History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS4E12WakingMoments

** Also, since they literally can't kill the Voyager crew in their sleep, they had to rely on threats and fooling the crew into thinking they could. As they had likely been doing this sort of thing for some time, one would think it'd occur to them that if anyone they put to sleep finds this out, they'd have a stalemate at best.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: If the sleepy aliens really knew as much about ''Voyager'' as they seemed to, they should've realized that harassing the ship with the crazy [[MustHaveCaffeine caffeinated]] captain and her angry Maquis warrior XO was a ''really'' stupid idea.

* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: Implied in TheTeaser nightmares. Captain Janeway dreams of her crew dead because she didn't get them home. AcePilot Tom Paris dreams of a piloting accident, like the one that destroyed his career. TheStoic Tuvok dreams of public humiliation (considering Tuvok, the part he fears may be less of embarrassment and more of the potential reprimand for not following protocol). And Harry Kim [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality dreams of being ravished by Seven of Nine]]--which isn't actually too bad for him until the ugly alien appears.

-->'''Dreama Alien:''' As long as you're asleep, you're no threat to us.\\

* NeutralFemale: B'Elanna just stares as Chakotay struggles with the aliens who are trying to restrain him from tapping his wrist. This is a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot as Roxann Dawson was pregnant and thus not able to fight with stuntmen.

-->'''DREAM ALIEN:''' As long as you're asleep, you're no threat to us.\\
'''CHAKOTAY:''' I can wake myself anytime I want. And if I do, I'm going to start looking for you in the waking world. Find where you're sleeping. You wouldn't want that.

-->'''TUVOK:''' He watched me.\\
'''JANEWAY:''' Doing what?\\
'''TUVOK:''' Getting dressed.\\
'''JANEWAY:''' ''(DoubleTake)'' ''Getting'' dressed?\\
'''TUVOK:''' Yes.\\
'''JANEWAY:''' I don't suppose I should ask why you were ''un''dressed?\\
'''TUVOK:''' I would prefer that you didn't.

-->'''NEELIX:''' ...and the next thing I knew I was being boiled alive in a pot of my own leola root stew.\\
'''TORRES:''' Talk about a nightmare!\\
'''NEELIX:''' [[ITasteDelicious It]] ''[[ITasteDelicious was]]'' [[ITasteDelicious perfectly seasoned]].

* YourWorstNightmare: Implied in TheTeaser nightmares. Captain Janeway dreams of her crew dead because she didn't get them home. AcePilot Tom Paris dreams of a piloting accident, like the one that destroyed his career. TheStoic Tuvok dreams of public humiliation (considering Tuvok, the part he fears may be less of embarrassment and more of the potential reprimand for not following protocol). And Harry Kim [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality dreams of being ravished by Seven of Nine]]--which isn't actually too bad for him until the ugly alien appears.

* WeNeedADistraction: To cover the others breaking out of the cargo bay where the aliens have them imprisoned, Seven starts a fight with Harry Kim ([[WithFriendsLikeThese without bothering to discuss it with Harry first]]).

* {{Dreamweaver}}: Chakotay tries lucid dreaming to affect the dreams the aliens put them into, so he can communicate with them.

'''TUVOK:''' [[HoYay Getting dressed]].\\

* GagPenis: Actor Tim Russ made one up for his NotWearingPantsDream scene, as a [[BlackIsBiggerInBed joke on his fellow actors]]. Their reaction became a ThrowItIn moment.

** Also, since they literally can't kill the Voyager crew in their sleep, they had to rely on threats and fooling the crew into thinking they could. As they had likely been doing this sort of thing for some time, one would think it'd occur to them that of any people they put to sleep find this out, they'd have a stalemate at best.

* DreamWithinADream: Chakotay wakes up from a lucid dream that he has, having established FirstContact with the aliens responsible for locking Ensign Harry Kim in a unwakeable sleeping state, then finds out that he's still in a dream when he sees the moon's reflection off a control panel. He wakes himself and finds the Doctor is the only one active, the rest of the crew having fallen asleep as well.

* PinchMe: Chakotay has a subconscious trigger for his lucid dream. When he sees the Moon, he knows he's dreaming and wakes himself up by tapping the back of his hand three times.

* SchrodingersButterfly: Chakotay is put to sleep in a lucid dream so as to make FirstContact with the aliens, who warn ''Voyager'' out of their space. Chakotay wakes up and informs Captain Janeway, who warps ''Voyager'' out of there. It turns out to be a trap and the ship is taken over by the aliens, but Chakotay sees the moon in a comm panel and realises this is also a dream. He wakes himself up and finds the crew asleep except for the Doctor. Janeway and the others realise from Chakotay's disappearance that they're sharing a group dream. At one point they team up with Chakotay, only for him to wake up when the Doctor jabs a hypospray of stimulant in his neck; he'd fallen asleep again and is still the only person awake on ''Voyager''.

* YourMindMakesItReal: A variation--once Janeway understands that she's in a dream, [[NoSell she becomes fully immune to phaser fire and antimatter explosions]].