History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS5E3ExtremeRisk

* AceCustom: After some previous episodes mentioning the need for a better quality of shuttlecraft, they build the Delta Flyer based on some preliminary designs Paris was already working on. While not as large as a runabout it has a sleeker profile and can fit a crew of five comfortably with a rear compartment for storage, sleeping and lab space. It's also armed with [[PintsizedPowerhouse Borg inspired weaponry that makes it unusually tough for its size]]. Paris added some personal touches like a Captain Proton inspired physical helm controls, since he expected himself to be the standard pilot, but Tuvok vetoed the superfluous nacelle fins.

* FlawedPrototype: At least initially, the Flyer had to be built and deployed on a time crunch so nothing everything was up to code. They were worried about microfractures in the hull from exposure to the nebula, which was almost disastrous until Torres improvised an internal force field. But it handled itself alright, especially compared to the companion Malon shuttle that [[GlassCannon folded under any added stress]].

%%* StraightMan: Neelix tries this, and waits for the ObligatoryJoke re his cooking. B'Elanna doesn't respond.
%%* SurvivorsGuilt: Chakotay mentions this, and it may be B'Elanna is feeling it too.

%%* CaptainCrash: The ''Delta Flyer'' is designed to avert this.
%%-->'''Paris:''' Let's face it; Class-two shuttles just don't cut it in the Delta Quadrant. We've needed something bigger and better since we got here.

* LeaveMeAlone: Despite the presence of ParentalSubstitute Janeway, FireForgedFriend Chakotay, her beau Tom Paris, Neelix (who offered himself as TheConfidant in "Day of Honor"), and the Doctor, B'Elanna never goes to any of them for help. Eventually Chakotay has to force the issue.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Although this is also the episode that gives us the Delta Flyer, the real focus of this episode is on B'Elanna, and to a lesser extent, Chakotay.

-->'''Paris:''' That is exactly what we're designing. A twenty fourth century, warp-powered, ultra-responsive hot rod.

* SalvagePirates: Malon Controller Vrelk decides to help himself to the multi-spatial probe despite Voyager's objections.

* The47Society: B'Elanna ran the Maquis massacre program for 47 seconds, then [[EverybodysDeadDave never played it again]].

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: B'Elanna distances herself from her friends and boyfriend and is startlingly quieter than normal.

-->'''TUVOK:''' Your embellishments are purely decorative. They serve no practical purpose.\\
'''PARIS:''' I beg to differ. If we make this thing look mean enough, other ships are going to think twice before taking us on.

* ScrewYourUltimatum: The captain of a Malon freighter holds Voyager responsible for the destruction of another of their ships and announces that they're taking Voyager's new probe as compensation and demands that they immediately leave orbit of the gas giant in which it's currently trapped (presumably under threat of violence). Janeway, never one to take anyone's crap, reminds him that the other ship tried to steal their probe and was destroyed going into the gas giant after it, against Voyager's warnings. When he continues to press the matter, insisting that their people are salvage experts and Voyager has little chance of getting to the probe first in any event, Janeway just smirks and busts out the above-mentioned BadassBoast.

-->'''PARIS:''' Behold the ''Delta Flyer''. Ultra-aerodynamic contours, retractable nacelles, parametallic hull plating, unimatrix shielding based on Tuvok's brilliant design for the multispatial probe, and a Borg-inspired weapons system.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: B'elanna is suffering from severe depression, almost to the point of attempted suicide. Though the rest of the crew knows something's wrong with her, it takes a near-death on the holodeck for them to start discussing it.

* CaptainCrash: The ''Delta Flyer'' is designed to avert this.
-->'''Paris:''' Let's face it; Class-two shuttles just don't cut it in the Delta Quadrant. We've needed something bigger and better since we got here.

* StraightMan: Neelix tries this, and waits for the ObligatoryJoke re his cooking. B'Elanna doesn't respond.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Chakotay mentions this, and it may be B'Elanna is feeling it too.

* CoolShip / ShinyLookingSpaceships: The ''Delta Flyer'' is designed by Tom to be the embodiment of cool.

-->'''TORRES:''' When I was six, [[DisappearedDad my father walked out on me]]. When I was nineteen, [[FormerTeenRebel I got kicked out of Starfleet]]. A few years later, I got separated from the Maquis. And just when I start to feel safe, [[EverybodysDeadDave you tell me that all of our old friends have been slaughtered]]. The way I figure it, I've lost every family I've ever had.

-->'''JANEWAY:''' Some of these injuries were life-threatening, B'Elanna.\\
'''TORRES:''' Do I look like I'm dying?\\
'''JANEWAY:''' The Doctor says many of the wounds were treated by someone with the medical expertise of a first-year nursing student.

* DeathSeeker: B'Elanna starts engaging in higher- and higher-risk activities on the holodeck with the safeties off. It's pretty clear that if Chakotay hadn't stepped in, she would have kept going until she got herself killed. B'Elanna however denies she's trying to commit suicide by proxy, she's just trying to feel something, [[EmptyShell anything at all]], even if it's only physical pain.

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* ActionGirl: In one of her programs, B'Elanna takes on Cardassian soldiers twice her size.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The focus of this episode is on B'Elanna and Chakotay.

* HeroicBSOD

* TechnologyPorn

* BadassBoast: Captain Janeway is no stranger to these, but this one is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich They Wasted a Perfectly Good Stack of Banana Pancakes]]: Even ComfortFood isn't enough to get any emotion from B'Elanna.

* WhenSheSmiles at the end of the episode, it's a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

%%* SalvagePirates

%%* SmugSnake: Malon Controller Vrelk.