Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Memorial (2000)

Robert Beltran: Cmdr. Chakotay

Quotes 

• Chakotay : [reading from the inscription on the memorial]  "Words alone cannot convey the suffering. Words alone cannot prevent what happened here from happening again. Beyond words lies experience. Beyond experience lies truth. Make this truth your own."

• Chakotay : [of Captain Bathar]  He's a merchant. Claimed to have a formula that stops the aging process.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Oh, you didn't happen to buy any, did you?

  Chakotay : It was only a tripolymer enzyme. Makes a great shoe polish, though.

• [Chakotay has suggested they shut down the memorial's transmitter that has caused their war memories] 

  Neelix : Someone put a lot of time and care into building that transmitter. We can't just deactivate it, we don't have the right!

  Harry Kim : Did they have the right to force us to relive all that?

  Neelix : They wanted others to know what it was like, in the hopes that nothing like it would happen again.

  Chakotay : Why should anyone have to experience an atrocity they didn't commit?

  Neelix : Because that's how you learn not to make the same mistake. If we destroy the evidence, we're no better than Saavdra.

• Neelix : This isn't about logic! It's about remembering!

  Chakotay : Some things are best forgotten.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Not this. I stood by once before and did nothing. Not again.

• [Chakotay, Paris, Kim and Neelix return from an away mission with the Delta Flyer] 

  Harry Kim : If I ever volunteer for a two-week away mission again, would somebody please confine me to sickbay?

  Chakotay : Too much togetherness for you, Harry?

  Harry Kim : Nothing personal, Commander.

  Neelix : To tell you the truth, I've enjoyed our little junket together. It's given the four of us a chance to bond.

  Harry Kim : The bonding stopped when the sonic shower went offline.