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* VagueAge: Since Janeway's date of birth hadn't yet been codified, this episode gives us a ballpark: she mentions playing tennis "in high school" and that this was "nineteen years ago". If twenty-third century high school follows the twenty-first centuries age range of 14-18, this puts her age here from 33-37 (Kate Mulgrew was 40 when this season was filmed).

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* VagueAge: Since Janeway's date of birth hadn't yet been codified, this episode gives us a ballpark: she mentions playing tennis "in high school" and that this was "nineteen years ago". If twenty-third twenty-fourth century high school follows the twenty-first centuries age range of 14-18, this puts her age here from 33-37 (Kate Mulgrew was 40 when this season was filmed).
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* {{Fanservice}}: Rain's bustiness is on display while running down the steps of Griffith Observatory after Tom and Tuvok.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Rain's bustiness is on display while running down the steps of Griffith Observatory after Tom and Tuvok. She also jiggles quite visibly when she flounces down into her chair after calling Sterling to report her discovery of the signal he wanted to know about.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Janeway gets some fairly extensive first-degree burns on the right side of her face when she launches a photon torpedo from ''inside the tube''.


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* VagueAge: Since Janeway's date of birth hadn't yet been codified, this episode gives us a ballpark: she mentions playing tennis "in high school" and that this was "nineteen years ago". If twenty-third century high school follows the twenty-first centuries age range of 14-18, this puts her age here from 33-37 (Kate Mulgrew was 40 when this season was filmed).
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** Humorously averted; the crew beam down in [=20th=] Century dress, but on seeing the denizens of the Santa Monica boardwalk, conclude they could've worn their Starfleet uniforms and no-one would've noticed. Also a ShoutOut to ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' in which the ''Enterprise'' crew just wore their regular off duty 23rd century outfits with only the rank insignia removed in 1980s San Francisco.
** Tuvok's conclusion is mostly confirmed later when the Doctor steps into a public square in his uniform and no one so much as raises an eyebrow at him (though Rain later refers to him as "Mr. [[FutureSpandex Leisure Suit]]" and says he has the worst fashion sense she's ever seen). Also, the survivalists evidently assume that the captive Chakotay and Torres' unfamiliar uniforms are merely those of one of the many secret government agencies they always suspected of existing though they'd never encountered it before now.

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** Humorously averted; the crew beam down in [=20th=] Century dress, but on seeing the denizens of the Santa Monica boardwalk, conclude Tuvok states that they could've worn their Starfleet uniforms and no-one would've noticed. Also a ShoutOut to ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' in which the ''Enterprise'' crew just wore their regular off duty 23rd century outfits with only the rank insignia removed in 1980s San Francisco.
** Tuvok's conclusion statement is mostly confirmed later when the Doctor steps into a public square in his uniform and no one so much as raises an eyebrow at him (though Rain later refers to him as "Mr. [[FutureSpandex Leisure Suit]]" and says he has the worst fashion sense she's ever seen). Also, the survivalists evidently assume that the captive Chakotay and Torres' unfamiliar uniforms are merely those of one of the many secret government agencies they always suspected of existing though they'd never encountered it before now.
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* CoolGuns: Militia leader Porter is armed with a SPAS-12 shotgun. Cue DramaticGunCock.
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* AnachronismStew: An InUniverse version with technology from the [=20th=], [=24th=], and [=29th=] Centuries being used.
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* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The time ship requires a trained pilot to properly TimeTravel. A jump that is calibrated wrong, such as the inexperienced Starling, was apparently destructive enough to destroy most of the Sol System in the 29th Century. The StableTimeLoop came from Braxton discovering a piece of Voyager's hull in the explosion, assuming they were responsible and attempted to destroy them to prevent those events from happening, which only lead to the Time Ship being stolen in the 20th Century.

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* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The time ship requires a trained pilot to properly TimeTravel. A jump that is calibrated wrong, such as by the inexperienced Starling, was apparently destructive enough to destroy most of the Sol System in the 29th Century. The StableTimeLoop came from Braxton discovering a piece of Voyager's hull in the explosion, assuming they were responsible and attempted to destroy them to prevent those events from happening, which only lead to the Time Ship being stolen in the 20th Century.

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* FanOfThePast: There's a clever subversion of the common trope of the FanOfThePast taking charge--Tom Paris is indeed an expert on the twentieth century, but given how far in the past it is, his knowledge isn't quite specific enough and he keeps dropping out-of-date phrases and references, including invoking the now-defunct Soviet Union as the enemy he and Tuvok are supposedly working against.

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* FanOfThePast: There's a clever subversion of the common trope of the FanOfThePast taking charge--Tom Paris is indeed an expert on the twentieth century, but given how far in the past it is, his knowledge isn't quite specific enough and he keeps dropping out-of-date phrases and references, including [[TotallyRadical using the term "Groovy" in complete seriousness]] and invoking the now-defunct Soviet Union as the enemy he and Tuvok are supposedly working against.causing this mess.



* TimePolice: Captain Braxton is implied to be Starfleet's version of this in the [=29th=] Century. This is confirmed in "Relativity".

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* TimePolice: Captain Braxton is implied to be Starfleet's version of this in the [=29th=] Century. This is confirmed in "Relativity". This would be further elaborated on in the Temporal Cold War MythArc of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' which featured 31st Century agents.



* TimeyWimeyBall: The disaster was caused by Starling stealing Braxton's time ship from Earth. Braxton's time ship was on Earth as a result of his mission to destroy ''Voyager''. Braxton undertook his mission to destroy ''Voyager'' because of the disaster. If Braxton had just stayed home twiddling his thumbs in the first place none of it would have ever happened.

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* TimeyWimeyBall: The disaster was caused by Starling stealing Braxton's time ship from Earth. Braxton's time ship was on Earth as a result of his mission to destroy ''Voyager''. Braxton undertook his mission to destroy ''Voyager'' because of the disaster. If Braxton had just stayed home twiddling his thumbs in was reduced to a homeless man screaming about the first place none end of it would have ever happened.Earth and manages to explain a StableTimeLoop to Janeway, but other than stopping Starling from traveling to the distant future it's never explained how this got started.


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* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The time ship requires a trained pilot to properly TimeTravel. A jump that is calibrated wrong, such as the inexperienced Starling, was apparently destructive enough to destroy most of the Sol System in the 29th Century. The StableTimeLoop came from Braxton discovering a piece of Voyager's hull in the explosion, assuming they were responsible and attempted to destroy them to prevent those events from happening, which only lead to the Time Ship being stolen in the 20th Century.
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* BondOneLiner: "Divine intervention, is unlikely."

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* BondOneLiner: "Divine intervention, intervention is unlikely."



'''Paris:''' Tuvok, [[LameComeback has anyone ever told you you're a real freakosaurus?]]

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'''Paris:''' Tuvok, [[LameComeback has anyone ever told you you're a real freakosaurus?]] freakasaurus?]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Oh, yeah, make ''Tuvok'' wear the do-rag.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Oh, yeah, make ''Tuvok'' wear the do-rag.doo-rag.]]



* AppliedPhlebotinum: Starling inadvertently downloads ''Voyager'''s Emergency Medical Hologram, which he projects using the [[HolographicTerminal holographic system in his office]]. He demands the Doctor come with him as a hostage, which Doc points out is impossible. Cue the Doctor stepping out of Starling's limousine, staring in awe and delight at everything around him. It's all thanks to a piece of [=29th=] Century technology called a "mobile emitter", which the Doctor wears on his arm and can store and project his entire program.

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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Starling inadvertently discovers and downloads ''Voyager'''s Emergency Medical Hologram, which he projects using the [[HolographicTerminal holographic system in his office]]. He demands the Doctor come with him as a hostage, which Doc points out is impossible. Cue the Doctor stepping out of Starling's limousine, staring in awe and delight at everything around him. It's all thanks to a piece of [=29th=] Century technology called a "mobile emitter", which the Doctor wears on his arm and can store and project his entire program.



* BrickJoke: Tuvok, the "freakosaurus".

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* BrickJoke: Tuvok, the "freakosaurus"."freakasaurus".



* [[ETGaveUsWiFi ET Gave Us I.T.]]: The computer revolution happens because a timeship crash-lands next to a 60's hippie who becomes an 80's yuppie ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed probably based on Steve Jobs]]) by reverse-engineering its technology. Since the Federation tend to [[OmniscientDatabase put all of human knowledge into the computer of every single starship]], Sterling was able to quickly learn what he needs to just by asking the right questions. His progress is stunted when he gets to (then) modern-day technology, however, claiming that he had reached the limit of what he could adapt from the timeship. He is planning a trip to the future to get more technology, apparently too egotistical to realize all the problems this would entail.

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* [[ETGaveUsWiFi ET Gave Us I.T.]]: The computer revolution happens because a timeship crash-lands next to a 60's hippie who becomes an 80's a 90's yuppie ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed probably based on Steve Jobs]]) by reverse-engineering its technology. Since the Federation tend to [[OmniscientDatabase put all of human knowledge into the computer of every single starship]], Sterling was able to quickly learn what he needs to just by asking the right questions. His progress is stunted when he gets to (then) modern-day technology, however, claiming that he had reached the limit of what he could adapt from the timeship. He is planning a trip to the future to get more technology, apparently too egotistical to realize all the problems this would entail.



* HollywoodHacking: Starling is using a 29th century computer. Somehow this lets him ''instantly'' hack into ''Voyager,'' download (and wipe) a third of its database, and control and disable its systems at will. Despite his only having 20th century hacking skills. Despite ''Voyager's'' systems being completely unfamiliar to him. And despite ''Voyager's'' computers being ''five-century-old legacy technology'' as far as his tools are concerned, in a field where a ten-year gap is usually insurmountable.

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* HollywoodHacking: Starling is using a 29th century computer. Somehow this lets him ''instantly'' hack into ''Voyager,'' download (and wipe) a third of its database, and control and disable its systems at will. Despite his This is despite only having 20th century hacking skills. Despite skills despite ''Voyager's'' systems being completely unfamiliar to him. And him, and despite ''Voyager's'' computers being ''five-century-old legacy technology'' as far as his tools are concerned, in a field where a ten-year gap is usually insurmountable.



* StableTimeLoop: As explained by [[MrExposition Braxton]]. Despite being insane when he does so, he's more comprehensible [[TechnoBabble than most people on this series]]. While Voyager managed to break the cycle it's never explained how it got started in the first place.

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* StableTimeLoop: As explained by [[MrExposition Braxton]]. Despite being insane when he does so, he's more comprehensible [[TechnoBabble than most people on this series]]. While Voyager managed to break the cycle cycle, it's never explained how it got started in the first place.



* UnskilledButStrong: Starling jump started the computer age with access to Braxton's time ship but he didn't really understand how it works and that was just what he could replicate; so he was becoming desperate to find something else that could push past the current plateau. His personal equipment taken directly from the ship is also still 500 years more advanced than Voyager's technology and that allows him to hack their systems like firewalls were a myth.

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* UnskilledButStrong: Starling jump started jump-started the computer age with access to Braxton's time ship but he didn't really understand how it works and that was just what he could replicate; so he was becoming desperate to find something else that could push past the current plateau. His personal equipment taken directly from the ship is also still 500 years more advanced than Voyager's technology and that allows him to hack their systems like firewalls were a myth.

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* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: While a handful of Star Trek episodes featured time travelers from the future relative to the characters, this episode established that Starfleet of the 29th century has a TimePolice with casual TimeTravel, with their primary job trying to keep people from their own time period in check rather than all instances of Time Travel across all time. This would indirectly inform the Temporal Cold War MythArc of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' which involved a myriad of time travelers trying to influence history to their advantage, and continue with ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' where the 32nd Century is said to be when all powers involved outlawed time travel to prevent another Temporal Cold War.



* StableTimeLoop: As explained by [[MrExposition Braxton]]. Despite being insane when he does so, he's more comprehensible [[TechnoBabble than most people on this series]].

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* StableTimeLoop: As explained by [[MrExposition Braxton]]. Despite being insane when he does so, he's more comprehensible [[TechnoBabble than most people on this series]]. While Voyager managed to break the cycle it's never explained how it got started in the first place.


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* UnskilledButStrong: Starling jump started the computer age with access to Braxton's time ship but he didn't really understand how it works and that was just what he could replicate; so he was becoming desperate to find something else that could push past the current plateau. His personal equipment taken directly from the ship is also still 500 years more advanced than Voyager's technology and that allows him to hack their systems like firewalls were a myth.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Captain Braxton's attempt to stop a temporal explosion that destroys 29th Century Earth by attacking ''Voyager'' accidentally sends both ships back to 20th Century LA, putting his ship in the hands of an unstable tech CEO who wants to launch it to the future, causing the exact kind of explosion Braxton was trying to stop in the first place.

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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Captain Braxton's attempt to stop a temporal explosion that destroys 29th Century Earth by attacking ''Voyager'' accidentally sends both ships back to 20th Century LA, putting his ship in the hands of an unstable tech CEO who wants to launch it to the future, causing the exact kind of explosion Braxton was trying to stop in the first place.


* SaltAndPepper: ByTheBookCop Tuvok teams up with irreverent FanOfThePast Tom Paris. Together [[WunzaPlot They Fight]] [[TimePolice Time Crime!]]

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* CaptainCrash: Chakotay crashes yet another shuttle, right after boasting of his piloting skills at Starfleet Academy.



* [[CaptainCrash Commander Crash]]: Chakotay crashes yet another shuttle, right after boasting of his piloting skills at Starfleet Academy.
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* TookALevelInBadass: The ''[=DS9=]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Trials and Tribble-ations]]" introduced the Department of Temporal Investigations. In the 24th century all they did was take reports about time travel incidents after the fact, not that there was really anything they could do about them. At some point, they went from toothless bureaucrats to full-fledged TimePolice.

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-->'''Porter:''' ''(laughs)'' Careful, [[YouGotSpunk this one's a fighter]].

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-->'''Porter:''' ''(laughs)'' Careful, [[YouGotSpunk this one's a fighter]].fighter.



* YouGotSpunk: When Janeway makes it clear that she'll sacrifice herself to stop Starling from traveling into the future, he says "Captain, you got some ''cojones''."
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*** This has been acknowledged in at least one of the spin-off novels, which explains that time-travel leaves characters' molecularly out of phase with their current time period; the only way for them to get back to their own time is to repeat the circumstances that sent them through time in the first place, otherwise... well, it gets theoretical, but it's generally agreed it wouldn't work. Other novels have suggested that the slingshot only ''ever'' worked for the ''Enterprise'' crew, for various reasons. Series/StarTrekPicard would ''finally'' make use of the Slingshot Effect in the second season.

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*** This has been acknowledged in at least one of the spin-off novels, which explains that time-travel leaves characters' molecularly out of phase with their current time period; the only way for them to get back to their own time is to repeat the circumstances that sent them through time in the first place, otherwise... well, it gets theoretical, but it's generally agreed it wouldn't work. Other novels have suggested that the slingshot only ''ever'' worked for the ''Enterprise'' crew, for various reasons. Series/StarTrekPicard ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' would ''finally'' make use of the Slingshot Effect in the second season.
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*** This has been acknowledged in at least one of the spin-off novels, which explains that time-travel leaves characters' molecularly out of phase with their current time period; the only way for them to get back to their own time is to repeat the circumstances that sent them through time in the first place, otherwise... well, it gets theoretical, but it's generally agreed it wouldn't work. Other novels have suggested that the slingshot only ''ever'' worked for the ''Enterprise'' crew, for various reasons. Series/StarTrekPicard ''finally'' makes use of the Slingshot Effect in the second season.

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*** This has been acknowledged in at least one of the spin-off novels, which explains that time-travel leaves characters' molecularly out of phase with their current time period; the only way for them to get back to their own time is to repeat the circumstances that sent them through time in the first place, otherwise... well, it gets theoretical, but it's generally agreed it wouldn't work. Other novels have suggested that the slingshot only ''ever'' worked for the ''Enterprise'' crew, for various reasons. Series/StarTrekPicard would ''finally'' makes make use of the Slingshot Effect in the second season.
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*** This has been acknowledged in at least one of the spin-off novels, which explains that time-travel leaves characters' molecularly out of phase with their current time period; the only way for them to get back to their own time is to repeat the circumstances that sent them through time in the first place, otherwise... well, it gets theoretical, but it's generally agreed it wouldn't work. Other novels have suggested that the slingshot only ''ever'' worked for the ''Enterprise'' crew, for various reasons.

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*** This has been acknowledged in at least one of the spin-off novels, which explains that time-travel leaves characters' molecularly out of phase with their current time period; the only way for them to get back to their own time is to repeat the circumstances that sent them through time in the first place, otherwise... well, it gets theoretical, but it's generally agreed it wouldn't work. Other novels have suggested that the slingshot only ''ever'' worked for the ''Enterprise'' crew, for various reasons. Series/StarTrekPicard ''finally'' makes use of the Slingshot Effect in the second season.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Rain puts on a nice JiggleShow while running down the steps of Griffith Observatory after Tom and Tuvok.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Rain puts Rain's bustiness is on a nice JiggleShow display while running down the steps of Griffith Observatory after Tom and Tuvok.
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* ShesGotLegs: Janeway apparently has a nice set of stems if [[ShipTease Chakotay's remarks about a random skater]] are to be believed.
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* SaltAndPepper: ByTheBookCop Tuvok teams up with irreverent FanOfThePast Tom Paris. Together [[TheyFightCrime They Fight]] [[TimePolice Time Crime!]]

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* SaltAndPepper: ByTheBookCop Tuvok teams up with irreverent FanOfThePast Tom Paris. Together [[TheyFightCrime [[WunzaPlot They Fight]] [[TimePolice Time Crime!]]

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* HowDoIShotWeb:
** The Doctor enjoys the freedom of his new mobile emitter. Then he's told to go to the launch tubes to treat Captain Janeway, and has to admit that he doesn't know how to get there, having never been outside Sickbay or the holodeck, or [[ProjectedMan walked from Point A to Point B before]]. Thinking on his feet, Chakotay promptly orders an ensign to escort him there.
** Even before that, when the Doctor escapes from Starling's henchman he's clearly struggling to work out how to run, as he's literally never had to do it before.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Doctor enjoys the freedom of his new mobile emitter. Then he's told to go to the launch tubes to treat Captain Janeway, and has to admit that he doesn't know how to get there, having never been outside Sickbay or the holodeck, or [[ProjectedMan walked from Point A to Point B before]]. Thinking on his feet, Chakotay promptly orders an ensign to escort him there. Even before that, when the Doctor escapes from Starling's henchman he's clearly struggling to work out how to run, as he's literally never had to do it before.

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* TheNineties
* AccidentalTimeTravel: Given that Braxton was trying to ''destroy'' ''Voyager'', not send it (or himself) back in time.

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* AccidentalTimeTravel: Given that Braxton was trying to ''destroy'' destroy ''Voyager'', not send it (or himself) back in time.



* ApocalypseHow: On a Stellar level.

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* ApocalypseHow: On a Stellar level.Earth's solar system in the 29th Century was/will be obliterated by Starling stupidly flying the time ship there without properly calibrating it.



* BatmanGrabsAGun: After being punched several times by Butch, to no effect, the Doctor punches out Butch -- a personal first, and very uncharacteristic for a medical hologram programmed to take the Hippocratic oath UpToEleven.

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* BatmanGrabsAGun: After being punched several times by Butch, to no effect, the Doctor punches out Butch -- a personal first, and very uncharacteristic for a medical hologram programmed to take the Hippocratic oath UpToEleven.oath.



* ChangedMyJumper: Humorously averted; the crew beam down in [=20th=] Century dress, but on seeing the denizens of the Santa Monica boardwalk, conclude they could've worn their Starfleet uniforms and no-one would've noticed.

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* ChangedMyJumper: ChangedMyJumper:
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Humorously averted; the crew beam down in [=20th=] Century dress, but on seeing the denizens of the Santa Monica boardwalk, conclude they could've worn their Starfleet uniforms and no-one would've noticed.noticed. Also a ShoutOut to ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' in which the ''Enterprise'' crew just wore their regular off duty 23rd century outfits with only the rank insignia removed in 1980s San Francisco.



** Also a ShoutOut to ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' in which the ''Enterprise'' crew just wore their regular off duty 23rd century outfits with only the rank insignia removed in 1980s San Francisco.



* DeadpanSnarker: Being shot over a dozen times by {{Crazy Survivalist}}s doesn't inhibit the Doctor's ability in this area one bit.
-->'''Porter:''' God in heaven help us!\\

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Being shot over a dozen times by {{Crazy Survivalist}}s doesn't inhibit the Doctor's ability in this area one bit.
-->'''Porter:''' --->'''Porter:''' God in heaven help us!\\



-->'''Paris:''' You should have seen it when the parking enforcement officer came over to the van. Tuvok tried to use pure Vulcan logic to talk her out of giving us a citation.\\

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-->'''Paris:''' --->'''Paris:''' You should have seen it when the parking enforcement officer came over to the van. Tuvok tried to use pure Vulcan logic to talk her out of giving us a citation.\\



** The shuttlecraft is used, but not until the second part of a two-parter episode and long after the audience are scratching their heads wondering why they aren't being used. Voyager tended to vary the number of shuttlecraft according to what they needed for an episode, so when the shuttlecraft crashes no one mentions taking a second one down to locate the first.

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** The shuttlecraft is used, but not until the second part of a two-parter episode and long after the audience are scratching their heads wondering why they aren't being used. Voyager ''Voyager'' tended to vary the number of shuttlecraft according to what they needed for an episode, so when the shuttlecraft crashes no one mentions taking a second one down to locate the first.



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* TimelineAlteringMacguffin

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* TimelineAlteringMacguffinTimelineAlteringMacguffin: Braxton's timeship kickstarts the computer age thanks to it being found by an enterprising hippie.

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