
- Dream Alien: You sound very sure of yourself, Captain
- Captain Janeway: Why shouldn't I be.
- Dream Alien: Have you thought about what's happening to your bodies in the waking world? How long do you think they'll survive without nourishment, without physical activity? Your bodies are withering as we speak. You can't stop it.
- Captain Janeway: Don't be so sure.
- Seven of Nine: The Borg share a collective consciousness. These aliens may have somehow induced a state of collective UN-consciousness.
- B'Elanna Torres: You mean... we're all sharing the same dream?
- Tuvok: It is possible.
- Captain Janeway: This is all fascinating speculation, but unless we have proof to the contrary, we have to treat this like an invasion.
- The Doctor: Normally, I consider a good night's sleep an important part of any health regimen, but in this case I can't recommend it.
- Chakotay: I had a bad dream last night, too.
- Captain Janeway: You tell me yours and I'll tell you mine.