- Chakotay: When I was a boy, my grandfather started seeing things nobody else could see, hearing what nobody else could hear. He refused treatment. A couple of hyposprays a day, that's all he would have needed, but he was stubborn. He said his spirit was in pain, but that the wound must be honored. Crazy old man.
- The Doctor: [treating Chakotay's battered face] I've got a good mind to use a needle and thread, add a little authenticity to your fun.
- Chakotay: Be my guest.
- The Doctor: You'd like that - a manly scar above your eye. Chakotay, The Maquis Mauler.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Tuvok tells me you've got a mean left jab.
- Chakotay: [laughs] Never spar with a Vulcan.
- The Doctor: Even if this is some kind of alien communication, it could harm him, permanently.
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- Chakotay: Captain! When have we ever turned away from a first contact?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [to the Doctor] Send him back in the ring.
- [repeated line]
- Computer-Voice: Begin Round One.
- Boothby: [about boxing] It all comes down to the heart. Do you have the heart for this? That's the contest. It's not against him, it's against your own natural human desire not to get hurt. That's the real fight.
- The Doctor: Victory, defeat, knockout, TKO, it's all beside the point. We know how it really ends: "A crazy old man," hmm?
- Seven of Nine: The Borg have been aware of this phenomenon for many years. It's a zone where the laws of physics are in a state of flus - 'chaotic space."
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Why didn't sensors warn us in time?
- Seven of Nine: Chaotic space appears randomly and unexpectedly. The Borg have observed it throughout the galaxy
- Tuvok: Then why hasn't a Federation starship encountered anything like this?
- Seven of Nine: No doubt some have.
- Chakotay: Think of all the Strafleet vessels that disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
- Seven of Nine: Borg vessels are more advanced, but only one cube had survived an encounter with chaotic space.
- [first lines]
- Chakotay: [Chakotay is in hysterics and lying on a bio-bed] NO! Make them STOP!
- The Doctor: [to Seven] Anything?
- Seven of Nine: Nothing of relevance. His neural pathways are still fluctuating.
- Tom Paris: Doc! Can't you do something? Look how much he's suffering.
- The Doctor: If I sedate him we could lose any chance of making contact with the aliens!
- Chakotay: Get them OUT!
- The Doctor: Commander, can you hear me? Focus on the sound of my voice!
- Chakotay: I can't understand them! They won't SYOP TALKING!
- The Doctor: What are they saying?
- Chakotay: I DON'T KNOW! MAKE THEM STOP, PLEASE!
- Tuvok: [taking aim at Chakotay's boxing opponent] Thompson and Sharr, target the midsection. Ensign MacAlister, you and I will aim for the head.
- Chakotay: Set your phasers to kill!
- Boothby: Not exactly the Marquis of Queensberry rules now, is it? "Set to kill?" That's not even Starfleet. Put down the weapons, son.
- Tuvok: Tactical advice from an Academy groundskeeper?