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** There's a bigger problem. At the end of "Before and After," Janeway heads off to debrief Kes on everything she learned about the Krennin. In the "Year from Hell" arc, when the Krennim DID show up, they completely ignored "Before and After" and acted as though they never heard of the Krennim, nor that they had had warning that there would be a Year from Hell.
** There's another problem with this episode, though it's a bit complicated. Less than a year after it takes place, Kes ascends to a higher plane of existence and uses her near-godlike telekinetic powers to throw ''Voyager'' ten thousand light years closer to home as a sort of "thank you" for all of their years of friendship. This happened ''before'' "Year In Hell" and directly because Kes chose to leave the ship. Without that act, Voyager probably should not have reached Krennin space in Kes's lifetime.
* In TNG, there was a solid episode, "The Measure of a Man," where Data is the focus of a legal dispute - his status as a sentient being is the crux of the episode, and if he loses, he'll be disassembled and studied by the mandatory [[Jerkass]] scientist who seems him as a an object, not a person. (Not that Dr. Pulaski ever got slapped for that kind of behaviour -- onscreen...). The episode ends with what should be a precedent of recognising Data as a person. ''Voyager'' seemed to rather enjoy the issue of holograms in later seasons, which led to a similar situation to Data's in "Author, Author". Given that Data and The Doctor are both artificial beings who are demonstrably intelligent and sentient, it seems logical that an enlightened, forward thinking society like the Federation would thus give The Doctor a free pass... Logic doesn't enter into it, though. The Doctor's case is settled on other grounds, leaving his personhood undecided. Later, a whole group of EMH Mark Is are shown working in a mine, all of whom could potentially gain the level of awareness that The Doctor has -- so it looks like EMHs are ''de facto'' non-persons. We aren't supposed to be happy about that, mind you -- but how did things get so dark in the Federation in less than 14 years?!
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** Federation copy-right Law could have been used to [[Hand Wave]] this Wallbanger from "Once upon a Time", but wasn't. Flotter is a character from a holodeck game. Neelix wants to give Naomi a Flotter doll. Harry programs the replicator by memory; he played the game 10 years ago. The computer already knows what Flotter looks like.
*** The holodeck as common tech ''should'' be only about twelve years old right then. In the first two seasons of TNG, every time we saw a character go into it, they were like "Wow, I've never seen anything like this before!" But at the end of this episode, Janeway says that she too had played the Flotter holoprogram, and it is clear that she means in her childhood. She has been in the fleet long enough to work her way up to captain, and does not ''look'' young . . . At best, her remembering a holodeck program from her childhood makes about as much sense as saying "Remember when you sent that Tweet after Bucky Dent hit his home run off of Mike Torres in the 1978 playoff game, and I texted you that we should celebrate by buying new leisure suits from eBay?"
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** The first time, at least, they made it very clear they'd destroy the ship if they tried it again.
* The convenience of Janeway, Tuvok and Torres's assimilation from ''Unimatrix Zero.'' Follow along with me here: When Picard was freed from the Borg he still had enough technology in his brain to still tap into the Collective when in proximity to a Cube (First Contact), when Seven of Nine was freed from the Borg she needed a false eye and still had enough nanomachines in her blood to activate her Borg Shields, the Borg Individuals from ''Unity'' and the Borg children the Voyager crew later came across were still covered head to toe in various small pieces of Borg tech that they couldn't remove. These three? Completely recovered. Not a trace of Borg tech or a single nano to be found. Amazingly enough the scriptwriters manage to supersede even ''this'' piece of nonsense by revealing the fact that now a simple injection is enough to completely shield you from the Borg Hive Mind for twelve hours... given how badly that destroys the entire premise of the Borg it's no wonder they were killed off during ''Endgame.''
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