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* CostumeEvolution: With Ensign Wildman's pregnancy entering its big-belly stage, she's now wearing the first on-screen depiction of what seems to be Starfleet's "maternity uniform", the top of which drapes loosely over the abdomen instead of tucking into the trousers.

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* CostumeEvolution: With Ensign Wildman's pregnancy entering now in its big-belly stage, she's now shown wearing the first on-screen depiction of what seems to will eventually be canonized as Starfleet's "maternity uniform", the top of which drapes loosely over the abdomen instead of tucking into the trousers.

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* CostumeEvolution: With Ensign Wildman's pregnancy entering its big-belly stage, she's now wearing the first on-screen depiction of what seems to be Starfleet's "maternity uniform", the top of which drapes loosely over the abdomen instead of tucking into the trousers.



* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Janeway considers herself, Tuvok, and The Doctor dying (along with stranding the rest of the crew permanently in the Delta Quadrant) an acceptable bargain to save an estimated two million Rakosan lives.



* ShockAndAwe: Dreadnought stuns B'Elanna when she tries to open a panel, warning her that the shocks will intensify if she persists.

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* ShockAndAwe: Dreadnought stuns shock B'Elanna when she tries to open a panel, warning her that the shocks voltage will intensify if she persists.



* TogetherInDeath: Janeway insists on GoingDownWithTheShip. Tuvok insists on staying as backup in case she's disabled.

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* TogetherInDeath: Janeway insists on GoingDownWithTheShip. Tuvok insists on staying as backup in case she's disabled."disabled".



* VillainBall: The Cardassians ludicrously overbuilt the titular cruise missile to the point that nothing the Maquis had could scratch it and even Voyager can't take it out with anything less than the explosion from a self-destruct... and then tossed in a faulty detonator. Resulting in it just shutting down after the failure, allowing B'Elanna to board it, repair the explosive, and send it right back at them.

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* VillainBall: The Cardassians ludicrously overbuilt the titular cruise missile to the point that nothing the Maquis had could scratch it and even Voyager can't take it out with anything less than the explosion from a self-destruct... and then tossed in a faulty detonator.low-tech kinetic detonator which crapped out on final approach. Resulting in it just shutting down after the failure, allowing B'Elanna to board it, repair the explosive, and send it right back at them.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Janeway was about to blow up the ship, but what about the Doctor?

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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Janeway was about to blow up the ship, and basically the entire crew has been evacuated save for herself and Tuvok, but what about the Doctor?

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* AttackBackfire: B'Elanna identifies an AchillesHeel, but Dreadnought sends a plasma burst back along Voyager's tachyon beam. ExplosiveInstrumentation ensues.

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* AttackBackfire: B'Elanna identifies an AchillesHeel, but Dreadnought sends a plasma burst back along Voyager's ''Voyager'''s tachyon beam. ExplosiveInstrumentation ensues.



* ContinuityNod: To Voyager's ongoing conflict with the Kazon.

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* ContinuityNod: To Voyager's ''Voyager'''s ongoing conflict with the Kazon.



** Having failed to [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E14Alliances make an alliance with Voyager]], the Kazon are bad-mouthing them to prevent Voyager allying with anyone else.
* CrazyPrepared: Unfortunately B'elanna programmed ''Dreadnought'' for the possibility that she might be captured and forced to disarm the weapon. The computer assumes this is what has happened. Also [[AvertedTrope Averted]], however, as she didn't leave herself an emergency override or programming backdoor in case of situations she ''couldn't'' anticipate (the one she's in, for example).

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** Having failed to [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E14Alliances make an alliance with Voyager]], the Kazon are bad-mouthing them to prevent Voyager ''Voyager'' allying with anyone else.
* CrazyPrepared: Unfortunately B'elanna B'Elanna programmed ''Dreadnought'' for the possibility that she might be captured and forced to disarm the weapon. The computer assumes this is what has happened. Also [[AvertedTrope Averted]], averted]], however, as she didn't leave herself an emergency override or programming backdoor in case of situations she ''couldn't'' anticipate (the one she's in, for example).



* ADayInTheLimelight: B'elanna

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* ADayInTheLimelight: B'elannaB'Elanna.



** B'Elanna tries to activate the detonation sequence to do the same, then refuses to beam back on board Voyager when she's on the verge of disarming Dreadnought, even though Voyager is about to blow them both up and the last EscapePod is about to be launched.

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** B'Elanna tries to activate the detonation sequence to do the same, then refuses to beam back on board Voyager ''Voyager'' when she's on the verge of disarming Dreadnought, even though Voyager ''Voyager'' is about to blow them both up and the last EscapePod is about to be launched.



* ItsAllMyFault B'Elanna blames himself for ''Dreadnought'''s current actions [[OutsideContextProblem even though she couldn't have anticipated the Caretaker getting involved in events]].

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* ItsAllMyFault ItsAllMyFault: B'Elanna blames himself for ''Dreadnought'''s current actions [[OutsideContextProblem even though she couldn't have anticipated the Caretaker getting involved in events]].



* NoSell: Janeway fires several photon torpedoes, hoping that Dreadnought won't be able to cope with the Type 6 torpedoes that Voyager is armed with, which were developed after Dreadnought. They're harmlessly absorbed by Dreadnought's shields.

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* NoSell: Janeway fires several photon torpedoes, hoping that Dreadnought won't be able to cope with the Type 6 torpedoes that Voyager ''Voyager'' is armed with, which were developed after Dreadnought. They're harmlessly absorbed by Dreadnought's shields.



* PintSizedPowerhouse: Dreadnought can fend off everything the much larger Voyager can throw at it.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: A three-way version with Voyager's self-destruct counting down, B'Elanna trying to cut through the containment field before she passes out from lack of oxygen, and Dreadnought heading in towards its target.

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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Dreadnought can fend off everything the much larger Voyager ''Voyager'' can throw at it.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: A three-way version with Voyager's ''Voyager'''s self-destruct counting down, B'Elanna trying to cut through the containment field before she passes out from lack of oxygen, and Dreadnought heading in towards its target.



** Two years after leaving the Caretaker's planet, Voyager runs into another Alpha Quadrant connection.

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** Two years after leaving the Caretaker's planet, Voyager ''Voyager'' runs into another Alpha Quadrant connection.



* TechnologyPorn: [[MadScientist B'elanna gets quite excited]] describing the missile's abilities.

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* TechnologyPorn: [[MadScientist B'elanna B'Elanna gets quite excited]] describing the missile's abilities.



* VillainBall: The Cardassians ludicrously overbuilt the titular cruise missile to the point that nothing the Maquis had could scratch it and even Voyager can't take it out with anything less than the explosion from a self-destruct... and then tossed in a faulty detonator. Having it just shut down after the failure, allowing B'Elanna to board it, repair the explosive, and send it right back at them.

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* TheUnreveal: It's never made exactly clear what caused the malfunction in Dreadnought's sensors/navigation; on the one hand, B'Elanna suggests it was the Caretaker's tetryon beam itself, but on the other, when she goes looking into the missile's sensor logs she finds the old, leftover file from the original Cardassian computer program, which could have damaged the sensors and navigation or even intervened directly while trying to reassert control (the AI does describe it as a "virus" to B'Elanna later). If the latter is the case, it makes her use of the file to distract and confuse the AI [[StartXToStopX rather poetic]].
* VillainBall: The Cardassians ludicrously overbuilt the titular cruise missile to the point that nothing the Maquis had could scratch it and even Voyager can't take it out with anything less than the explosion from a self-destruct... and then tossed in a faulty detonator. Having Resulting in it just shut shutting down after the failure, allowing B'Elanna to board it, repair the explosive, and send it right back at them.
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->'''Torres:''' Who would have though, two years ago, after all those weeks we spent together perfecting your program, that we'd end up out here trying to kill each other...

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->'''Torres:''' Who would have though, thought, two years ago, after all those weeks we spent together perfecting your program, that we'd end up out here trying to kill each other...
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* CrazyPrepared: Unfortunately B'elanna programmed ''Dreadnought'' for the possibility that she might be captured and forced to disarm the weapon. The computer assumes this is what has happened.

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* CrazyPrepared: Unfortunately B'elanna programmed ''Dreadnought'' for the possibility that she might be captured and forced to disarm the weapon. The computer assumes this is what has happened. Also [[AvertedTrope Averted]], however, as she didn't leave herself an emergency override or programming backdoor in case of situations she ''couldn't'' anticipate (the one she's in, for example).
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* CuttingTheKnot: Torres's last resort to stop Dreadnought is to break into the reactor core and shoot it with her phaser until it detonates.
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Per TRS, Talking To Himself has been disambiguated


* [[TalkingToHimself Talking To Herself]]: Roxann Dawson provides the voice of the reprogrammed ''Dreadnought''. In-universe, B'Elanna gave the missile her voice.
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* ItsAllMyFault B'Elanna blames himself for ''Dreadnought'''s current actions even though she couldn't have anticipated the Caretaker's getting involved in events.

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* ItsAllMyFault B'Elanna blames himself for ''Dreadnought'''s current actions [[OutsideContextProblem even though she couldn't have anticipated the Caretaker's Caretaker getting involved in events.events]].
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B'Elanna still had many hours left when life support was cut off.


** Once again, the writers think that life-support failure brings a quick death, even in a large room with many hours of oxygen for one person.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Chakotay claims that he and B'Elanna reprogrammed ''Dreadnought'' together. She later reveals to Paris that he was lying in order to take some of the heat off her -- in fact, she went behind his back and did it all by herself, and he was deeply disappointed in her when he found out.


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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: ''Dreadnought'' is [[LiteralMinded a computer]], after all.
-->'''B'Elanna''': Who would have thought two years ago, after all those weeks we spent together perfecting your program, that we'd end up out here trying to kill each other.\\
'''Dreadnought''': Probability assessment did not anticipate this outcome.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to B'Elanna (and the Caretaker) there's a WMD roaming the Delta Quadrant until it finds a compatible target.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to B'Elanna (and the Caretaker) there's a an autonomous WMD roaming the Delta Quadrant until it finds a compatible target.

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