Garrett Wang credited as playing...
Ensign Harry Kim
- Marayna: Are you two friends?
- Lieutenant Tuvok: [simultaneously] No.
- Ensign Harry Kim: [simultaneously] Yes.
- Marayna: There's a luau tonight. You're coming, aren't you? Both of you?
- Lieutenant Tuvok: No.
- Ensign Harry Kim: Yes.
- Marayna: You've got to stop doing that.
- Ensign Harry Kim: That's kal-toh, isn't it? Vulcan chess?
- Lieutenant Tuvok: Kal-toh is to chess as chess is to tic-tac-toe.
- [Kim is trying to get his mind off Marayna with Tuvok's help]
- Ensign Harry Kim: Logically, the best course is retreat. Meditation helps.
- Lieutenant Tom Paris: Retreat! A classic case of Vulcan denial, if you ask me.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: To the trained Vulcan intellect, intense romantic love is nothing more than a set of stereotypical behaviors. Not having our discipline, typically humans are swept along by the process until it ends.
- Ensign Harry Kim: How does it end?
- Lieutenant Tuvok: Either in conversion to a more balanced, stable relationship, or in tragic circumstances.
- [last lines]
- [Tuvok and Kim are playing kal-toh on the holodeck]
- Holodeck Woman: May I join you?
- Lieutenant Tuvok: No.
- Ensign Harry Kim: No.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: But... thank you.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: To see through an emotional complex is to rob it of its power. The first step is to identify the complex in which you have been caught.
- Ensign Harry Kim: I told you, I'm in love.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: There are many different kinds of love, Ensign. You must learn to differentiate. For example, you told me that you met this individual only days ago, yet you feel overwhelmed.
- Ensign Harry Kim: I can't get her out of my mind, not for a second.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: Have you been able to sleep?
- Ensign Harry Kim: No.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: Have you eaten?
- Ensign Harry Kim: No.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: Does your daily routine seem somehow empty? Perhaps even ludicrous?
- Ensign Harry Kim: Yes!
- Lieutenant Tuvok: You are experiencing shon-ha'lock, the engulfment. It is the most intense and psychologically perilous form of Eros. I believe humans call it "love at first sight."
- Ensign Harry Kim: But we're talking about a holodeck character.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: Irrelevant. The emotional complex in which you are trapped is the same - and so is the cure: Logical deconstruction followed by a regimen of meditative suppression, as I shall demonstrate.