Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Parallax (1995)

Kate Mulgrew: Capt. Kathryn Janeway

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• Lieutenant Tom Paris : Wait a minute, wait... wait a minute - let me get this straight: we were cruising along at warp seven. Then we picked up a distress call and moved in to investigate. But now you're saying that the other ship is actually just a reflection of us and that the distress call is actually just the Captain's opening hail. But we picked up the distress call before she sent the hail. How could we have been seeing a reflection of something we hadn't even done yet? Am I making any sense here?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : No. But that's okay.

• Commander Chakotay : You're right, Captain, I do consider these my people, because nobody else on this ship will look out for them like I will. And I'm telling you: you're gonna have to give them more authority if you want their loyalty.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Theirs? Or yours, Commander?

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Lieutenant - I understand you studied biochemistry at the Academy?

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Er, only two semesters.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Close enough. You just volunteered to become a field medic. Report to sickbay as soon as we're finished here.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Two crew members have already filed complaints about her promotion. And she may be in for a tough period of adjustment. But I think B'Elanna's going to make a fine addition to this crew - our crew.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [going through Torres' Academy record]  Four disciplinary hearings, one suspension... You had quite a turbulent couple of years, didn't you?

  B'Elanna Torres : Yeah, I guess you could say that.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : What do you think the problem was?

  B'Elanna Torres : The problem? The problem was a system that didn't give anyone a chance to breathe!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We work under that same system on this ship.

  B'Elanna Torres : Then I guess maybe this is just a bad idea!

  [she turns to leave] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Why did you quit the Academy, B'Elanna?

  B'Elanna Torres : I didn't want to have anything to do with Starfleet then; and I'm sorry that I have to now.

• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I want to apologize for losing my temper. In your ready room. I think maybe you were hitting a little bit too close to home, you know? I respect Chakotay, but he's wrong. I'm not officer material and we both know it. The truth is, I quit the Academy because... I realized I couldn't make it in Starfleet. And believe me, no one was sorry to see me go.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Professor Chapman was.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : What?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : He put a letter in your permanent file saying that, should you ever reapply, he would support you. He thought you were one of the most promising cadets he'd ever taught.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I fought with him almost every day. I was always questioning his-his methods, his assumptions, and he was always slapping me down like some upstart kid. I-I was surprised he didn't help me pack my bags.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Some professors like students who challenge their assumptions, B'Elanna. And so do some captains. Professor Chapman wasn't alone. Many of your teachers thought you had the potential to be an outstanding officer. You had more friends at the Academy than you realized.

• Commander Chakotay : Can I ask you a question? Off the record? If things had happened differently and we were on the Maquis ship now instead of Voyager - would you have served under me?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : One of the nice things about being captain... is that you can keep some things to yourself.

• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Emitters online. I'm rerouting the damping field through the deflector grid.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Open a channel to the other ship.

  [as a channel opens, they hear the garbled transmission] 

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Ramping up field intensity.

  Ensign Harry Kim : It's working. We're cutting through the distortions.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [hearing the transmission is still garbled]  Re-modulate the EM band. See if you can clear it up a little more.

  Ensign Harry Kim : Compensating for amplitude distortion.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : This is Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Starship Voyager to the vessel near the quantum singularity. Do you need help?

  Commander Chakotay : That's your hail.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I'm applying the damping field to our visual scanners. I'll see if I can clarify the image.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : [seeing the other ship]  It's the Voyager. It's us.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : We've managed to find a replacement for the transporter chief, but we still need an astrogation plotter, a chief engineer, medical support personnel.

  Commander Chakotay : [handing her a PADD]  I've made a list of several Maquis crew members who would make good officers.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [giving it a once-over]  B'Elana Torres? She was the one involved in that incident with Mr. Carey.

  Commander Chakotay : That's right.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Just what job do you think she's suited for?

  Commander Chakotay : Chief engineer.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're serious.

  Commander Chakotay : Very.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [moving on]  Regarding Sickbay... we still need a chief medical officer.

  Neelix : What about that electronic man down in Sickbay?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : It is an emergency medical hologram, and its abilities are limited. It can only operate within the confines of Sickbay.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Not to mention its lousy bedside manner.

• Commander Chakotay : I have no intention of being your token Maquis officer.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Show me another qualified Maquis candidate and I'll consider him.

  Commander Chakotay : B'Elana Torres.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Who cannot control herself and who could not make it through the Academy.

  Commander Chakotay : She's the best engineer I've ever known. She could *teach* at the Academy.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : In command school, they taught us to always remember that maneuvering a starship is a very delicate process. But over the years, I've learned that sometimes... you just have to punch your way through.

• Ensign Harry Kim : The rupture's over 50 million kilometers away. We don't have enough power to project a dekyon beam that far.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We'll have to take a shuttlecraft.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : You'll need the best pilot you've got in that shuttle, Captain. That'll be me.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Getting there is the easy part, Mr. Paris. We need someone who's familiar with the finer points of temporal mechanics, and unless you've been hiding your credentials, I don't think that's you. B'Elanna, you're with me.

• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Think of it like this. You're sitting at the bottom of a pond, which is frozen over, and you look up at the surface and you see a reflection of yourself. Now, you might think you're looking at another person sitting at the bottom of another pond looking back at you.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : And in this case, we'd be staring up at the surface of the event horizon and seeing a time-delayed reflection of ourselves.

  Commander Chakotay : Are you saying... we're the ones trapped in the singularity?

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Unfortunately, yes.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're right. It's the only theory that explains everything that's happened to us. We've probably been in this singularity since we felt the first jolt.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Tuvok, take the main deflector offline. Mr. Kim, reroute the port and starboard plasma flow to the main deflector. We can use it to generate a warp field.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : Deflectors offline.

  Ensign Harry Kim : Initializing plasma flow.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Release the warp particles.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Scanning the singularity.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Anything?

  Ensign Harry Kim : Not yet. Warp particles at full intensity.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : I'm picking up something; a slight irregularity. It could be a rupture in the event horizon.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Put it on screen.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : It is a rupture, Captain. It's 50 meters by... ten meters.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Oh, it's too small. It must have collapsed since we first passed through it.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We found the crack. That's the important thing. Now, how do we make it bigger?

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Put a wedge in it and force it open.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : One of the more difficult concepts to grasp in temporal mechanics is that sometimes effect can precede cause. A reaction can be observed before the action which initiated it.

  Ensign Harry Kim : So, what do we do to get out?

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I'm not sure, but I do know one thing. That as we slide deeper into the singularity, the spatial distortions are increasing. According to my calculations, within nine hours, they'll crush the ship.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : If your analogy's correct, how do we get through that sheet of ice?

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Look for a crack.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Or make a crack. Take something and smack it into the ice until it buckles.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Wait a minute. What if we've already made a crack in the ice?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : When we first entered the event horizon.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : If we could find our entry point, we might be able to slip out the way we came in.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : So, we'd be looking for a subspace instability in the event horizon. What would make it show up on our sensors?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway , Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Warp particles!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : If we saturate the event horizon with warp particles, we might be able to see them escaping through the rupture we made when we entered.

• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I just want you to know that I have personally gone over every emitter relay again and refitted four of them myself.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : No one blames you for what happened. Commander Chakotay thinks very highly of you. He's recommended you for Chief Engineer.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Well, um... we've, uh, we've been through a few scrapes together.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Do you think you're ready?

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Ready?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Ready to be chief engineer on a starship.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Well, I think I know my way around an engine room, if that's what you mean.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : We have a problem, and I think it's time we discuss it.

  Commander Chakotay : Captain, I appreciate your concerns about Torres, but I promise you...

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You don't understand, Commander. This isn't about Torres. My problem is with you.

  Commander Chakotay : Me?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Let me be blunt. What you tried to do just now was out of line.

  Commander Chakotay : In what way?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : When you decided to call Torres in Engineering.

  Commander Chakotay : I've worked with her. I know what she's capable of. We needed an answer right away and I knew she could give us one.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Carey is the senior officer in Engineering.

  Commander Chakotay : If you look at it that way, none of my people will ever have seniority.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : That's the problem, right there. They're not your people. You're treating the Maquis on this ship like they're still your crew.

  Commander Chakotay : I'm doing everything I can to integrate them into your crew, but frankly, you're not making it easy for me, Captain.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I can't make it easy, Commander. Surely you can understand that. They don't have the discipline. They don't have the training.

  Commander Chakotay : But some of them, like B'Elana Torres, have the ability.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : The Starfleet officers on this ship have worked all their lives to earn their commissions. How am I supposed to ask them to accept a Maquis as their superior officer just because circumstances have forced us together?

  Commander Chakotay : You're asking them to accept me.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're qualified. You're a graduate of the Academy, and you have Starfleet command experience.

• Commander Chakotay : It looks like we're running into more spatial distortions.

  Ensign Harry Kim : I'm picking up a highly localized disturbance off the port bow.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : On screen.

  [seeing the singularity] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Tuvok?

  Lieutenant Tuvok : It is another type-4 quantum singularity. Physical and temporal dimensions are identical to the one we encountered earlier.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Captain, according to these readings, we've returned to our previous coordinates. This isn't another singularity. It's the same one.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [going to Kim's station]  Check the navigational logs. Confirm our position.

  Ensign Harry Kim : Well, they show we've traveled 1.4 light-years away from the anomaly, but I've confirmed our position against the star chart. We're definitely back where we started. Doesn't make sense.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : They can't both be right. We're either still at the singularity or we're not.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Well, we can see the singularity, so I tend to believe that the external sensors are correct.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : That would imply there was something wrong with the warp drive and the navigational logs.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Paris, lay in a course away from the singularity. This time at maximum warp. Ensign Kim, I want you to keep a sensor lock on the singularity. Verify that we're moving away from it. Engage.

  Ensign Harry Kim : [the Voyager warps away]  Distance from the singularity is 10 million kilometers and increasing.

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : Warp engines holding steady. All systems report normal.

  Ensign Harry Kim : 11 million. 12 million.

  [tapping buttons on his console] 

  Ensign Harry Kim : I don't get it. Mr. Paris, have we altered course?

  Lieutenant Tom Paris : No, we're still steady on 310, mark 215.

  Ensign Harry Kim : Then something's really wrong here. It's ahead of us again.

• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I was just thinking about the problem with the Doctor's holographic projectors. It seems like the spatial distortions might be interfering with the projector's phase alignment.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : That was my guess, too.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : If that's the case, I could screen out those distortions by setting up a localized damping field around the projectors.

  Lieutenant Joe Carey : Is our priority here really the medical holograph system?

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : My point is that if the spatial distortions are also interfering with the transmission we received from the other ship...

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We could set up a similar field around our external sensors, and communicate with them.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Exactly. And they may know more about what's going on than we do.

• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : [seeing two Voyagers]  Well, this is a problem.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : One of them is a temporal reflection, but which one? I'm getting identical readings from both ships.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Captain, the rupture is starting to collapse again. If Voyager doesn't get through it within the next five minutes, they'll never get out.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : That means we have one chance to pick the correct ship.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Simple choice; port or starboard?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Starboard.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Port. The port ship is more likely to be the real one. It's closer to the rupture. That means...

  [the shuttle rumbles] 

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : ... that means they're holding position as close as they can to the rupture, waiting for us to dock before they head out.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : No. It may be closer to the rupture, but it's facing the wrong direction. The starboard ship is facing away from us. That means they're trying to give us easy access to the shuttle bay.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : There has to be some way to tell them apart besides which direction they're facing.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : The starboard ship's thrusters are at standby. They're holding position. But the port ship is moving toward the rupture.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Then I was right. It's the port ship. They're heading out.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Don't you see? Voyager did move toward the rupture 20 minutes ago when we first discovered it. That's why the port ship is moving toward it now. It's a time-delayed reflection of what we did before. The starboard ship's the real one. They're waiting for us.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : If you're wrong... we're gonna have a long time to debate it.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [considering B'Elana for chief engineer]  I'm not sure I'd be doing you a favor by putting you in charge down there. There'd be a lot of hard feelings toward you from many of the Starfleet people.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I'm not bothered by what people think of me.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : And the job requires knowledge of Starfleet protocol, experience with Starfleet methodologies.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Listen, Captain, if you don't think I'm right for this job, just say so.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'll be honest. I'm not sure whether you are or not. That's why I wanted to meet, try to get to know you a little better. I've been studying your Academy record.

  Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Where did you get that?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Thanks to Tuvok, we had the names of your entire crew by the time we left DS9.