Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Year of Hell (1997)

Kate Mulgrew: Capt. Kathryn Janeway

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Quotes 

• Tom Paris : I was inspired by an ancient steamship, the Titanic. The engineers of the day constructed a series of special bulkheads - sort of like a honeycomb - that would lower into place if they suffered a major hull breach. In theory, they could stay afloat even with half the ship filled with water.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : The Titanic? As I recall, it sank.

  Tom Paris : Well, let's just say I've... made a few improvements.

• [last lines] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Each of you has done your best, but determination alone isn't going to hold this ship together. It's time we faced reality. We've lost nine decks; more than half the ship has been destroyed; life support is nearly gone. Voyager can no longer sustain its crew. I promised myself that I would never give this order, that I would never break up this family, but asking you to stay... would be asking you to die. You will proceed to the escape pods and evacuate this vessel. Set your course for the Alpha Quadrant. Along the way, try to find allies; secure faster ships if you can - anything to get home. The senior staff and I will remain on board as long as possible. We will try - somehow - to rescue Tom and Chakotay. The escape pods are equipped with subspace beacons. That's how we'll keep track of you. When we find each other again - and we will... we will find each other again - I expect all of you to be in one piece, with some interesting stories to tell. Good luck.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Is there something on your mind?

  Chakotay : Yes, but you're not going to like it.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : That's never stopped you before.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : This is turning into the week of hell.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Captain's log, Stardate 51268.4 - This morning's attack destroyed the power grid on deck eleven. No casualties this time, but the replicator system was badly damaged. We've gone to emergency rations. As a result, the situation has gotten a little worse. Environmental controls continue to fail. Seven decks have been rendered uninhabitable, and we've had to relocate the crew. Quarters are close, nerves are frayed, and I'm not sure what's more difficult to maintain - Voyager's systems or the crew's morale. What's important is that we're together, working towards a single goal: survival.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Seven, we could use a little of that Borg efficiency right about now.

• [Voyager has sustained heavy damage, and the bridge lies in ruins] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'll be in my ready room.

  [picks up a piece of debris] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You have the bridge.

  [throws debris away] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : What's left of it.

• [Janeway declines a watch Chakotay has given her as a birthday present] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : That watch represents a meal, a hypospray, or a pair of boots. It could mean the difference between life and death one day.

• Chakotay : Happy birthday.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Happy what?

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Ensign Kim and Seven of Nine have merged Starfleet and Borg ingenuity to create this new technology, and I'm sure I speak for the entire crew when I say... thank you. Now, how the hell does it work?

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [discovering that, in an instant, a species has vanished]  Erased from history.

• Chakotay : [on Janeway's determination to protect Voyager with temporal shielding]  Before long, there won't be a ship left to protect.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We don't have a choice.

  Chakotay : Maybe we do.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Here comes the part I'm not gonna like.