Commander Chakotay

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Commander Chakotay Quotes

	Season 3 / Episode 26: - Scorpion (1) Captain Kathryn Janeway: I keep looking to all these captains, my comrades in arms. But the truth is - I'm alone. Commander Chakotay: If that moment comes, we'll face it together - and we'll make the right decision. You're not alone, Kathryn. Captain Kathryn Janeway: Few years ago I didn't even know your name. Today I can't imagine a day without you.
	Season 3 / Episode 26: - Scorpion (1) Commander Chakotay: There's a story I heard as a child, a parable, and I never forgot it: A scorpion was walking along the bank of a river, wondering how to get to the other side. Suddenly he saw a fox. He asked the fox to take him on his back across the river. The fox said "No. If I do that you'll sting me, and I'll drown." The scorpion assured him, "If I did that, we'd both drown." So the fox thought about it, finally agreed. So the scorpion climbed up on his back, and the fox began to swim. But half way across the river, the scorpion stung him. As the poison filled his veins, the fox turned to the scorpion and said, "Why did you do that? Now you'll drown too." "I couldn't help it," said the scorpion, "it's my nature".
	Season 3 / Episode 26: - Scorpion (1) Captain Kathryn Janeway: What's so funny? Commander Chakotay: Er, nothing. Captain Kathryn Janeway: You're smiling, obviously I've said something amusing. Commander Chakotay: You sounded just like Amasov. Captain Kathryn Janeway: What? Commander Chakotay: Just now while you were reading his log, you were using his inflections. Captain Kathryn Janeway: I did not. Commander Chakotay: Yes you were. And before that you were doing a pretty good Picard. Captain Kathryn Janeway: Was I? Commander Chakotay: It's nothing to be ashamed about, echoing the greats. Ensign Hickman in astrophysics does a passable Janeway. Captain Kathryn Janeway: [ironic] If we manage to survive the next few days, I'm gonna have a little chat with Ensign Hickman. Imitating the captain, huh? Surely that violates some kind of Starfleet protocol.
	Season 3 / Episode 26: - Scorpion (1) Captain Kathryn Janeway: Do you trust me, Chakotay? Commander Chakotay: That isn't the issue. Captain Kathryn Janeway: Oh, but it is. Only yesterday you were saying that we'd face this together, that you'd be at my side. Commander Chakotay: I still have to tell you what I believe; I'm no good to you if I don't do that. Captain Kathryn Janeway: I appreciate your insights, but the time for debate is over. I've made my decision now. Do I have your support? Commander Chakotay: You're the captain; I'm the first officer, I'll follow your orders. But that doesn't change my belief that we're making a fatal mistake. Captain Kathryn Janeway: Then I guess I am alone, after all.
	Season 3 / Episode 26: - Scorpion (1) Commander Chakotay: Not every problem has an immediate solution.
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Commander Chakotay: Take a good look around you. You're under armed guard. You may also notice that your senior officers aren't here. They're in the brig. They'll be put off the ship at the first habitable planet we come to - all except Janeway and Paris, who will arrive at the rendezvous co-ordinates to find that Voyager is not there. In short, I've taken control of the ship. I don't blame any of you for the mistakes of your leaders. So I'm giving you a choice: you can be put off the ship with your superiors or... you can do what Neelix and some of the other crew members have already done, and join me. If you do, you'll be part of the crew, and it's going to do whatever it takes to get us home as fast as possible. Under my command we won't let almighty Federation principles get in the way of opportunities - the way Janeway did when she destroyed the array that could have gotten us home. And we won't be wasting precious time stopping to investigate every insignificant anomaly that we come across. What we will do... is use any means necessary to acquire technology that can shorten our journey. To hell with Starfleet regulations!
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Commander Chakotay: Kathryn, don't try to be a hero. I've been reasonable so far. I'll allow you to keep the shuttle; I'll even transport you some extra provisions. But if you don't stand down I will destroy your shuttle. Captain Janeway: You've just threatened the wrong woman, Chakotay.
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Seska: [on Neelix] You want me to shoot him? Commander Chakotay: We're still going to need a cook.
	Season 3 / Episode 25: - Worst Case Scenario Captain Janeway: [on Tuvok's refusal to continue his unfinished holo-novel] I'm more than just a captain. I'm the leader of a community, and communities need entertainment, culture, creative outlets. Since we're not exactly privy to any new piece of music or holo-novel that's written back home, I think it's only natural that we should start creating our own. Commander Chakotay: Besides, Tuvok, if the crew doesn't get an ending, you may have a real mutiny on your hands.
	Season 3 / Episode 24: - Displaced Commander Chakotay: How do you like your first day as chief of security, Ensign? Ensign Lang: It's everything I dreamed of, sir. Commander Chakotay: Who says there is no room for advancement on this ship?
	Season 3 / Episode 23: - Distant Origin Commander Chakotay: You accuse Gegen of having his objectivity clouded by wishful thinking. But aren't you guilty of the same charge? Minister Odala: I am not on trial here. Commander Chakotay: I understand. But in a way your beliefs are. How you think about yourselves, your place in the universe. That is on trial.
	Season 3 / Episode 23: - Distant Origin Commander Chakotay: [after Veer has shot him with a narcotic dart] Do you always harpoon the local wildlife?
	Season 3 / Episode 23: - Distant Origin Commander Chakotay: [on Minister Odala's claim the similarities between Humans and Voth would be due to random convergence] Voyager's database contains a complete fossil record of my planet. Your genetic markers appear not only in Humans but in hundreds of species throughout our history. That's a lot of 'random convergence'. If you take a look at the data... Minister Odala: We have. The data isn't in question. Your interpretation is.
	Season 3 / Episode 23: - Distant Origin Minister Odala: When I open my eyes to this theory, what I see appalls me. I see my race fleeing your wretched planet, a group of pathetic refugees, crawling and scratching their way across the galaxy. Stumbling into this domain. I see a race with no birthright, no legacy. That is unacceptable! Commander Chakotay: I see something very different, Minister: an ancient race of Saurians, probably the first intelligent life on Earth, surrounded by some of the most terrifying creatures that ever lived. And yet they thrived, developed language and culture and technology. And when the planet was threatened with disaster, they boldly launched themselves into space, crossed what must have seemed like unimaginable distances, facing the unknown every day. But somehow, they stayed together, kept going with the same courage that had served them before, until they reached this quadrant. Where they laid the foundation of what was to become the great Voth culture. Deny that past, and you deny the struggle and achievements of your ancestors. Deny your origins on Earth, and you deny your true heritage.
	Season 3 / Episode 23: - Distant Origin Gegen: [studying a globe Chakotay has given to him] Someday every Voth will see this as home. Commander Chakotay: Someday. Eyes open. Gegen: Eyes open.
	Season 3 / Episode 21: - Before and After Commander Chakotay: When this is over, we're all gonna have a lot of grieving to do.
	Season 3 / Episode 21: - Before and After Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: [about Kes's experiences of the future ] I bet you found out some pretty interesting things? Lieutenant Tom Paris: Yeah, Kes, tell us what you know. Commander Chakotay: Careful, Tom. You may find out that you'll leave Voyager only to join a monastery.
	Season 3 / Episode 20: - Favorite Son Commander Chakotay: What's your next trick, Harry - pull a shuttlecraft out of a hat?
	Season 3 / Episode 17: - Unity Commander Chakotay: It's either that or the "Happy Hunting Grounds", huh?
	Season 3 / Episode 17: - Unity Commander Chakotay: I wonder how long their ideals will last in the face of that kind of power.
	Season 3 / Episode 17: - Unity Commander Chakotay: I was so resistant to being linked. Now I'm almost sorry it's over.
	Season 3 / Episode 17: - Unity Ensign Kaplan: The nebula's completely scrambling our navigational readings. I still can't get a fix on our position. Commander Chakotay: Are you saying we're lost, Ensign? Ensign Kaplan: That... depends what you mean by 'lost', sir. Commander Chakotay: Lost, as in 'you still can't get a fix on our position'.
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - Coda Captain Kathryn Janeway: Come on Chakotay, there must be some talent that you have that people would enjoy. Maybe I could stand with an apple on my head and you could phaser it off. Commander Chakotay: Sounds great. If I miss I get to be captain.
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - Coda Commander Chakotay: Not a minute too soon. I was getting awfully tired of talking about talent night.
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - Coda Captain Kathryn Janeway: Come on, Chakotay. I cheated death! That's worth a celebration, don't you think? A bottle of champagne, moonlight sail on Lake George - how does that sound? Commander Chakotay: Like something worth living for.
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - Coda Captain Kathryn Janeway: He wanted to take me into another place. Commander Chakotay: Another place? Some kind of afterlife? Captain Kathryn Janeway: Maybe. But I can tell you this: from what I saw, it's certainly not where I'd like to spend eternity.
	Season 3 / Episode 14: - Alter Ego Lieutenant Tuvok: I am fully capable of appreciating this phenomenon, without the extraneous sentimentality Humans find so necessary. Commander Chakotay: Being moved by an emotion isn't always extraneous. Sometimes it's the whole point.
	Season 3 / Episode 11: - The Q and the Grey Commander Chakotay: [grabbing the female Q] I wanna know what's going on here. Where's Captain Janeway? Female Q: Let me go before I hurl this ship and everyone on it into the Therinian Ice Age! Commander Chakotay: I don't think you can. Female Q: [scoffs] Don't be ridiculous! Commander Chakotay: I don't know how or why, but something's affected your powers, otherwise you wouldn't still be here and you wouldn't have a bruise on your forehead. Now start talking, before I hurl you into the brig!
	Season 3 / Episode 11: - The Q and the Grey Commander Chakotay: There's gotta be some way to get back to the Continuum besides snapping your fingers. Female Q: Hm... Well, there is one possibility. But somehow I don't think this rickety barge or your half-witted crew members are up to the challenge. Tuvok: May I remind you, madam, that this rickety barge and its half-witted crew are your only hope at the moment?
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - Future's End, Part II Porter: 'USS' equals Federal Government. The Federal Government is the Beast. Commander Chakotay: We're not from the Beast.

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