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* ContinuityNod:
** The Doctor struggles with a possible name, while Kes continues her medical studies under his tutelage.
** When listing famous doctors he could name himself after, the Doctor mentions [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock Dr. Spock]], who happens to share his name with the famous ''Star Trek'' character.

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* ContinuityNod:
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ContinuityNod: The Doctor struggles with a possible name, while Kes continues her medical studies under his tutelage.
** When listing famous doctors he could name himself after, the Doctor mentions [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock Dr. Spock]], who happens to share his name with the famous ''Star Trek'' character.
tutelage.
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* JustAMachine: The EMH is surprised at the idea that he should chose his own name.

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* JustAMachine: The EMH is surprised at the idea that he should chose choose his own name.
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* GunboatDiplomacy: Not wanting to get involved in the Numiri/Banea conflict, Janeway sent in Tom and Harry with a shuttle. When Tom is arrested and Harry sent back half-dead, she takes in Voyager to show she means business. When the Numeri don't send an equal force to meet it, Neelix finds it rather odd.

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* GunboatDiplomacy: Not wanting to get involved in the Numiri/Banea conflict, Janeway sent in Tom and Harry with a shuttle. When Tom is arrested and Harry sent back half-dead, she takes in Voyager to show she means business. When the Numeri Numiri don't send an equal force to meet it, Neelix finds it rather odd.

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** AcePilot Tom brags of how he slipped his shuttle past Numeri lines.

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** AcePilot Tom brags of how he slipped his shuttle past Numeri Numiri lines.



* TheBait: Tom is sent down in a shuttle to see if the Numeri try to grab him. When they do, Tom and Harry are teleported out of there, and Janeway informs the Numeri captain that the shuttle is packed with explosives.

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* TheBait: Tom is sent down in a shuttle to see if the Numeri Numiri try to grab him. When they do, Tom and Harry are teleported out of there, and Janeway informs the Numeri Numiri captain that the shuttle is packed with explosives.



* FemmeFataleSpy: Tolien Ren's wife, Lidell. She and her accomplice were smuggling important information about Tolien Ren's research to an alien race through the implanted memories of her husband's murder.

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* FemmeFataleSpy: Tolien Tolen Ren's wife, Lidell. She and her accomplice were smuggling important information about Tolien Tolen Ren's research to an alien race through the implanted memories of her husband's murder.



* GunboatDiplomacy: Not wanting to get involved in the Numeri/Banea conflict, Janeway sent in Tom and Harry with a shuttle. When Tom is arrested and Harry sent back half-dead, she takes in Voyager to show she means business. When the Numeri don't send an equal force to meet it, Neelix finds it rather odd.

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* GunboatDiplomacy: Not wanting to get involved in the Numeri/Banea Numiri/Banea conflict, Janeway sent in Tom and Harry with a shuttle. When Tom is arrested and Harry sent back half-dead, she takes in Voyager to show she means business. When the Numeri don't send an equal force to meet it, Neelix finds it rather odd.



* ImposterForgotOneDetail: The real murderer posing as Tom Paris in the recreated memory is the same height as Tolien Ren's wife, while Tom Paris in real life is actually [[OneHeadTaller half a head taller]].
* InfiniteSupplies: Averted; Janeway forces the Numeri to give back their shuttle or get blown up with it.

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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: The real murderer posing as Tom Paris in the recreated memory is the same height as Tolien Tolen Ren's wife, while Tom Paris in real life is actually [[OneHeadTaller half a head taller]].
* InfiniteSupplies: Averted; Janeway forces the Numeri Numiri to give back their shuttle or get blown up with it.



* MayDecemberRomance: Tolien Ren and his wife.

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* MayDecemberRomance: Tolien Tolen Ren and his wife.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Neelix notes that the Numeri are less hostile to ''Voyager'' than they are to other outsiders. Turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} that they want ''Voyager'' to come.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Neelix notes that the Numeri Numiri are less hostile to ''Voyager'' than they are to other outsiders. Turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} that they want ''Voyager'' to come.



* SlippingAMickey: Tolien Ren's wife put a little something in Tom Paris' drink to put him to sleep, only to later find himself taken into custody for murder.

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* ShoutOut: [[MakeTheDogTestify The usage of Tolen Ren's dog]] as a key to solving the mystery is a reference to the famous Franchise/SherlockHolmes case "The Adventure of Silver Blaze", and it is even used in precisely the same manner it was in the Conan Doyle story: the dog does not bark or act aggressive because the suspect in question was not a stranger.
* SlippingAMickey: Tolien Tolen Ren's wife put a little something in Tom Paris' drink to put him to sleep, only to later find himself taken into custody for murder.



* SummationGathering: Tuvok gathers everyone at the Ren house to explain how Tom was framed and who did it (the Numeri doctor).

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* SummationGathering: Tuvok gathers everyone at the Ren house to explain how Tom was framed and who did it (the Numeri Numiri doctor).
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Tuvok decides to conduct an investigation himself. He arrives at Lidell's house and questions her about the night of the murder. She answers his questions smoothly and apologizes for her barking dog, who doesn't like strangers. Meanwhile, ''Voyager'' is suddenly attacked by the Numrini, but a trick from Chakotay saves the day. Tuvok returns to the ship and says that he needs to mind meld with Paris to investigate the crime itself. In spite of the potential danger to his own brain, Tuvok goes through with it and witnesses the crime, making a number of notes. Luckily, he suffers no damage and announces that he needs one thing to confirm his suspicions. Janeway tells the Baneans that she's sending Paris back on a shuttlecraft, which prompts the Numiri to attempt to abduct him, but Janeway is ready to beam him back aboard and reveals that the shuttle is loaded with explosives, so the Numiri relinquish it.

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Tuvok decides to conduct an investigation himself. He arrives at Lidell's house and questions her about the night of the murder. She answers his questions smoothly and apologizes for her barking dog, who doesn't like strangers. Meanwhile, ''Voyager'' is suddenly attacked by the Numrini, Numiri, but a trick from Chakotay saves the day. Tuvok returns to the ship and says that he needs to mind meld with Paris to investigate the crime itself. In spite of the potential danger to his own brain, Tuvok goes through with it and witnesses the crime, making a number of notes. Luckily, he suffers no damage and announces that he needs one thing to confirm his suspicions. Janeway tells the Baneans that she's sending Paris back on a shuttlecraft, which prompts the Numiri to attempt to abduct him, but Janeway is ready to beam him back aboard and reveals that the shuttle is loaded with explosives, so the Numiri relinquish it.
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* SpoiledByTheFormat: The fact that the episode went out of its way to include a dog in the home of an alien family 70,000 light years from Earth reveals that the dog would be called upon to do something that an alien puppet would not be able to do, so it's easy to [[MakeTheDogTestify anticipate the final reveal]].
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Lieutenant Paris is punished for committing murder by being forced to relive the murder from his victim's eyes, in which the victim returns home to his wife and dog and catches Paris kissing his wife, prompting Paris to stab him. Paris will be forced to relive the incident every 14 hours.

Kim returns to the ship with the news. He explains that he and Paris visted the planet of Banea for engineering help and met the engineer Tolen Ren, who also invented the Baneans' warships. Happy to help, Ren invited the pair to his home for dinner. There, sparks immediately fly between Paris and Ren's young wife Lidell. Kim urges Paris to exercise caution, but Paris ignores him. Later that night, Ren was murdered. The Baneans quiestioned Paris for hours, suspecting that he's an agent of their enemy, the Numiri. Janeway decides to take ''Voyager'' to Banea to get to the bottom of this.

On Banea, Janeway meets Minister of Science Kray, who explains the procedure of implanting victims' memories using engrams. When she meets with Paris, he relates that he did flirt with Lidell, but he insists that she was already estranged from her husband, and nothing happened between them. He then has another recurrence of the memory, prompting him to lose consciousness. The Banean Doctor deduces that the engrams are damaging Paris's brain, so the Baneans allow Janeway to take Paris to sickbay. The Doctor explains that the implanted memories are degrading and will start to cause brain damage in only a short time. If the Baneans remove the engrams, however, they will likely default to lethal injection as an alternate punishment.

Tuvok decides to conduct an investigation himself. He arrives at Lidell's house and questions her about the night of the murder. She answers his questions smoothly and apologizes for her barking dog, who doesn't like strangers. Meanwhile, ''Voyager'' is suddenly attacked by the Numrini, but a trick from Chakotay saves the day. Tuvok returns to the ship and says that he needs to mind meld with Paris to investigate the crime itself. In spite of the potential danger to his own mind, Tuvok goes through with it and witnesses the crime, making a number of notes. Luckily, he suffers no damage and announces that he needs one thing to confirm his suspicions. Janeway tells the Baneans that she's sending Paris back on a shuttlecraft, which prompts the Numiri to attempt to abduct him, but Janeway is ready to beam him back aboard and reveals that the shuttle is loaded with explosives, so the Numiri relinquish it.

This was the proof Tuvok needed, so he has Janeway arrange an SummationGathering. With everyone there, he notes that Paris is shorter in the memory of the murder than he really is. He also accuses Lidell of drugging Paris and notes that the killer knew where to strike on the victim to hit his heart. He also reveals that the memory invludes equations along the bottom of Paris's view, which he assumed were part of the procedure, but Tuvok has learned that they are equations from Tolen Ren's work. Therefore, he deduces that Tolen Ren was murdered by the doctor who implanted the engram as an agent of the Numiri, in cahoots with Lidell. When the doctor protests that he's never set foot in Lidell's home, Tuvok shows that Lidell's dog is already familiar with him. The two conspirators are led away. Afterward in the mess hall, Paris thanks Tuvok and tells him that he's gained a new friend.

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Lieutenant Paris is punished for committing murder by being forced to relive the murder from his victim's eyes, in which eyes. He watches as the victim returns home to his wife and dog and catches Paris kissing his wife, prompting Paris to stab him. Paris will be forced to relive the incident every 14 hours.

Kim returns to the ship ''Voyager'' with the news. news of what happened to Paris. He explains that he and Paris visted visited the planet of Banea for engineering help and met the engineer Tolen Ren, who also invented the Baneans' warships. Happy to help, assist them, Ren invited the pair to his home for dinner. There, sparks immediately fly flew between Paris and Ren's young wife Lidell. Kim urges urged Paris to exercise caution, but Paris ignores ignored him. Later that night, Ren was murdered. The Baneans quiestioned questioned Paris for hours, suspecting that he's an agent of their enemy, the Numiri. Numiri, before being tried and sentenced. Upon hearing the story, Janeway decides to take ''Voyager'' to Banea to get to the bottom of this.

On Banea, Janeway meets Minister of Science Kray, who explains the procedure of implanting victims' memories using engrams. When she meets with Paris, he relates admits that he did flirt with Lidell, but he insists that she was already estranged from her husband, and nothing happened between them. He then has another recurrence of the memory, prompting him to lose consciousness. The Banean Doctor deduces that the engrams are damaging Paris's brain, so the Baneans allow Janeway to take Paris to sickbay. The Doctor explains that the implanted memories are degrading and will start to cause brain damage in only a short time. If the Baneans remove the engrams, however, they will likely default to lethal injection as an alternate punishment.

Tuvok decides to conduct an investigation himself. He arrives at Lidell's house and questions her about the night of the murder. She answers his questions smoothly and apologizes for her barking dog, who doesn't like strangers. Meanwhile, ''Voyager'' is suddenly attacked by the Numrini, but a trick from Chakotay saves the day. Tuvok returns to the ship and says that he needs to mind meld with Paris to investigate the crime itself. In spite of the potential danger to his own mind, brain, Tuvok goes through with it and witnesses the crime, making a number of notes. Luckily, he suffers no damage and announces that he needs one thing to confirm his suspicions. Janeway tells the Baneans that she's sending Paris back on a shuttlecraft, which prompts the Numiri to attempt to abduct him, but Janeway is ready to beam him back aboard and reveals that the shuttle is loaded with explosives, so the Numiri relinquish it.

This was the proof Tuvok needed, so he has Janeway arrange an a SummationGathering. With When everyone there, arrives, he notes that Paris is shorter in the memory of the murder than he really is. He also accuses Lidell of drugging Paris and notes that the killer knew where to strike on the victim to hit his heart. He Finally, he also reveals that the implanted memory invludes includes equations along the bottom of Paris's view, which he assumed were part of the procedure, but Tuvok has learned that they are equations from Tolen Ren's work. Therefore, he deduces that Tolen Ren was murdered by the doctor who implanted the engram as an agent of the Numiri, in cahoots with Lidell. The Numiri were to abduct Paris and steal the doctor's work through the implanted memories. When the doctor protests that he's never set foot in Lidell's home, Tuvok shows that Lidell's dog is already familiar with him. The two conspirators are led away. Afterward in the mess hall, Paris thanks Tuvok and tells him that he's gained a new friend.

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* ContinuityNod: The Doctor struggles with a possible name, while Kes continues her medical studies under his tutelage.

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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
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The Doctor struggles with a possible name, while Kes continues her medical studies under his tutelage.tutelage.
** When listing famous doctors he could name himself after, the Doctor mentions [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock Dr. Spock]], who happens to share his name with the famous ''Star Trek'' character.



* FamousFamousFictional: Averted when the Doctor is thinking of adopting the name of a famous doctor. He considers [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen Dr Galen]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk Dr Salk]], or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock Dr Spock]], though the last is also a StealthPun regarding the famous ''Franchise/StarTrek'' character.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tom predicts that one day Harry too will fall for the wrong woman. [[FatalAttractor He has no idea.]]


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* SpoiledByTheFormat: The fact that the episode went out of its way to include a dog in the home of an alien family 70,000 light years from Earth reveals that the dog would be called upon to do something that an alien puppet would not be able to do, so it's easy to [[MakeTheDogTestify anticipate the final reveal]].

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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking
-->'''PARIS:''' Smoking is a bad habit. My species gave it up centuries ago when we finally got it into our heads it was killing us.\\
'''LIDELL:''' [[SarcasmMode You must be a very superior species.]]

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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking
-->'''PARIS:''' Smoking is a bad habit. My species gave it up centuries ago when we finally got it into our heads it was killing us.\\
'''LIDELL:''' [[SarcasmMode You must be a very superior species.]]
GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Paris catches the FemmeFatale Lidell smoking and chides her for it.



* HatesSmallTalk: Tuvok eats alone for this reason.
* HowWeGotHere: Starts with Tom's punishment.

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* HatesSmallTalk: Tuvok eats alone for this reason.
* HowWeGotHere: Starts with Tom's punishment.
because he dislikes "short talk."



* InMediasRes: The episode starts with Paris's punishment, and we learn what led up to that moment through the tales of Paris and Kim.



* NoNameGiven: The Banean doctor, who is the actual murderer, is never named.



* RecycledPremise: Just like the TNG episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E14AMatterOfPerspective A Matter of Perspective]]," this episode features a crew member who is falsely accused of murdering a scientist after seducing his younger wife, and a recreation of the murder is used to discover the real killer.



* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Gender-inverted; Tom gets hauled about by Banean police.

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Lt. Tom Paris is implicated in a murder he did not commit, and is forced to relive those moments when the memories of the murder are implanted into his mind as punishment. Meanwhile the crew of ''Voyager'' try to find out who really committed the murder.

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Lt. Tom Lieutenant Paris is implicated in a punished for committing murder he did not commit, and is by being forced to relive those moments when the memories of the murder are implanted into from his mind as punishment. Meanwhile victim's eyes, in which the crew victim returns home to his wife and dog and catches Paris kissing his wife, prompting Paris to stab him. Paris will be forced to relive the incident every 14 hours.

Kim returns to the ship with the news. He explains that he and Paris visted the planet
of Banea for engineering help and met the engineer Tolen Ren, who also invented the Baneans' warships. Happy to help, Ren invited the pair to his home for dinner. There, sparks immediately fly between Paris and Ren's young wife Lidell. Kim urges Paris to exercise caution, but Paris ignores him. Later that night, Ren was murdered. The Baneans quiestioned Paris for hours, suspecting that he's an agent of their enemy, the Numiri. Janeway decides to take ''Voyager'' try to find out Banea to get to the bottom of this.

On Banea, Janeway meets Minister of Science Kray,
who explains the procedure of implanting victims' memories using engrams. When she meets with Paris, he relates that he did flirt with Lidell, but he insists that she was already estranged from her husband, and nothing happened between them. He then has another recurrence of the memory, prompting him to lose consciousness. The Banean Doctor deduces that the engrams are damaging Paris's brain, so the Baneans allow Janeway to take Paris to sickbay. The Doctor explains that the implanted memories are degrading and will start to cause brain damage in only a short time. If the Baneans remove the engrams, however, they will likely default to lethal injection as an alternate punishment.

Tuvok decides to conduct an investigation himself. He arrives at Lidell's house and questions her about the night of the murder. She answers his questions smoothly and apologizes for her barking dog, who doesn't like strangers. Meanwhile, ''Voyager'' is suddenly attacked by the Numrini, but a trick from Chakotay saves the day. Tuvok returns to the ship and says that he needs to mind meld with Paris to investigate the crime itself. In spite of the potential danger to his own mind, Tuvok goes through with it and witnesses the crime, making a number of notes. Luckily, he suffers no damage and announces that he needs one thing to confirm his suspicions. Janeway tells the Baneans that she's sending Paris back on a shuttlecraft, which prompts the Numiri to attempt to abduct him, but Janeway is ready to beam him back aboard and reveals that the shuttle is loaded with explosives, so the Numiri relinquish it.

This was the proof Tuvok needed, so he has Janeway arrange an SummationGathering. With everyone there, he notes that Paris is shorter in the memory of the murder than he
really committed is. He also accuses Lidell of drugging Paris and notes that the murder.killer knew where to strike on the victim to hit his heart. He also reveals that the memory invludes equations along the bottom of Paris's view, which he assumed were part of the procedure, but Tuvok has learned that they are equations from Tolen Ren's work. Therefore, he deduces that Tolen Ren was murdered by the doctor who implanted the engram as an agent of the Numiri, in cahoots with Lidell. When the doctor protests that he's never set foot in Lidell's home, Tuvok shows that Lidell's dog is already familiar with him. The two conspirators are led away. Afterward in the mess hall, Paris thanks Tuvok and tells him that he's gained a new friend.

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* NoirEpisode: Tom Paris makes a recording of the events that led up to his incarceration, a la a toned-down ''Film/DoubleIndemnity''. The episode [[AntiHero plays up his murky past as an ex-con]], his recitation of HowWeGotHere sounds a lot like a PrivateEyeMonologue, and he gets framed by a vampy FemmeFatale.



* ThisCannotBe: Tom's reaction in the teaser, especially since what he's seeing doesn't match what happened.
%%* TheVamp: Tolien Ren's wife.
%%* WronglyAccused

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* ThisCannotBe: Tom's reaction in the teaser, especially since what he's seeing [[WrongfullyAccused doesn't match what happened.
%%* TheVamp: Tolien Ren's wife.
%%* WronglyAccused
happened]].
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and this is just a Not An Example used to bash Voyager


* NoirEpisode: Unfortunately as it's unlikely the audience would believe that Paris actually committed the murder, it lacks the moral ambiguity implicit in FilmNoir which made [=DS9's=] "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E08NecessaryEvil Necessary Evil]]" work. Instead it's just a standard {{Whodunnit}} that even finishes with TheSummation.
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that seems not necessary


* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Gender-inverted; Tom gets hauled about like a girly-man by Banean police.

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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Gender-inverted; Tom gets hauled about like a girly-man by Banean police.
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* FemmeFatale: Lidell to a {{narm}}ish degree. "I had to have a professional cleaning crew come in and remove the bloodstains."

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