"The Gift" Line-by-Line

NEELIX: And do you remember the toast I made?

 

KES: Yes. To the adventure.

 

NEELIX: To the adventure. When you left Ocampa, you said that your people were being held beck. That if you were only given the chance you could become something so much more. And you have.

 

KES: I know things haven't worked out exactly the way we planned.



(ETA: corrected transcript after checking with Netflix)

 

NEELIX: I was only holding you back. That's obvious to me now.

 

KES: No. I couldn't have come this far without you. And I love you. I always will. It's just, er...

 

Neelix: My cooking. You've always hated my cooking.

 

KES: That's exactly what it was.

 

NEELIX: Ah. So, tell me more about what's happening to you. What does it all mean?

 

KES: I don't know, and that's what makes it all so exciting. It's as if I can see into a place where the distinction between matter and energy and thought no longer exists. And that's only the beginning. I feel as if all the boundaries within me are about to fall away.

 

NEELIX: It sounds ah, sper, ah, interesting.

 

KES: I only have to look at an object, to gaze at it, and I can begin to see that the space between the atoms is being filled with something else.

(The table starts to wobble as she concentrates.)

 

NEELIX: Er, Kes.

 

KES: I can see them, I can see...

 

NEELIX: Kes, stop!

 

KES: No.

(She looks up at Neelix, and he gets thrown backwards.)

KES: Neelix!

 

[Bridge]

KIM: Captain, I'm picking up some strange energy readings from deck two, the mess hall.

 

JANEWAY: Bridge to Neelix. What's going on down there? Neelix, report.

 

Harry: The bulkhead in that section is coming apart!

 

CHAKOTAY: Increase the structural integrity field on deck two.