1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voy_hauntingofdeck12_072.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350:(WebVideo/ThomasSanders voice) ''Story time!'']] |
3 | While ''Voyager'' is in the middle of a blackout, Neelix is put in charge of keeping the ship's children calm. He does this by telling them a story about "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Haunting of Deck 12.]]" |
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5 | !! This episode contains examples of the following tropes: |
6 | * AbandonShip: The (possessed) computer forces the crew to do this. |
7 | * ActivationSequence: {{Inverted}} -- there's a deactivation sequence as ''Voyager'''s crew shut down power throughout the ship. |
8 | * AttackHello: Tal Celes does this to Harry Kim, thinking that he's a hostile alien. |
9 | * ChekhovsGunman: Tal Celes is the only character from "Good Shephard" to make a reappearance, likely because you need someone to be scared in a ghost story, and it's becoming increasingly implausible for Harry to be still stuck in that role. |
10 | * CompanionCube: {{Discussed}} when Chakotay overhears Janeway talking to ''Voyager''. He mentions having had long conversations with his Maquis ship. |
11 | * ContinuityNod: |
12 | ** Back in [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E5TheCloud "The Cloud,"]] Neelix raged at Janeway for taking ''Voyager'' into a nebula that he would've steered clear of. In this episode, he reveals a bit of backstory to Tuvok that would help explain why he hates nebulae. |
13 | ** Tuvok suggests that Neelix could put up curtains in the windows so that he won't have to keep looking at the nebula. [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E1Night Didn't he already have that idea?]] |
14 | ** The Borg children's apparent comfort with cannibalism fits with earlier episode [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E2SurvivalInstinct "Survival Instinct"]], in which a group of drones (including Seven of Nine) resort to exactly that when stranded on a planet. |
15 | ** Mezoti mentions the events of [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E16Collective "Collective"]], when the Borg kids were rescued from their cube. |
16 | * CowardlyLion: Neelix. In spite of being so terrified that even Tuvok's attempts at guided meditation don't calm him, when the Vulcan is injured, he does what needs doing to get him to engineering. |
17 | * CreepyChild: The children Neelix is put in charge of sport odd stares and are not in the slightest disturbed by topics like cannibalism.[[JustifiedTrope They]] ''[[JustifiedTrope are]]'' [[JustifiedTrope former Borg.]] |
18 | * DefiantToTheEnd: Janeway refuses to let the creature keep her prisoner aboard ''Voyager'', even when it shuts down life support. |
19 | -->'''Janeway:''' If you want this ship, you'll have to kill me! |
20 | -->'''Computer:''' Acknowledged. |
21 | * EnergyBeing: The creature seems to be an electrical-type entity. |
22 | * ElevatorFailure: Almost kills Chakotay. |
23 | * ExplosiveInstrumentation: Not actually ''explosive'', but the helm shoots an energy bolt that catches Tom Paris in the face. |
24 | * FramingStory: Most of the episode is a story Neelix is telling the children. |
25 | * GhostInTheMachine: The alien is able to move from system to system within ''Voyager'' as energy, eventually taking control of the ship's computer. |
26 | * GoingDownWithTheShip: Janeway almost does this before the alien relents. |
27 | * HypocriticalHumor: the last couple lines of the episode: |
28 | -->'''Janeway''': So, how'd you do it? Told them fairy tales? |
29 | -->'''Neelix''': Certainly not. Some of those fairy tales can be frightening. Ogres and child-eating monsters. |
30 | * IHaveThisFriend: When Neelix asks Tuvok how long the particle-collecting procedure will take, he claims that he wants to reassure an on-edge crew. In reality, Neelix is the one who's on edge and in need of reassurance, as Tuvok easily figures out. |
31 | * ImAHumanitarian: The children (who are former Borg) suggest that after a catastrophe, the survivors of the Talaxian ship ''Salvoxia'' survived by turning cannibal. Neelix is obviously uncomfortable with the idea. |
32 | * JumpScare: After the power fails on ''Voyager'', Neelix goes wandering the corridors with a flashlight. He rounds a corner and sees...Tuvok with a gas mask! |
33 | * MythologyGag: Tuvok snarking over cloud spotting is likely a reference to a NotHimself Spock doing just that in the TOS episode "This Side of Paradise". |
34 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: The crew accidentally destroyed the creature's home nebula when they passed through it. It's not happy when it finds out. |
35 | * NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[TheHeart Neelix]] makes this very clear to [[TheSpock Tuvok]]. |
36 | -->'''Tuvok:''' I am injured. Logic dictates that you take the mask and proceed to main engineering.\ |
37 | '''Neelix:''' I don't care what logic dictates! This isn't the ''Salvoxia''. We're not drawing lots.\ |
38 | '''Tuvok:''' [[ThatsAnOrder I am giving you an order.]]\ |
39 | '''Neelix:''' [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight And I'm disobeying it.]] You're coming with me if I have to drag you by your pointy little ears! |
40 | * QuitYourWhining: Ensign Kim gives Tal Celes a (fairly professional) version of this when she's freaking out about the ship being boarded by Borg or Hirogen. |
41 | * TechnoBabble: Icheb calls Neelix on the improper use of tech talk, and because of this he doesn't believe that the story really happened. |
42 | * ThatCloudLooksLike: When ''Voyager'' approaches the nebula in the teaser: |
43 | -->'''Paris:''' Now, ''there's'' a creepy image. Reminds me of something out of Edgar Allan Poe.\ |
44 | '''Kim:''' Looks like a vampire bat. You can make out the wings, even the ears. What do you see, Tuvok?\ |
45 | '''Tuvok:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Two Starfleet officers with juvenile imaginations.]]\ |
46 | '''Paris:''' Come on, Tuvok! Haven't you ever looked up at the clouds and seen an animal?\ |
47 | '''Tuvok:''' I will never understand the human need to find imagery in something as innocuous as a cloud. |
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