Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Good Shepherd (2000)

Kate Mulgrew: Capt. Kathryn Janeway

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• Tal Celes : Well, just don't trust me with the analysis. I guarantee I'll get it wrong.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Well, with that attitude, I'm sure you will.

  Tal Celes : This has nothing to do with attitude, Captain. You and I are wired differently. To you, this is nothing but data. To me, it-it's a monster with-with fangs and claws.

• Mortimer Harren : We never should have left Voyager.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I've got news for you, crewman. Voyager isn't exactly a safe haven. We've been chased across the quadrant by far worse than whatever's out there - the Vidiians, Species 8472, the Borg... but I guess if somebody's hiding down on deck 15, they may not be aware of it.

  Mortimer Harren : I wasn't meant to be an explorer.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : And I wasn't meant to guide a ship across an unknown quadrant.

  Mortimer Harren : Then we're both victims of circumstance.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Oh, I've seen things I've never imagined, grown closer to people than I ever thought possible. I wouldn't call myself a victim, and I wouldn't trade the last six years for anything.

  Mortimer Harren : Then you've been deluded, by the inexhaustible human capacity to avoid the truth. You're the one hiding, not me.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Zeta particle derivation, Gamma wave frequency, Ion distribution, Flow rate of positrons: ZGIF - "Zero G is fun". That's how you remember the sequence.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : That's the nature of space exploration. It's unpredictable.

  Mortimer Harren : Which is why I don't like space exploration. Stumbling from star to star like a... a drunken insect careening toward a light source is not my idea of a dignified existence.

• [Harren flies his escape pod toward the dark matter aliens] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Janeway to Harren, what're you doing?

  Mortimer Harren : If they have to deal with me, it should give you a few more seconds to get away. That's my theory, anyway.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [firmly]  Resume your escape course now.

  Mortimer Harren : It's too late for that.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You made a mistake, Harren. Don't make another one.

  Mortimer Harren : I'm done hiding, Captain. A few seconds of exposure to real life, maybe I'll understand what I've been missing.

• [last lines] 

  Chakotay : What happened?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Huh... The good shepherd went after some lost sheep... and ran into a wolf.

  Chakotay : Did she find them?

  [Janeway looks at her three crewmen peacefully sleeping in sickbay] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I think she did.

• Chakotay : There are always a few who don't make it past their first year on a starship. Normally they're reassigned, but in our case, maybe we should relieve them of duty and let them pursue their own interests. It certainly wouldn't hurt general efficiency.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : They aren't drones, Chakotay. We can't just deactivate them.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Three people have slipped through the cracks on my ship. That makes it my problem.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Ever hear the Tale of the Good Shepherd? If even one sheep strayed into the wilderness, the shepherd left the safety of the flock and went after it.

  Seven of Nine : So you're intending to rescue them?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : In a manner of speaking. Maybe all it will take will be some personal attention from their captain, maybe something more, but I won't abandon a member of this crew... no matter what their problems might be.

• Crewman Mitchell : [snaps to attention]  Captain on the deck!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : At ease. Junction room 16?

  Crewman Mitchell : Over there, Captain.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Of course. Crewman Mitchell, how have you been?

  Crewman Mitchell : Uh, never better, ma'am. Yourself?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Not bad. Not bad at all.

  [proceeds into the indicated direction] 

  Crewman Mitchell : Uh, to the left, ma'am.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Thank you.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I think you just came up from your first deep dive.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [breaking for lunch]  Mortimer.

  Mortimer Harren : Even my mother didn't call me that.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Well, then, Mr. Harren, are you hungry?

  Mortimer Harren : No. Thank you.

• Mortimer Harren : Do you really believe that childhood environment is more important than genetically driven behavior patterns?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Just making conversation.

  Mortimer Harren : Conversation filled with unspoken assumptions, which I don't agree with. I'm a product of my nucleic acids. Where and how I was raised are beside the point, so if you're trying to understand me better, questions about my home planet are irrelevant.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : All right, then. How's your thirteenth chromosome? Missing a couple of base pairs in gene 178?