History Fanfic / RocketshipVoyager

* FoldThePageFoldTheSpace: While explaining various theories of FasterThanLightTravel to Tom Paris, B'Elanna Torres uses a [[TechnologyMarchesOn slide rule]] to demonstrate folding space instead of a paper and pencil, and a bubble of alcohol floating in zero-gravity (from a squeeze-tube of [[MilitaryMoonshiner illicit moonshine]]) to demonstrate a warp bubble.

* FanOfThePast: Much of Earth's history and culture has been destroyed by three world wars, ideologically-motivated {{Book Burning}}s, and a general apathy towards the past in a [[AtomPunk technological future]]. Over the objections of Spacefleet psychotechs, Captain Janeway tries to preserve some of it by decorating her officer's wardroom with artefacts and books she has salvaged from the ruins of European cities. She's surprised when Chakotay quotes ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' to her, which he read in the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything Arkive]] of a colony ship he was traveling on.

* ShoutOut: One of Captain Qu's officers is Space Lieutenant Adams, who shares a surname with the ship's captain of ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''.

** Janeway's father is described as a "fireman" in the same sense as the firemen of Creator/RayBradbury's Literature/Fahrenheit451: he burns books. (And like the novel's protagonist, saves a few for himself.)

** Women under thirty are referred to as "girls", and African-Americans as "Negroes".

!!Has examples of the following tropes:

* DeliberateValuesDissonance

** Spacefleet has a PrimeDirective...against miscegenation (though it actually refers to BoldlyComing in this case).

* MythologyGag

* ZeeRust: ''Voyager'' has a MasterComputer that takes up an entire deck and has only recently been upgraded from vacuum tubes to transistors, and an 'Illusionarium'--a three-dimensional theatre with sound, touch and smell; coordinated with a cabinet-sized microcomputer that uses punched cards and is repaired with a soldering iron.

** After getting into an argument with a Scientologist, B'Elanna says to Chakotay that at least no-one is using his religion as a therapy tool.

* BigDumbObject: The Array is a twenty mile-long cylindrical portal pointing at a [[UsefulNotes/BlackHoles black star]], MadeOfIndestructium by an [[{{precursors}} unknown race]], its outer surface [[DerelictGraveyard covered with spaceships]] that have been seized by SpacePirates, stripped of technology and reconditioned into habitats for the inevitable HubCity that grows up around the PortalNetwork.

** Spacefleet has a PrimeDirective...against miscegenation.

** The reason Captain Janeway never married Mark Johnson was because she would have [[QuittingToGetMarried had to resign her commission]]. It's a literal CareerVersusFamily choice because the Bureau of Eugenics would forbid her from having children now, having spent so much time exposed to cosmic radiation.

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* FanOfThePast: Captain Janeway keeps a display of pre-Atomic artefacts and literature in the officer's wardroom. Much of Earth's culture has been destroyed by [[BookBurning ideological fanatics]] and three world wars, so she is surprised when Chakotay quotes a passage from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''. He explains that he was stuck on a long voyage on a ColonyShip to Venus and spent the time reading their Arkive.

** Tom Paris thinks that Seska has "the cunning and ruthlessness that came naturally to a Russian."

* RetroRocket: The UNRS ''Voyager'' is a [[AntiMatter contraterrene]]-powered torchship that has never left Earth's solar system until the events of the first chapter. In one scene, B'Elanna Torres is PlanningWithProps while explaining the theory of FasterThanLightTravel.

* IWantMyJetpack: A 1954 sci-fi pulp set in the far future of the year 2020. Humanity has {{flying cars}}, [[MegaCity megacities]], colonies on [[InterplanetaryVoyage Venus and Mars]], and torchships powered by AntiMatter.

* FoldThePageFoldTheSpace: B'Elanna Torres uses a [[TechnologyMarchesOn slide rule]] and a squeeze-tube of [[MilitaryMoonshiner illicit moonshine]] to explain the theory of FasterThanLightTravel to Tom Paris.

* IWantMyJetpack: A 1954 sci-fi pulp set in the far future of the year 2020. Humanity has {{flying cars}}, [[MegaCity megacities]], colonies on Venus and Mars, and torchships powered by AntiMatter.

''Rocketship Voyager'' is the classic sci-fi story from the October 1954 edition of "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E13FarBeyondTheStars Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder]]" that inspired the [[Series/StarTrekVoyager 1990's UPN TV series]].

* IWantMyJetpack: A 1954 sci-fi pulp set in the far future of the year 2020. Humanity has {{flying cars}}s, [[MegaCity megacities]], colonies on Venus and Mars, and torchships powered by AntiMatter.

* AsteroidMiners

* ExtyYearsIntoTheFuture: A 1954 sci-fi pulp set in the far future of the year 2020.

* BigDumbObject: The Array is a twenty mile-long cylindrical portal pointing at a [[UsefulNotes/BlackHole black star]], MadeOfIndestructium by an [[{{precursors}} unknown race]], its outer surface [[DerelictGraveyard covered with spaceships]] that have been seized by SpacePirates, stripped of technology and reconditioned into habitats for the inevitable HubCity that grows up around the PortalNetwork.

* ThisCannotBe: The reaction of the ''Voyager'' crew when encountering a TractorBeam, FasterThanLightTravel and HyperspeedEscape for the first time. The first means the ability to switch on a gravity well and focus it on a single point, the second is theorized but impossible under current Earth technology, and the last should have left the crews of the alien vessels [[InertialDampening splattered against the bulkheads]].

* BigDumbObject: The Array is a twenty mile-long cylindrical portal pointing at a [[UsefulNotes/BlackHole black star]], MadeOnIndestructium by an unknown race, its outer surface covered with [[DerelictGraveyard derelict spaceships]] that have been reconditioned into habitats.

* ThisCannotBe: The reaction of the ''Voyager'' crew when encountering a TractorBeam, FasterThanLightTravel and HyperspeedEscape for the first time. The first means the ability to switch on a gravity well and focus it on a single point, the second is theorized but impossible under current Earth technology, and the last should have left the crews of the alien vessels [[InertialDampening splattered against the bulkheads]].

* BigDumbObject: The Array is a vast cylindrical portal pointing at a black star

* SpacePirates: The Briori hire the K'Zon and Hirogen as mercenaries to kidnap slaves and steal technology, using the galaxy-spanning PortalNetwork they control.