Star Trek: Voyager: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Good Looking Privates]]: Even after seven years in the Delta Quadrant, we still see plenty of crewmembers played by extras who are clearly in their early twenties.

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

'''Janeway:''' "Neelix, [[Must Have Caffeine|listen to me VERY carefully]], because I am only going to say this once: ''Coffee. Black.''"<br />

'''Neelix:''' (serves coffee) "Now that I have your attention..."<br />

* [[MST3K Mantra]]: Invoked in "Timeless" -- Harry Kim tries to make sense of how the future version of himself could have sent the present-day Seven of Nine instructions on how to save the ship, since the future Harry's timeline was erased and he will not exist to send the instructions, resulting in an apparent [[Grandfather Paradox]]. Janeway just tells him not to bother trying to work it out, since he'll likely only succeed in giving himself a headache.

** "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.

** 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!

* [[Thoughtcrime]]: There was an episode where they came across a people who were extremely telepathic, so sensitive that any extreme emotions would incite them to act out on those feelings; having violent thoughts was a crime in and of itself. Torres was put under trial for having a brief violent thought when someone bumped into her, and Tuvok's investigation into the planet's culture found a sort of "violent thoughts" Black Market. Of course it examined the nature that when something was so taboo it meant their own people were unable to handle it when confronted with the situation.

* [[Third Person Person]]:

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

* [[Tim Taylor Technology]]

* [[Chained to a Rock]]: Constance Goodheart is tied to a pillar prior to her being presented to Queen Arachnia as a "supreme sacrifice".

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

'''Paris:''' The lost art of hyperbole. }}

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Parodied in the [[Ms. Fanservice|voluptuous form]] of Constance Goodheart, who "tags along on all the missions" for the sole purpose of getting captured by [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]], and whose only dialogue is an [[Screaming Woman|ear-piercing scream]].

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Tom Paris knows something's gone wrong in "Bride of Chaotica!" because Constance Goodheart has been killed, and that [[Boring Invincible Hero|never happens to the Good Guys]]. Likewise he tries to warn Captain Janeway of Chaotica's fondness for [[Booby Trap|hidden traps]], but she falls into one anyway.

* [[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.

* [[Mooks]]: Chaotica's [[Faceless Goons|'Army of Evil']], plus his [[Surrounded by Idiots|bumbling henchman]] Lonzak.

* [[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.

* [[Role Playing Game]]: That's what any holonovel is.

* [[Shot Mid Sentence]]: Lonzak is raygunned by Proton and Buster as he's hamming his way through his Roaring Speech of Revenge.

* [[Sidekick]]: Ensign Harry Kim plays 'Buster', a [[Shout-Out]] to Buster Crabbe who famously played Flash Gordon in the [[Flash Gordon Serial|1930s film serials]].

* [[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]].

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Janeway's insistence that the Holo-novel be completed over the wishes of the original author could be seen as a bit of this.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Torres is complaining that the holonovel doesn't have any romance.

'''Torres:''' Oh, ''that's'' realistic! }}

* [[Holodeck Malfunction]]

* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: The Voyager crew and the Vaskans.

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: The Doctor points out that the way his colleagues have been depicted in the historical recreation has morphed them into violent thugs, but he actually finds Paris to be pretty well portrayed (who from what we've seen admittedly is not depicted so much as a bloodthirsty villain rather than just cocky and prone to skirt-chasing).

* [[Politically-Correct History]]: The Kyrian recreation portrays Tedran as a martyr for the Kyrians who was executed by Janeway while trying to stop an alliance between the Vaskans and ''Voyager''. Later averted when it's revealed that ''Voyager'' was merely trading with the Vaskans when Tedran attacked unprovoked, tried to loot the ship, and then was killed by the Vaskan ambassador without warning.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The Doctor himself in this episode, or rather his backup copy, which is reactivated 700 years later.