History Series / StarTrekVoyager

*** A better justification was when Janeway asserted she'd accept a parallel situation if it saved HER life. The Doctor calls the blocking a few memories a "violation" but those memories were driving him insane. Besides the Federation blocks organics' memories all the time. Twice on TNG a pre-warp alien had their short term memory wiped (only worked the first time), and that was just to enforce the Prime Directive. By the time of DS9 when Worf's brother Kurn is nearly suicidal about losing his honor and being an outcast among Klingons, Bashir wipes out all his memories. (There is an unanwered question there. Did Kurn agree to have his mind wiped? We only see Bashir discussing the procedure with Worf while Kurn is sedated.)

*** Regardless of whether or not "Threshold" was actually excised from continuity, the events of the episode were explicitly mentioned in the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "We'll Always Have Tom Paris", either reversing the retcon or confirming it was never retconned in the first place.

** ''Threshold''. Ironically it must be the single most mentioned ''Star Trek'' episode in history. It gets mentioned in every ''Star Trek'' forum at least once a day. Braga even recycled it for an ENT episode, perhaps hoping he could get it right this time. The result: ''Extinction'', "one of the singularly most embarrassing episodes of ''Star Trek'' I've ever been involved with." But ''Extinction'' is still canon.

[[caption-width-right:350:The crew of the USS ''Voyager'', NCC-74656.[[note]]L - R: [[DefrostingIceQueen Seven of]] [[{{Cyborg}} Nine]], [[TheSpock Tuvok]], [[TheHeart Kes]], [[TheCaptain Kathryn]] [[IronLady Janeway]], [[JackOfAllTrades Neelix]], [[ButtMonkey Harry Kim]], [[NumberTwo Chakotay]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The crew of the USS ''Voyager'', NCC-74656.[[note]]L - R: [[DefrostingIceQueen Seven of Nine]], [[TheSpock Tuvok]], [[TheHeart Kes]], [[TheCaptain Kathryn]] [[IronLady Janeway]], [[JackOfAllTrades Neelix]], [[ButtMonkey Harry Kim]], [[NumberTwo Chakotay]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The crew of the USS ''Voyager'', NCC-74656.[[note]]L - R: Seven of Nine, Tuvok, Kes, Kathryn Janeway, Neelix, Harry Kim, Chakotay.[[/note]]]]

* Mayincatec: Commander Chakotay's tribe is never explicitly identified in the series, but is described as being descended from the "Rubber Tree People." Over the course of the series hints of his being descended from one of tribes in Mexico or Central America.

[[caption-width-right:350:The crew of the ''U.S.S. Voyager'', NCC-74656.[[note]]L - R: Seven of Nine, Tuvok, Kes, Kathryn Janeway, Neelix, Harry Kim, Chakotay.[[/note]]]]

The double-length {{pilot episode}} saw the ''USS Voyager'', under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway, called in to apprehend a paramilitary group led by Chakotay, a renegade Starfleet officer. In the midst of trying to locate him, ''Voyager'' was yanked across the galaxy by an alien known as the Caretaker, who was also responsible for abducting Chakotay's ship. During a battle with the Kazon, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil the local space-faring thugs,]] Janeway destroyed the device that had abducted them rather than let it be misused. This had the effect of now stranding both crews in the Delta Quadrant, on the other side of the galaxy. The two crews must [[EnemyMine put aside their differences and work together]] [[TheHomewardJourney to make the seventy-five year journey home.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The crew of the ''U.S.S. Voyager'', NCC-74656.[[note]]Clockwise from top right: Kathryn Janeway, Tuvok, Tom Paris, The Doctor, Seven of Nine, Kes, Neelix, Harry Kim, B'Elanna Torres, and Chakotay.[[/note]]]]

!!This show provides examples of the following tropes:

* LongTitle: In-universe, Naomi's essay about "The weird planet where time moved very fast and so did the people who lived there". Seven helps her condense it.

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* ForScience:
** Oddly a mass murdering scientist is far more chipper than ''Voyager''[='=]s Doctor was in Season One! David Clennon imbues Crell Moset with all the serene arrogance that the character demands. For his barbaric surgeries on Bajoran laborers he was rewarded with a prestigious university chair and helped stamp out a deadly epidemic.
** In an obvious nod to Oppenheimer, Neelix asks Jetrel if he regrets what he did to the Talaxians, but he offers no apologies for his work -- merely sympathy that his creation had a bigger and more historic effect than he anticipated. He makes a distinction between him developing the weapon and the government deciding to use it for warfare, and Neelix asks quietly if that helps him to sleep at night. Jetrel did it to ''know that it could be done''. He lost his wife and children because they thought he had become a monster, when really he's just a government shill who did what he was told.

** In "Critical Care," the holographic Doctor gets stolen and sold to an alien hospital, where patients are assessed not according to urgency, but according to how "valuable" their skills are to society. As a result, the working classes suffer in crowded, undersupplied halls while the rich recover in luxury. It's so extreme that a drug that could save lives at the lowest levels is held out for the highest level, where it is used to slow arterial aging. In the Doctor's efforts to help, both the Prime Directive and the Hippocratic Oath get severely bent.
** In "Latent Image," The Doctor is faced with two patients (Harry Kim and a RedShirt) who have an exactly equal chance of survival. He can only treat one of them in time, and the other will die. Because his program cannot find a logical way to decide, he chooses to save Harry because he's a friend. This causes a [[HeroicBSOD severe malfunction in his program]] that forces the crew to erase his memory of the event or risk losing their only medical officer.
** In the two-part episode "The Killing Game," the ship is taken over by Hirogen who place the crew into brutal holographic simulations and force the doctor to treat them. When a crewmember with life-threatening injuries and a Hirogen with minor burns are both brought in, the Hirogen medical officer orders the doctor to treat the Hirogen patient first. He protests that this goes against the rules of triage is that critical injuries take priority. The Hirogen replies "your rules, not mine" and deactivates him when he refuses to comply.
** A variation occurs in "Author, Author"--The Doctor has written a holo-novel in which the user plays the part of an EMH in a triage situation. A bridge officer is brought in with a minor concussion, but there is already a [[RedShirt patient]] dying from a ruptured aorta. Captain Jenkins (Captain Janeway's EvilCounterpart) ends the debate by shooting the poor RedShirt.

* OneMillionBC: Primitives, volcanoes, and giant lizards. "Basics Pt. II" is the last straw where the show tipped over from being relatively hard sci-fi to a pulp adventure serial. No-nonsense Janeway turns over some rocks and instructs her crew to eat the grubs they find underneath.

''Star Trek: Voyager'' is the third "Next Generation" ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series, running for seven seasons from January 1995 through May 2001.

** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': While "Caretaker" technically premiered three months after the film's released, the Starfleet crew is nonetheless using the redesigned combadges introduced in ''Generations''.

** They were actually DanBrowned by a consultant. They recruited someone named Jamake Highwater who claimed to be an expert on Native American culture. However, it turned out he was a con artist whose only knowledge of Native American culture came from movies. The producers didn't find this out until much later, sadly. At the time, they thought they were getting a reasonably authentic Native American character (as authentic as one could be in the 24th century, in-universe there was a bit of a revival of old traditions among Native American descendants). Of course, that just makes it a failure of critical thinking as no-one even thought to question the "expert" or verify what he said; he'd actually been publicly exposed nearly a decade earlier.