Robert Duncan McNeill credited as playing...
Lt. Tom Paris
- Ensign Harry Kim: Look, I'm trying to prepare for an important performance.
- Lieutenant Tom Paris: Oh, really? Are we scheduled to rendezvous with the Delta Quadrant Symphony Orchestra?
- [Kim practices his clarinet when his adjacent neighbor, Ensign Baytart, knocks against the wall]
- Ensign Harry Kim: It's the darn fluid conduits running through the walls. They conduct sound. You'd think when they designed this thing, they would have...
- Lieutenant Tom Paris: This ship was built for combat performance, Harry, not musical performance. Nobody figured we'd be taking any long trips.
- Ensign Harry Kim: Where am I supposed to practice?
- Lieutenant Tom Paris: How about cargo bay?
- Ensign Harry Kim: Bad acoustics.
- Lieutenant Tom Paris: We could get Baytart transferred to the night shift.
- Ensign Harry Kim: [snickers] Couldn't do that - could we?
- Lieutenant Tom Paris: So now you have an excuse to give your mother why you didn't practice while you were gone.