History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS6E6Riddles

* OctopoidAlien: The image that Naroq's scanner shows is blurry and insubstantial, but still clearly shows the Ba'Neth to be this.

* BrokenAesop: Neelix is encouraged to not try and make Tuvok back into the Vulcan he was before, but encourage him to see what he can become after his accident. The resulting ResetButton returns Tuvok to his old personality, making him who he was before. So "encourage him to embrace and accept the changes from his traumatic injury, and he'll be returned to who he was before."

* GrowingUpSucks: After receiving a blast of LaserGuidedAmnesia, Tuvok is essentially rendered back to a baby. He rapidly matures over the course of the episode, going from a babbling infant to a tantrum-throwing toddler to a slightly angsty preteen. By the time he's old enough to realize what going back to "normal" means, this trope is in full effect--Tuvok wants to play and have fun with Neelix forever instead of becoming his old, fully-grown self.
* HeroicSacrifice: Naroq doesn't sacrifice his life to save Tuvok, but he does surrender his technology to the Ba'Neth, and in doing so permanently gives up his credibility.

* MindRape: Perhaps the Ba'Neth's weapons can be called this, although according to the doctor they would usually outright kill victims; Tuvok's mind just happens to be stronger than most.

* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: The Doctor refer to the Vulcan brain as "a puzzle wrapped inside an enigma housed inside a cranium."

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Janeway implies that if the Ba'Neth don't take the offer of the technology from the Kesat ambassador, she will contact his homeworld and reveal their presence.

-->'''Ba'Neth:''' We have an agreement.

* SweetTooth: Tuvok turns out to be one hell of a pastry chef.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: TranslatorMicrobes make it seem like this trope is in effect in ''Star Trek'' so Neelix's riddle would only make sense if the word "Date" meant a fruit and a day in both the Vulcan and Talaxian languages as well as English. And there would need to be words meaning a day and something edible that sound the same like Sunday and Sundae in both languages.

* AbsenteeActor: B'Elanna doesn't appear, as Roxann Dawson [[DirectedByCastMember was busy in the director's chair.]]

* BrickJoke: At the beginning of the episode, Neelix tells Tuvok a riddle about an ensign who survived by eating dates from his calendar, which Tuvok finds absurd. At the very end, possibly as a sign that his experience has had a lasting impact on him, he suggests an alternate solution to the riddle: in addition to the dates, he also could have eaten the Sundays (sundaes).

* IdiotSavant: He does cook ''amazing'' dessert now, surprisingly... which leads to the EurekaMoment above!

* EurekaMoment: Tuvok remembers the Ba'Neth's cloaking frequency and [[MundaneUtility draws it using his frosting gun]]!

* BrickJoke: A small sign that perhaps Tuvok hasn't lost his sense of 'fun': he reiterates Neelix's riddle from the very beginning, during the ill-fated return from the Kesat diplomacy, and speculates that the man trapped on an island with only a calendar who might have survived [[{{Pun}} by eating the dates could have eaten the Sundays/sundaes as well]]!

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Naroq admits to being eccentric and not well regarded by his colleagues--but that doesn't make him wrong.

* BrickJoke: A small sign that perhaps Tuvok hasn't lost his sense of 'fun': he reiterates Neelix's riddle from the very beginning, during the ill-fated return from the Kesat diplomacy, and speculates that the man trapped on an island with only a calendar might have survived [[{{Pun}} by eating the dates; he could have eaten the Sundays/sundaes as well]]!

* SeeTheInvisible: Naroq's equipment is meant to do this with the Ba'Neth.
* StatusQuoIsGod: All but stated by Neelix as to why Tuvok needs to be healed.

* AbsenteeActor: B'Ellana doesn't appear, as Roxann Dawson [[DirectedByCastMember was busy in the director's chair.]]

* AbsenteeActor: B'Ellana doesn't appear, as Roxann Dawson was busy in the director's chair.

* MamaBear: Janeway is admirable in her protection of Tuvok while he is rehabilitating --

While returning from a diplomatic mission with Neelix, Tuvok is attacked by an unknown weapon that causes severe neurological damage. The Kesat ambassador, whose species had recently closed dealings with ''Voyager'', claims it's the work of the Ba'Neth, a shadowy, xenophobic race obsessed with protecting their anonymity. His government denies their existence, but they're real, all right; their weapon has forced Tuvok's brain to rewire itself from a totally BlankSlate...

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tuvok is ''terrified'' of alien attacks? Doesn't like kal-toh? [[FlippingTheTable Throws a tantrum]] when he's presented with who he was? Yep, a ManChild all right.