History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS1E4Phage

The one where Neelix ends up in an iron lung. While on an Away Mission, Neelix is attacked by an alien who surgically removes his lungs. While the Doctor keeps him alive by creating a pair of holographic lungs in Sickbay, ''Voyager'' goes after the aliens and finds out that they did so because they and their society have contracted a disease called "the phage", which requires constant organ replacements for the victims to survive. They offer to transplant a willing donor's lung into Neelix to replace the ones he lost, saying that they have the technology to make the organs of any species compatible with another, and Kes decides to be the donor so that Neelix will survive.

While on an Away Mission, Neelix is attacked by an alien who surgically removes his lungs. While the Doctor keeps him alive by creating a pair of holographic lungs in Sickbay, ''Voyager'' goes after the aliens and finds out that they did so because they and their society have contracted a disease called "the phage", which requires constant organ replacements for the victims to survive. They offer to transplant a willing donor's lung into Neelix to replace the ones he lost, saying that they have the technology to make the organs of any species compatible with another, and Kes decides to be the donor so that Neelix will survive.

* BadassBoast: Or at least it would be, if Janeway hadn't just told these guys her Starfleet principles [[IneffectualDeathThreat prevented her from taking life]].

* TheScrounger: Neelix didn't get authorisation for turning the Captain's dining room into a kitchen, he just scrounged the materials and went ahead. Janeway is not pleased.

-->'''EMH:''' First they tell me there's no doctor, so I have to be on call twenty four hours a day. And then they tell me there are no nurses so I have no one to assist me.
-->'''KES:''' I thought Tom Paris was assigned to you.
-->'''EMH:''' Like I said, no one to assist me.

-->'''DERETH:''' Strange. According to my readings, [[ProjectedMan you are not here]].
-->'''EMH:''' Believe me, I wish I weren't.

-->'''DERETH:''' Strange. According to my readings, [[IntangibleMan you are not here]].

* BadassBoast: Or at least it would be, if Janeway hadn't just told these guys her Starfleet principles prevented her from taking life.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Neelix boasts there are "a few Yallitaian engineers who'd give [[SpareBodyParts all three of their spinal columns]] to know where this planet is!" And after Neelix's lungs are removed, Kes offers to donate hers, but neither the Ocampa or anyone else on ''Voyager'' is compatible with a Talaxian.

* InfiniteSupplies: Averted; the Away Team is searching the mine for dilithium, and plans are being made to set up a make-shift refinery on board ''Voyager''. Neelix has scrounged parts for a kitchen as everyone is tired of eating replicator rations.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Neelix boasts there are "a few Yallitaian engineers who'd give all three of their spinal columns to know where this planet is!" And after Neelix's lungs are removed, Kes offers to donate hers, but neither the Ocampa or anyone else on ''Voyager'' is compatible with a Talaxian.

* ContinuityNod: One of the organs in the organ repository is the liver of a Kazon, the aliens from [[RecapStarTrekVoyagerS1E1Caretaker "Caretaker"]].

-->'''Website/SFDebris!Doctor:''' Me? Sing? [[TemptingFate That'll be the day!]]

* TheCasanova: Neelix fears Tom will [[GreenEyedMonster put the moves on Kes]] now he's immobilized, describing him as "One big hormone walking the ship!"

* LethalChef: After Janeway orders Neelix on the Away Mission, he volunteers a nearby RedShirt to keep on eye on the kitchen, which is in the process of going up in smoke.* LetsSplitUpGang: The Away Team searching for dilithium.

* LethalChef: After Janeway orders Neelix on the Away Mission, he volunteers a nearby RedShirt to keep on eye on the kitchen, which is in the process of going up in smoke.

* LetsSplitUpGang: The Away Team searching for dilithium.

* TemptingFate: Janeway is looking forward to enjoying a meal while griping that she's stuck with emergency rations, only to find Neelix has turned her private dining room into a kitchen. At the end of the episode Janeway tells Neelix they'll keep the kitchen, at least until they can get the replicators back on-line. This is the start of a RunningGag involving Neelix as a CordonBleughChef, and despite this his kitchen becomes a permanent fixture on board ''Voyager''.

* MilkingTheGiantCow: The actors playing the two Vidiians.

* EverythingSensor: More of a Do Everything Sensor -- the Vidiian device can not only do a detailed medical scan, it can instantly transport someone's internal organs out of their body.

-->'''DERETH:''' Strange. According to my readings, you are not here.

* OrganTheft: Neelix has his lungs stolen via teleporters, forcing the Doctor to create temporary HardLight substitutes. The Vidiians actively engaged in this as it was the ''only'' way for them to survive the Phage that afflicted their entire race.

* GenreSavvy: Tuvok knows that Janeway is about to order something reckless, like following that Vidiian ship into the middle of an asteroid.