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[[File:voy_cast.jpg|frame|The original cast (L-R): Neelix, Chakotay, Kim, Kes (above), Janeway, Paris, Tuvok, The Doctor, and Torres.]]

 

 

 

Early on even the producers found a certain problem with the premise, in that the series had a singular goal of returning home. That meant while there was plenty of "Strange New Worlds" to discover, they were always looking home, and constantly missing [[Just Eat Gilligan|opportunities for shortcuts]]. Another problem was the use of [[Infinite Supplies]]. Early in the series, many fans quickly dubbed Voyager the HMS [[Reset Button]]; the conclusion of almost every episode usually resulted in a return to ''[[Status Quo Is God|status quo ante]]''.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Want reviews of this? No problem, just ask Chuck Sonnenburg at [[SF Debris|SF Debris!]]

 

 

The first game in the ''[[Star Trek Elite Force]]'' video game series takes place in this show, and the actors from the show provide their voices for their counterparts (except Jeri Ryan as Seven-Of-Nine, until an expansion pack including her was released).

 

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== Trope-based episodes ==

* [[Acting for Two]]: "Faces". "Deadlock", "11:59", "Life Line", "Endgame"

* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: "Tattoo"

* [[Back to Front]]: "Before and After"

* [[The Bus Came Back]]: "Fury"

* [[The Chains of Commanding]]: "Night", "Year of Hell", "[[Hourglass Plot|Equinox]]", "Endgame".

* [[Data Crystal]]

* [[Downer Ending]]: "Course: Oblivion", probably one of the few examples of the trope in Star Trek.

* [[Ensign Newbie]]: "Nightingale"

* [[Epic Race]]: "Drive"

* [[God Guise]]: "False Profits", "Muse" (subverted in that the crew inspire a [[Fan Fiction|play]] as opposed to a religion).

* [[Grand Finale]]: "Endgame"

* [[Identical Grandson|Identical Granddaughter]]: "11:59", or identical great-great-great... well, you get the idea. The ancestral love interest bears a strong resemblance to Janeway's former love, as well.

* [[The Infinite]]: "Threshold" where Tom Paris designs and builds an engine to go [[Memetic Mutation|To Infinity And Beyond]]!! As a [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|drive the infinite turns out to be improbable]] though.

* [[Made for TV Movie]]: "Dark Frontier" was written and aired as a TV movie, though it was filmed as a normal two-part episode. "Flesh and Blood" was also aired as a TV movie, though it was neither written nor filmed as such.

* [[Magic Versus Science]]: "Sacred Ground".

* [[Medical Drama]]: "Scientific Method", "Nothing Human", "Latent Image", "Critical Care", "Imperfection", "Lineage".

* [[The Mutiny]]: "Worst Case Scenario", [[The Remnant|"Repression"]].

* [[Post-Mortem Comeback]]: In "Worst Case Scenario" (S3 E25), a highly adaptive hologram of Seska enters the program and manipulates it to her own ends.

* [[Relationship Reset Button]]: "Unforgettable".

* [[Rip Van Winkle]]: "Living Witness", "Timeless"

* [[Space Elevator]]: "Rise"

* [[Subspace Ansible]]: Seeing as Voyager is a ''lot'' further out than other Federation vessels, and has been presumed destroyed, even getting a message home is important to the crew. "Eye of the Needle", "Message in A Bottle", "Hunters", "Pathfinder".

* [[Treacherous Spirit Chase]]: "Coda"

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: "11:59"

* [[Virtual Celebrity]]: "Virtuoso"

* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: [[Misguided Missile|"Dreadnought", "Warhead"]], [[Person of Mass Destruction|"Childs Play"]] plus the Krenim temporal weapon-ship in "Year of Hell", and nine Species 8472 [[Living Ship|bioships]] linking up to destroy an entire Borg planet in "Scorpion".

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: "[[Expendable Clone|Tuvix]]", "Thirty Days", "Scorpion", "Equinox, Part II".

* [[Wrongly Accused]]: "Ex Post Facto", "State of Flux", "The Chute", "Living Witness", "Random Thoughts".

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The best example is "Counterpoint". {{spoiler|''Voyager'' is transporting telepaths through Devore space, where telepaths are automatically arrested, along with those helping them. Kashyk arrives and informs the crew that he knows what they're doing and how they plan to escape. He also says he's defecting and wants to help them avoid a Devore planned for them. If the crew believes him, then he betray them at a crucial moment. If the turn him away, he turens them in. If they do something to him, his superiors will wonder what happened and come looking for him.}} He'd win no matter what they did. {{spoiler|Except he was [[Out-Gambitted]] by Janeway, who was prepared for his deception. If he was telling the truth, great, she'd be happy to have him onboard. If he wasn't, she was ready.}}

** "Dark Frontier", {{spoiler|the borg wanted Seven of Nine to be severed earlier to develop a human perspective. If the federation hadn't taken the bait, they lose nothing. In the episode itself, the Borg Queen's plan. If Seven returns them, they leave Voyager alone. If not, they assimilate Voyager during the mission. If Seven warns Voyager, than the borg recover the transwarp coil that Voyager planned on stealing. }} and "Endgame".

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: "Gravity", "Blink of an Eye".

 

== Tropes A-G ==

* [[Agent Scully]]: Played with in "Blink of an Eye", with two scientists trying to discover if there's anyone on board Voyager, which has been in their sky for their civilisation's entire history due to [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]. The Scully doubts there's anyone on board, but when the Mulder asks why he's on the mission in the first place, he adds that he doubts everything - including his own doubts.

* [[A God Am I]]: Invoked by a group of Ferengi who ended up getting stuck in the Delta Quadrant in a similar fashion that Voyager did. They spent no time tricking and manipulating a planet's native race to start following the Rules of Acquisition and making them believe that the Ferengi were gods and prophets to the gods.

* [[All the Myriad Ways]], leading to Harry Kim becoming his own [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]].

* [[Alternate Universe]]

* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Janeway's willingness to risk everything to save Seven of Nine was to prove [[Les Yay|fertile ground]] for J/7 [[Slash Fic]] writers.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: In the early episodes, the Doctor couldn't shut off his own program. This annoyed him when people would just leave the room without deactivating him. In one instance, he specifically requests that, should the crew choose to abandon the ship for any reason, they take the time to shut him off before they leave. If they didn't, he'd be stuck in Sickbay until power failed, completely alone.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Painfully averted by Lt. [[Fan Nickname|"Extra-Man"]] Ayala. Ayala appears in 120 episodes out of 167, in all seven seasons. He speaks in exactly four of those episodes, and is only credited twice, never with a name. The mere act of establishing a name for the actor took some detective work. He's achieved a certain amount of [[Memetic Badass]] status among the fandom for simply managing to survive all seven seasons.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: The romance between Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres is every inch this trope.

* [[Berserk Button]]:

* [[Body Horror]]: The phage and Paris's transformation in ''Threshold.''

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Janeway delivers one in "Year of Hell" just before {{spoiler|[[Ramming Always Works|ramming her severely crippled ship]] into the timeline-altering weapon ship}}: "Time's up."

* [[Brick Joke]]: Chakotay's bottle of cider in "Shattered."

** The holgraphic Doctor's final name {{spoiler|Joe}} in Admiral Janeway's perceived [[Bad Future]] in ''"End Game"''. Averted when Elderly Janeway posthumously made for a Good Future... maybe.

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: A variation occurs with Doctor Zimmerman in "Life-Line". The Federation eventually came to regard the EMH program as a joke due to their poor bedside manner, writing them off in the end and repurposing the entire line into miners ([[Fridge Horror|the fact this makes them a slave-race is ignored]]), leaving Zimmerman bitter and disillusioned that his greatest creation is now serving as manual labour, all sharing ''his'' face. Naturally he's not too happy when The Doctor shows up to attempt to treat him.

* [[Caffeine Bullet Time]]: Strangely averted...

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: The Doctor does this in "Life-Line" to his creator. Doctor Zimmerman constantly belittles him and dismisses his program as a failed experiment, eventually getting furious and demanding to know ''why'' the Doctor is trying to treat his terminal illness. The Doctor furiously counters back that ''he'' designed him that way and whether he likes it or not, he is ''a Doctor'' and he ''[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|will]]'' treat him.

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) sang on the show a couple of times. One episode even featured a duel with the Doctor and Seven singing a duet, in harmony.

** [[Discontinuity Nod]]: ...and later on Paris notes that he's never traveled in transwarp. To explicitly say in the show that it isn't considered canon.

** "Deuterium? You can get that anywhere!" is mentioned in one episode, seasons after the "running out of deuterium" stuff.

* [[Character Development]]: Limited to Seven, the Doctor, Kes, and a tiny smattering for Neelix and B'Elanna. Everyone else ended the show with pretty much the [[Static Character|personality they came in with]].

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The neural transciever in "Scorpion". The Borg attempt to use them on Janeway and Tuvok in order to link their thoughts to the hive mind; Chakotay later uses one to link his thoughts with Seven of Nine to distract her.

** In ''"Revulsion,"'' on a Serosian starship, the holgram Dejaren is serving Torres a tray of food when he nearly steps on a considerable power cord exposed at one end. Torres had to warn him to "Watch out!" Later, when the hologram turned homicidal and corners Torres, she uses said power cord to destroy him.

* [[Crapsack World|Crapsack Quadrant]]: The Delta Quadrant.

* [[Creepy Child]]: Suspiria in "Cold Fire", the Borg children on their first appearance, Naomi Wildman in a nightmare sequence in "Dark Frontier" and, it was hinted on a couple of occasions, Kes ("Cold Fire", "[[Fighting From the Inside|Warlord]]" and "Fury").

* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Denara Pel, and pre-catsuit Seven of Nine.

* [[Dance of Romance]]: Doc and Seven get one in "Someone to Watch Over Me"

* [[The Danza]]: Kate Mulgrew was hired as a last minute replacement for ''Nicole'' Janeway (played by [[The Other Marty|Geneviève Bujold]]) and she asked to have the first name changed to her full first name, Kathryn.

** Janeway's first name had originally been Katherine (note the different spelling) while the series was in development, but was changed to Nicole when the French-Canadian Bujold was cast in the role. The creators asked Mulgrew which of the two she would prefer, and she opted for a slightly altered version of the originally planned name.

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: The entire crew was offed twice. Every major character died at least once. The Harry Kim that made it home ''isn't even the original Harry Kim!''

** To clarify, an anomaly of the week duplicated the ship. Which leads to an even more disturbing alternative - the only "originals" who made it home were Harry, Naomi Wildman, and Seven of Nine. The crew never figured out which of the twin Voyagers was the original ship (if either one was). Harry and Naomi were the only two from the "other" ship who survived, while Seven joined the crew long after this incident.

** This is frequently contrasted with how Sisko was treated in ''Deep Space Nine''. He wasn't "the black Captain" the way Janeway was "the female Captain", he was just [[The Captain]].

** Some early interviews and show-related material indicate that the Janeway character was ''intensely'' examined, specifically to prevent Janeway from becoming nothing more than an ultra-feminist caricature; at the same time, a balance had to be found so that Janeway could maintain her femininity while in command. Hence, Janeway prefers being addressed as 'Captain' over 'sir' or 'ma'am' (which acknowledges that she ''is'' in command, but avoids gender politics entirely).

** Also bear in mind this must be a regular bridge conversation. "How long until we get home?" "At current speeds 70 years." "Excellent we'll contin... Oh Shiny" Having just spotted a random celestial phenomena out the window.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Star Trek science is generally pretty shaky, and usually capable of being filed under "[[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Advanced Technology]]" or [[Suspension of Disbelief]]. However, in one instance the ship escapes a black hole by finding a crack in the event horizon. This makes about as much sense as being able to drive 100 MPH down an American highway, and not get arrested, because you found a crack in the speed limit.

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]] In "Workforce" This is played straight from a brainwashed Tuvok.

* [[Downer Ending]]: In "Course: Oblivion", the crew appears to start dying mysteriously one by one. It's quickly determind the "crew" is actually the copies from the episode "Demon". When they realize what they are, they make a beeline back to the Demon Planet. {{spoiler|They didn't make it. To [[Humiliation Conga|add insult to injury]], the real ''Voyager'' passes through their vaporized remains without a clue.}}

* [[Electronic Speech Impediment]]: The computer on occasions. Also 'Satan's Robot' from "[[Show Within a Show|The Adventures of Captain Proton!]]"

* [[Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity]]: The Doctor, and the Ocampa.

* [[Enemy Within]]: In one episode the Doctor tries to expand his program by incorporating personality aspects of various historical figures who possessed great minds. He failed to realize that he would also incorporate the darker sides of their psyches, and develops an evil [[Split Personality]] who takes Kes hostage.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The Borg vs. Species 8472

* [[Executive Meddling]]:

** Several scenes in the pilot had to be reshot because the studio vetoed Kate Mulgrew's hairstyle.

* [[Feminist Fantasy]]: The only Star Trek series with a female captain, 3 other female regulars (Torres, Kes, Seven) and a female [[Big Bad]] (the Borg Queen).

** With the caveat that only 2 of the other 3 female regulars were usually there at the same time, since Seven wasn't a regular until Kes left the ship.

* [[First Episode Spoiler]]

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Many of the events depicted in "Year of Hell" are foreshadowed in "Before & After". This despite the fact that the character used to foreshadow the events (Kes) isn't there when they eventually happen.

* [[Forgotten Phlebotinum]]

* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: Primarily in season 1.

* [[Full-Name Basis]]: Seven with Naomi Wildman.

** The same episode. Janeway hunts in the background for coffee while other main characters give exposition.

* [[Future Imperfect]]: Despite Paris being the most knowledgeable crew member of Earth's 20th century history, when Voyager is sent back in time to Earth circa 1996, even he gets a few cultural references, phrases, and mannerisms wrong.

** An unnamed woman was seen to be the captain of the ''USS Saratoga'' as of 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

** [[Deep Space Nine]] was a step forward from the previous series with Kira and Dax being major strong that were also competent and Kai Winn becoming more prominent in later seasons (about the normal ratio of cast, but a lot more useful and dynamic than the female regulars of previous series).

* [[G-Rated Drug]]: Janeway's coffee addiction is a [[Running Gag]].

'''Janeway:''' "Coffee first." ([[Gigantic Gulp]]) }}

** {{spoiler|Admiral Janeway}} questions why she ever gave it up in the final episode.

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: With the exception of Tuvok, the only function of Voyager's security personnel is to stand in the formal 'at ease' position, waiting for the person they're guarding to stun them senseless.

** Starfleet also has problems with doors. They still use a forcefield on the Brig, despite the many times we see it fail if the ship is under attack. This also doesn't excuse the fact that the one door they do have, the entrance ''doesn't even lock''.

 

== Tropes H-M ==

** An argument could also be made for Seven, as she retains Borg implants even after being reclaimed from the collective.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]] / [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Ensign Lon Suder (Brad Dourif) murders a coworker, and is locked in his quarters ("Meld"). During a siege of the ship ("Basics, Part 1 and 2"), he uses his murder skills to fight off the invaders, before finishing with a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

* [[History Marches On]]: Used in-universe in "Living Witness". A society has ended up with an incredibly biased account of history when Voyager traversed their system hundreds of years before, depicting the crew as a gang of sadistic thugs and genocidal monsters. When a copy of the Doctor is encountered among some of the artifacts, he eventually manages to set the record straight, and influence the planet's two respective cultures to live in harmony.

* [[The Homeward Journey]]

** Seven of Nine started out as human, became a Borg as a kid, and was forcibly [[Brought Down to Normal|brought back down to human]] (more or less) by the crew of ''Voyager''. While initially not happy about it (to say the least), Captain Janeway guided her through the process of rediscovering her humanity through time, patience, and care.

** Also, it was impossible to communicate with Species 8472 before they started taking on human form, and afterwards we never saw them in their tripedal, purple-skinned, cross-pupilled [[Eyes of Gold]] form again.

* [[Humans Are Morons]]: The episode "Virtuoso" introducedus to the Qomar, a [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|Rubber Forehead Alien]] species highly dedicated to mathematics and sciences and far more advanced than the Federation, which the Qomar looks down upon in contempt. When the Doctor provides medical treatment for one of them, the Qomarian sarcastically asks if the process involves bloodletting. Even in an idealized future where humanity has overcome a good number of its flaws to become one of the most dominant space-fairing races, we're still finding aliens who think we're dumb and primitive.

** Tuvok also marks the beginning of a ''wider'' aversion to this trope when it comes to Vulcans; apparently the writers realized that a sunny, arid planet would favor people with a lot of melanin (Well, [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|melanin with some forehead wrinkles]]). After Tuvok's debut, ''every'' Vulcan depicted on screen was at least "bronzed" in appearance.

* [[Hypochondria]]: A characteristic of Harry's [[Expy]] in "Author, Author".

** Well [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|give them a break]]. They're not going to use the same hundred-odd background actors over a ''seven year'' series.

*** There were however consistent with Lt. [[Fan Nickname|"Extra-Man"]] Ayala who appeared in over 120 of the 168 episodes and all seven series as a former-Maquis tactical/security officer. Lt Carey also often appeared as a recurring extra in engineering {{spoiler|before they killed him off}}.

* [[Just Eat Gilligan|Just Screw Q]]: At one point, Q hints that Voyager would get home a lot quicker if its captain formed a baby with him. As a feminist icon, Janeway rightly refuses to use her body as a bargaining chip. But in later episodes, so much emphasis was placed on how much she's willing to sacrifice to get her crew home that fans couldn't help but wonder why she didn't just boff the jerk.

** Just screwing Q is one thing, and if was just that, Janeway would have likely done it, but ''having a child with him'' this way is something else entirely. Even '''''[[Sci Fi Debris]]''''' points this out, and this is the guy who consistently goes out of his way to [[Alternate Character Interpretation|paint Janeway as a]] [[Villain Protagonist]].

* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: Janeway and Kes

** Seven also does this on a few occasions.

*** The Gel Packs got fixed in that exact same episode.

** Species 8472 were introduced in Voyager, and they had completely organic living ships. Not even the Borg could stand up against one of those babies.

* [[Longest Pregnancy Ever]]: Ensign Wildman - already pregnant in the pilot episode, gives birth mid-Season 2.

** The Doctor comments on this in the episode "Fury", mentioning that members of Ensign Wildman's husband's species have a gestation that is twice as long as that of a human.

*** When Naomi's born, The Doctor mentions that her teeth will begin appearing within a month. Given this relatively accelerated growth rate, it is not unreasonable to assume that she may age at a naturally slightly accelerated rate.

* [[Lost Technology]]: In both "Message In A Bottle" and "Hunters," Voyager comes across a vast abandoned network of ancient relay stations (each powered by its own black hole!), enabling them to make contact with Starfleet on the other side of the galaxy. One little mistake and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|the entire network shut down.]]

* [[The Main Characters Do Everything]]: A ''Star Trek'' staple, really, but ''Voyager'' really takes it to the next level. Don't be surprised if Janeway decides to fly off the ship with her first officer on ''routine patrol duty'', leaving the impulsive and unreliable Half-Klingon rebel in command.

* [[Mate or Die]]: Yup, this returns with a twist in "Blood Fever" {{spoiler|when young background Vulcan officer Vorik tries to force himself on B'Elanna Torres during his pon farr, leading her to suffer the blood fever as well.}} This is [[Shipping|the episode that launched millions of Torres/Paris shippers]].

** The EMH aboard the USS Equinox had his "[[Morality Chip|ethical subroutines]]" removed. It shows.

* [[Mortality Ensues]]: Q does it to q at one point; it's also a result of suppressing Seven's Borg nanotech.

** "Deadlock" gives us this gem:

* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: From "Ashes to Ashes":

'''Ensign Lyndsay Ballard:''' "That's very sweet of you, but you just told me the comets are tiresome." }}

** Janeway's [[Character Tics|body language]] nearly causes a diplomatic incident at one stage.

*** When Tuvok is afraid he's lost his self-control and is testing his restraint in the holodeck, guess which crewmember he simulates on the grounds that he's most likely to push him to breaking point! To make matters worse, he did not have to program the holographic version of Nelix to be any different than normal. This implies that if it weren't for the intense logical training all Vulcans go through, he would have murdered Nelix a long time ago.

*** In Neelix's defense, Tuvok ''had'' just mind-melded with a [[Serial Killer]].

* [[Official Couple]]: Neelix and Kes, then Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres.

* [[Once For Yes, Twice For No]]: A nebula alien, that learns to communicate only through the set phrases of the ship's computer.

** In the latter's case, when as the ''Emergency Command Hologram'' in the episode "Workforce", the Doctor's first response to being told that Voyager will be boarded and forcibly seized, is to [[Combat Pragmatist|immediately]] [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|open fire]] and cripple the enemy ship. In comparison, Janeway and Chakotay usually only return fire when the shields are down to 24% and several consoles have exploded.

** The Doctor's reaction in "Time and Again" when he realises no-one told informed him that Voyager was now carrying two alien passengers, Neelix and Kes. Oh and 80 Maquis now serve as part of the new crew. And he can't contact Captain Janeway because she's down on the planet below. Oh... and she is currently ''missing''.

* [[Organ Theft]]: Neelix has his lungs stolen via teleporters, forcing the Doctor to create temporary [[Hard Light]] substitutes. The Vidiians actively engaged in this as it was the ''only'' way for them to survive the Phage that afflicted their entire race... {{spoiler|That is until a Think Tank later gave them a permanent cure for the right price.}}

* [[Orwellian Editor]]: Janeway in "Latent Image" repeatedly attempts to delete the Doctor's memories and even ordered all evidence of Ensign Jetal to be ''erased from existence''.

* [[Other Me Annoys Me]]: As [[SF Debris]] noted about whenever Janeway met various dopplegangers;

* [[Out-Gambitted]]: {{spoiler|Kashyk in "Counterpoint". He thinks he's tricked Janeway into revealing the refugees she was hiding, but she sent them somewhere else.}}

* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: Often averted with Chakotay's Native American spirituality and some explorations of other odd species' religions. The episode "False Profits" parodied this trope to Hell and back, however, with a Bronze Age civilization venerating two Ferengi refugees as their sages (sort of ersatz deities) because their crash-landing's appearance was a lot like something prophesied in one of their sacred poems. All efforts to remove the Ferengi failed until the Voyager's crew realized the same poem ended with the appearance of certain easily-arranged celestial signs and the ascension of the sages back into the heavens, all of which could be arranged using some futuristic flares and transporter technology. Since technically this means every one of the prophecies came true, there was arguably nothing to outgrow about these people's "silly superstitions" at all!

* [[Plausible Deniability]]: Eugenics Wars? What are they?

** It probably doesn't help that the Eugenics Wars were supposedly occurring ''at the same time the series aired in real life''.

** [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Kathryn_Janeway,_2371.jpg Captain Janeway] had this style for most of the first season. which was known as [[Fan Nickname|The Bun of Steel]]

** The emotionless and formal Seven of Nine used a French pleat for her first 3 seasons on the show.

** The reset featured in "Year of Hell" is one of the few fans of the show won't groan at, simply because it was too damn awesome.

* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: Averted in "Resistance", but somehow there's never any mention of the Maquis' terrorist origins. Except for [[Sociopathic Soldier|Suder]] of course.

* [[Robosexual]]: The EMH apparently gets around, especially in one of his [[Time Skip]] episodes.

* [[Running Gag]]: Every single pot roast mentioned on the series was burnt to hell.

** On the other hand the Doctor says "The DNA doesn't lie." This has never stopped defence attorneys.

*** Though it does help that Federation forensics technology is demonstrably better than ours is.

** An Alien version of this occurs, showing an evil version of the Voyager crew as propaganda between two races of aliens, until a copy of The Doctor sets the record straight... and then the entire show-within-a-show is shown to, ''itself'' be a [[Show Within a Show|show within a show within a show.]]

* [[Space Clouds]]: In "Year of Hell", a crippled Voyager hides inside a nebula so dense that it produces a visible fog inside the ship's corridors. Captain Janeway even orders the hull breaches sealed to avoid having an "indoor nebula."

* [[Space Is an Ocean]]: In the episode "Day of Honor," Paris and Torres put on spacesuits and abandon their doomed shuttlecraft. As they drift in space awaiting rescue, they bob up and down as if floating in an ocean.

* [[Space Is Noisy]]

* [[Spinoff Sendoff]]: The pilot, "Caretaker", starts with Voyager docked at Deep Space Nine, with Quark trying to con Harry Kim.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: One of the, if not ''the'' biggest complaints leveled against the show.

 

== Tropes T-Z ==

* [[Techno Babble]]: Probably the worst offender of all Star Trek series. There's a scene where the Universal Translator is having difficulty with an alien language, so Janeway tells Harry to 'remodulate the translator'. As [[SF Debris]] points out, this means about the same thing as hitting it.

* [[Terminally Dependent Society]]: The Ocampan dependence on the Caretaker array. How dependant? We later learn that an Ocampan can only ever have a single child. Assuming that this is one child per Ocampa, male or female, every early death or miscarriage permanently reduces the Ocampan population.

** The Caretaker gave them 5 years worth of power for the city before his death. Given how dependent on him the Ocampans were, its doubtful they could figure out for themselves a different power-source. The forcefield protecting them from outsiders will most likely fail as the power dwindles and they'll eventually have to leave for the surface... ''where the Kazon are.'' This is probably why Kes is so pissed off in "Fury".

* [[They Still Belong to Us Lecture]]: The Borg Queen delivers a number of these lectures about Seven.

* [[Third Person Person]]:

'''Paris''': "When a bomb starts talking about itself in the third person, I get worried." }}

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Overlaps with [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] in "Tinkor, Tailor, Doctor, Spy". The Doctor's transformation into the ECH is accompanied by a dramatic zoom on the Doctor's lapel as the pips appear one by one.

* [[Two Roads Before You]]

* [[Understatement]]: In "Scientific Method," Janeway decides to fly ''Voyager'' between two stars, hoping to destroy the ships of some aliens who have been experimenting on the crew in the process, despite Tuvok's warning that the odds of their survival are "one in twenty, at best." Tuvok tells her that it's a far more reckless course of action than he's come to expect from her. After they manage to get away, Janeway comments to Tuvok that she never knew he thought of her as "reckless." Tuvok says that it was a poor choice of words: "It was clearly an understatement."

* [[Unit Confusion]]

* [[Un Paused]]: The Doctor, when Seven switches him off in the middle of a sentence.

* [[UST]]: Plenty of this between Janeway and Chakotay, but more so in early seasons.

** Mostly due to the influence of Jeri Taylor, who wrote the majority of the episodes where this is prevalent. After she took a backseat as a writer, this promptly vanished.

* [[Vision Quest]]: Chakotay [[Magical Native American|consults his spirit guide]] about once a season, or helps someone else do so.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: With a holographic Doctor, they question of whether a projection of [[Hard Light]] and a "soul" of algorithms arises a few times. This includes encountering a race of photonic creatures in a different plane, and another which considers holographic programs to be insurgents. Even what rights the Doctor has on the ship has been explored, with him even trying to resign in one episode.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Seven calls Janeway on this when she and the crew intend to delete memories causing the Doctor to almost literally [[Heroic BSOD|BSOD]] instead of trying to work through his problems psychologically. She wasn't around to object the first time they did it.

** Remember back in the TNG episode "A Measure of a Man" where Picard chewed out Starfleet who were planning to disassemble Data so they could build Androids to serve on Federation vessels, arguing that it was tantamount to them actively perpetuating a Slave-Race? Well apparently Starfleet doesn't, as its revealed in "Lifeline" that they reprogrammed every single EMH Mk I in the Alpha Quadrant to mine Dilithium asteroids.

*** By that logic we need to stop using flashlights to create enslaved beams of light ''immediately''.

* [[Wrote the Book]]: In the finale, a future Starfleet instructor introduces Admiral Janeway as "the person who, literally, wrote the book on the Borg."

* [[Yellow Brick Road]]: Though when keeping to the path is the only way to progress ''and'' [[Status Quo Is God]]...

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: Various crewmembers describe things from the 19th and 20th century as being "Ancient", which is like saying that Roman Chariots and Nuclear Weapons are relatively ''close'' historically. Even more egregious considering that they are only 400 years downwind from the things they are describing.

* [[You Look Familiar]]

 

 

* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Chaotica.

* [[BBC Quarry]]: Harry Kim points out that "Planet X" looks identical to "The Mines of Mercury" that they visited in the last adventure.

* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: Paris and Kim are watching a recap of last week's Proton episode, which shows their rocketship dramatically bursting into flame.

** [[Hilarity Ensues]] when Tom tries to put ''Seven of Nine'' in this role. She goes [[Off the Rails]] quickly.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]

* [[Dope Slap]]: Paris gives this to Satan's Robot when it scares off the alien they're trying to make [[First Contact]] with. The Robot shambles off muttering sulkily about alien invaders.

* [[Emperor Scientist]] / [[Mad Scientist]] / [[Big Bad]]: [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Doctor]] Chaotica, [[The Magnificent|Ruler of the Cosmos!]]

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Queen Arachnia. Plus the Twin Mistresses of Evil, Demonica and Malicia.

* [[Invincible Hero]]

'''Proton:''' It takes more than a little lava to stop Captain Proton. }}

* [[Killer Robot]]: Parodied in the [[Tin Can Robot|clunky mechanical form]] of Satan's Robot. [[Informed Ability|Supposedly terrifying]] but actually slow-moving, easily disabled, and rather pathetic.

* [[Large Ham]]: Frankly, the whole point of playing the program. Chaotica is the king of this, but also seen with the Doctor and Captain Janeway whose initial reaction is either contempt or amusement, but who end up playing their roles with gusto. Hilariously subverted though by Seven of Nine in "Night" (see [[Off the Rails]], below.)

* [[The Magnificent]]: Captain Proton: Spaceman First Class, protector of Earth, scourge of intergalactic evil...at your service.

* [[Off the Rails]]: In "Night" Tom Paris ropes in Seven to play the [[Damsel in Distress]]. Upon being menaced by the [[Killer Robot]], Seven calmly responds:

* [[Robo Speak]]: Satan's Robot with its [[Catch Phrase]]: "SUR-REND-DER!" Also [[Electronic Speech Impediment]] whenever it gets damaged.

* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]: Parodied in "Thirty Days" where Proton is seen [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|flying through outer space]] protected by a [[Adventurer Outfit|leather jacket and flying goggles]].

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: Janeway in "Shattered".

* [[You Just Ruined the Shot]]: In "Bride Of Chaotica!" [[Energy Beings|photonic aliens]] mistake the simulation for reality and go to war with Chaotica.

* [[Zeerust]]: It's several centuries old by the time of ''Voyager''.

 

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