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* CassandraTruth: Gegen's daughter tries to warn him that his line of research is dangerous, but he doesn't listen.

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* CassandraTruth: Gegen's daughter tries to warn him that his line of research is politically dangerous, but he doesn't listen.listen, believing that the facts will speak for themselves.

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* CassandraTruth: Gegen's daughter tries to warn him that his line of research is dangerous, but he doesn't listen.



** Is a WholePlotReference to Galileo's difficulties with the Catholic Church.
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* TwerpSweating: Gegen does this to troll Veer, but then reveals that he approves of his interest in his daughter.

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* TwerpSweating: Gegen does this to troll Veer, but then reveals that he approves of his interest in his daughter. This makes Veer's subsequent forced betrayal [[LikeASonToMe more heart-wrenching]].

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* TranquillizerDart

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* TranquillizerDartTranquillizerDart: Tuvok catches one mid-sentence.
--> "There appears to be a dampening fie--"
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* ColdBloodedTorture: {{Implied}} with the "[[TortureTechnician surgical interrogator]]" who is nearly called in to deal with Janeway. Vir, meanwhile, looks like he suffered this off-screen when he's called to testify against Gegen.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: {{Implied}} with the "[[TortureTechnician surgical interrogator]]" who is nearly called in to deal with Janeway. Vir, Veer, meanwhile, looks like he suffered this off-screen when he's called to testify against Gegen.



* InvisibilityCloak: Gegen and Vir are able to walk around on Voyager thanks to a device that puts them out of phase. However Kim is able to detect it when they move to the Bridge.

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* InvisibilityCloak: Gegen and Vir Veer are able to walk around on Voyager thanks to a device that puts them out of phase. However Kim is able to detect it when they move to the Bridge.



* StealthInSpace: Gegan engages "spatial displacement" to hide from Voyager.

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* StealthInSpace: Gegan Gegen engages "spatial displacement" to hide from Voyager.



* SurpriseWitness: Gegan is shocked when his own protege Vir is somehow coerced into testifying against him.

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* SurpriseWitness: Gegan Gegen is shocked when his own protege Vir Veer is somehow coerced into testifying against him.



* TwerpSweating: Gegan does this to troll Vir, but then reveals that he approves of his interest in his daughter.
* UndyingLoyalty: Vir will follow Gegen anywhere--until the Voth authorities get their hands on him.

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* TwerpSweating: Gegan Gegen does this to troll Vir, Veer, but then reveals that he approves of his interest in his daughter.
* UndyingLoyalty: Vir Veer will follow Gegen anywhere--until the Voth authorities get their hands on him.
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** It also refers to ''Parasaurolophus'' as "Genus: ''Hadrosaur''". ''Parasaurolophus'' may have been part of the family Hadrosauridae, but it's a different genus from ''Hadrosaurus''.
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* UndyingLoyalty: Vir will follow Gegen anywhere--until the Voth authorities get their hands on him.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The computer is somehow able to accurately extrapolate how ''Parasaurolophus'' would look with an extra 65 million years of evolution. It's impossible to predict how any species will look if it continues to evolve.
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* ImpliedDeathThreat: After agreeing to let Voyager go, the Minister makes it clear he never wants to see them again.

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* ImpliedDeathThreat: After agreeing to let Voyager go, the Minister makes it clear he she never wants to see them again.
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* BadassArmfold: When Tom thinks he's regained control of Voyager's weapons, Captain Janeway orders him to fire and advises her captor to hold onto something. He defiantly does this trope instead. [[HopeSpot Turns out Tom doesn't have control after all.]]

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* BadassArmfold: When Tom thinks he's regained control of Voyager's weapons, Captain Janeway orders him to fire and advises her captor to hold onto something. He The Voth defiantly does this trope instead. [[HopeSpot Turns out Tom doesn't have control after all.]]His confidence is justified when Tom's attack is a NoSell.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: {{Implied}} with the "surgical interrogator" who is nearly called in to deal with Janeway. Vir, meanwhile, looks like he suffered this off-screen when he's called to testify against Gegen.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: {{Implied}} with the "surgical interrogator" "[[TortureTechnician surgical interrogator]]" who is nearly called in to deal with Janeway. Vir, meanwhile, looks like he suffered this off-screen when he's called to testify against Gegen.
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: Gegen only relents when Minister Odala threatens to destroy Voyager and send its crew to the detention camp with him.

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* AndYourLittleDogToo: Gegen only relents recants when Minister Odala threatens to destroy Voyager and send its crew to the detention camp with him.

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* ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Another connection with Earth for fans to gripe about. However this trip took so long the ancestors of the Voth apparently forgot their origins in the mists of history.

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* ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Another connection with Earth for fans to gripe about. However this trip took so long the ancestors of the Voth apparently forgot their origins in the mists of history. They've also discovered transwarp since then, explaining how they can cover a distance Voyager spent a year crossing.
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: Gegen only relents when the Minister threatens to destroy Voyager and send its crew to the detention camp with him.

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* AndYourLittleDogToo: Gegen only relents when the Minister Odala threatens to destroy Voyager and send its crew to the detention camp with him.

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* AirVentEscape: Tom ducks into a Jeffries tube, though Tuvok is stunned before he can follow.



* ThatsAnOrder / IWillOnlySlowYouDown

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* ThatsAnOrder / IWillOnlySlowYouDownThatsAnOrder: Tuvok when [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown Tom refuses to leave him behind.]]

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** The InvisibilityCloak that Tom and Tuvok experiment with allows Tom to go [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on Voyager]].

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** The InvisibilityCloak that Tom and Tuvok experiment with allows Tom to go [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on Voyager]].evade discovery.


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* InvisibilityCloak: Gegen and Vir are able to walk around on Voyager thanks to a device that puts them out of phase. However Kim is able to detect it when they move to the Bridge.

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* FalseAffablyEvil: Minister Odala during Gegen's trial.

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* FalseAffablyEvil: FauxAffablyEvil: Minister Odala during Gegen's trial.


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* ImpliedDeathThreat: After agreeing to let Voyager go, the Minister makes it clear he never wants to see them again.

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** Chakotay says that Voth doctrine originally predicted terrible disaster if transwarp were attempted. Perhaps the Voth actually evolved into lizards when they crossed the Warp Ten barrier?

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** Chakotay says that Voth doctrine originally predicted terrible disaster if [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold transwarp were attempted.attempted]]. Perhaps the Voth actually evolved into lizards when they crossed the Warp Ten barrier?



* EarthThatWas: The Voth ancestors fled Earth to escape extinction.



* HumansAreMorons: The smaller cranium of the humans is noted.



* OverlyLongTongue

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* OverlyLongTongueOverlyLongTongue: Gegen shoots out a tongue and scoops up an insect.


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* SwissCheeseSecurity: Averted when Kim detects the InvisibilityCloak of the intruders. Tuvok's security team quickly hunts them down.
* ThatsAnOrder / IWillOnlySlowYouDown
* TranquillizerDart

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* AlasPoorYorick: Gegen picks up Hogan's skull and starts waxing lyrical.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Gegen only relents when the Minister threatens to destroy Voyager and send its crew to the detention camp with him.



* ContinuityNod: Chakotay says that Voth doctrine predicted terrible disaster if transwarp were attempted. Perhaps the Voth actually evolved into lizards when they crossed the Warp Ten barrier?

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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** Hogan's skull has claw marks on it, from when he was killed by the cave lizard.
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Chakotay says that Voth doctrine originally predicted terrible disaster if transwarp were attempted. Perhaps the Voth actually evolved into lizards when they crossed the Warp Ten barrier?


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* DutchAngle


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* FalseAffablyEvil: Minister Odala during Gegen's trial.


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* MeaningfulEcho: "Eyes open."
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* HopeSpot: Tom Paris regains control over Voyager's weapons, only for them to be shut down again. It looks like Chakotay's KirkSummation will sway the Minister, but she rejects it.

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* ContinuityNod: Gegan's ability to catch up with Voyager is handwaved when he mentions transwarp. Perhaps the Voth actually evolved into lizards when they crossed the Warp Ten barrier?

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* ContinuityNod: Gegan's ability to catch up with Voyager is handwaved when he mentions transwarp. Chakotay says that Voth doctrine predicted terrible disaster if transwarp were attempted. Perhaps the Voth actually evolved into lizards when they crossed the Warp Ten barrier?
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* BadassArmfold: When Tom thinks he's regained control of Voyager's weapons, Captain Janeway orders him to fire and advises her captor to hold onto something. He defiantly does this trope instead. [[HopeSpot Turns out Tom doesn't have control after all.]]

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* MileLongShip: The Voth city ship.


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* StarshipLuxurious: The Voth city ship is so large it beams Voyager inside it with plenty of room to spare.
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* MileLongShip: The Voth city ship.
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* AnswerCut: Janeway wonders why they haven't seen the computer's extrapolation of an evolved humanoid reptilian in a museum of natural history on Earth. Cut to Chakotay and Gegen discussing the issue.
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* ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Another connection with Earth for fans to gripe about. However this trip took so long the ancestors of the Voth apparently forgot their origins in the mists of history.
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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Averted; Chakotay wakes up on an examination table, but we then see he's not restrained, though there is a forcefield around him.
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Janeway tosses a phaser to Chakotay as he rushes out to find the alien intruders.
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* FunWithAnacronyms: BYOB (Bring Your Own Bat'leth).

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* FunWithAnacronyms: FunWithAcronyms: BYOB (Bring Your Own Bat'leth).
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* FunWithAnacronyms: BYOB (Bring Your Own Bat'leth).

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