Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Blink of an Eye (2000)

Robert Beltran: Cmdr. Chakotay

Quotes 

• Chakotay : If there's an intelligent species down there, we'll be able to track their development, not just for days or weeks, but for centuries.

  B'Elanna Torres : Watch them discover new and better ways of beating each other over the head.

  Chakotay : They won't necessarily follow the Klingon model.

  B'Elanna Torres : As opposed to the human model?

• [Chakotay asks Torres to send a probe out in order to study the planet's development] 

  B'Elanna Torres : It'll take a few hours to make the adjustments.

  Chakotay : A few hours? We might miss the rise and fall of a civilization.

  B'Elanna Torres : So we'll watch the next one.

• Chakotay : Seven's picked up a few of their local transmissions. I can tell you the names of all twenty-six states on the planet.

  Harry Kim : And all the best places to eat?

  Chakotay : Just about.

• Tom Paris : Captain, isn't it time we returned fire?

  Chakotay : We've done enough damage to these people over the last thousand years.