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  • Accidental Innuendo: While playing on the holodeck with two gorgeous twins Harry says, "Don't worry about me, I can handle myself!" Not with your arms chained you won't.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: With its toothy maw and long, tentacled body, and the way it pops up to attack humans investigating some millennia-old alien technology, the "electric eel" Sea Monster can remind modern viewers of the Sea Dragon Leviathan from Subnautica.
  • Values Dissonance: Nowadays, solitary confinement is often reevaluated as a form of cruel and unusual punishment (something Tom himself brings up in the episode), if not outright classified as torture (heck, it had even acknowledged been as such by most Western justice systems way back in the 1800s), so Janeway's punishment for Tom comes off even more harsh to modern viewers. It certainly doesn't help Janeway's status as a Base-Breaking Character.
    • Downplayed, in Starfleet's typically mildy military fashion. Tom receives several visitors, has a PADD to keep himself occupied, and is kept well fed. His cell is brightly lit and is completely open on one side, sealed by a force field, where he has a clear view of and can interact with the on-duty Brig officer. It's a far cry from the abject misery and isolation that is actual solitary confinement, which typically involves the prisoner being locked in a small room with maybe a window high on the exterior wall, and a solid door which only has a shuttered opening for passing items through.

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