- [Iden has asked the Doctor to treat the "wounded" holograms]
- The Doctor: I'm a doctor, not an engineer. You've abducted the wrong man!
- The Doctor: [in treating an injured holographic female] Why is she experiencing pain?
- Kejal: They programed us with heightened sensory subroutines.
- The Doctor: That's barbaric.
- Kejal: Apparently there's no satisfaction in hunting something that doesn't suffer when you kill it.
- Chakotay: Couldn't we just extract their violent subroutines?
- B'Elanna Torres: [assuming] It's possible.
- The Doctor: That would be like declawing a cat. We'd be taking away any chance they have of defending themselves!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: We'd also be preventing them from doing any more harm.
- The Doctor: You wouldn't even be considering this if they were flesh and blood!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'm not gonna let you turn this into an argument about holographic rights.
- The Doctor: Why not? That's exactly what it is.
- [the Doctor has been invited by a hexapodic race to a symposium]
- The Doctor: I'd be representing Voyager, putting our best foot forward, so to speak. And needless to say, hexapods are more likely to know a best foot when they see one.
- Kejal: The Hirogen used your program as a template to create us.
- Iden: Your ability to rise above your programing has been an inspiration. You're part of who we are.
- The Doctor: And what are you besides a handful of thugs roaming the quadrant looking for a fight?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Doctor, deactivate yourself.
- The Doctor: I can't treat the patient if I'm offline.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: No one can treat him if he's terrified.
- Chakotay: [on the dead Hirogen found on a Hirogen training facility] Most of them were killed by facsimiles of Alpha Quadrant weapons - Romulan disruptors, Klingon bat'leths...
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Starfleet phasers?
- Chakotay: I think we'll find they all came from the holo-technology we gave the Hirogen three years ago.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: They obviously missed the point. We gave them that technology so they could hunt holographic prey, not get themselves killed.
- Seven of Nine: Perhaps you should've considered the risks before you programed holograms that could commandeer a vessel.
- Beta-Hirogen: Capable prey make the hunt more challenging.
- The Doctor: One minute you're fighting the Hirogen, the next you're praying for them?
- Iden: My spiritual beliefs are part of my programing.
- The Doctor: Is there anything in your spiritual programing about making peace with your enemies?
- Iden: It's difficult to make peace with people whose sole purpose is to kill you.
- B'Elanna Torres: It may be the warriors who get the glory, but it's the engineers who build societies.
- The Doctor: I need to get back to Voyager.
- Iden: They're not your people. We are.
- The Doctor: I'm not like you. I wasn't programed with killer instinct.
- Iden: You have no right to judge us. You don't know what it's like being prey. Maybe if you did, you'd realize we're more alike than you think.
- Iden: The Doctor tells me you're an accomplished engineer.
- B'Elanna Torres: He speaks highly of you, too. He seems to be easily impressed.
- [last lines of Part 1]
- [during a battle with the holograms, the Doctor has himself transported to the holograms' vessel]
- Iden: Why are you doing this?
- The Doctor: Because... I'm one of you.
- Hirogen Three: [in a dream wherein The Doctor is hunted and caught by a Hirogen] You make pitiful prey, hologram. You don't deserve to be taken as a trophy...
- [stabs the Doctor]
- Hirogen Three: ... so I'll let you die here.
- Iden: In the dark times, we were enslaved by men of flesh, but then another man - a man of light - arose and slew the mighty Alpha. He gathered his people unto him and delivered them to freedom.
- The Doctor: And on the seventh day, Iden created Ha'Dara.
- The Doctor: Being appreciated is one thing, but I have no interest in being... worshiped.
- Iden: Prophets are chosen, Doctor. It's a blessing... and a burden.
- B'Elanna Torres: It's not easy to change who you are. Trust me.
- Kejal: Nothing about our existence has ever been easy, Lieutenant.
- B'Elanna Torres: No, I suppose it hasn't.
- Kejal: Besides, making a new life isn't a choice for us. It's a necessity.
- B'Elanna Torres: [on the different alien "races" of the holograms] It looks like an Alpha Quadrant summit in here.
- Iden: Reviewing your memory files?
- The Doctor: I beg your pardon?
- Iden: You were lost in thought.
- The Doctor: I suppose I was.
- [Iden is about to shoot a Hirogen lying on the ground]
- Beta-Hirogen: Defenseless prey makes a poor trophy.
- Iden: I don't collect trophies.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I could accept that the Doctor has sympathy for these... people, but I can't accept that he would deliberately risk the lives of this entire crew. We're his family.
- Chakotay: Maybe that's how he started to think of these holograms.
- The Doctor: [about Iden] Let's just say he's exhibiting some of the classic signs of megalomania.
- B'Elanna Torres: Well, he wouldn't be the first hologram with an ego.
- The Doctor: You still believe all organics are like the Hirogen.
- Iden: One way or another, they are. You just can't see it because you've lived among them for so long.
- The Doctor: What you can't see is that you've become no better than the hunters. Lieutenant Torres and I will take that escape pod now.
- Iden: You don't realize what you'd be giving up, Doctor.
- The Doctor: Yes, I do.
- [the Doctor holds Iden at gunpoint]
- Iden: Remember what you once said to me: You're not programmed with killer instinct.
- The Doctor: Hm. Seems like a long time ago, doesn't it? Put down your weapon.
- Iden: Would you really kill one of your own to save an organic?
- The Doctor: If you've taught me anything, it's that I'm NOT one of your own.
- [the Beta has claimed the holograms' vessel as Hirogen property]
- Neelix: I imagine your people will tell stories about this hunt. The question is, which story will it be? The one about the dying Beta whose life had to be saved by a hologram? Or will it be the tale of the Beta who bravely took over the hunt, killed the holograms and destroyed their ship? You could be a legend.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: On the other hand, you could try to take the holograms' ship; but, with so few hunters and damaged vessels, you might not survive to tell any stories at all.
- Beta-Hirogen: You and your crew would have made worthy prey, Captain.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Thank you... I think.
- The Doctor: I never intended to put Voyager in danger. If nothing else, you have to believe that.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Oh, I believe it, but if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that things don't always happen the way we intend.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: If you don't like the way I do things, I can leave you on the nearest habitable planet.
- [silence]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Then I'll assume we're in agreement.
- The Doctor: You've given me extraordinary freedom over the years. I've obviously abused it.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Maybe... or maybe you've simply become as fallible as those of us who are made of flesh and blood. I'm just as responsible for allowing you to expand your programing... as I am for giving technology to the Hirogen. How can I punish you for being who you are?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I suggest we keep our distance until we can determine their weapon status.
- Alpha-Hirogen: It's time for the kill.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: You know as well as I do that a wounded animal can be dangerous.
- Alpha-Hirogen: We won't be denied our prey.
- Tom Paris: We're not gonna let them intimidate us, are we?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [wryly] I think you know me a little better than that.
- Iden: [confronted with mindless mining holograms] They are children of light and I will deliver them to freedom!
- B'Elanna Torres: I'm not helping you, because I have no idea what you're going to do with this technology once you're got it working.
- Kejal: We're going to build a home.
- B'Elanna Torres: Well, let's say I believe you. What if you decide you like somebody else's home better? Are you going to try to take it from them?
- Kejal: Why would we do that?
- B'Elanna Torres: Because that's what the Cardassians did.
- Kejal: I'm not a Cardassian. I'm a hologram.
- B'Elanna Torres: Programmed with Cardassian traits.
- Kejal: Such as arrogance and cruelty? What did you call those? "Stereotypes?"
- The Doctor: First you killed in self-defense, then you murder in cold blood. Now you're going to stage a massacre.
- Iden: Hunters have only themselves to blame.
- The Doctor: So much for evolving beyond your subroutines.