Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)
Alter Ego (1997)
Garrett Wang: Ensign Harry Kim
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Quotes
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Marayna : Are you two friends?
Lieutenant Tuvok : [simultaneously] No.
Ensign Harry Kim : [simultaneously] Yes.
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Marayna : There's a luau tonight. You're coming, aren't you? Both of you?
Lieutenant Tuvok : No.
Ensign Harry Kim : Yes.
Marayna : You've got to stop doing that.
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Ensign Harry Kim : That's kal-toh, isn't it? Vulcan chess?
Lieutenant Tuvok : Kal-toh is to chess as chess is to tic-tac-toe.
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Ensign Harry Kim : Hi. My name's Harry "read-me-like-a-book" Kim.
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[Kim is trying to get his mind off Marayna with Tuvok's help]
Ensign Harry Kim : Logically, the best course is retreat. Meditation helps.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Retreat! A classic case of Vulcan denial, if you ask me.
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Lieutenant Tuvok : To the trained Vulcan intellect, intense romantic love is nothing more than a set of stereotypical behaviors. Not having our discipline, typically humans are swept along by the process until it ends.
Ensign Harry Kim : How does it end?
Lieutenant Tuvok : Either in conversion to a more balanced, stable relationship, or in tragic circumstances.
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[last lines]
[Tuvok and Kim are playing kal-toh on the holodeck]
Holodeck Woman : May I join you?
Lieutenant Tuvok : No.
Ensign Harry Kim : No.
Lieutenant Tuvok : But... thank you.
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Lieutenant Tuvok : To see through an emotional complex is to rob it of its power. The first step is to identify the complex in which you have been caught.
Ensign Harry Kim : I told you, I'm in love.
Lieutenant Tuvok : There are many different kinds of love, Ensign. You must learn to differentiate. For example, you told me that you met this individual only days ago, yet you feel overwhelmed.
Ensign Harry Kim : I can't get her out of my mind, not for a second.
Lieutenant Tuvok : Have you been able to sleep?
Ensign Harry Kim : No.
Lieutenant Tuvok : Have you eaten?
Ensign Harry Kim : No.
Lieutenant Tuvok : Does your daily routine seem somehow empty? Perhaps even ludicrous?
Ensign Harry Kim : Yes!
Lieutenant Tuvok : You are experiencing shon-ha'lock, the engulfment. It is the most intense and psychologically perilous form of Eros. I believe humans call it "love at first sight."
Ensign Harry Kim : But we're talking about a holodeck character.
Lieutenant Tuvok : Irrelevant. The emotional complex in which you are trapped is the same - and so is the cure: Logical deconstruction followed by a regimen of meditative suppression, as I shall demonstrate.