"Caretaker" Line-by-Line

CARETAKER: Oh, I wish I could but I have very little time left, so I have initiated a self-destruct program.

 

Janeway: If you destroy the Array, we'll have no way to get home.

 

CARETAKER: The Ocampa's enemies can not be allowed to control this installation. In minutes, it'll be destroyed. You have to go. Go now.
(The Kazon ship hits the Array. The holographic barn turns into the high-tech room. There is a giant purple blob at one end.)

 

Tuvok: The Caretaker.

 

JANEWAY: Voyager, report.

 

Paris [OC]: Kazon vessel
[Bridge]
Paris: Just collided with the array, Captain. Are you all right?

 

JANEWAY [OC]: Affirmative.

[Array]

JANEWAY: Stand by.

 

Caretaker: The self-destruct programme has been damaged. Now this installation will not be destroyed. But it must be. The Kazon must not be allowed to gain control of it. They will annihilate the Ocampa.
(The Caretaker shrinks into a hand-sized rock. Janeway picks it up.)

 

TUVOK: Shall I activate the program to get us back?

 

JANEWAY: And what happens to the Ocampa after we're gone?

 

Tuvok: Captain, any action we take to protect the Ocampa would affect balance of power in this system. The Prime Directive would seem to apply.

 

JANEWAY: Would it? We never asked to be involved, Tuvok, but we are. We are.

[Bridge]

(Voyager is still taking weapons fire.)
JANEWAY: Mister Tuvok, ready the tricobalt devices.

 

TUVOK: Aye, Captain.

 

JANEWAY: Open a channel to the Kazon.

 

KIM: Channel open.

 

JABIN [on viewscreen]: Be advised, Captain. I have called for additional ships.

 

JANEWAY: I'm calling to warn you to move your vessels to a safe distance. I intend to destroy the Array.

 

JABIN [on viewscreen]: You can't do that!

 

JANEWAY: I can and I will. End transmission.

 

KIM: They're increasing fire, Captain. Shields are holding.