Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)
Jetrel (1995)
Ethan Phillips: Neelix
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[last lines]
[Dr. Jetrel is dying from metremia]
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : I suppose you think... this is a fitting punishment for me.
Neelix : Maybe the cascade was a punishment for all of us - for our... hatred, our brutality. - There's something I need to tell you. I tried to tell you before, but...
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : What... what is it?
Neelix : I want to tell you... that I forgive you.
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Neelix : A man goes back to Rinax after the Cascade. Back to what had been his home. To look for survivors. But the impact of the blast has set off hundreds of fires and... there's nothing there. Just smoldering ruins and the stench of seared flesh. But in the distance, in the middle of all that emptiness, from out of this... huge cloud of billowing dust... he can see bodies moving. Whimpering. Coming toward him. They're monsters... their flesh horribly charred. The color of shale. One of them comes toward him, mangled arms outstretched. And he can't help it, he-he-he turns away, frightened. But then the thing speaks. And he knows by the sound of her voice that she's not a monster at all, but a child. A little girl.
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : [overcome with emotion] Mr. Neelix, I...
Neelix : Her name was Palaxia. We brought her back to Talax with the other survivors. Over the next few weeks I stayed at her bedside and watched her wither away. Those are consequences, Dr. Jetrel.
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Neelix : Captain, please tell Dr Jetrel that I am touched by his tender concern for my state of health, but that I'd rather be immersed in a pit of Krallinian eels than be examined by him.
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Neelix : You know what I've been thinking? If I'd been in charge of the Cascade, I'd have... I don't know... chosen a military target, or simply deployed it on an uninhabited planet. Somehow I don't think I'd have targeted innocent civilians.
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : The military strategists did not think a demonstration would work. They wanted to show the power of the Cascade in all its horror.
Neelix : You should have tried to stop them! Why didn't you speak out? People would have listened to you.
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : It would not have made any difference. If I had not discovered the Cascade, it would have been someone else. Don't you see? It was a scientific inevitability. One discovery flowing naturally to the next. Something so enormous as science will not stop for something as small as man, Mr. Neelix.
Neelix : [disgusted] So you did it for science.
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : For my planet. And yes, for science - to know whether or not it could be done. It's good to know how the world works. It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that all the knowledge of the universe and all the power that it bestows is of intrinsic value to everyone. And one must share that knowledge and allow it to be applied, and then be willing to live with the consequences.
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Neelix : I don't want that man within ten parsecs of me!
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Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : I'm simply a scientist. Yes, I developed the weapon. But it was the government and the military leaders who decided to use it - not I.
Neelix : That must be a very convenient distinction for you. Does it help you sleep at night?
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Neelix : Did you ever think that maybe your wife was right? That you had become a monster?
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : Yes. The day we tested the cascade, when I saw that blinding light, brighter than a thousand suns - I knew at that moment, exactly what I had become.
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Neelix : The night of the cascade, a bright flash cut across the sky, so blinding that... people threw themselves to the ground. And everything stopped, like a moment out of time. Then we all looked up to see where the flash had come from. But... the sky seemed oddly empty. It took most of us a few seconds to realize it was because Rinax was... gone.
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Neelix : I had the good fortune to be on Talax at the time, with our defense forces - preparing for an invasion that never came; it wasn't necessary. The day after the cascade was deployed, Talax surrendered unconditionally to the Haakonian Order.
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[Janeway tries to persuade Neelix to get screened by Jetrel for the metreon disease]
Captain Kathryn Janeway : If Jetrel discovers you don't have the disease, at least you'll have peace of mind.
Neelix : Peace of mind is a relative thing, Captain.
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Neelix : Dr. Jetrel will have to find himself another laboratory rodent to help his experiments. Because I would rather die than help you ease your conscience.
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel : I do not expect you to like me, Mr. Neelix; nor do I hope to allay your obvious pain with moral arguments. But I do believe I can help you. If not you, others of your race. Isn't that more important than punishing me?
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[Janeway and Kes are trying to persuade Neelix to undergo Jetrel's test for metremia]
Neelix : Oh... outnumbered and outflanked. All right then - I surrender.
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Neelix : [after learning that he has the metreon disease] There's one good thing that will come from all this. When I first met you, I didn't know that your species only lived eight or nine years. I fell in love with you, without... knowing how lonely it would be to live without you after you're gone. Now that... I'm going to die first, I don't have to worry about it.
Kes : Before I met you, eight or nine years seemed like an eternity. It never occurred to me that anyone could live longer. Now that we're together, no matter how many years we have left, it doesn't seem like enough. But the important thing is to cherish whatever time we have together - whether it's a day or a decade.
