Ethan Phillips credited as playing...
Neelix
- Warden Yediq: What's this?
- Neelix: Dinner. Since you can't bring the prisoners to the mess hall, I brought the mess hall to them.
- Warden Yediq: What is it?
- Neelix: Talaxian spice stew, served over leola rice pilaf. It's an old family recipe.
- Warden Yediq: Take it back.
- Neelix: [sniffs at the food] Too spicy?
- Joleg: After you're convicted, the family of the victim sentences you.
- Neelix: Well, shouldn't you be sentenced by someone less partial, like a judge?
- Joleg: Vekto valek k'vadim. It's ancient Nygean; it means 'favor the victims.' What if... I stole your game board? What right would a judge have to assign a value to your loss? To him, it's just a game board, but to you it might be a priceless family possession. And what if I murdered your child?
- Neelix: I think I get your point.
- Neelix: Did you know the Nygians govern a sector of space occupied by several different humanoid species?
- Tom Paris: If we say "yes," will you feed us?
- Neelix: One of those species is the Benkarans. They occupy just 10% of Nygean space but take up nearly 80% of the space in Nygean prisons.
- Tom Paris: Maybe they commit more crimes.
- Neelix: Not according to Joleg, one of the prisoners.
- B'Elanna Torres: You think he was given a harsher sentence because of his species?
- Neelix: According to this, Benkarans are ten times more likely to be executed for their crimes than Nygeans.
- B'Elanna Torres: Where'd you get that?
- Neelix: I contacted the Nygean government. Told them I was interested in a cultural exchange. Among other things, they let me access data on their criminal justice system. It all supports what Joleg told me.
- Tom Paris: Neelix...
- Neelix: I know what you're thinking.
- Tom Paris: That you're the softest touch in the Delta Quadrant.
- Neelix: These are the transcripts from Joleg's trial. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence.
- Tom Paris: Let me guess. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Neelix: Apparently.
- Tom Paris: Neelix, when I was in the Federation penal colony, everybody had a story. I never put much stock in them. Neither should you.
- Neelix: How many of those people were sentenced to die?
- Tom Paris: D'ya have to be a criminal to get something to eat around here?
- Neelix: Sorry. Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes.
- B'Elanna Torres: You said that fifteen minutes ago.