Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Worst Case Scenario (1997)

Robert Duncan McNeill: Lt. Tom Paris

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Quotes 

• Lieutenant Tom Paris : [on Seska]  You should never have crossed her, Tuvok.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : *She* has been dead for over a year now. There would have been no way to predict this turn of events.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : I guess we should've known Seska wouldn't let a little thing like death stop her from getting even.

• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : There is room in every good story for a little bit of passion.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : You know, maybe you're on to something. I could add a steamy love scene between the Starfleet conn officer and the Maquis engineer.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Oh, that's realistic.

• "Ensign" Tom Paris : It's been over an hour already, I'm getting bored.

  Tuvok : I am not concerned with your amusement, Ensign. We are in a crisis situation and we will follow procedure, and procedure dictates that we wait for the right opportunity to attempt an escape, whether it takes an hour or a week.

  "Ensign" Tom Paris : A week? Who wrote this stuff?

• Lieutenant Tom Paris : [after being tortured by the holographic holo-Doctor]  Oh, just great. Maybe we can go to the mess hall now and let the holographic Neelix burn my arm with a frying pan.

• [Paris enters the holodeck while Torres is running the holo-novel] 

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Are you in the habit of just walking in on people's private holodeck time?

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Well, it's not as if I caught you dancing the rumba with a naked Bolian.

• Lieutenant Tom Paris : [on the mysterious author of the holo-novel]  Remember the good old days when it was impossible to keep a secret on a ship this small?

• Lieutenant Tom Paris : So, Tuvok - anything in the Dictates of Poetics... about how to escape from a ship full of insane holograms?

• Neelix : I would never presume to interfere in the creative process. It's more of a comment, really. About the Neelix character...

  Lieutenant Tuvok : How surprising.

  Neelix : He would never betray the Captain the way he does in that story. Er, no offense, Mr. Vulcan, but I don't think you understand my character very well.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Tuvok, did you forget to follow the Dictates of Poetics?

• Lieutenant Tuvok : Need I remind you that it was I who first began the scenario?

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : And you think I'm compromising your creative vision?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : In so many words, yes.

• Ensign Harry Kim : So, what's this Ayala tells me about a new holo-novel?

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : [laughs embarrassed]  Get in line, Harry.

• Lieutenant Tom Paris : Computer, resume program.

  Voyager Computer : The holographic simulation has ended.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Well, start it up again, right where it left off.

  Voyager Computer : Unable to comply.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Why not?

  Voyager Computer : Additional narrative parameters have not been programmed.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Are you saying there's no more story?

  Voyager Computer : Affirmative.