History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS3E2Flashback

* CordonBleughChef: Neelix's specific characterization as this type of chef gets center-stage in the prologue. Tuvok expresses doubt that Neelix will be able to make something appetizing yet admits that the fruit juice he made is "impressive." Despite Neelix's reputation as a LethalChef, he's actually a good chef whose tastes only rarely coincide with those from the Alpha Quadrant.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Moments after Rand jokes that Tuvok was looking for a promotion by serving Captain Sulu tea, Sulu makes the same joke on the bridge. Rand has a huge smirk on her face during this conversation.

* GoodOldWays: Janeway and Harry Kim express disapproval and envy over the GunboatDiplomacy of Kirk's era.

* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: Tuvok was an Ensign on the Excelsior 80 years prior and only a Lieutenant in the present day. It's explained that Tuvok was pushed into Starfleet by his father and after minimal service gladly resigned his commission. It was decades later and starting his own family that made him reconsider, and he returned to Starfleet to set an example.

* LoafingInFullCostume: Tuvok, Valtane, and several others from Gamma Shift sleep in their uniforms before the battle.

* OvenLogic: Neelix says that injecting sirillium into his thermal array will "improve cooking time". Torres counters that it will probably blow up his kitchen.

* TraumaButton: The virus uses this to hide within its host, creating a false memory so traumatic that the host's mind would repress it into a part of the brain that the conscious mind would want to avoid at all costs.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: In a sense. Tuvok's time on Excelsior was not a happy time for him.

** In the absence of a family member, Tuvok chooses Janeway to undergo the MindMeld with him, as he trusts her the most. Janeway was already eager to volunteer.
** Sulu decides on HonorBeforeReason when he disobeys Starfleet orders to rescue his old friends.

* YouCanSeeMe: As the mind meld breaks down, Captain Sulu suddenly demands to know who Janeway is, and calls Security to throw them in the brig. Janeway has to steal Rand's uniform so she'll fit in on the bridge.

** Also, Tuvok indicates that the battle, which resulted from Sulu's attempt to rescue Kirk and [=McCoy=] when they were arrested for killing the Klingon Chancellor, happened just a few days after Praxis exploded, even though ''Star Trek VI'' had established that it was a few ''months'' between when Praxis exploded and the Chancellor's assassination. (And given everything that had to happen in the meantime -- the opening of peace negotiations between two former sworn enemies; the planning of the peace conference; the conspiracy against it -- there is no ''way'' it could have been only two days.)

** In the movie, two months passed between the explosion of Praxis and the attempted rescue of Kirk and Bones, while in the episode it was only two days. However, this can be explained as part of Tuvok's damaged memories.
** Based on the timing of Star Trek VI, it doesn't seem likely that there was time for Sulu's attempted rescue mission, given the scene where Sulu is awoken by a crewman with a message from Starfleet asking about the whereabouts of the Enterprise, and especially given the damage sustained in combat with Kang's vessel, which, for obvious reasons, went unmentioned in the film.

This was ''Voyager''[='s=] MilestoneCelebration for the 30th Anniversary of ''Star Trek'', along with ''Deep Space Nine'''s [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations "Trials and Tribble-ations".]] Besides Creator/GeorgeTakei reprising his role as Hikaru Sulu, it also features Grace Lee Whitney reprising hers as Janice Rand, now a Commander on board the ''Excelsior''.

** Also, Tuvok indicates that the battle, which resulted from Sulu's attempt to rescue Kirk and [=McCoy=] when they were arrested for killing the Klingon Chancellor, happened just a few days after Praxis exploded, even though ''Star Trek VI'' had established that it was a few ''months'' between when Praxis exploded and the Chancellor's assassination (And given everything that had to happen in the meantime -- the opening of peace negotiations between two former sworn enemies; the planning of the peace conference; the conspiracy against it -- there is no ''way'' it could have been only two days).

** Also, Tuvok indicates that the battle, which resulted from Sulu's attempt to rescue Kirk and [=McCoy=] were arrested for killing the Klingon Chancellor, happened just a few days after Praxis exploded, even though ''Star Trek VI'' had established that it was a few ''months'' between when Praxis exploded and the Chancellor's assassination (And given everything that had to happen in the meantime -- the opening of peace negotiations between two former sworn enemies; the planning of the peace conference; the conspiracy against it -- there is no ''way'' it could have been only two days).

* TheCameo: Creator/GeorgeTakei and Creator/GraceLeeWhitney. Kang from "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E7DayOfTheDove Day of the Dove]]", and "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E19BloodOath Blood Oath]]", also makes an appearance.

** Valtane dies, which is a major plot point. But in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' Valtane is alive in a scene that takes place after these events. Oops. The novels later covered up the ContinuitySnarl by revealing that Valtane was left clinically dead for long enough for the virus to pass to Tuvok, but was soon revived by the ship's medical crew.

* InfiniteSupplies: Averted; Voyager first starts nosing around the nebula because sirillium can be converted to a power source.

* LethalChef: Neelix finally makes a fruit juice drink that gets Tuvok's grudging approval, only to set his breakfast on fire due to an accidental power surge.

%%Who did it?* CaptainMorganPose: Though just for a moment.

-->'''Kes''': "What about the girl? Did she ever really exist, or did the organism invent the memory?"
-->'''EMH''': "Memory is a tricky thing. If it was a real event, it's been buried and copied and twisted so many times, there's no way to tell what really happened."