- Ensign Marla Gilmore: You said you want to learn more about humanity. I guess we're not exactly prized examples. I'm sorry.
- Seven of Nine: On the contrary. You've taught me a great deal.
- B'Elanna Torres: [about Burke] We broke up over ten years ago. No need to go to red alert.
- Tom Paris: How about yellow alert?
- B'Elanna Torres: You're cute when you're jealous.
- Tom Paris: Who's jealous?
- Captain Rudy Ransom: It's easy to cling to principles when you're standing on a vessel with its bulkheads intact, manned by a crew that's not starving.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: It's never easy, but if we turn our backs on our principles, we stop being human.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'm putting an end to your experiments, and you are hereby relieved of your command. You and your crew will be confined to quarters.
- Captain Rudy Ransom: Please, show them leniency. They were only following my orders.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Their mistake.
- Tom Paris: "BLT"?
- B'Elanna Torres: 'Bacon, lettuce and tomato'. It was a nickname.
- Tom Paris: A nickname?
- B'Elanna Torres: My initials.
- Tom Paris: Oh. How romantic.
- B'Elanna Torres: Look, Max... don't get me wrong, it's good to see you again, but... ten years...
- Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Burke: Tom Paris.
- B'Elanna Torres: Tom Paris.
- Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Burke: You could do worse.
- Captain Rudy Ransom: When I first realized that we'd be traveling across the Delta Quadrant for the rest of our lives, I told my crew that we had a duty as Starfleet officers to expand our knowledge and uphold our principles. After a couple of years, we started to forget that we were explorers, and there were times when we nearly forgot that we were human beings.
- Captain Rudy Ransom: Starfleet Regulation 3, paragraph 12: "In the event of imminent destruction, a captain is authorized to preserve the lives of his crew by any justifiable means."
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I doubt that protocol covers mass murder.
- [Burke is chatting to Torres, Paris and Kim]
- B'Elanna Torres: First Officer - impressive. The last time we talked, you were about to drop out of Starfleet.
- Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Burke: I heard you beat me to it. The Maquis?
- B'Elanna Torres: For a while. Until I ran into these two.
- Tom Paris: And it's been hell ever since.
- Naomi Wildman: I wanted to officially welcome you aboard the Starship Voyager.
- Ensign Marla Gilmore: I'm glad to be here.
- Naomi Wildman: If you need anything - replicator rations, a tour of the lower decks - I'm your man.
- Ensign Marla Gilmore: [about the Ponea] We called them the life of the Delta Quadrant. They see every first contact as an excuse to throw a party.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I couldn't help but notice, your crew calls you by your first name.
- Captain Rudy Ransom: When you've been in the trenches as long as we have, rank and protocol are luxuries. Besides, we're a long way from Starfleet Command.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I know the feeling.
- Captain Rudy Ransom: You seem to run a pretty tight ship.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: We've been known to let our hair down from time to time, but I find that maintaining protocol reminds us of where we came from, and hopefully where we're going.
- [Seven is trying to free Lessing from the debris on the Equinox]
- Seven of Nine: Do not be frightened.
- Crewman Noah Lessing: Too late for that.
- Chakotay: [finding one of the Equinox's crew huddling under debris] I'm Commander Chakotay, USS Voyager.
- Ensign Marla Gilmore: But... but we're the only humans in the Delta Quadrant.
- Chakotay: That's what we used to think.