Quotes from Kirsten Beyer

Lieutenant Harry Kim was, without doubt, the most optimistic individual she had ever known. No matter how close the darkness came, his determination to overcome it and certainty that goodness would prevail was refreshing. Conlon

Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments.

Everybody shows up, not to see their god, but to be seen.

You're going to have to do better than that.

I believe in the essential wisdom of the notion of infinite diversity in infinite combinations. The evolution of other species does not have to limit ours. Existence is not a zero-sum equation.

Both life and work were a great more reewarding when you didn't take them quite so seriously

Sometimes command means letting those under you do their jobd

How could you bear to refuse it?" Seven felt warm tears rising to her eyes, and slowly she reached out for Riley's hands. Her eyes were glistening, as well, as she accepted Seven's hand. "My individuality had become more important to me than the perfection the Caeliar were offering," Seven replied.

The planet where the Borg originated," she answered.

Sometimes command means letting those under you do their job

Hope replaced fear. Light subsumed darkness. Strength, born of the power of this presence, mingled with Kathryn's own determination and reordered the last of her mangled body and soul, realigning them into all that she had once been. What she would now be was once again an open question.

Where once Kathryn had embraced a delicate child in the body of a young woman, now she received the tenderness of a mother's love from a spirit grown unimaginably old.

Let us await what will surley come without fear of unforseen concequences

It's never wrong to live in hope." Julia

Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand

A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet

Where would you even look for evidence of a reality that by your own argument can't exist?

And then I look to my right and Kathryn Janeway is standing beside me. I know in some ways that should make me feel better. I mean, whom would you rather have beside you in a fight?

Quinn had also been there, attempting to demonstrate to her the incredible ennui that accompanied immortal existence.

But the destruction of any starship was a shocking thing to witness. Resilient and ferocious as they might appear, she was keenly conscious of the fragile life-forms protected by the hulls and armaments. Those weren't just ships exploding before her eyes. They were sentient beings, each of whom had families, friends, hopes, dreams, lives, until they met with unassailable force and ceased to exist in a brilliant flash of light.

You couldn't control or changed anything that's happened. We just do the best we can at any given time, make the bedt choices possible, and learn to live with the rest

I'm more than content to allow this mystery to unfold in its own time.

He might be a genius, but that did not make him a leader

I'm more than content to allow this mystery to unfold in its own time. I don't need to hurry it along.