- The Doctor: If I see you in here again for an exercise-related injury, I'll have to discuss the matter with your superior officer.
- Lieutenant Walter Baxter: [bewildered] Yes... sir.
- The Doctor: You're fine now. You may leave.
- Lieutenant Walter Baxter: [abashed] Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
- [leaves]
- Kes: I don't think he'll make the mistake of ignoring you again.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Then let's move on. We've got a long way to go.
- [after the hope of contacting their families has burst like a soap bubble]
- Telek R'Mor: You've matched your data transmission to the phase amplitude of our comm signal?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Exactly.
- Telek R'Mor: Apparently our intelligence operatives are *not* doing their job. You clearly have technology that we are unaware of.
- Telek R'Mor: If you should find a way back within my lifetime... I'd be an old man. But I would welcome a message from you. I am Telek R'Mor, of the Romulan Astrophysical Academy.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I promise you'll hear from us. Because we *will* get back.
- [Kes is treating Ltd. Baxter's injury in sickbay while the Doctor is observing]
- Lieutenant Walter Baxter: [to Kes] If I had to get treatment for something serious, if I needed surgery for instance - would he be performing it?
- The Doctor: Of course. And quite expertly too.
- Lieutenant Walter Baxter: I don't know. I'd have to think twice about that.
- The Doctor: Fine. And if you were lucky, you wouldn't die on the table while you were making up your mind.
- Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres: Just our luck. We raise one ship from the Alpha Quadrant, and it has to be Romulan.
- [Telek R'Mor has admitted to not having seen his family for over a year]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: You must miss your family very much.
- Telek R'Mor: I knew, when I accepted this assignment, that there would be a price to pay. Perhaps I didn't realize how high that price would be.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: Someone received our transmission, and sent one back... and their signal originated in the... Alpha Quadrant.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Many of the crew have complained that the Doctor is brusque, even rude, that he lacks any bedside manner. We've been talking about re-programing him.
- Kes: You can do that? It doesn't seem right.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Kes, he's only a hologram.
- Kes: He's your Medical Officer, he's alive.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: No, he's not.
- Kes: He's self-aware, he's communicative, he has the ability to learn.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Because he's been programed to do that.
- Kes: So because he's a hologram, he doesn't have to be treated with respect, or any consideration at all?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Very well. I'll look into it.
- Kes: Thank you, Captain.
- Kes: [to the Doctor] Thank you for everything.
- [on the prospect of leaving Voyager - and the Doctor - for good]
- The Doctor: Captain Janeway has made me realize that I must function as more than an emergency medical replacement. I must think of myself as a... member of the crew.
- Kes: You're absolutely right.
- [last lines]
- The Doctor: There's one more request - something of a... a personal nature. I would like... a name.