Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

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Jeri Ryan: Seven of Nine

Quotes 

• Seven of Nine : When you separated me from the Collective, I was an unknown risk to your crew. Yet you kept me on board. You allowed me to evolve into an individual.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You're a human being. He's a hologram.

  Seven of Nine : And you allowed that hologram to evolve as well, to exceed his original programming. And yet, now you choose to abandon him.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Objection noted. Good night.

  Seven of Nine : It is unsettling. You say that I am a human being, and yet I am also Borg - part of me not unlike your replicator. Not unlike the Doctor. Will you one day choose to abandon me as well? I have always looked to you as my example, my guide to humanity. Perhaps I've been mistaken.

• [Janeway visits Seven in the cargo bay] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm having trouble... with the nature of individuality.

  Seven of Nine : You require a philosophical discussion?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : There's a time and a place for it. This is one of them.

• Seven of Nine : I am having trouble with the nature of individuality.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [laughs]  There's a time and a place for philosophical discussion. Two in the morning in my quarters isn't one of them.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : After I freed you from the Collective... you were transformed. It's been a difficult process. Was it worth it?

  Seven of Nine : I had no choice.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : That's not what I asked you.

  Seven of Nine : If I could change what happened, erase what you did to me, would I? No.

• [Janeway orders a coffee from the replicator and tastes it] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Lukewarm. Now, I've told that replicator a dozen times about the temperature of my coffee. It just doesn't seem to wanna listen. Almost as if it's got a mind of its own. But it doesn't. A replicator operates through a series of electronic pathways that allow it to receive instructions and take appropriate action. And there you go, a cup of coffee; a bowl of soup, a plasma conduit, whatever we tell it to do. As difficult as it is to accept, the Doctor is more like that replicator than he is like us.

  Seven of Nine : He would disagree.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm sure he would. But I can't let that change my decision.

• [the Doctor enters the bridge as Janeway is having a trivial discussion with the crew] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : If this is another house call, it'll have to wait. As you can see, I've got a mutiny on my hands.

  The Doctor : A mutiny? I suppose that's better than a conspiracy.

  Seven of Nine : Doctor?

  The Doctor : Tell her, Captain. Describe how you tampered with my program, how it was you all along.

  Tuvok : Perhaps you should accompany me to sickbay, Doctor.

  The Doctor : Et tu, Tuvok?

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : If one of my crew chose to put a phaser to his own head, should I let him?

  Seven of Nine : It would depend on the situation.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : It always depends on the situation, Seven.