Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Blink of an Eye (2000)

Olaf Pooley: Cleric

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Quotes 

• Protector : Now, I don't believe for a moment that the stars are gods, but then... what are they?

  Cleric : A great mystery, to which there is no answer.

• Cleric : Oh, Protector, w-what exactly are you doing?

  Protector : I'm sending him a letter.

  Cleric : "Him?" S-s-sending... who a letter?

  Protector : The Ground Shaker. The Light Bringer.

  Cleric : Well, had you been more attentive to my lessons when you were a boy, you would not be so gullible as a man.

  Protector : On the contrary, you taught me well. Our ignorant ancestors believed every star was a deity. You taught me how foolish that was. "Superstition" you called it.

  Cleric : And that's exactly what it is.

  [the Protector turns to a bush and plucks a fire fruit from it] 

  Protector : Hungry?

  Cleric : [nervously]  Uh, it's, uh, bad fortune to eat the fire fruit.

  Protector : According to whom? Our ancestors? Don't tell me you believe that old superstition.

  [he throws the fruit away] 

  Protector : Perhaps we shouldn't completely ignore the old beliefs, no matter how strange they may seem today.