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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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