Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)
Caretaker (1995)
Tim Russ: Tuvok
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : I spoke to your family before I left.
Tuvok : Are they well?
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Well - but worried about you.
Tuvok : That would not be an accurate perception, Captain. Vulcans do not worry.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : They... miss you.
Tuvok : As I do them.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'll get you back to them. That's a promise, Tuvok.
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Tuvok : I must inform you that I was assigned to infiltrate your crew, sir. I am Captain Janeway's Chief of Security.
Chakotay : Were you going to deliver us into their waiting hands, Vulcan?
Tuvok : My mission was to accumulate information on Maquis activities - and then deliver you into their waiting hands.
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Neelix : [taking a bath] I wanna thank you for your hospitality. I must admit, I haven't had access to a food rebel... uh, replicator before.
Tuvok : I'd never have guessed.
Neelix : And to immerse myself in water. Oh, do you know what joy this is? No one around here wastes water in this manner. A good sand scrub, that's the best that we can hope for.
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Chakotay : If the array is the Ocampa's sole source of energy, why would the Caretaker seal the conduits?
Tuvok : He would seal them if he no longer intended to use them, to protect the Ocampa from their enemies. Captain, there is now enough evidence to form a reasonable hypothesis. I believe that the Caretaker is dying.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Explain.
Tuvok : First, he increases the energy supply to provide the city with a surplus to last at least five years, then he seals the conduits. The logical conclusion is that he does not intend to continue his role as Caretaker.
Chakotay : That doesn't necessarily mean he's dying. He could be leaving.
Tuvok : Doubtful. Not after a millennium of providing for these people. I believe that the Caretaker owes something to the Ocampa. I believe the debt that can never be repaid is very likely a debt to them. In addition, there were his frequent references to running out of time. I think he knew his death was imminent.
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Tuvok : Captain - any action we take to protect the Ocampa would affect the balance of power in this system. The Prime Directive would seem to apply.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Would it? We never asked to be involved, Tuvok. But we are. We are.
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : That's only one of the mysteries we're dealing with, Mr. Tuvok.Take a look at this: It's virtually a desert. Not one river. Not one ocean. It has all the basic characteristics of an M-class planet except there are no nucleogenic particles in the atmosphere.
Tuvok : That would mean the planet is incapable of producing rain.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : I've studied thousands of M-class planets. I've never seen an atmosphere without nucleogenics. There must have been some kind of extraordinary environmental disaster. As soon as repairs are complete, we'll set a course for the 5th planet.
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Tuvok : Captain, I can access the system to send us back to Federation space, but it will take several hours to activate.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Unless you help us.
The Caretaker : Oh. I wish I could, but I have very little time left. So I have initiated a self-destruct program.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : If you destroy the array, we'll have no way to get home.
The Caretaker : The Ocampa's enemies cannot be allowed to... to control this installation. In minutes, it will be destroyed. You have to go. Go, now!
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Jabin : Have you come to investigate the entity's strange behavior, too, Captain?
Captain Kathryn Janeway : All we care about is getting home, Jabin. We're about to transport over to the array to see if we can arrange it.
Jabin : I'm afraid I cannot permit that.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : We have no dispute with you.
Jabin : I have a dispute with anyone who would challenge us.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : This is ridiculous. We have no intention of challenging you.
Jabin : And I have no intention of letting anyone with your technological knowledge board the array.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Jabin, can we discuss this like two civilized...
[Jabin ends the transmission]
Tuvok : They're powering up their weapons.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : I guess we can't.
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Tuvok : Captain, our sensors did not pick up any indication of an underground civilization. The subterranean barrier Jabin described may be responsible. It might also block our transporter.
Kes : There are breaches in the security barrier where it's begun to decay. That's how I got out.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Have the transporter room begin a sweep for any breaches we might be able to beam through.
[Tuvok nods and leaves]
Neelix : Kes can tell you where to go, but now that she's free, we're leaving this system together.
Kes : Neelix, these people rescued me.
Neelix : I rescued you.
Kes : With their help. It would be wrong not to help them now.
