History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS6E5Alice

The crew of ''Voyager'' comes across a merchant named Abaddon who is selling all sorts of items in his derelict ship junkyard. Through the search of the junkyard, Ensign Tom Paris comes across a shuttlecraft that he thinks is a real beauty and is worth selling off his jukebox to acquire. During his restoration of the derelict ship that he named ''Alice'' after a girl in the academy that wouldn't give him the time of day, Paris tries out the neural interface briefly before the ship loses power. After he goes to bed, the ship comes to life again, having used the neural interface to scan Paris' mind and create a female persona that would interact with him. Over the course of the next few days, Paris' relationships with his closest friends and with Lt. B'elanna Torres would deteriorate as all of his attention would be fixed on ''Alice'', with B'elanna jokingly referring to the ship as "the other woman". However, when B'elanna notices that some important key components of ''Voyager'' have been stolen by Paris to fix up ''Alice'', the shuttlecraft responds by sealing her up inside and cutting off all the oxygen. Paris soon realizes that the ''Alice'' persona now has a hold on him and tries to escape its grip, but it forces Paris to leave ''Voyager'' on a course that he has plotted for the ship: straight into a particle fountain, which is considered dangerous. With the help of Abaddon, who turns out to be a former victim of ''Alice'', the crew of ''Voyager'' manages to rescue Paris from the ship by having B'elanna serve as a mental distraction for Paris before it is destroyed by the particle fountain.

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: The Doctor figures out how to insert B'Elanna into the neural link between Alice and Tom, so she can talk (or yell) some sense into him.

* BrainComputerInterface: ''Alice'' comes with one and it ends up messing with Tom Paris' head when he tries it.

* CompanionCube: Tom Paris and ''Alice'', particularly when the ship produces a female avatar he can interact with. At the end of the episode, Tom Paris had to renounce future relationships with other spacecraft, telling B'elanna that he and the ''Delta Flyer'' are just good friends.

* HomicideMachines: ''Alice'' tries to kill B'elanna by sealing her up inside the ship and cutting off all the oxygen. It also tries to do the same to its pilot by having Tom drive the ship into a particle fountain.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Abaddon's Repository of Lost Treasures, where "all trades are final". Sure enough he sells the crew a vehicle without revealing it's seriously dodgy.
* ICallItVera: Apparently, ''Alice'' is named after a girl from the Academy who Tom was attracted to, but who wouldn't give him the time of day.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: ''Alice'' tries to kill B'elanna by trapping her in the ship and cutting off the oxygen supply so she can have Tom for herself.
* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The "particle fountain" that ''Alice'' almost makes Tom fly into. A similar one destroyed a dozen ships in the Alpha Quadrant.
* OpenAndShutCase: B'elanna says this word-for-word when she sees that some {{Technobabble}} gadgets have gone missing and figures out that Tom swiped them.

* RibbonCuttingCeremony: Tom replicates a bottle of champagne for the christening ceremony of the nearly-complete refurbished ''Alice''. However, with B'elanna's prompting, Tom decides to share a toast to the shuttle with her instead of breaking the bottle on its hull. They do manage to spill a bit of champagne upon the upholstery inside the shuttlecraft.

* VagueAge: Tom Paris and Harry Kim have fun trying to guess Tuvok's actual age, which he refuses to divulge. Considering that this information should be in some Starfleet records, they're probably doing it [[ItAmusedMe just to mess with him]]. In [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E23Fury "Fury"]] however, Janeway jokes about the lengths she went to find Tuvok's birthdate, so maybe it's a confidential matter for Vulcans.

%% * DeathGlare: Literally--''Alice's'' glare almost [[YourHeadAsplode makes Tom's head explode]].

* CallBack: Abbadon bought the ship from a Haarkonian, the same species that conquered Neelix's homeworld. Either ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale again, or Alice was forcing the Haarkonian pilot to take her way off his home turf. Abbadon thought he'd GoneMadFromTheIsolation, so this could well be the case.

* DeathGlare: Literally--''Alice's'' glare almost [[YourHeadAsplode makes Tom's head explode]].
--> '''[[http://reviewboy.com/alice.html Jim "Reviewboy" Wright]]:''' She gives Tom the kind of skunk eye Janeway is famous for. And unlike the legendary Janeway glares-o-pain, Alice's actually does some serious physical damage. Tom's massive forehead becomes a spider's web of overtaxed blood vessels. His scream of agony would give Jamie Lee Curtis a run for her money.\\
Everyone on Voyager has a purpose, and a unique talent. Tom's is to sound utterly convincing when he's being folded, spindled and mutilated. Nobody--and I mean ''nobody''--screams like Helm Boy.