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* MadeOfIron: Arturis' people are obviously tougher than they look: he survives being shot by a phaser on a high enough setting that it burns through his shirt, but is seemingly none the worse for wear afterward, even able to overpower ''two'' Security officers at once.
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* BittersweetEnding: In the end, the ''Voyager'' crew learns how to reproduce a quantum slipstream drive that later proves instrumental in hastening the trip home, but Arturis can not forgive the ''Voyager'' crew for the inadvertent assimilation of his race, and Janeway & her crew now have to live with learning that they accidentally enabled the Borg to overpower another civilization. Arturis also cannot move on and help rebuild his civilization and allows the Borg to assimilate him, failing to get Janeway and Seven assimilated with him.

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* BittersweetEnding: In the end, the ''Voyager'' crew learns how to reproduce a quantum slipstream drive that later proves instrumental in hastening the trip home, but Arturis can not cannot forgive the ''Voyager'' crew for the inadvertent assimilation of his race, and Janeway & her crew now have race; instead of attempting to live with learning that they accidentally enabled the Borg to overpower another civilization. Arturis also cannot move on and help rebuild with his civilization and allows the Borg to assimilate him, failing people, he attempts a PyrrhicVictory to get Janeway and Seven assimilated by the Borg along with him.himself, but fails, and resigns himself to the fate he had initially escaped from. Janeway and her crew now also have to live with the fact that they enabled the Borg to wipe out another civilization due to their alliance against Species 8472 during the events of "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E25S4E1Scorpion Scorpion]]".
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Janeway and Seven's relationship continues to be very much like a parent dealing with an angsty teenager. In this case, Seven proposing to leave the ship plays ''exactly'' like a teenager threatening to run away from home, despite having no clear plans about where they're going to go.
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* IrrevocableOrder: Arturis burns out the navigation controls to make rerouting the ship impossible, rather than risk Janeway and Seven stopping the ship somehow. [[TemptingFate Then ''Voyager'' turns up]].

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* IrrevocableOrder: Arturis burns out the navigation controls to make rerouting the ship impossible, rather than risk Janeway and Seven stopping the ship somehow. [[TemptingFate Then ''Voyager'' Then]] ''[[TemptingFate Voyager]]'' [[TemptingFate turns up]].

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* CorruptedData: Preventing the message from being decrypted.

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* CoolStarship: Putting aside the fact that it's a trap for the ''Voyager'' crew, a quantum-slipstream starship that can cross the galaxy in a matter of months is pretty damn cool.
* CorruptedData: Preventing Arturis tells Janeway that part of the message from being decrypted.is too degraded to be decrypted. Good thing Janeway takes another crack at it, as it's the part that proves Arturis a liar.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Janeway pets Tuvok a lot while talking to him in private. And if you're looking for J/7 LesYay, there's plenty with Janeway [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead adjusting Seven's nodes]] while whispering in her ear, not to mention the two women [[LesbianJock getting sweaty while playing Velocity]], and engaging in [[BelligerentSexualTension mutual snarkfests]].

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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Janeway pets Tuvok a lot while talking to him in private. And if you're looking for J/7 LesYay, there's plenty with Janeway [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead adjusting Seven's nodes]] while whispering in her ear, not to mention the two women [[LesbianJock getting sweaty while playing Velocity]], and engaging in [[BelligerentSexualTension mutual snarkfests]].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Arturis intended to get the entire ''Voyager'' crew, but he succeeds in capturing Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine, the woman who made the EnemyMine decision and a former Borg drone.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Arturis intended to get the entire ''Voyager'' crew, but he succeeds in capturing Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine, the Nine--the woman who made the EnemyMine decision and a former Borg drone.

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* ArcNumber: Admiral Hayes says the ''Dauntless'' conducted '''47''' trial runs of the slipstream drive before they sent it to the Delta Quadrant.



* IrrevocableOrder: Arturis burns out the navigation controls to make rerouting the ship impossible, rather than risk Janeway and Seven stopping the ship somehow. [[TemptingFate Then Voyager turns up]].

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* IrrevocableOrder: Arturis burns out the navigation controls to make rerouting the ship impossible, rather than risk Janeway and Seven stopping the ship somehow. [[TemptingFate Then Voyager ''Voyager'' turns up]].



* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Deliberately invoked by Arturis, who may very likely have orchestrated this whole situation in the first place. He made contact with the Voyager crew and gained their trust, because he ''just happened'' to be around when the universal translator failed, his exceptional language skills being exactly what was needed to help them out.

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* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Deliberately invoked by Arturis, who may very likely have orchestrated this whole situation in the first place. He made contact with the Voyager ''Voyager'' crew and gained their trust, because he ''just happened'' to be around when the universal translator failed, his exceptional language skills being exactly what was needed to help them out.

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[[caption-width-right:350:This can't possibly be a trap, right?]]



Unable to capture the entire crew, Arturis settles for abducting only Janeway and Seven of Nine, and takes them through the slipstream back into Borg space. ''Voyager'' manages to follow the ''Dauntless'' through the slipstream and rescue Janeway and Seven from Arturis before he can enter Borg space, where Arturis and the ''Dauntless'' are assimilated upon arrival.

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Unable to capture the entire crew, Arturis settles for abducting only Janeway and Seven of Nine, and takes them through the slipstream back into Borg space. ''Voyager'' manages to follow the ''Dauntless'' through the slipstream and rescue Janeway and Seven from Arturis before he can enter Borg space, where Arturis and the ''Dauntless'' are presumably assimilated upon arrival.



* BittersweetEnding: In the end, the Voyager crew learns how to reproduce a quantum slipstream drive that later proves instrumental in hastening the trip home, but Arturis can not forgive the Voyager crew for the inadvertent assimilation of his race, and Janeway & her crew now have to live with learning that they accidentally enabled the Borg to overpower another civilization. Arturis also can not move on and help rebuild his civilization and allows the Borg to assimilate him, failing to get Janeway and Seven assimilated with him.

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* BittersweetEnding: In the end, the Voyager ''Voyager'' crew learns how to reproduce a quantum slipstream drive that later proves instrumental in hastening the trip home, but Arturis can not forgive the Voyager ''Voyager'' crew for the inadvertent assimilation of his race, and Janeway & her crew now have to live with learning that they accidentally enabled the Borg to overpower another civilization. Arturis also can not cannot move on and help rebuild his civilization and allows the Borg to assimilate him, failing to get Janeway and Seven assimilated with him.
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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Averted as Seven wants to keep working on the Quantum Slipstream Drive. This leads to the events of "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E6Timeless Timeless]]". (It also gets a namecheck 900 years later in ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery DISCO]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS3E01ThatHopeIsYouPartOne That Hope Is You, Pt 1]]," where it is just as unusable. So far the drive's only reliable use is in the not-precisely-canon [[Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch relaunch novels]].)

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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Averted as Seven wants to keep working on the Quantum Slipstream Drive. This leads to the events of "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E6Timeless Timeless]]". (It also gets a namecheck 900 years later in ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery DISCO]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS3E01ThatHopeIsYouPartOne That Hope Is You, Pt 1]]," where it the technology is just reliable, but the fuel source is so scarce as unusable.to be practically unattainable. So far the drive's only reliable use is in the not-precisely-canon [[Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch relaunch novels]].)
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Gis species was already assimilated. That tech is already in their hands absent his actions.


* PlotHole: the repercussions of allowing the Borg to assimilate the quantum slipstream drive have never been explored. (While it's possible that their transwarp relay PortalNetwork obsoletes the technology, it's still not discussed one way or another.)
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* PlotHole: the repercussions of allowing the Borg to assimilate the quantum slipstream drive have never been explored. (While it's possible that their transwarp relay PortalNetwork obsoletes the technology, it's still not discussed one way or another.)

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* DespairEventHorizon: When the Borg no longer had to worry about Species 8472, Arturis says his entire species ultimately suffered this.
-->'''Arturis:''' The outer colonies were the first to fall; 23 in a matter of hours. Our sentry vessels tossed aside. No defense against the storm. And by the time they had surrounded our star system, ''hundreds'' of cubes. We had already surrendered to our own terror.



* HopeSpot: The heavily-encrypted message from Starfleet Command, that has been a plot point since "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E14Hunters Hunters]]". Turns out it's just an apology video from Admiral Hayes and some maps of the Delta Quadrant. Janeway getting her hopes up, only to have them dashed yet again, could well be behind her subsequent HeroicBSOD in "Night".

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The heavily-encrypted message from Starfleet Command, that has been a plot point since "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E14Hunters Hunters]]". Turns out it's just an apology video from Admiral Hayes and some maps of the Delta Quadrant. Janeway getting her hopes up, only to have them dashed yet again, could well be behind her subsequent HeroicBSOD in "Night"."Night".
** According to Arturis, Species 8472 began waging war on the Borg just as the Collective was closing in on his species. As he says, the war was their last hope to survive.


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* SkewedPriorities: Arturis argues that if Janeway had seen "beyond the bow of her own ship," then she would've recognized that a number of species native to the Delta Quadrant were rooting for Species 8472 to eliminate the most persistent threat in the region.
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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Averted as Seven wants to keep working on the Quantum Slipstream Drive. This leads to the events of "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E6Timeless Timeless]]".

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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Averted as Seven wants to keep working on the Quantum Slipstream Drive. This leads to the events of "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E6Timeless Timeless]]". (It also gets a namecheck 900 years later in ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery DISCO]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS3E01ThatHopeIsYouPartOne That Hope Is You, Pt 1]]," where it is just as unusable. So far the drive's only reliable use is in the not-precisely-canon [[Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch relaunch novels]].)
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** The Starfleet admiral in the message is Admiral Hayes, who ordered Picard and the ''Enterprise''-E [[GoLookAtTheDistraction to patrol the Neutral Zone]] while he led the defensive battle against the Borg in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''. The film never said [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse whether he'd survived after his ship was destroyed]], but apparently he did.

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** The Starfleet admiral in the message is Admiral Hayes, who ordered Picard and the ''Enterprise''-E [[GoLookAtTheDistraction to patrol the Neutral Zone]] Zone while he led the defensive battle against the Borg in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''. The film never said [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse whether he'd survived after his ship was destroyed]], but apparently he did.
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* TooGoodToBeTrue: Janeway finds it a little too convenient that a shiny new Starfleet ship that could ferry everyone home in a few months just dropped into her lap. Not to mention that it somehow auto-piloted itself all the way across a galaxy where dangerous anomalies and hostile aliens are a weekly occurrence, and it sat adrift for who-knows-how-long without being scavenged by someone else.
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* The47Society: The ''Dauntless'' has had 47 trial runs.

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* BeneathSuspicion: Arturis plants fake evidence against Seven in case the crew becomes suspicious, but Janeway knows it's bogus without even looking at it.



* ImplausibleDeniability: When his ruse is discovered, Arturis tries to claim that he saw Seven modify parts of the message and insists they'll find proof if they search her logs. Janeway knows it's bogus without even looking at it, because he's asking her to believe Seven somehow procured an entire starship from nowhere.



* IrrevocableOrder: Arturis burns out the navigation controls to make rerouting the ship impossible, rather than risk Janeway and Seven stopping the ship somehow. [[TemptingFate Then Voyager turns up]].



* NothingCanStopUsNow: Arturis says this after locking the controls. [[TemptingFate Then Voyager turns up]].



* TheTriple: Done for a RuleOfThrees, first as a joke, then seriously.
-->'''Janeway:''' Admiral Hayes. Good man. Fine officer. [[OldWindbag Bit of a windbag.]]

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Done for a RuleOfThrees, first as a joke, then seriously.
-->'''Janeway:''' --->'''Janeway:''' Admiral Hayes. Good man. Fine officer. [[OldWindbag Bit of a windbag.]]



-->"Your desire to explore space is inefficient! Your need for familial connections is a weakness! [[InsignificantBluePlanet Your infatuation with this planet is irrational]]!"

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-->"Your --->"Your desire to explore space is inefficient! Your need for familial connections is a weakness! [[InsignificantBluePlanet Your infatuation with this planet is irrational]]!"



-->"This isn't about your independence or your superiority...this is about your fear."

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-->"This --->"This isn't about your independence or your superiority...this is about your fear."



-->'''Janeway:''' Sounds like you're starting to [[HumanityEnsues embrace your humanity]].
-->'''Seven:''' No. ({{beat}}) But nothing is impossible.

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-->'''Janeway:''' Sounds like you're starting to [[HumanityEnsues embrace your humanity]].
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humanity]].\\
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No. ({{beat}}) But nothing is impossible.
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* RedHerring: The encrypted message from Starfleet Command that Janeway's been trying to decode since "Hunters"? Turns out it's just a collection of long range star maps of the Delta Quadrant and an apology video from Admiral Hayes.

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