- [Tom Paris wants to participate in a race, much against Tuvok's wishes]
- Tom Paris: Captain, this race is more than just a sporting event. Until recently, this region was a war zone. Four different species fought for nearly a century to control it.
- Harry Kim: Now, for the first time, they're competing peacefully, to commemorate the new treaty that ended the war.
- Tom Paris: This race embodies everything the Federation values: a peaceful coexistence, free exchange of ideas...
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I think it's a great idea.
- Tom Paris: [baffled silence] You do?
- Tuvok: You do?
- [B'Elanna has planned a romantic holiday with Tom]
- The Doctor: I've already approved your time off.
- Tom Paris: The Captain's told you about the race already?
- The Doctor: What race? I was referring to your romantic getaway.
- Tom Paris: [silence, then realizing] Oh, no...
- The Doctor: Don't tell me you forgot.
- Tom Paris: [heading for Engineering] Do me a favour, Doc. Keep a lock on my biosigns.
- The Doctor: What for?
- Tom Paris: 'Cause in about five minutes, there may be a medical emergency in Engineering.
- [last lines]
- Tom Paris: 'B'Elanna Paris' - that has a nice ring to it.
- B'Elanna Torres: Thanks, but I already have a ring. Anyway, I kind of like the sound of 'Tom Torres.'
- Tom Paris: I hope you're kidding.
- B'Elanna Torres: Hey - it is the 24th century.
- The Doctor: So, what program are you planning to run?
- B'Elanna Torres: Something new, called 'Gedi Prime.'
- The Doctor: I've heard of that. The vacation paradise that makes Risa look like a tourist trap.
- B'Elanna Torres: Endless kilometers of crystalline beaches, mood reefs, bioluminescent waterfalls...
- The Doctor: And a championship golf course, if I'm not mistaken. Why don't I just join you?
- B'Elanna Torres: Somehow, I don't think that would add to the mood.
- The Doctor: Don't be so sure. You haven't seen me in a bathing suit.
- Seven of Nine: [about Tom Paris] He can be an erratic individual, but he's also a very competent officer, and clearly a skilled pilot.
- B'Elanna Torres: It's the erratic individual that takes getting used to.
- Seven of Nine: No doubt.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: One thing, gentlemen. Now that we're in this race, we're in it to win. After all, Starfleet's honor is at stake.
- [Tom and B'Elanna face an imminent warp core breach]
- Tom Paris: So, what's your answer?
- B'Elanna Torres: My answer?
- Tom Paris: Will you marry me?
- Computer: Warp core breach in fifteen seconds.
- B'Elanna Torres: You're proposing NOW?
- Tom Paris: It's as good a time as any.
- B'Elanna Torres: I guess we lost.
- Tom Paris: That depends.
- B'Elanna Torres: On what?
- Tom Paris: On how you answer my question.
- B'Elanna Torres: I thought you only asked it because we were about to explode.
- Tom Paris: Well, we're still alive, and I'm still asking.
- B'Elanna Torres: How come you never asked me before?
- Tom Paris: How come you're still avoiding the question?
- B'Elanna Torres: I'm thinking.
- Tom Paris: Think faster.
- B'Elanna Torres: Why, you're gonna withdraw the question?
- Tom Paris: No, but I might start to beg. Could get embarrassing.
- Harry Kim: Irina and I were up all night.
- Tom Paris: Oh, really?
- Harry Kim: Making repairs.
- Tom Paris: Uh huh.
- Harry Kim: To be honest, I can't remember the last time I had so much fun. She's funny, smart, we get along without trying. I'm going to ask her if she wants to spend some time on Voyager after the race.
- Tom Paris: What about Joxom?
- Harry Kim: Turns out they're just teammates. I know what you're gonna say!
- Tom Paris: Nope. No, actually, I was just gonna congratulate you. I mean, she's not a Borg, she's not a hologram, and she's not dead. Looks like you might have finally found yourself the perfect woman.
- Tom Paris: I have a chance to pilot the Flyer in a race - um, a really unique race - and the Captain thinks it's a great idea; so, I guess I got so excited that I forgot about our plans... But... I-I don't have to do it. The Captain would understand.
- B'Elanna Torres: It's all right.
- Tom Paris: No, no, I should've remembered, it's just that this seemed like such an amazing opportunity. Pilots from all over the...
- B'Elanna Torres: I said it's okay.
- Tom Paris: ...Really?
- B'Elanna Torres: The holodeck will always be here. This race won't.
- Tom Paris: [looks at her in amazement] I do not deserve you.
- B'Elanna Torres: You're right about that.
- Tom Paris: Well, we still got the Mobius Inversion coming up.
- B'Elanna Torres: The what?
- Tom Paris: Tell me you read the course manual.
- B'Elanna Torres: I skimmed it - more or less...
- Tom Paris: [groans] Oh, great.
- B'Elanna Torres: So, what exactly is this Mobius... whatever?
- Tom Paris: Take a look. Covers the entire last third of the course. Level-6 subspace distortions, gravimetric shears - just think of it as a little wormhole with a big attitude.
- B'Elanna Torres: Seems like the entire crew has come down with race fever.
- Seven of Nine: Perhaps you could persuade the Doctor to develop a vaccine.
- Tom Paris: Well, you've got that tough Klingon exterior, and, uh... I didn't think you liked the mushy stuff.
- B'Elanna Torres: Do I look that tough right now?
- Tom Paris: Well, does that mean you're in the mood for some mushy stuff?
- B'Elanna Torres: Maybe.
- Tom Paris: Exactly what kind of mush are we talking about?
- B'Elanna Torres: You tell me.
- Tom Paris: Well, there's, um...
- [he kisses her]
- Tom Paris: ...kissy stuff.
- B'Elanna Torres: That was nice.
- Tom Paris: And there's the 'You're the most important person in the world to me... '
- B'Elanna Torres: I like that one, too.
- Tom Paris: And there's the 'happily ever after... '
- B'Elanna Torres: How does that one work?
- Tom Paris: Well, traditionally, it requires a proposal...
- B'Elanna Torres: There's a Klingon phrase that my grandmother used to use: "mok'tah." It means 'bad match.' That's what Tom and I are. I just hate that it's taken me three years to realize it.
- Neelix: If you're really such a mok'tah, it must've been an awful three years.
- [a good part of the crew is following the race from Astrometrics]
- Tuvok: [enters and hands Janeway a PADD] My weekly security report.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'll read it later.
- Tuvok: There are a few matters we should discuss.
- Chakotay: She said later, Tuvok.
- Neelix: [focused on the race] Something's wrong... They're disappearing!
- Seven of Nine: Radiation from the Mobius Inversion is blocking our sensors.
- Tuvok: [checking the display] How will we track their progress?
- Chakotay: We can't. Not until they emerge from the other side of the anomaly.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [feigning interest] Wanna talk about that report now, Tuvok?
- Tuvok: Later - if that's permissible.
- B'Elanna Torres: Do I really have to spend my morning reciting nursery rhymes?
- Tom Paris: Well, it got me through the Academy.
- B'Elanna Torres: You were expelled.
- Tom Paris: Okay, repeat after me: "I am not the pilot, I will not attempt to fly this ship."
- B'Elanna Torres: That one doesn't even rhyme.