Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

The Disease (1999)

Garrett Wang: Ensign Harry Kim

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• [Kim is having an unauthorized affair with Tal, an alien female] 

  Harry Kim : I'm violating about half a dozen regulations by just being in this room. And what we did earlier... I don't know if Starfleet even has a regulation for that.

• Harry Kim : Have you ever been in love, Captain?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Your point?

  Harry Kim : Did your skin ever flush when you were near another person? Did your stomach ever feel like... someone hollowed it out with a knife when you were apart? Did your throat ever swell when you realized it was over? Seven of Nine - Seven of Nine told me love's like a disease! Well, maybe it is. Pheromones, endorphins, chemicals in our blood - changing our responses... physical discomfort; but any way you look at it, it's still love!

• [Tal is examining the shuttle controls] 

  Derran Tal : [pushing a button]  Navigation?

  Harry Kim : Oh-oh, careful! That's the weapons array. You know, you almost vaporized your living quarters.

  Derran Tal : Oh! Well, they could use a good cleaning.

• [Janeway suggests that Kim have his lovesickness medically treated] 

  Harry Kim : That man you were going to marry - if you could have just taken a hypospray to make yourself stop loving him, so that it didn't hurt so much when you were away from him - would you have done that?

• [last lines] 

  Seven of Nine : The treatment to relieve your condition was available, and yet you refused.

  Harry Kim : I've got a disease; but I'm willing to live with the symptoms. Doesn't make much sense, does it?

  Seven of Nine : I assumed that romantic love was a human weakness. But clearly it can also be a source of strength. Perhaps my analogy was flawed. Love is not a disease. Get well soon.

• Harry Kim : Seven, you've been around humans for a while now. What do you think about... love?

  Seven of Nine : We're scanning for microfractures. I don't see the relevance.

  Harry Kim : Just curious.

  Seven of Nine : Parental love, romantic love, affection between friends - specify.

  Harry Kim : Romantic love.

  Seven of Nine : An attraction based on sexual desire, one that facilitates procreation.

  Harry Kim : I guess I'm asking the wrong person.

  Seven of Nine : Not at all. The Borg have referenced this condition in over 6,000 assimilated species.

  Harry Kim : Condition? You make it sound like a disease.

  Seven of Nine : Physiologically, it bears a striking similarity to disease. A series of biochemical responses that trigger an emotional cascade, impairing normal functioning.

  Harry Kim : Forget it.

• [Kim is making an unauthorized shuttle flight with Tal, when an alarm goes off] 

  Derran Tal : Problem?

  Harry Kim : Stray radiation from the nebula. I thought it was the proximity alarm.

  Derran Tal : You said we had a couple of hours. No one's gonna come looking for us.

  Harry Kim : Now, you don't know Commander Tuvok. If he sees one electron out of place, he calls for red alert!

• Harry Kim : I've got to be honest, I wasn't expecting something so... different.

  Derran Tal : Neither was I. Our species look so similar. Well, at least on the surface.

  Harry Kim : I would have never guessed when it came down to the basics. Well, let's just say... the birds and bees will be very confused.

  Derran Tal : Birds and bees?

• Tom Paris : Oh, here we go again.

  Harry Kim : What?

  Tom Paris : You, going after impossible women! Uh, a hologram, an ex-Borg, the wrong twin, and now a girl from a xenophobic species?

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I've been thinking about how I reacted to your relationship with Tal.

  Harry Kim : You reacted like any captain would.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Probably. But I can't help wondering if my response would have been the same if it had been, say... Tom Paris instead of you. Oh, don't get me wrong; I still would have been angry and disappointed. But... I wouldn't have been surprised.

  Harry Kim : Because Ensign Kim doesn't break the rules.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : The truth is, Harry... I think about you differently than the rest of the crew. Which isn't to suggest that I don't care deeply about each of them, but... you came to me fresh out of the Academy, wide-eyed with excitement about your first deep space assignment. From that first day, I've always felt more protective of you than the others.

  Harry Kim : I appreciate that. But that was five years ago. I've changed.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Yes, you have.

  Harry Kim : Maybe I'm not the perfect officer anymore.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Maybe not... but you're a better man.

• Harry Kim : Do me one favor.

  Derran Tal : Anything.

  Harry Kim : Next time you run across a class 3 nebula... think of me.

• Derran Tal : Are all Humans so jumpy?

  Harry Kim : No. Only me.

• [after a romantic hour with Tal, Kim is late for duty and hurrying to get into his trousers] 

  Harry Kim : What're you waiting for?

  Derran Tal : To see what you look like in my uniform.

• Derran Tal : If you believe in something strongly enough, you can't ignore it - even if it means breaking a few rules.

  Harry Kim : Well, that's why I took this shuttle. But every time I break a rule, I feel like my skull's gonna decompress.

• Harry Kim : Where would you most like to be, right now?

  Derran Tal : Besides your quarters?

  Harry Kim : Besides my quarters.

  Derran Tal : Hmm... On a distant moon, where the air is warm and the gravity is light. No bulkheads around me. Where, if I walk too quickly, I can almost fly.

• Harry Kim : It's an old story - boy meets girl from the wrong side of the galaxy. Boy loses girl.

  Derran Tal : And girl loses boy.