History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS5E9ThirtyDays

* CouldSayItBut
-->'''Paris:''' I'm not supposed to get involved in the internal affairs of alien worlds. Unless, of course, someone makes a direct request...
* DeliveryNotDesired: Averted; Tom appears to be dictating the letter purely to come to terms with his actions, but at the end of the episode he saves the letter and orders the computer to transmit it to his father should they ever get home.

* FemmeFatale / TricksterTwins: Demonica and Malicia, the Twin Mistresses of Evil, are the Delaney sisters' ''attempt'' at this. Harry can't help enthusing, "Great, you're doing great!" while the Delaney sisters are caressing his chest and purring how they're going to turn him into their groveling slave.

** She demotes him ''two'' ranks, from Lieutenant to Ensign (one rank would have been to Lieutenant, Junior Grade). Technically, he is now outranked by Harry Kim.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: ZigzaggedTrope; the water planetoid is only about 1200 km in diameter (about a third of the Moon, for comparison), and is composed entirely of water (meaning that's only got a density of 1 g/cubic center, less than a third that of the moon), so it's gravity will be correspondingly less (hence the need for a containment field, as the math comes out to about 2% of Earth's gravity), and the water pressure will be ''massively'' reduced compared to Earth as a result. Still, water doesn't get ''denser'' without turning into ice, so the climax action doesn't really work...

* EasilyForgiven: Averted; with ''Voyager'''s crew now firmly under her control, Captain Janeway can afford to be a bit more harsh on a crewmember who [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E11Maneuvers steals a shuttle and takes off on a private mission]]. Unfortunately StatusQuoIsGod, so Tom eventually gets his rank back to [[OfficialCouple ensure he's on an equal footing with B'Elanna]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: Janeway sentences Tom to thirty days of solitary confinement with only basic nutrition and almost nothing to do, something that many cultures would consider a form of torture. What's make this more confusing is that [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E9PrimeFactors Torres and Tuvok have also gone against Janeway's orders and the Prime Directive]], and almost destroyed the ship in the process, but were only given a verbal warning. Or worse, there was the time [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E16Meld Crewman Suder murdered a man for just for looking at him]] and Janeway had him put under house arrest in his quarters and allowed him a variety of activities to spend his time on, though Suder might well have been confined to quarters for life if the Kazon hadn't intervened.

* ProtectorBehindBars: Subverted when Voyager is attacked while Paris is in solitary. Though he begs to be let out, he isn't; and it turns out one of the extras [[RealityEnsues was able to pilot the ship just fine]].

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: At 580 kilometers depth, pressures would be so overwhelming that if the cabin were to be breached by a water leak, it would have already been crushed like a tin can.

Tom Paris is demoted to Ensign and confined to the brig for thirty days. While there he dictates a letter to his father about how this came about. It started when ''Voyager'' came across a celestial body that is essentially an ocean held in a planetary shape by a containment field. After making contact with the world's people, the Moneans, the crew learns that the world is losing its water and that the Moneans themselves are causing it with their oxygen-mining operations, and that if they don't cut back or cease, they could lose their world altogether. Paris wants to help the Moneans stabilize their world, but their ruling council and Captain Janeway prevent him from doing so, with the latter stating the Prime Directive. Paris decides to go against the captain's orders and steals the ''Delta Flyer'', taking one of the Moneans with him to destroy one of the oxygen-mining refineries so that they could have time to rebuild it better. Captain Janeway finds out what Tom Paris is doing and stops him from achieving that purpose, which leads to his demotion and thirty days of incarceration.

-->'''Burkus:''' I'm supposed to go back and explain this to [[The47Society forty-seven]] regional sovereigns? They'll pass their first unanimous resolution, calling for my head!

* TheGhost: The oft-mentioned but never seen Delaney Sisters finally make a cameo.

* CabinFever: Tom is going stir-crazy locked up in the brig. Even though he's had a similar experience being driven stir-crazy (due to a cranial implant) while imprisoned in the earlier episode, ''The Chute''.
* CallBack: The scene of Paris being given the leola root stew is a callback to ''The Chute'' where in one scene, he mentions that he would go for leola root stew. Given that both episodes were essentially written by the same person, it seems to be less of a coincidence!

-->''"Lieutenant Thomas Eugene Paris, I hereby reduce you to the rank of ensign. And I sentence you to thirty days solitary confinement."''

-->'''PARIS:''' I'm not supposed to get involved in the internal affairs of alien worlds. Unless, of course, someone makes a direct request...

-->'''ADMIRAL PARIS:''' Go to your room, young man. That's an order. Stay there and think about what I've said.

-->'''KIM:''' What are you going to do -- delete the letter? That would be pointless.\\
'''PARIS:''' At least I'm consistent.

-->'''PARIS:''' Well, you've done it again, Harry. Fallen for the unattainable woman. First [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E13AlterEgo it was a hologram]], [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E5Revulsion then a Borg]], and now the wrong twin.\\
'''KIM:''' [[RunningGag At least I'm consistent]].

-->'''PARIS:''' Are those starships or submarines?

-->'''BURKUS:''' I'm supposed to go back and explain this to [[The47Society forty-seven]] regional sovereigns? They'll pass their first unanimous resolution, calling for my head!

-->'''KIM:''' They're nothing alike! Jenny's aggressive, and sometimes annoying, but Megan -- she's quiet, artistic, and she's got that [[TheTriple cute little dimple in her right cheek]].

-->'''BURKUS:''' With all due respect, who are you to tell us what to do with our ocean?\\
'''PARIS:''' With all due respect, [[{{Precursors}} it's not your ocean]].

-->'''PARIS:''' Ah, boatswain. Ready to shove off?\\
'''SEVEN:''' What are you talking about, Lieutenant?\\
'''PARIS:''' Call me Skipper.\\
'''KIM:''' Sailor talk. You'll get used to it.\\
'''SEVEN:''' [[TheComicallySerious I think not]].

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Tom gets a lot of visitors for a guy sentenced to solitary confinement. He even has a guard stationed just outside his cell. Especially weird since the real-world purpose of causing a person to [[GoneMadFromTheIsolation go mad from the isolation]] is openly and smugly referenced by the Doctor.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The ocean planet was created by draining all the water from an M-class planet like Earth. So where is that planet? [[FridgeHorror:One of Tom's theories is the planet suffered some sort of catastrophe.]] Possibly all the way up to an EarthShatteringKaboom.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The ocean planet was created by draining all the water from an M-class planet like Earth. So where is that planet?

-->'''ADMIRAL PARIS:''' Go to your room, young man. That's an order. Stay there and think about what I've said.\\

* ToastedBuns: Captain Proton flies through space with a huge sparkler scorching his trousers. According to actor Robert Duncan McNeill, his rear caught fire and the on-site nurse had him drop his pants right there to make sure everything was all right. He claims Tim Russ has photos.

* ToastedBuns: Captain Proton flies through space with a huge sparkler scorching his trousers.

* CabinFever: Tom is going stir-crazy locked up in the brig.

* GoToYourRoom: In a dream sequence, we hear a voice over from Admiral Paris, obviously being the typical 'Great Santini' style bully he was.

An unusual way of imparting teachings, albeit in a militant way, but that's Owen Paris, much akin to his talking down to his son in Persistance of Vision.

* UnderwaterCity