- B'Elanna Torres: How many Borg hitchhikers are we gonna pick up on this trip? Maybe this is the Collective's new strategy. They don't assimilate anymore, they just show up and look helpless.
- The Doctor: You may have been unexpected, but, given time, I'm sure you'll make a fine addition to the crew. After all, you've got my mobile emitter driving your neocortex; so you're bound to make a dazzling impression, he, he, he... That's called a joke.
- One: Joke - a verbal comment or gesture, designed to provoke laughter.
- The Doctor: I see you've got your mother's sense of humor.
- [One has suffered life-threatening injuries]
- One: [to Seven] I was never meant to be. As long as I exist, you are in danger. All life on Voyager is in danger.
- The Doctor: We can talk about this later.
- [proceeds to give an injection but is prevented by One's personal force field]
- Seven of Nine: Allow the Doctor to proceed... Lower the force field!
- The Doctor: His synapses are failing.
- Seven of Nine: You must comply.
- One: I will not!
- Seven of Nine: You must comply! Please. You are hurting me.
- One: You will adapt.
- [dies]
- The Doctor: [waking up B'Elanna] Rise and shine, Lieutenant! It's 0600 hours. Early bird gets the gagh!
- [Torres is concerned with the drone's development]
- Neelix: It will become what we help it to become.
- B'Elanna Torres: [mocking] Mm! How Starfleet of you!
- [Seven is showing One around Engineering]
- B'Elanna Torres: This isn't a classroom, Seven.
- Seven of Nine: Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Chief Engineer, Klingon-Human hybrid. She possesses extensive knowledge of this vessel's systems, as well as a volatile temperament.
- One: Volatile - English adjective, meaning readily vaporizable at low temperature. Easily aroused. Tending to violent eruption.
- B'Elanna Torres: Very good. You get a gold star.
- One: We are Borg. State our designation.
- Seven of Nine: Designation is irrelevant. You are not part of the Collective. You are an individual. You'll receive your instructions from me.
- One: Insufficient.
- Seven of Nine: You must comply.
- One: Insufficient. We are Borg.
- Seven of Nine: My designation is Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One. But you may call me Seven of Nine.
- One: Seven of Nine.
- Seven of Nine: You will comply with my commands.
- One: Seven of Nine.
- Seven of Nine: Yes. We are not Borg. We are individuals. Do you understand?
- One: State our designation.
- Tuvok: Apparently not.
- [Voyager is threatened by a Borg vessel]
- One: I must interface with the Collective. I can disrupt their vessel from within.
- Seven of Nine: They will try to assimilate you.
- One: They will fail.
- B'Elanna Torres: The one day I get to sleep in...
- The Doctor: You're worried about a few more seconds of unconsciousness? My freedom is at stake!
- [Janeway asks Seven to be the new drone's teacher]
- Seven of Nine: [incredulous] *I* am to instruct the drone in the ways of humanity?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Think of it as first contact - and you are our ambassador.
- [the drone has asked the Doctor about its origins]
- The Doctor: In a nutshell, there was a transporter malfunction. My emitter fused with several of Seven of Nine's... nanoprobes.
- One: I was an accident.
- The Doctor: Call it a random convergence of technologies.
- [Ensign Kim has been in charge of the night shift on the bridge]
- Chakotay: I hear you've been doing a fine job; the crew's impressed. Is it true you make them call you 'Captain Kim'?
- [Neelix and One are passing a woman]
- One: She was frightened by me.
- Neelix: Why do you say that?
- One: I detected an elevation in her pheromonal response.
- Neelix: Well, you're new around here. An unfamiliar face takes some getting used to. I remember when I first came aboard Voyager, I provoked a few strange reactions myself. I still do from time to time. I mean, just look at me - whiskers and spots, ha!
- One: Were people afraid of you as well?
- Neelix: Well, no.
- One: The Collective is calling to me.
- Seven of Nine: I hear it too. Billions of voices speaking as one... We must resist that voice.
- One: What will happen now?
- Seven of Nine: We will engage the Borg.
- One: Will Voyager be destroyed?
- Seven of Nine: The Borg are powerful. But Captain Janeway is a resourceful leader. We will resist.
- One: Resistance is futile.
- Seven of Nine: Perhaps.
- One: Describe my origins.
- The Doctor: Oh, it's a long story.
- One: I wish to hear it.
- The Doctor: Another time.
- One: I wish to hear the story... now.
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres: Maybe this is the Collective's new strategy; they don't assimilate anymore, they just show up and look helpless.
- Seven of Nine: The lure of perfection is powerful, Captain. He may be tempted to seek out the Borg. That would pose a grave tactical risk.
- Borg Collective: We are the Borg. You will be assimilated.
- One: My technology is superior. Stop your attack or I will destroy you.