- Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: You aren't the first female who's ever had a man run out on her.
- Female Q: I hope you're not comparing some failed romance in your pitiful existence to my eternal association with Q.
- Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: You know, I have really had it with this superiority complex of yours.
- Female Q: It's not a complex, dear, it's a fact.
- Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: Well, here's another fact: if you don't stop pestering me, I'm never going to finish, in which case your association with Q might not be quite as "eternal" as you think.
- Commander Chakotay: There's gotta be some way to get back to the Continuum besides... snapping your fingers.
- Female Q: Hm. Well... there is one possibility, but somehow I don't think this rickety barge or your half-witted crew members are up to the challenge.
- Tuvok: May I remind you, madam, that this "rickety barge" and its "half-witted crew" are your only hope at the moment?
- Q: I know that you're probably asking yourself "Why would a brilliant, handsome, dashingly omnipotent being like Q want to mate with a scrawny little bipedal specimen like me?"
- Captain Janeway: Let me guess: no one else in the universe will have you!
- Q: Nonsense! I could have chosen a Klingon targ; the Romulan Empress; a Cyrillian microbe.
- Captain Janeway: Really? I beat out a single-celled organism? How flattering!
- Q: Besides, you have no idea what you're missing. Foreplay with a Q can last for decades.
- Captain Janeway: Sorry, but I'm busy for the next sixty or seventy years.
- Captain Janeway: [seeing the Q mate, merely by the touch of their index fingers] That was it?
- Q: You had your chance. Don't go crying about it now.
- Q: I look at the universe in an entirely different way now. I mean, I can't go around causing temporal anomalies or subspace inversions without considering the impact it'll have on my son.
- Captain Janeway: I'm glad to hear you intend to set a good example.
- Q: By the way, did I tell you how smart he is? I've already taught him how to knock small planets out of orbit.
- Q: [referring to Chakotay] I was wondering, Kathy, what could anyone possibly see in this big oaf anyway? Is it the tattoo? Because MINE'S BIGGER!
- Captain Janeway: Not big enough.
- Neelix: [to Q] Do you want to know what Captain Janeway likes about me? I'll tell you: I am respectful, loyal, and most of all, sincere - and those are qualities which someone like you could never hope to possess.
- Commander Chakotay: [grabbing the female Q] I wanna know what's going on here. Where's Captain Janeway?
- Female Q: Let me go before I hurl this ship and everyone on it into the Therinian Ice Age!
- Commander Chakotay: I don't think you can.
- Female Q: [scoffs] Don't be ridiculous!
- [she snaps her fingers, but nothing happens]
- Commander Chakotay: I don't know how or why, but something's affected your powers, otherwise you wouldn't still be here and you wouldn't have a bruise on your forehead. Now start talking, before *I* hurl *you* into the brig!
- Q: You'd be surprised what innovative munitions can be created by one immortal being who's set his mind on killing another.
- Q: [about the civil war of the Q] It's terrible, isn't it? But it's also a wonderful opportunity.
- Captain Janeway: I fail to see anything wonderful about a war.
- Q: War can be an engine of change. War can transform a society for the better. Your own Civil War brought about an end to slavery and oppression.
- Captain Janeway: I want you out, but first, get rid of this bed.
- Q: I've no intention of getting between those Starfleet-issue sheets. They give me a terrible rash!
- Captain Janeway: Well - since you won't be getting in the bed, I wouldn't worry about it.
- Q: Oh, I see. This is one of those silly human rituals - you're playing hard to get.
- Captain Janeway: As far as you're concerned, Q, I'm impossible to get.
- Q: Goody! A challenge! This is going to be fun!
- The Doctor: [after witnessing a supernova from the bridge] Just remember, Kes: anyone can stargaze on the bridge - even a hologram with a mobile emitter - but the real action will always be in sickbay.
- Q: Oh, Kathy, don't be such a prude. Admit it - it has been a while.
- Captain Janeway: And it's gonna be a while longer.
- Q: I want you to help me transform the Continuum in the same way your Civil War transformed a nation.
- Captain Janeway: By mating with you?
- Q: I know - it's brilliant, isn't it?
- Q: What the Continuum needs right now is an infusion of fresh blood, a new sensibility, a new leader, a new messiah! Think of it, Kathy: our child will be like a precious stone tossed into the cosmic lake, sending endless ripples of human conscience and compassion to wash up on every distant shore of the universe. What greater contribution could a being of your limited power ever hope to make? What is more important to humanity than peace? I'm offering you the opportunity to be the mother of peace.
- Commander Chakotay: I know I don't have any right to feel this way, but this bothers the hell out of me.
- Q: Guys, I just don't understand your captain. I've tried everything - filling the bridge with roses, writing Drabian love sonnets, serenading her in her bath...
- Lt. Tom Paris: Oh, I'll bet she loved that one.
- Q: But no matter that lengths I go to win her heart, she rejects me. Me! How, I ask you, is that possible?
- Ensign Harry Kim: Did it ever occur to you that she just doesn't like you?
- Q: [unbelievably] No.
- Captain Janeway: I don't see how a baby is going to end a war being fought by a race of omnipotent being!
- Captain Janeway: The only thing that interests me right now is the welfare of my ship and crew.
- Q: [referring to Chakotay] Well, I'm sure your first officer - "Chuckles," is it? - I'm sure he's got everything under control for the moment.