Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Barge of the Dead (1999)

Roxann Dawson: Lt. B'Elanna Torres

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• B'Elanna Torres : Do you believe in an afterlife?

  Chakotay : I accept there are things in the universe that can't be scanned with a tricorder.

• B'Elanna Torres : I know that we haven't always seen eye to eye, but despite our differences, you helped me become a good officer, and I'd like to think that you're proud of me for it.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I am.

  B'Elanna Torres : My mother never had the chance to be proud of me. I'd like her to know me the way you do.

• B'Elanna Torres : [of her mother]  Did I ever tell you that she put me in a Klingon monastery?

  Tom Paris : [snorts]  You're kidding.

  B'Elanna Torres : It was after their marriage ended. She pulled me out of the Federation school in order to teach me... honor and discipline.

  Tom Paris : Hm - out of the plasma cooker into the fire.

  B'Elanna Torres : She prayed to Kahless every day to guide me in the ways of the warrior. I guess he wasn't listening.

• Brok'Tan : This is the Barge of the Dead. Our dishonored souls are being taken to Gre'thor.

  B'Elanna Torres : Klingon hell is a myth.

  Brok'Tan : That's what I thought - just a foolish superstition. Imagine my surprise.

  B'Elanna Torres : But I was on Voyager with my crew.

  Brok'Tan : That was the naj, the dream before dying. When we can't accept that we've died, we create the illusion of life to hold on to.

• Miral, B'Elanna Torres' Mother : You've taken the first step of your journey.

  B'Elanna Torres : And what about you?

  Miral, B'Elanna Torres' Mother : We will see each other again.

  B'Elanna Torres : In Sto-vo-kor?

  Miral, B'Elanna Torres' Mother : Yes, in Sto-vo-kor. Or, maybe... when you get home.

• Neelix : [offering Paris a dish of gagh]  Sop joq jiH yuv gagh drek!

  B'Elanna Torres : He said eat this, or he'll force it down the gullet of your corpse.

  Neelix : No offense.

  Tom Paris : Ah, none taken. So, this is replicated, right?

  Neelix : Unfortunately.

  Tom Paris : And how do you get it to... move?

  Neelix : I used a kinesthetic agent to give it a little oomph.

• B'Elanna Torres : [to Paris]  And if you even think of joining in on this 'embrace your heritage' nonsense, I swear, I'll rip out your tongue and wear it as a belt.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I told you to return to Voyager, not chase the probe into the center of an ion storm.

  B'Elanna Torres : We only have one multi-spatial probe; I didn't want to lose it.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We only have one B'Elanna Torres; I don't want to lose her either.

• B'Elanna Torres : I may have believed in you as a child, but not anymore.

  Kortar : If you didn't still believe, you wouldn't be here.

• B'Elanna Torres : I don't consider Voyager hell!

  Neelix : Are you sure? Have you ever been truly happy here? If you thought fifty years aboard this ship would be difficult, try eternity.

• B'Elanna Torres : What're you still doing here? I released you to Sto-vo-kor.

  Miral, B'Elanna Torres' Mother : You can't free me until you free yourself.

• B'Elanna Torres : [on her Klingon heritage]  I inherited the forehead and the bad attitude - that's it.

• B'Elanna Torres : Tell me what you want me to be! A good Starfleet officer? A good Maquis? Lover? Daughter? Just tell me what you want from me!

  Miral, B'Elanna Torres' Mother : We don't want anything from you, B'Elanna.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We only want you.

• Chakotay : Looks like the Klingons beat Starfleet to the Delta Quadrant by a few hundred years. You may be holding the most important archeological find in Klingon history.

  B'Elanna Torres : Remind me to plant a flag on behalf of the Empire.

• Tom Paris : B'Elanna? Are you alive?

  B'Elanna Torres : You tell me.

  Tom Paris : [scanning her vitals]  You've got a mild concussion.

  B'Elanna Torres : That's the best thing that's happened to me all day.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : There's a limit to how far I'll let religious practices go aboard this ship. If your belief system required you to sacrifice a child to your gods, I wouldn't allow that either.

  B'Elanna Torres : That's an absurd example.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You want to simulate a near-death experience so you can revisit the Barge of Death, and you're telling me what's absurd?

• Chakotay : What do you think of the afterlife so far?

  B'Elanna Torres : It's not exactly what I had in mind.

• B'Elanna Torres : What do you want?

  Miral, B'Elanna Torres' Mother : Who are you asking?

  B'Elanna Torres : You! Kahless! The tooth fairy! Anybody who will tell me what I am supposed to do!

  Miral, B'Elanna Torres' Mother : You are the only one who can answer that question. Choose to live, B'Elanna.

• B'Elanna Torres : Harry, it bled. It screamed. There's gotta be some explanation.

  Harry Kim : Hey, I've got one for ya: you hit your head harder than you thought.

• B'Elanna Torres : Where am I?

  Hij'Qa : Silence. The dead ask no questions.

• B'Elanna Torres : He slaughtered my friends.

  Brok'Tan : No. He slaughtered the dream.

• Tuvok : Listen to yourself whine like a Ferengi.

  B'Elanna Torres : Patak!

  Tuvok : You're not worthy of the blood in your veins. A true Klingon would try to kill me where I stand.

  B'Elanna Torres : What the hell has gotten into you?

  Tuvok : This exercise is over. You are dismissed, Lieutenant, and take your dishonor with you.

• B'Elanna Torres : Oh, God, I'm alive.