History Series / StarTrekVoyager

* {{Expy}}: The basic concept - a spaceship and crew lost in space and trying to find a way home - is similar to, well, ''Series/LostInSpace''.

** ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': Once VOY [[spoiler: re-establishes contact with Starfleet in mid-Season 4]], any scenes or communications with [[spoiler: the Alpha Quadrant have Starfleet personnel wearing the film's new black and gray uniforms]]. In the episode "Hope and Fear" the crew meet an alien who can finally translate a Starfleet message that is heavily encrypted - it shows them the location of a Starfleet ship sent using a prototype drive. In this message the admiral is wearing the new uniform: however, the alien has never seen these so it's questionable how he knows that the uniforms have been changed.
** Starfleet ships introduced in ''First Contact'' also appear in Seasons 4 and 7. The introduction of [[spoiler:the Borg Queen]] also causes headaches for Janeway and company during Seasons 5-7.

* {{Understatement}}: Played with In "Scientific Method," Janeway decides to fly ''Voyager'' between two stars, hoping to destroy the ships of some aliens who have been experimenting on the crew in the process. On the one hand, they had low odds of survival, and Tuvok even tells her that it's a far more reckless course of action than he's come to expect from her, and later calls it an understatement. On the other hand, not only were said aliens affecting her judgement by messing around with her brain chemicals, but they had just executed a crew member for her attempts to break everyone free from their experiments, and they had previously made clear they would kill the '''entire crew''' if they kept it up. So the "1 in 20, at best" odds of survival may not have looked so bad, especially in light of the [[TakingYouWithMe opportunity to at least take the aliens with them]].

* SurvivedTheBeginning: Half the crew dies right at the beginning of [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E1Caretaker "Caretaker"]] courtesy of a Maquis ship's tetryon beam. They never lost more than a handful of people after that unless there was a ResetButton handy.

** [=McNeill=] is four years older than Garrett Wang. And yet Tom seems to have accumulated as much experience in his 30-odd years as Jadzia Dax did in her 300! Like the time in the "The 37s" when he developed a love of vintage vehicles. Or the time in "Future's End" when he discoursed about 20th Century fashion. Or that time in "Alice" when he suddenly became a fan of sailing. Or that time...

** This is also taken to illogical extremes in "Night" as well. After ''Voyager'' has already spent three months travelling through a region of space that is literally devoid of any stars or anomalies, the crew has had to pass their time by any type of activity they have to stave off their boredom. However, Captain Janeway chose to isolate herself in her quarters the entire time, solemnly repentant of her original decision that stranded the ship so far from home. Once a plan is revealed that can return the ship to normal space through a nearby wormhole, she decides to take it upon herself to send the ship onward... while staying behind to destroy the wormhole her end (to stop an invasive alien ship from poisoning the region). Thankfully, both Chakotay and Tuvok are instrumental in getting her to eventually change her mind.

* RiteOfPassageNameChange: The Kozon earn their adult name after completing a particularly violent RiteOfPassage.

* MultinationalTeam: While it's logical that the Federation, with its incredibly diverse population, would have more than one race on board, it's clear that the casting department went well, well out of their way to try and avoid MonochromeCasting. The crew is led by a single white female and consists of a Native American first officer, a Klingon-Hispanic chief engineer, an Asian ops officer, an black Vulcan security chief, and a white male helmsman. In other words, no two top-ranking officers on board possess the same race/gender combination.

** Notably averted in an earlier episode. While searching through the holodeck's database, Paris finds what appears to be a holonovel casting the Maquis members of the crew as mutineers. Despite this portrayal, even the "villains" happily play along. Ultimately, it's revealed it wasn't even meant to be art, but a training simulation for security members when mutiny was considered a real danger. [[spoiler: ''Then'' it turns out that one of their old enemies had rigged it to turn into a DeathTrap for whoever used it.]]

'''Chaotica:''' Together we will rule the cosmos, and grind out enemies into dust! (''kisses his way up her arm; Janeway looks disgusted'')\\

** At the beginning of the episode "Coda", Janeway and Chakotay are speaking in ambiguous terms about some sort of group event Neelix organized the previous night. With lines like "You were really good last night" and "It's been a long time for me" going back and forth between them, it sounds like... But the next scene reveals that they were talking about a talent show.

* HotDrinkCure: When Seven of Nine is changing personality due to a haywire Borg device, Neelix knows she's out of sorts and assumes she's sick. He offers her tea, but she and Tuvok decline.

* AGodAmI: When Annorax boasts that his buffet spread features food you can't find anywhere else, he means it! He chooses to wait to tell Tom and Chakotay until after they have begun eating that they are devouring the last remnants of a civilization. Even when the Krenim Imperium is restored to 95 percent, it is clear that Annorax cannot relinquish his godlike role.

-->'''Q:''' ''[gapes around at Bridge'' Is this a ship of the Valkyries? Or have you Earth women finally gotten rid of your men altogether?

* EpicFail: Sort of. While playing billiards, Neelix left an impossible shot for Mr. Vulcan. Tuvok made his usual Vulcan speech remarking that the shot is difficult but not impossible, and with a good calculation of the angles... he sent the white ball to the pocket.

** "Macrocosm". Captain Janeway finds herself the FinalGirl when she returns to Voyager and discovers the ship at the mercy of the MonsterOfTheWeek. Can Janeway save the day by stripping down to a [[FanService sweaty tank top]], strapping on a [[BFG compression phaser rifle]] and doing her best Creator/SigourneyWeaver impersonation?

** "Macrocosm". Captain Janeway finds herself the FinalGirl when she returns to Voyager and discovers the ship at the mercy of the MonsterOfTheWeek. Can Janeway save the day by stripping down to a [[FanService sweaty tank top]], strapping on a [[BfG compression phaser rifle]] and doing her best Creator/SigourneyWeaver impersonation?

* SurvivedTheBeginning: Half the crew dies right at the beginning of the series. They never lost more than a handful after that unless there was a ResetButton handy.

** In "Scientific Method", it is revealed that the crew have been the subjects of medical experiments by an alien species (a thinly-veiled allusion to animal testing). Janeway finally manages to get the experiments aborted by [[spoiler:flying Voyager into a pulsar, which is stated to be nearly-certain death, which scares the aliens off and destroys one of their ships that doesn't get away in time. Of course, [[MillionToOneChance Voyager survives]]. The reason this is this trope is that Janeway is only acting that way ''because'' of the experiments of the aliens]].

** Tuvok: As a Vulcan, deadpan is just what they do, but Tuvok takes it up to 11. Even going so far as to rib Captain Janeway as she pilots the ship directly into a pulsar.
** 7 of 9: a reformed (rebuilt?) Borg drone, she smiles as much as Tuvok does (never, not even when someone literally pulls on their cheeks), and gets off as many digs, including before, during, and after she defeats a TinCanRobot.

** "Shattered" starts with Chakotay hiding a bottle of cider from the Captain. At the end of the episode Janeway reveals that she's always known it was there.

* BravingTheBlizzard: In one episode, aliens who like it hot and dark take over the ship, so Tom and B'Elanna have to hide on the Holodeck in a blizzard because it's cold and bright. B'Elanna gets hypothermia because she's part Klingon (a species with a low tolerance for cold).

* PlankGag: In the episode "Suvival Instinct", Chakotay tried to lug a huge piece of alien sports equipment across the bridge and nearly whacked a visiting alien with it.