Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Random Thoughts (1997)

Gwynyth Walsh: Chief Examiner Nimira

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• [Tuvok has discovered a black market for violent thoughts on the Mari homeworld] 

  Chief Examiner Nimira : Why would any of my people want to indulge in that kind of behavior?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Apparently, outlawing violent thought hasn't made it go away. All you've done is force people to share it in back alleys.

  Tuvok : It seems you have a somewhat more serious problem than the random thoughts of a single alien.

• B'Elanna Torres : Where we come from, people are responsible for their own actions.

  Chief Examiner Nimira : And here, people are responsible for their own thoughts.

• Chief Examiner Nimira : [repulsed by the thought of incarceration]  We have an enlightened penal system here. Unlike some, we don't lock people away to punish them.

  [to B'Elanna] 

  Chief Examiner Nimira : You'll be released... once you've undergone the engramatic purge.

  B'Elanna Torres : The what?

  Chief Examiner Nimira : It's a medical procedure that will identify and remove the offending images from your mind.