Kate Mulgrew credited as playing...
Capt. Kathryn Janeway
- Clown: You show remarkable trust, Captain. How could you be so sure I would keep my word?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I've known fear. It's a very healthy thing, most of the time. You warn us of danger, remind us of our limits, protect us from carelessness. I've learned to trust fear.
- Clown: Finally someone who appreciates me! Am I blushing?
- [last lines]
- Clown: What will become of us? Of me?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Like all fear, you eventually... vanish.
- Clown: I'm afraid.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [whispers] I know.
- Clown: Drat.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Isn't there more to fear than a simple demand to exist? Why do people enjoy dangerous sports, or holodeck adventures with the safety off? Why, after all these centuries, do children still ride on rollercoasters?
- The Doctor: Fear can provide pleasure. To seek fear is to seek the boundaries of one's sensory experience.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: But what does fear seek... at the end of the ride?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: You know as well as I do that fear only exists for one purpose: to be conquered.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Would you be honest with me?
- Clown: Fear is the most honest of all emotions, Captain.
- [the crew on Voyager has failed to shut down the Clown's environment]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: We've lost.
- Clown: We've won! We've won! We've won! Start the music! Start the music! Celebration! Celebration! Celebration!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'm not Captain Janeway.
- Clown: Could have fooled me.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'm afraid I did.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: As I understand it, it takes a few minutes before you become aware of my thoughts. Is that true?
- Clown: An eternity of anticipation!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: And then what happens?
- Clown: And then the fun begins.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: All we have to do now... is decide how to negotiate with... an emotion, with a manifestation... of fear.
- Lieutenant Tuvok: Fear is the most primitive, the most primordial of biological responses.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: The ability to recognize danger, to fight it or run away from it, that's what fear gives us, but... when fear holds you hostage... how do you make it let go?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: If we can't remove the hostages from the environment, then we might be able to remove the environment from the hostages.