Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Darkling (1997)

Jennifer Lien: Kes

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Quotes 

• Kes : What do you want?

  The Doctor-Darkling : What everybody wants - just a little... excitement.

• Kes : Where're we going?

  The Doctor-Darkling : Wherever the winds of space carry us.

• The Doctor-Darkling : There's not enough room inside for both of us. One must die. I deserve to exist, more than your Doctor does.

  Kes : Why?

  The Doctor-Darkling : I was born of the hidden, the suppressed. I am the dark threads from many personalities.

  Kes : The historical characters?

  The Doctor-Darkling : None of whom could face the darkness inside, so they denied me, suppressed me, frightened of the truth.

  Kes : What truth is that?

  The Doctor-Darkling : That darkness is more fundamental than light, cruelty before kindness, evil more primary than good, more deserving of existence.

• Kes : Why does it bother you so much when I call you 'Doctor'? You said he was inside you, that he was unconscious. Why are you so afraid of him?

  The Doctor-Darkling : I fear nothing! No one! But he... repulses me.

  Kes : Why?

  The Doctor-Darkling : Because he's as weak as the rest of you. He fails to understand the power of his own holographic nature. He is detestable.

• [the Doctor-Darkling threatens to throw Kes down a precipice] 

  Kes : When I walked in on you on the holodeck, you could have killed me, knocked me unconscious.

  The Doctor-Darkling : I needed a hostage!

  Kes : You said you were taking me for my own good, to prevent me from making the wrong decisions. You said I was naive and needed your help. That's not what you say to a hostage. In your own way you've been trying to protect me.

  The Doctor-Darkling : I won't accept that!

  Kes : You've twisted and suppressed all that's good inside of you, but it's still there.

  The Doctor-Darkling : No! I won't hear this anymore!

  Kes : You can't deny it!

  The Doctor-Darkling : Watch me!

  [grabs Kes and plunges with her into the precipice] 

• [overtired, Kes hands Janeway a report] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : An all-nighter, Kes?

  Kes : Uh, Captain?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : The fine art of putting off an important task till the very last minute, then rushing through it. In my Academy days, I was the acknowledged master.

• Kes : I want complication in my life.

• Kes : I'm three years old now. If I'm attracted to someone, it's my business, not the whole ship's.