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JANEWAY: Voyager doesn't have an Astrometrics lab. CHAKOTAY: Harry designed it, or will design it.
JANEWAY: Our people? CHAKOTAY: I'm going to be your First Officer.
CHAKOTAY: No. We used Borg technology for that. JANEWAY: Borg? CHAKOTAY: It's a long story.
CHAKOTAY: I'm detecting an active neurogenic field. This could be the day the telepathic pitcher plant put us all into comas. Or it might be the time aliens invaded our dreams.
CHAKOTAY: If it makes you feel any better, you're going to develop quite a knack for dealing with the Borg. JANEWAY: You mean we're going to be seeing more of them? CHAKOTAY: We'll run into them on a few occasions.
CHAKOTAY: In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself astray in a dark wood, where the straight road had been lost. JANEWAY: I didn't know Dante's Inferno was on the Maquis reading list. CHAKOTAY: Actually, I borrowed your copy. JANEWAY: My fiance gave me that book as an engagement gift. I've never lent it to anyone. CHAKOTAY: Not yet. Anyway, I agree with Dante. If you always see the road ahead of you, it's not worth the trip.
JANEWAY: Like you. How do you get to be my First Officer? CHAKOTAY: Our crews will be forced to work together after we get stranded. JANEWAY: In the Delta Quadrant? How does that happen? CHAKOTAY: Are you sure you want to know?
JANEWAY: What the hell was that? CHAKOTAY: A macrovirus. They infected the ship a few years ago.
JANEWAY: What reasons? CHAKOTAY: You were trying to save lives. JANEWAY: Whose? CHAKOTAY: An alien culture. The Ocampans.
JANEWAY: Really? Just what am I missing? CHAKOTAY: It's not what, it's who. People like Seven of Nine, a Borg Drone who'll become a member of this crew after you help her recover her humanity. Or Tom Paris, a former convict, who'll be our pilot, chief medic, and husband to B'Elanna Torres. JANEWAY: That angry woman I just met? CHAKOTAY: She's going to be your Chief Engineer. Two crews, Maquis and Starfleet, are going to become one. And they'll make as big a mark on the Delta Quadrant as it'll make on them by protecting people like the Ocampans, curing diseases, encouraging peace. Children like Naomi and Icheb are going to grow up on this ship and call it home. And we'll all be following a Captain who sets a course for Earth, and never stops believing that we'll get there.
JANEWAY: So, who is this Seska? CHAKOTAY: She was a member of my crew, who turned out to be a Cardassian spy. She made an alliance with the Kazon and took over the ship. It's all right, we got it back.