Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Dragon's Teeth (1999)

Jeff Allin: Gedrin

Quotes 

• Gedrin : When it rains, do you run from doorway to doorway, trying to stay dry, getting wet all the while, or do you just accept the fact that it's raining, and walk with dignity?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Rain's one thing. Plasma bombs are something else.

  Gedrin : But the principle is the same.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : [pause]  I'd bring an umbrella.

• Gedrin : You are not at all like the Borg I knew.

  Seven of Nine : As a drone, I helped assimilate many civilizations. Now I have the opportunity to help reconstruct one. I find the experience... gratifying.

• Gedrin : You're Borg.

  Seven of Nine : How do you know that?

  Gedrin : Don't you recognize my people? The Vaadwaur?

  Seven of Nine : The Collective's memory from 900 years ago is fragmentary.

  Gedrin : I've had many encounters with your kind.

  The Doctor : And lived to tell about them? Impressive.

• Gedrin : I'm curious. Have you heard of us, the Vaadwaur?

  Neelix : Um, I'm afraid there aren't many records from that period, but 'vaadwaur' is a word in the Old Tongue; it means, uh... 'foolish.'

• Gedrin : I'm a few centuries out of date.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : If we're going to be fighting side by side, I have to trust you. I need to be certain you don't have any ulterior motives.

  Gedrin : Our only motive is survival.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : If I were to take you at your word, the ancient Talaxians might call ME 'vaadwaur' - "foolish." That's what they came to call anyone who allowed themselves to be deceived by an enemy.

• Gedrin : Not all of my people are stuck in the past, Captain.