"Memorial" Line-by-Line

CHAKOTAY: Try running those symbols inscribed on the base through the translation matrix. (reading)
Words alone cannot convey the suffering.
Words alone cannot prevent what happened here from happening again.
Beyond words lies experience.
Beyond experience lies truth.
Make this truth your own.

 

JANEWAY: It's a memorial. We weren't victims of a conspiracy, we were witnesses to a massacre.

 

CHAKOTAY: More than witnesses. By being forced to relive those events, half the crew's been traumatized.

 

JANEWAY: Maybe that was the point. I certainly won't forget what happened here.

 

CHAKOTAY: Anything in that database that might tell us who built this thing

 

SEVEN: No. The technology has been neglected for more than 2 centuries. Its power cells are deteriorating.

 

JANEWAY: That could explain why our memories were so fragmented. It was probably designed to transmit the experience in sequence.

 

CHAKOTAY: Fascinating. Now let's try to shut it down so nobody else has to go through this. Kathryn?

 

JANEWAY: Yes of course.

 

[Briefing room]


EMH: Even if we do shut down the transmitter I'm afraid your memories of the massacre are permanent.

 

TUVOK: But we'll prevent this from happening to other passing ships.

 

NEELIX: If we do that, all record of what happened here would be lost.

 

CHAKOTAY: The monument will still be here.

 

NEELIX: But that doesn't really tell the story. Someone put a lot of time and care into building that transmitter. We can't just deactivate it. We don't have the right!

 

KIM: Did they have the right to force us to relive all that?

 

NEELIX: They wanted others to know what it was like in the hopes that nothing like it would happen again.

 

CHAKOTAY: Why should anyone have to experience an atrocity they didn't commit?

 

NEELIX: Because that's how you learn not to make the same mistake. If we destroy the evidence, we're no better than Saavdra.

 

PARIS: Maybe he had a point.

 

KIM: It wasn't our fault.