So wait, all Harry needed to finally get some action is some spots on his head?
After firing on an alien ship for no apparent reason, Harry becomes convinced he originates from a nearby planet.This episode provides examples of
- All Women Are Lustful: On Taresia, at least.
- Apologetic Attacker: Harry says sorry after giving one of his potential wives a Tap on the Head. After finding Taymon's desiccated corpse, he no longer feels the need.
- Assimilation Plot: Harry was infected by Taresian DNA while on an away mission to a nearby planet.
- A Threesome Is Hot: When Harry balks at staying in his room, both women offer to have sex with him.
- Big Damn Heroes: Voyager beams up Harry as he's surrounded by the Taresians.
- Chained to a Bed: Harry ties up a woman under the pretext of kinky sex, leaving her Bound and Gagged while he sneaks out of his room to find out what’s really going on.
- Death Glare: Janeway after Harry fires on the ship without orders.
- Discretion Shot: The Tap on the Head that Kim delivers to a Taresian happens just off-screen.
- Double Entendre: Loads from the Taresian females.
- Drugs Are Bad: The first indication that Taresian society isn't as perfect as it appears is when Taymon's suitors drug him up with a "mood enhancer." Kim, being a straight-edge Star Fleet officer, declines.
- Explosive Instrumentation: A plasma conduit ruptures in B’Elanna’s face, but she’s quickly healed thanks to the Doctor.
- Fatal Attractor: The first of a Running Gag for Harry.
- Future Society, Present Values: Harry's line about marriage being between one man and one woman would seem dated less than thirty years later, much less three hundred.
- Gender Rarity Value: With a population that's 90% female, the males are greatly honored and given their own harems. Too bad they don't live long enough to enjoy it.
- Genetic Memory: How Harry's Gut Feeling is explained away by the Taresians.
- Good News, Bad News: After Harry wakes up with strange Facial Markings, the Doctor gives him the good news that he's not infected by some alien infectious disease. Harry demands to know what the bad news is, even though the Doctor never gave the Good News, Bad News line (given that everything seems to be going wrong for Harry today, you can't blame him). The Doctor just looks annoyed and points out that if he can't isolate the cause, the problem will be difficult to treat.
- G-Rated Drug: Harry turns down a "mood enhancer" with "no side effects".
- Guilt-Induced Nightmare: Harry has guilt-ridden dreams of disappointing his mother and injuring his fellow crewmates.
- Gunship Rescue: The Taresian warship disabling the Nasari vessels.
- Gut Feeling: Harry is convinced the Nasari ship is about to attack them and turns out to be right. Subverted when his 'instincts' turn out to be programmed into his Taresian DNA.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Turns out that Harry has felt this way all his life, which is one reason why living as a Taresian is so appealing to him.Taymon: Don't be afraid to indulge yourself, Harry. Everybody here wants you to be happy. You're important to us.
Harry: That's what my human parents used to say to me. How special I was. They'd been trying to have a baby for years until I came along. They called me their miracle child.
Taymon: They were right.
Harry: They spoiled me rotten, making sacrifices so they could give me everything I wanted.
Taymon: Sounds like you were pretty lucky. They loved you.
Harry: But I never felt like I deserved that kind of devotion. I didn't see what was so special about me. I used to imagine that I had these hidden powers. I'd grow up to be stronger than a Klingon or able to read people's minds. Anything to make me more than just an average kid.
Taymon: Turns out your parents were right about you. You have been special all of your life. Feels pretty good, doesn't it?
Harry: Yeah, it does. - Lady Land: Taresia is 90 percent female. Turns out there are very few males born at all, so they have to get men from other species and harvest all their DNA.
- A Lady on Each Arm: How Taymon is introduced. And he couldn't be happier about it.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Janeway bets that the Nasari and Taresians will be more interested in shooting at each other than Voyager.
- Mars Needs Women: Except gender-reversed and that the planet's name is Taresia.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Harry is in deep mea culpa mode after the initial battle with the Nasari, especially after seeing B'Elanna's injuries, because he's the one who started it. Until it turns out that he'd just saved Voyager from a sneak attack that he'd instinctively known was coming.
- Only You Can Repopulate My Race
- Out with a Bang: Alas, poor Taymon...
- Poor Communication Kills: The Nasari never bother just explaining to Janeway what the heck is going on.
- Seen It All: If not by the protagonists, then by others. While trying to figure out what's happening, Harry and Janeway go over some of the standard Trek weirdness that everyone else has dealt with.Janeway: We'll have to consider every possible explanation.
Harry: Oh, believe me, I have been. Space-time anomalies, alien telepathy, alternate realities. The list gets weirder as it goes on. - Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Tuvok suggests Harry is experiencing a "paradoxical state-dependent associative phenomenon", which Janeway has to explain means "déjà vu."
- Shout-Out: Harry compares the beautiful Taresian women to the Sirens from The Odyssey.
- Ship Tease: B’Elanna tells Harry his new spots make him look cute, like a ‘speckled targ’.
- Slip into Something More Comfortable: Kim's suitors convince him to change out of his Star Fleet uniform while frolicking with them in a rare exception to franchise's Limited Wardrobe standards. They're hoping to get him in the mood for Taresian loving as well as distance him from his Star Fleet identity.
- Team Mom: Harry dreams his mother saying she’s suspending him from duty (a line that Captain Janeway had given him that day).
- Underage Casting: Kristanna Loken who played Malia was 17 at the time the episode was filmed. This was a fact that an extreme surprised and apologetic Garett Wang only learned about when Loken mentioned it during a guest interview in a 2023 Delta Flyers podcast. She seemed to take it in stride.
- Was It All a Lie?: Yes, it was.
- Would Hit a Girl: Harry delivers a Tap on the Head to a Taresian woman to escape. It's downplayed by the fact that he apologizes for it, and the blow occurs off-camera to spare us the sight of our hero bludgeoning an attractive young woman into unconsciousness.
