- [in the Doctor's simulation]
- The Doctor: I'll go first, Captain, and draw any fire if need be.
- Vaskan Ambassador Daleth: Your crew is heroic, Captain.
- The Doctor: I just happen to be invulnerable to phaser fire, but I appreciate the compliment.
- [the Doctor has dismissed Quarren's historical simulation as pure fiction]
- Quarren: This is a reasonable extrapolation from historic record, but if you'd like to point out any inconsistencies...
- The Doctor: Inconsistencies? I don't know where to begin. Granted, this looks like the briefing room, but these aren't the people I knew. No one behaved like this. Well... aside from Mr. Paris.
- [in an unknown future]
- Tabris: As a result of the Doctor's testimony, a dialogue was opened between our peoples. Eventually, we found a new respect for our divergent cultures and traditions. The efforts of people like Quarren and the Doctor paved the way for unity. Quarren died six years later, but he lived long enough to witness the dawn of harmony. And the Doctor? Well, he served as our surgical chancellor for many years, until he decided to leave. He took a small craft and set a course for the Alpha Quadrant, attempting to trace the path of Voyager. He said he had a longing... for home.
- [first lines]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [in the historical simulation] When diplomacy fails, there's only one alternative: violence. Force must be applied without apology. It's the Starfleet way.
- [in the historical simulation]
- Vaskan Ambassador Daleth: [after Janeway has ordered to shoot the Kyrian cities again with biogenic weapons, doubling the yield] Captain, don't you think that's excessive?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: You picked a bad time to have second thoughts, Ambassador.
- Vaskan Ambassador Daleth: I want them defeated, but... but this is genocide!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Defeat, genocide - why quibble with semantics?
- [in the historical simulation]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [on the brawl between her senior officers] Save it for the holodeck. We've got a war to fight.
- The Doctor: Voyager wasn't a warship. We were explorers!
- Quarren: Yes, I know. Trying to get home, to Mars.
- The Doctor: Earth! You see, you couldn't even get THAT right!
- The Doctor: For your information, I don't appreciate being deactivated in the middle of a sentence. It brings back... unpleasant memories.
- The Doctor: [reflective] B'Elanna Torres - intelligent, beautiful, and with a chip on her shoulder the size of the Horsehead Nebula.
- Quarren: Ever since I was a small child, the first time I heard the name Voyager, it conjured up my imagination.
- The Doctor: Even though we were the bad guys?
- Quarren: That didn't matter. I was too young to understand the implications. The fact that you were so far from home traveling across the stars... Ah, I found it all very heroic. I suppose Voyager is what made me fall in love with history.
- The Doctor: If it means anything to you, you would have made a fine member of our crew.
- The Doctor: Seven hundred years and I'm still caught in the middle of your little dispute. One might have hoped for a bit of social progress in the interim.
- Quarren: Change never comes easily for us.
- The Doctor: Hm, that's an understatement.
- The Doctor: Seven hundred years! What about my ship? What happened to my crew?
- Quarren: No one knows. It's safe to say they're long dead.
- The Doctor: And I'm some sort of... fossil?
- Quarren: No, not a fossil. A witness, a living witness to history! There's so much we don't know about what happened, but you saw it. You lived through those times. You helped to shape them. Doctor, you could be the most important discovery of all time!
- The Doctor: From my perspective, I saw them all only a few days ago. But in fact, it's been centuries; and l'll never see them again. Did they ever reach home? I wonder.
- Quarren: You're trying to protect yourself.
- The Doctor: And so are you - from the truth! Isn't it a coincidence that the Kyrians are being portrayed in the best possible light? Martyrs, heroes, saviors... Obviously, events have been reinterpreted to make your people feel better about themselves. Revisionist history - it's such a comfort.
- The Doctor: I'm a medical hologram, programed to do no harm, but I'm doing harm on a global scale. Ever since you reactivated me, I've been concerned with clearing Voyager's good name, but that's not important now. There's more at stake!
- Quarren: A few days ago I might have agreed with you - but what about the facts?
- The Doctor: Facts be damned! Names, dates, places, it's all open to interpretation. Who's to say what really happened? And ultimately, what difference does it make? What matters is today, and the future of your people.
- Quarren: Doctor, you were there! You can't deny what happened!
- The Doctor: I can... and I will. Tedran was a martyr for your people, a hero, a symbol of your struggle for freedom. Who am I to wander in seven hundred years later and take that away from you?
- Quarren: History has been abused! We keep blaming each other for what happened in the past. If you don't help us now, it could be another seven hundred years.
- Seven of Nine: Two of the Kyrians are still alive. What shall we do with them?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Well, you've been wanting to expand your fighting force. Assimilate them.
- The Doctor: [injecting a captive with a neural solvent] No doubt you are experiencing a tingling sensation behind your eyes. The chemical is dissolving your optic nerves.
- Chakotay: I'll ask you again. Where is Tedron?
- The Doctor: The pain will increase exponentially until your cerebral cortex begins to liquify. I can reverse the process...
- [glances at Chakotay]
- The Doctor: ... if ordered to do so.
- Quarren: There are other... issues to be resolved.
- The Doctor: What kind of issues?
- Quarren: You're the Voyager doctor. A lot of people are going to have questions. On our world, artificial life-forms are considered sentient and responsible for their actions. You might have to face charges.
- The Doctor: Charges?
- Quarren: For your crimes. You designed the bio-weapon that killed eight million Kyrians.
- The Doctor: I did nothing of the sort.
- Quarren: All of our evidence shows that you were a war criminal.