Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Caretaker (1995)

Jennifer Lien: Kes

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• Kes : I never should have gone to the surface. I'm too curious. I'm told it's my worst failing.

  Neelix : No. No. It's a wonderful quality; your most endearing.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Would you be willing to take us underground to look for our missing crew?

  Kes : I'm afraid Jabin was right. There's no way to get down. The tunnel I came out of has been sealed.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We don't need a tunnel. We have the ability to transport there directly.

• 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.

• Daggin : We thought we'd never see you again. How did you get back?

  Kes : These people rescued me from the Kazon. I'm trying to help them find two of their crewmen. Does anyone know where the aliens are kept; the ones the Caretaker sends here?

  Daggin : I think they're at the Central Clinic.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Can you take us there?

  Toscat : No, she cannot.

  Kes : They can't speak telepathically, Toscat. Please talk aloud.

  Toscat : I didn't mean to be rude, but you should not be here.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We'll be glad to leave once we find our crewmen.

  Toscat : That won't be possible. We cannot interfere with the Caretaker's wishes.

  Chakotay : Maybe you can't, but we can.

  Toscat : You don't understand.

  Kes : That's right. They don't understand. They have no way of knowing that the Ocampa have been dependent on the Caretaker for so long, we can't even think for ourselves anymore. They don't understand we were once a people who had full command of our minds' abilities.

  Toscat : The stories of our ancestors' cognitive abilities are apocryphal; at the very least, exaggerated.

  Kes : We lost those abilities because we stopped using them.

• Toscat : We should not dwell on what's been lost, but on all that's been gained.

  Kes : We've gained a talent for dependence - for simply taking what we're given!

• Toscat : You defied the Caretaker by going to the surface, Kes. Learn from the experience. Follow the path he has set for us.

  Kes : I've learned very well, Toscat. I saw the sunlight! I can't believe that our Caretaker would forbid us to open our eyes and see the sky.