History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS6E22Muse

* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Kelis' [[{{Pun}} muse is not amused]] by the blatant {{Shipping}} he writes into the crew relationships.

-->'''KELIS:''' These stories will continue for as long as we have the breath to tell them, and as long as our patrons remain wise and compassionate. And ''Voyager'' will continue on her journey to the [[ShiningCity gleaming cities of Earth]] where peace reigns, and hatred has no home.

-->'''Kelis:''' B'Elanna Torres dies tragically.
-->'''B'Elanna:''' ''(smiling)'' You wouldn't dare.

* TheStoic: Kelis gets into an argument with Jero, who portrays Logical Tuvok shedding a tear [[ToAbsentFriends over his absent friends]]. The actor retorts that if he doesn't display emotion, the audience will think either he's a bad performer or Logical Tuvok is an unfeeling monster.
-->'''Kelis:''' They'll realise that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking. Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!

-->'''Paris (whispering to Tuvok, asleep in the captain's chair):''' Tuvok. ''Tuvok.''
-->'''Tuvok (startled awake):''' As you were!

* [[SwordOverHead Spear Over Head]]: In the play's climax Captain Janeway refuses to kill the Queen of the Borg, throwing aside her spear for a PatrickStewartSpeech on the futility of their CycleOfRevenge.

* GodGuise: Subverted in that the crew inspire a [[FanFiction play]] as opposed to a religion. The locals view of Eternals is of powerful beings to be wary of, rather than gods to be worshipped. For instance Kelis warns B'Elanna that if the Autarch captures her, he will force her to fight his enemies.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants (InUniverse): Kelis has [[RaceAgainstTheClock only one week]] to write and perform a play that will please his patron. By the time of performance he doesn't have an ending, and his actors point out that they won't have time to learn it anyway.

* RaceAgainstTheClock / WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Kelis has only one week to write and perform a play that will please his patron. By the time of performance he doesn't have an ending, and his actors point out that they won't have time to learn it anyway.

Not to be confused with the [=DS9=] episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E21TheMuse The Muse]]".

-->'''Tanis-Janeway:''' The privilege of your touch. ''(BigDamnKiss)''
* TheShowMustGoWrong: By performance time Kelis still hasn't thought up an ending to his play and his patron turns up in a very bad mood. When B'Elanna arrives to save the show, his jealous lover publicly denounces her to his patron.

-->'''KELIS:''' They'll realise that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking. Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything / TakeThat : When one realizes that this was writer Joe Menosky's final ''Voyager'' script, one better realizes the correlation between the writer in the script, and the writers in the show's Writer's Room.

** Obvious pun: Kelis finds B'Elanna in the wreck of the Delta Flyer and believes her to be an Eternal, which, in effect, makes her a "god from the machine."

* CallBack: To "Worst Case Scenario" with its arguments over the writing process and LeaningOnTheFourthWall humor.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The entire episode.

* TheNeedless: After forgoing sleep to search for their missing crewman (he is after all Vulcan and [[BadassBoast can go for weeks without sleep]]) Tuvok [[OverworkedSleep falls asleep on the bridge]], snoring loudly.

* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Kelis' [[IncrediblyLamePun muse is not amused]] by the blatant {{Shipping}} he writes into the crew relationships.

* EscapePod: Apparently there's one on the ''Delta Flyer'', but only with the resources to survive ten days -- Janeway only discovers Harry had to eject ten days after this happened. We later find that Harry followed the ''Flyer'''s warp trail, rather than try to get back to ''Voyager''.
** ContinuityNod: The escape pod was established two episodes before in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E20GoodShepherd Good Shepherd]]".

* CassandraTruth: Lanya denounces B'Elanna as an Eternal – no-one believes her. According to Kelis' first play, Harry advised B'Elanna to turn back to ''Voyager'' on hitting the subspace eddies, but she pressed on regardless.

* WriterOnBoard: "Muse" is basically a plea for understanding from the writers of this [[SnarkBait oft-criticized series]], showing how they're pulled between the desire to create meaningful works of art, the need to satisfy those paying their wages, and the demands of the audience for action and romance.

* TheShowMustGoWrong: By performance time Kelis still hasn't thought up an ending to his play and his patron turns up in a very bad mood. When B'Elanna turns up to save the show, his jealous lover publically denounces her to his patron.

* TakeThatAudience: Against FanFic with its constant {{Shipping}}. They're too busy for romance, OK? Just forget about that GenerationShip suggestion in Season One.

* GreenEyedMonster: Lanya walks off in a huff when Kelis introduces B'Elanna as [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow another poet]]. When she discovers the truth she's even more upset; how can she compete with an Eternal, perhaps the very B'Elanna Torres her lover is obsessed over? She begs B'Elanna to leave and threatens to expose her if she turns up at the performance.

* GreenEyedMonster: Lanya walks off in a huff when Kelis introduces B'Elanna as [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow another poet]]. When she discovers the truth she's even more upset; how can she compete with an Eternal, perhaps the very one her lover is obsessed over? She begs B'Elanna to leave and threatens to expose her if she turns up at the performance.

* GreenEyedMonster: Lanya walks off in a huff when Kelis introduces B'Elanna as another poet. When she discovers the truth she's even more upset; how can she compete with an Eternal, perhaps the very one her lover is obsessed over? She begs B'Elanna to leave and threatens to expose her if she turns up at the performance.

** ContinuityNod: The escape pod was established two episodes before in ''Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E20GoodShepherd''.

** The escape pod was established two episodes before in ''Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E20GoodShepherd''.

* DownerEnding: The first chapter shows B'Elanna dying on the shore after her shipwreck. ExecutiveMeddling forces Kelis to [[NotQuiteDead bring back the character]] (who fortunately hasn't died on him after all), but when the real B'Elanna won't provide a climatic ending…