- [Captain Janeway is about to enter a restricted part of space]
- Tuvok: Would it affect your decision if I pointed out that encroaching on the territory of an alien species is prohibited by Starfleet regulations?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: No, it wouldn't.
- Tuvok: Captain - you have managed to surprise me.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: We're a long way from Starfleet, Lieutenant. I'm not about to waste fifteen months because we've run into a bunch of bullies.
- Doctor Zimmerman: Look at all this useless information floating around your buffer! Friendships with the crew, relationships with... women?
- [gives the Doctor a scrutinizing look]
- Doctor Zimmerman: Do they find you attractive?
- [Voyager is circumventing an alien sensor net]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: When I was in high school, I snuck out of the house a couple of times late at night. Had to tiptoe past my parents' bedroom. It's kind of how I feel right now.
- Lieutenant Tom Paris: You sneaked out of your house? Where were you going?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'll have to leave that to your imagination, Lieutenant.
- Doctor Zimmerman: [on Kes's suggestion to replace the EMH's holo-matrix with the diagnostic program's] I must point out that you would no longer have a diagnostic program for the EMH.
- Kes: If we don't do this, we won't have an EMH to diagnose.
- Doctor Zimmerman: Hm. Good point.
- [Dr. Zimmerman's hologram is about to overlay his own matrix onto the Doctor's]
- Doctor Zimmerman: Well, it's been a brief existence, but, apparently, a noble one. Computer, initiate program Zimmerman Alpha-1.
- The Doctor: I've recently begun a thorough study of opera. I find it quite satisfying, but I am having difficulty finding a holographic partner for the role of Mimi. All the soprani seem to have the most irritating personalities. These women are arrogant, superior, condescending. I can't imagine anyone behaving that way.
- Doctor Zimmerman: You've filled your memory with nonsense!
- The Doctor: It was only during my off-hours.
- Doctor Zimmerman: You're supposed to be off during your off-hours!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [to the Doctor] If a crew member came down with a debilitating illness, you'd do everything in your power to make them well again. I think we owe you nothing less.
- [Torres has activated the hologram of Dr. Zimmerman, the gruff creator and look-alike of the Doctor]
- B'Elanna Torres: I can see where you get your charming personality.
- The Doctor: Not to mention my hairline.
- The Doctor: [after being upset by the hologram of his partnering soprano Giuseppina Pentangeli] Addio, madam. Next time I'll take my chances with Maria Callas. Computer, delete the diva.
- The Doctor: May I remind you that I am, in a way, your patient? Who's suffering from an unknown and obviously debilitating condition? I would think you'd be a little more sensitive to my needs.
- B'Elanna Torres: You are questioning *my* bedside manner?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [Tom and B'Elanna were attacked after accidentally crossing into the territory of a race the Voyager crew has never met before] Neelix, what can you tell us?
- Neelix: If these people are who I think they are, I can tell you this is very bad news. I've never actually encountered them, but from what I've heard I'm glad I didn't. Most ships that enter their space are never heard from again. Some have returned with everyone on board dead. They're a complete mystery. No-one knows they're name. How many of them there are. What they're culture is like. Just that they really don't want people violating they're territory.
- Commander Chakotay: As far as anyone's sensors are concerned, we're lit up like a Christmas tree.
- [after one of the alien ships has changed Voyager's shield polarity]
- Doctor Zimmerman: There's nothing more I can do. Either re-initialize it or live with the knowledge that eventually this EMH will end up with the intellectual capacity of a parsnip.
- Kes: The Doctor has taken it upon himself to become a person who grows and learns and feels. It's made him a better physician.