History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS2E17Dreadnought

** Captain Janeway prepares ''Voyager'' to self-destruct in order to keep ''Dreadnought'' from reaching its "intended target".

* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Kazon have been damaging ''Voyager'''s reputation to prevent them finding allies. It's NotHelpingYourCase when Janeway has to start her negotiations with an alien planet by informing them there's a WeaponOfMassDestruction heading their way.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Averted; all attempts to reason with Dreadnought fail, as it refuses to accept that it's in the Delta Quadrant when more plausible explanations are in its programming.

* BlatantLies: When B'Elanna is on the verge of successfully shutting down Dreadnought, it declares itself willing to reconsider her Delta Quadrant idea. B'Elanna's response is "nice try".

* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Kazon have been bad-mouthing ''Voyager'' to prevent them finding allies.

* SeriesContinuityError: Janeway activates the SelfDestructMechanism, instead of [[TwoKeyedLock two senior officers working in concert]].

* ContinuityNod:

* InfiniteSupplies: Having (apparently) shut down Dreadnought, the senior officers discuss stripping it for weapons and spare parts.

-->'''Dreadnought''': False information has been entered into ''Dreadnought'''s navigational sensor array."

* VillainBall: The Cardassians ludicrously overbuilt the titular cruise missile to the point that nothing the Maquis had could scratch it and even Voyager can't take it out with anything less than the explosion from a self-destruct... and then tossed a faulty detonator. Having it just shut down after the failure, allowing her to board it, repair the explosive, and send it right back at them kind of proves her point.

* IsThatAThreat: The First Minister's first response when Janeway warns of the WMD heading for his solar system.

* NoSell: Janeway first several photon torpedoes, hoping that Dreadnought won't be able to cope with the Type 6 torpedoes that Voyager is armed with, developed after Dreadnought. They're harmlessly absorbed by Dreadnought's shields.

* HeldGaze: Janeway and Tom Paris after she orders him to evacuate, leaving her behind to die.

** Samantha Wildman's pregnancy is being treated by the Doctor.

* HopeSpot: B'Elanna's willingness to make a HeroicSacrifice to stop the Dreadnought [[LogicBomb confuses it]], so B'Elanna asks it to consider the possibility that she's telling the truth about being lost in the Delta Quadrant. Unfortunately Dreadnought comes up with a more likely scenario -- B'Elanna has changed loyalties and is now working for the Federation. It activates its final target run and shuts off life support.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tom turns up late for a command conference, is not paying attention to his standard of dress, and is getting into unnecessary arguments with his superiors.

* VillainBall: B'elanna's opinion of the original designers, who ludicrously overbuilt the titular cruise missile to the point that nothing the Maquis had could scratch it and even Voyager can't take it out with anything less than the explosion from a self-destruct... and then just tossed a faulty warhead in as the payload. Having it just shut down after the failure, allowing her to board it, repair the explosive, and send it right back at them kind of proves her point.

* SeriesContinuityError: Janeway activates the SelfDestructMechanism, instead of [[TwoKeyedLock three senior officers working in concert]].

** Captain Janeway prepares ''Voyager'' to self-destruct in order to keep ''Dreadnought'' from reaching its "intended target". B'Elanna tries to activate the detonation sequence to do the same.

* HyperspeedEscape: After PlayingPossum until B'Elanna gets off the Dreadnought, it shoots off at Warp 9. While Voyager stopped it two week from its target, now they've only 51 hours to do so.

* LogicBomb: B'Elanna has ''Dreadnought'''s current programming argue with its previous Cardassian programming in order to confuse it long enough to access the reactor core. Its current programming eventually won out and overrode the Cardassian one.

* SeriesContinuityError: Janeway activates the SelfDestructMechanism, instead of [[TwoKeyLock three senior officers in concert]].

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: ''Dreadnought'' has a 2000 kilo matter/antimatter warhead, enough to destroy a small moon.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: B'Elanna beams on board the Dreadnought, gets it to run a diagnosis on its sensors and accept that it's in the Delta Quadrant, far from its target. That was easy! Turns out the Dreadnought is just playing along, having decided that B'Elanna is being coerced.

* GrewBeyondItsProgramming: B'Elanna worries that Dreadnought might now be smarter than she is.

* TheMole: Jonas is shown telling his Kazon-Nistrum contact about Dreadnought, using the subspace transmitter -- he has to hang up when Janeway makes a phone call.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: First Minister Kellan is initially suspicious of Voyager, but soon realises that Janeway is only trying to help.

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: ''Dreadnought''.

* AlmostOutOfOxygen
* AttackBackfire / ExplosiveInstrumentation
* BlatantLies: When B'Elanna is on the verge of successfully shutting down Dreadnought, it declares itself willing to consider that she's telling the truth about being in the Delta Quadrant. B'Elanna's response is "nice try".

** On hearing that the probe was destroyed by Cardassian weapon signatures, Janeway's first thought is that Seska is responsible. Jonas later passes on the information to the Kazon, and gets frustrated that he's not allowed to speak to Seska directly.

* CurbStompBattle: The weapon destroys the planetary defense fighters with a single blast.
* CutPhoneLines: When B'Elanna says she isn't willing to discuss her plans with Dreadnought listening, the latter cuts off her comms, deciding the benefit of gaining intelligence is outweighed by B'Elanna being able to speak to Voyager.

* BlatantLies: When B'Elanna is on the verge of successfully shutting down Dreadnought, it declares itself willing to consider that she's telling the truth about being in the Delta Quadrant. B'Elanna's response is yeah, right.

* TechnologyPorn: B'elanna gets quite excited describing the missile's abilities.

** Captain Janeway prepares ''Voyager'' to self-destruct in order to keep ''Dreadnought'' from reaching its "intended target". B'Elanna tries to activate the detonation sequence to do the same.

* HopeSpot: B'Elanna easily shuts down Dreadnought, but it's just PlayingPossum. Then it's HeroicSacrifice confuses it, but it adapts to this as well.

* GrownBeyondItsProgramming: B'Elanna worries that Dreadnought might now be smarter than she is.

** Captain Janeway prepares ''Voyager'' to self-destruct in order to keep ''Dreadnought'' from reaching its "intended target".