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Tuvok: "Perhaps the
ship's stabilizers are not operating at peak efficiency."
Gaunt Gary: "Yeah, and maybe Tom Terrific over here
forgot to tell you that Sandrine's table rolls a little to
the east." |
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Jetrel: "Something
so enormous as science will not stop for something as
small as man." |
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Jetrel: "There is no
way I can apologize to you, Mr. Neelix. That is why I have
not tried." |
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Jetrel: "The day we
tested the Cascade when I saw that blinding light,
brighter than a thousand suns, I knew at that moment
exactly what I had become." |
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Neelix: "I wanted to
tell you that I forgive you." |
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Doctor: "Mr. Neelix
is unconscious. It appears he’s been tranquillized." |
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Neelix: "You may be
right, but I hate him. And I don’t think I can stop hating
him."
Kes: Maybe you have to stop hating yourself first.
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Neelix: "Hard to
believe that on clear nights you could look up from Talax
and see the shimmering lights of the colony. The night of
the cascade a bright flash cut across the sky. It was so
blinding that people threw themselves to the ground. Then
everything stopped, like a moment out of time, then we all
looked up to see where the flash had come from, but the
sky seemed oddly empty. Took most of us a few seconds to
realize it was because Rinax was - gone. Of course the
moon was still there, we just couldn’t see it because of
that Metreon cloud." |
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Neelix: "I hope you
have to live with that a very long time."
Jetrel: "I’m afraid you will not get your wish,
Mister Neelix."
Neelix: "And why is that?"
Jetrel: "I have advanced metremia. I will be dead
in a matter of days." |
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Neelix: "That’s a
sad story, Jetrel. But let me tell you another one. A man
goes back to Rinax after the cascade. Back to what had
been his home to look for survivors. But the impact of the
blast has set off hundreds of fires, and there’s nothing
there. Just smoldering ruins and the stench of seared
flesh. But in the distance, in the middle of all that
emptiness, from out of this huge cloud of billowing dust
he can see bodies moving, whimpering, coming toward him.
They’re monsters, their flesh horribly charred, the color
of shale. One of them comes toward him, mangled arms
outstretched and he can’t help it, he turns away
frightened. But then the thing speaks and he knows" by the
sound of her voice that she’s not a monster at all but a
child, a little girl.
Jetrel: "Mister Neelix, I...."
Neelix: "Her name was Palaxia. We brought her back
to Talax with the other survivors. Over the next few weeks
I stayed at her bedside and watched her wither away. Those
are consequences, Doctor Jetrel!" |
