Kate Mulgrew credited as playing...
Capt. Kathryn Janeway
- The Doctor: [examining the unconscious Paris] From what I can tell, he's just... asleep.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Can you wake him?
- The Doctor: I don't see why not.
- [bends down to Paris]
- The Doctor: WAKE UP, LIEUTENANT!
- [last lines]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: If I'm not mistaken, you've changed quite a few minds on this ship. You've earned a lot of people's respect and admiration.
- Tom Paris: Yeah... but I'm starting to realize that it's... not other people's opinions I should be worried about; it's mine. Seems, Captain, that I still have a few barriers to break. I just hope they're not theoretical impossibilities.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Somehow... I don't think they will be.
- Tom Paris: I guess this whole experience has left me feeling a little overwhelmed. Flying at warp 10, evolving into a new life-form, mating, having alien offspring...
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: You've broken more than one record, that's for sure.
- [Paris plans to put the first ever warp 10 flight into practice]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Well, good luck, Mr. Paris. If this works, you'll be joining an elite group of pilots. Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong, Zefram Cochrane - and Tom Paris.
- Tom Paris: I kinda like the way that sounds.
- [Paris has been denied the transwarp flight on medical grounds]
- Tom Paris: When I was a boy, my father used to tell me that I was special, that one day I'd do something significant. My teachers at school, all the kids, everyone used to say, "Tom Paris is gonna do something important when he grows up." Obviously that didn't happen.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: This isn't about personal redemption. We're talking about medical risk. Your life could be in danger, and we need you.
- Tom Paris: Captain, this is the first time in ten years I feel I HAVE a life to risk.
- [Paris has horrible mutations over his face and body]
- Tom Paris: Pretty disgusting, huh?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: You've looked better. How do you feel?
- Tom Paris: Like a lab experiment gone wrong.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [to Paris] I've thought about having children. But I must say, I never considered having them with you.