History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame

* GrandFinale: For Voyager, and for most of her crew (''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' includes Janeway in a cameo, and ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' features Seven as a prominent guest star, along with an appearance by Tuvok).

* InsaneAdmiral: Future Janeway. She launches a carefully-crafted conspiracy, working only with those that she has strong personal relationships with, because she has decided that she is unhappy with how the timeline played out and she intends to go back and change it, even though doing so entails commandeering top secret Starfleet research, meddling in Klingon politics in violation of the Prime Directive, and actually going back in time with specific intent to change history, which violates the Temporal Prime Directive.

* TimelineAlteringMacguffin: The final episode leaves the possibility of this trope rather alarmingly dangling overhead. Future Janeway comes back over a decade to bring the crew home, decking out the ship in all kinds of future tech and eventually infecting the Borg Queen with a super nasty future virus. Now, given the Borg's ability to adapt, one can speculate that if they manage to overcome that virus, they would then have adapted to technology and programming the Federation hasn't yet invented. Not only that, but they had already assimilated her shuttle from the future by then, including the armor and the torpedoes. In the ExpandedUniverse novels, specifically ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'', this comes back to bite them. However Picard season 3 reveals that the Borg were decimated by Admiral Janeway's pathogen, so clearly they were unable to use the future tech to threaten the Federation.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After seven years in the Delta Quadrant, ''Voyager'' finally returns home. Additionally, thanks to Admiral Janeway's AssimilationBackfire, they managed to deal a potentially crippling blow to the Borg Collective by bringing down the transwarp network, as well as destroying Unimatrix One, killing the Borg Queen and and all the drones within.

* TimelineAlteringMacguffin: The final episode leaves the possibility of this trope rather alarmingly dangling overhead. Future Janeway comes back over a decade to bring the crew home, decking out the ship in all kinds of future tech and eventually infecting the Borg Queen with a super nasty future virus. Now, given the Borg's ability to adapt, one can speculate that if they manage to overcome that virus, they would then have adapted to technology and programming the Federation hasn't yet invented. Not only that, but they had already assimilated her shuttle from the future by then, including the armor and the torpedoes. In the ExpandedUniverse novels, specifically ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'', this comes back to bite them.

* GrandFinale: For Voyager, and for most of her crew. (''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' includes Janeway in a cameo, and ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' features Seven as a prominent guest star.)

* BookEnds: With "Caretaker" as Captain Janeway at the end of the episode says, "Set a course... for home".

* EndOfAnEra: Apart from being the end of ''Voyager'', "Endgame" was the end of an era in other ways:

* EndOfAnEra: Apart from being the end of ''Voyager'', ''Endgame'' was the end of an era in other ways:

** "Endgame" concluded the 24th Century era's 14-year consecutive TV run (which had begun with [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1EncounterAtFarpoint "Encounter at Farpoint"]] in 1987). While ''[[Film/StarTrekNemesis Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' would begin shooting shortly thereafter, Televised ''Trek'' would not [[Series/StarTrekPicard return]] to the 24th Century for nearly 20 years.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After seven years in the Delta Quadrant, ''Voyager'' finally returns home. Additionally, thanks to Admiral Janeway's AssimilationBackfire, they managaed to deal a potentially crippling blow to the Borg Collective by bringing down the transwarp network, as well as destroying Unimatrix One, killing the Borg Queen and and all the drones within.

--->'''Captain Janeway:''' What about Tuvok?
--->'''Admiral Janeway:''' You're forgetting the Temporal Prime Directive, Captain——
--->'''Captain Janeway:''' [[MamaBear To Hell with it!]]

** "Endgame" concluded the 24th Century era's 14-year consecutive TV run (which had begun with [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1EncounterAtFarpoint "Encounter at Faripoint"]] in 1987). While ''[[Film/StarTrekNemesis Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' would begin shooting shortly thereafter, Televised ''Trek'' would not [[Series/StarTrekPicard return]] to the 24th Century for nearly 20 years.

** "Endgame" concluded the 24th Century era's 14-year consecutive TV run (which had begun with [[StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1EncounterAtFarpoint "Encounter at Faripoint" in 1987). While [[''Film/StarTrekNemesis ''Star Trek: Nemesis'']] would begin shooting shortly thereafter, Televised ''Trek'' would not [[Series/StarTrekPicard return]] to the 24th Century for nearly 20 years.
* It was the final outing for the VOY shooting sets, which had occupied the Paramount sound-stages since 1978 (during development of ''StarTrek:Phase II'' before being used for the TOS films and then redressed for TNG and VOY). The 20+ year old sets would be dismantled to make way for the construction of ENT's sets.

* ArmorIsUseless: {{Averted}}--Future!Janeway's armor can completely NoSell Koroth's attacks and protects ''Voyager'' fairly well against the Borg.

* BadFuture: In Janeway's mind, as Seven and Chakotay are dead and Tuvok is suffering from Vulcan Alzheimer's. For everyone else, it's a perfectly good future. The Doctor is married and finally has a name (Joe), Tom is an accomplished author, B'elanna is a liaison to the Klingon Empire, and Harry Kim is a captain. Not to mention Reg Barclay is now a well-adjusted individual who has lost his stammer and is comfortable addressing crowds, Naomi had a daughter, Tom and B'Elanna successfully raised Miral, who is an Ensign in Starfleet, and ''Voyager'' actually ''made it home''.
** Captain Janeway even points out that the future sounds pretty good. Admiral Janeway tries to handwave this by saying "it would take too long to explain."

*** Future!Harry commands a modified ''Nova''-class ship, just like the ''Equinox''. He also fights off the same class of Klingon battlecruiser that appeared in "All Good Things".

* IHatePastMe: Admiral Janeway does not think highly of her younger self, whom she feels was nowhere near pragmatic enough and could have gotten ''Voyager'' home a lot sooner. {{Inverted}} for Present!Janeway, who thinks her future self has grown too cynical.
* InsaneAdmiral: Future!Janeway. She launches a carefully-crafted conspiracy, working only with those that she has strong personal relationships with, because she has decided that she is unhappy with how the timeline played out and she intends to go back and change it, even though doing so entails commandeering top secret Starfleet research, meddling in Klingon politics in violation of the Prime Directive, and actually going back in time with specific intent to change history, which violates the Temporal Prime Directive.

* MoralityPet: Chakotay, Seven, and Tuvok for Future!Janeway.
* MovingTheGoalposts: Korath raises the price for his temporal gizmo once he's scanned Admiral Janeway's shuttle and learned about its goodies. Janeway responds by stealing the gizmo.

* TheOner: there are a couple scenes set on present-day ''Voyager'' that utilize a single panning camera. The first scene of Act 4, in particular, is 32 seconds long and ends on the only cut (a reaction shot of a disgruntled Harry Kim). This isn't particularly long as Oners go, but ''is'' pretty long for the show's editing style.

* PetTheDog: From the ''Borg Queen'' of all people; the Collective did in fact detect Voyagers initial intrusion into the Nebula and she makes the decision to let them go on their way once they go scampering off after almost crashing into a Cube. She even later delivers Seven a direct warning that she ''is'' fully aware they are heading back to the Nebula and to ''keep out'' or else she'll destroy them, seemingly because she still has something of a soft spot for Seven. She is repaid for this highly atypical act of mercy by quite possibly having the entire Collective destroyed by Admiral Janeway...

* PortalNetwork: The transwarp hub discovered in the nebula.

* RidiculouslyDifficultRoute: In fairness this one goes all the way back to Earth, cutting a seventy year journey down to a mere tenth of that.

* RunningGag: Future!Doctor finally puts one to rest by choosing a name for himself: Joe.

* TimeyWimeyBall: So wait, did Admiral Janeway actually erase and replace the future that she came from? Or did she create a new timeline? In keeping with the inconsistent depiction of TimeTravel in the ''Star Trek'' universe the answer is not really made clear. Plus, in addition to getting ''Voyager'' home years earlier than it would have, it arrives back at Earth rigged out with early-25th Century technology provided by Future!Janeway, as well as intelligence about Borg technology, such as how the Transwarp Conduit network works. Various possibilities of dubious canon have been put forth in other media; when ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' and ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' aired, they declined to comment.

* TimeTravel

* TrojanHorse: Future!Janeway let herself get captured by the Borg Queen and assimilated to infect her and the Borg at the transwarp conduit with a neurolytic pathogen that she had infected herself with beforehand, giving Present!Janeway the chance she needs to make it back to Earth.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: when ''Voyager'' is stuck in the collapsing transwarp network with a Borg Sphere at its back, Janeway's entire plan consists of, "Mr. Paris, prepare to adjust your heading." This is so nebulous that the plan itself -- involving ''Voyager'' is hiding inside the Borg Sphere -- isn't actually clarified to the audience, much less the [[HandWave specifics]] of how it is going to be achieved.

** Future!Janeway mentions that almost two dozen other members of the crew would die en route to Earth, but they are quickly shuffled aside to focus on Seven's fate.

* FamousLastWords:
--> '''Borg Queen:''' Captain Janeway... is about to die. If she has no future... you will never exist... and nothing you've done here today... will happen.

* RidiculouslyDifficultRoute: In fairness this one goes all the way back to Earth, cutting a seventy year journey down to a mere seven years.

* TimeyWimeyBall: So wait, did Admiral Janeway actually erase and replace the future that she came from? Or did she create a new timeline? In keeping with the inconsistent depiction of TimeTravel in the ''Star Trek'' universe the answer is not really made clear. Plus, in addition to getting ''Voyager'' home years earlier than it would have, it arrives back at Earth rigged out with early-25th Century technology provided by Future!Janeway, as well as intelligence about Borg technology, such as how the Transwarp Conduit network works. Various possibilities of dubious canon have been put forth in other media; when ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', ''Series/StarTrekLowerDecks'' and ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' aired, they declined to comment.

* TimeyWimeyBall: So wait, did Admiral Janeway actually erase and replace the future that she came from? Or did she create a new timeline? In keeping with the inconsistent depiction of TimeTravel in the ''Star Trek'' universe the answer is not really made clear. Plus, in addition to getting ''Voyager'' home years earlier than it would have, it arrives back at Earth rigged out with early-25th Century technology provided by Future!Janeway, as well as intelligence about Borg technology, such as how the Transwarp Conduit network works. As this would be the last episode of the TV franchise set in the 24th Century (''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' was a prequel set in the past), various possibilities of dubious canon have been put forth in other media.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: when ''Voyager'' is stuck in the collapsing transwarp network with a Borg Sphere at its back, Janeway's entire plan consists of, "Mr. Paris, prepare to adjust your heading." This is so nebulous that the actual plan ''itself'' -- that ''Voyager'' is going to hide ''inside'' the Borg Sphere -- isn't actually made clear, much less the [[HandWave specifics]] of how it is going to be achieved.

->'''Janeway:''' Set a course...for home.

* AttackHello: As soon as the Borg sphere emerges in the Alpha Quadrant, a Starfleet armada is there to greet it with

Admiral Janeway obtains a temporal rift projector from a Klingon, installs it onto her shuttlecraft, and heads back to "the present" to alter the timeline. She has a plan to get ''Voyager'' home by the end of this SeriesFinale, as opposed to taking an additional 16 seasons. The ''Voyager'' of the present day is a busy place: B'Elanna is due to deliver Miral any day; Neelix, keeping in contact with the ship through subspace, admits he's thinking of proposing to his LoveInterest; and Seven of Nine is having a LastMinuteHookup with... Chakotay (explaining his DeathByDespair in 2404).

* BadFuture: In Janeway's mind, as Seven and Chakotay are dead and Tuvok is suffering from Vulcan Alzheimer's. For everyone else, it's a perfectly good future. The Doctor is married and finally has a name (Joe), Tom is an accomplished author, B'elanna is a liaison to the Klingon Empire, and Harry Kim is a captain. Not to mention Reg Barclay is now a well-adjusted individual who has lost his stammer and is comfortable addressing crowds, Naomi had a daughter, and Tom and B'Elanna successfully raised Miral, who is an Ensign in Starfleet.

* AttackHello: As soon as the Borg sphere emerges in the Alpha Quadrant, a Starfleet armada is there to greet it with [[BeamSpam phasers]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre photon torpedoes]].
* BackForTheFinale: Neelix makes one final appearance after his departure in "Homestead," playing a game of kadis-kot with Seven.

* BackForTheFinale: Neelix, having been [[ShooOutTheClowns written out]] during the events of the previous episode, appears solely over vidcomm. (Ethan Phillips retains his starring credit.)