"Counterpoint" Line-by-Line

[Leandar]

Janeway: Open a channel.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

KASHYK [on viewscreen]: Captain.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Janeway: Inspector.

 

[Saquist]

KASHYK: It's urgent that we speak.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Janeway: You know the way to my Ready Room.

 

[Saquist]

Janeway: It's alright, Ensign. I submitted to your previous inspections because you out-gunned me. But I don't see any of your warships nearby. I have no intention of cooperating.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Kashyk: I'm not here to search Voyager.

 

[kathrynjaneway]

JANEWAY: Then what do you want, Inspector?

 

[Saquist]

KASHYK: Call me KASHYK, Please. I've never liked that Title. In fact. I've left it behind.

 

[kathrynjaneway]

JANEWAY: Did somebody offer you a promotion, or are you just having a bad day?

 

[Saquist]

KASHYK: I'm defecting...and I need your help.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Janeway: Me.

 

[kathrynjaneway]

KASHYK: I've come to ask asylum, safe passage out of Devore space before I end up in a detention centre myself.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Janeway: Now, why would I risk the safety of my crew by harbouring a defector?

 

[kathrynjaneway]

KASHYK: Because of what I'm about to tell you. If you continue on your present course you'll be intercepted by a squadron of my warships. Voyager will be seized, your crew imprisoned or worse. The nebula is a trap, Captain, to catch vessels smuggling telepaths.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Janeway: You've inspected my ship three times. You know we aren't smuggling telepaths or anyone else.

 

[kathrynjaneway]

KASHYK: What I know is that you have twelve refugees aboard right now. That you rescued them from a freighter three weeks ago, and that you've been concealing them in Cargo Bay one using your transporters. I could have exposed them at any time but I wanted them to escape as much as you do. I can still protect them, but only if you take me with you. My people know about the wormhole. It's only a matter of time before they find it. You have no choice, Captain. I'm your only hope.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

(Astrometrics)

Janeway: This is our rendezvous point, inside this nebula. Unfortunately the transport vessel we're supposed to meet is no longer there. Inspector.

 

[kathrynjaneway]

TUVOK: A Devore warship.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Janeway: One of a dozen positioned throughout the nebula. All invisible to our sensors until Kashyk showed me how to compensate for their refractive shielding.