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* FantasticRacism: Worf shows this towards the Romulans - again. Declaring when discussing the new Warp-5 restrictions that the Klingon Empire will (of course!) accept the Warp-5 limit restriction but that the Romulans never will, as if its an obvious truth.
* ForeShadowing: Geordi references a new ship named ''Intrepid'' which, given the timeframe, is presumed to be the first of the ''Intrepid''-class and thus the sister of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]''.
* ForeShadowing: Geordi references a new ship named ''Intrepid'' which, given the timeframe, is presumed to be the first of the ''Intrepid''-class and thus the sister of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]''.
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* FantasticRacism: Worf shows this towards the Romulans - -- again. Declaring when discussing the new Warp-5 restrictions that the Klingon Empire will (of course!) accept the Warp-5 limit restriction but that the Romulans never will, as if its an obvious truth.
*ForeShadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: Geordi references a new ship named ''Intrepid'' which, given the timeframe, is presumed to be the first of the ''Intrepid''-class and thus the sister of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]''.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Serova is pushy and uncompromising, and gets pissy anytime someone questions her theory. She turns out to be right.
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* SiblingYinYang: Serova is passionate, stubborn, and antagonistic while Rabal is calm, reasonable, and diplomatic.
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* FantasticRacism: Worf shows this towards the Romulans - again. Declaring when discussing the new Warp-5 restrictions that the Klingon Empire will (of course!) accept the Warp-5 limit restriction but that the Romulans never will, as if its an obvious truth.
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** The warp five limit is frequently referred to in extended universe novels that take place between this episode and ``First Contact``... and just as frequently noted that the Federation is the only spacefaring society that actually holds to it. The episode wound up being a far more accurate metaphor for real life ecological protectionism than it intended, as it's only a single "country" (the Federation) being scolded for something everyone is doing, and it's only that same country that does anything about it, while the rest feel free to pollute to their heart's content.
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** The warp five limit is frequently referred to in extended universe novels that take place between this episode and ``First Contact``...''First Contact''... and just as frequently noted that the Federation is the only spacefaring society that actually holds to it. The episode wound up being a far more accurate metaphor for real life ecological protectionism than it intended, as it's only a single "country" (the Federation) being scolded for something everyone is doing, and it's only that same country that does anything about it, while the rest feel free to pollute to their heart's content.
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** WordOfGod has stated that Voyager's unique warp engine design is that safe version.
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** WordOfGod has stated that Voyager's unique warp engine design is that safe version.version; by the time the Sovereign-class ships were launched, warp nacelles were further refined to avoid the affect without the need for changing configuration like Voyager's.
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** The warp five limit is frequently referred to in extended universe novels that take place between this episode and ``First Contact``... and just as frequently noted that the Federation is the only spacefaring society that actually holds to it. The episode wound up being a far more accurate metaphor for real life ecological protectionism than it intended, as it's only a single "country" (the Federation) being scolded for something everyone is doing, and it's only that same country that does anything about it, while the rest feel free to pollute to their heart's content.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The idea that warp engines could be dangerous to the fabric of universe is not mentioned again in ''The Next Generation'' or other ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series. The warp 5 speed limit is referred to a couple of times in the following episodes, but after that it disappears too with no explanation. Most fans just {{Handwave}} it away with the assumption that someone simply invented a safe warp drive and everyone converted to it.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: StatusQuoIsGod and WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The idea that warp engines could be dangerous to the fabric of universe is not mentioned again in ''The Next Generation'' or other ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series. The warp 5 speed limit is referred to a couple of times in the following episodes, but after that it disappears too with no explanation. Most fans just {{Handwave}} it away with the assumption that someone simply invented a safe warp drive and everyone converted to it.
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* JerkassHasAPoint[=/=]TheExtremistWasRight: Serova is pushy and uncompromising, and gets pissy anytime someone questions her theory. She turns out to be right.
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* JerkassHasAPoint[=/=]TheExtremistWasRight: JerkassHasAPoint: Serova is pushy and uncompromising, and gets pissy anytime someone questions her theory. She turns out to be right.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Data and Geordi, the science officer and chief engineer, spend the first two acts doing routine maintenance that should be a junior officer's job.
** Lampshaded, Geordi is trying to stay one jump ahead of a rival engineer on another ship.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Data and Geordi, the science officer and chief engineer, spend the first two acts doing routine maintenance that should be a junior officer's job.
** Lampshaded,job. Justified in this instance, as Geordi is trying to stay one jump ahead of in a competition with a rival engineer on another ship.ship to reach ever-higher efficiency ratings to one-up each other, so he's performing maintenance that isn't really necessary and thus wouldn't be assigned to his engineers who would be assigned to routine maintenance elsewhere.
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* RedOniBlueOni[=/=]SiblingYinYang: Serova is passionate, stubborn, and antagonistic while Rabal is calm, reasonable, and diplomatic.
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* RedOniBlueOni[=/=]SiblingYinYang: SiblingYinYang: Serova is passionate, stubborn, and antagonistic while Rabal is calm, reasonable, and diplomatic.
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* AccidentalAesop: The interstellar civilization had almost collapsed just because a scientist had no alternate way to test his theory outside a "Science Council" which rejected it. Aesop: monopoly is bad. Especially in science.
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** What makes it even worse is that, as worded in the episode itself, the Warp 5 speed limit applies only to the corridor itself, not the galaxy at large—subsequent misunderstanding of this in future episodes is what led to the sense the status quo was being enforced, when there wasn't even really violated.
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** WordOfGod has stated that Voyager's unique warp engine design is that safe version.
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* AccidentalAesop: The interstellar civilization had almost collapsed just because a scientist had no alternate way to test his theory outside a "Science Council" which rejected his theory. Aesop: monopoly is bad. Especially in science.
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* AccidentalAesop: The interstellar civilization had almost collapsed just because a scientist had no alternate way to test his theory outside a "Science Council" which rejected his theory.it. Aesop: monopoly is bad. Especially in science.
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* ForeShadowing: Geordi references a new ship named ''Intrepid'' which, given the timeframe, is presumed to be the first of the ''Intrepid''-class and thus the sister of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]''.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/force_of_nature.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Hi, we're the aliens of the week here to deliver the environmental message of the week.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Hi, we're the aliens of the week here to deliver the environmental message of the week.]]
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* InsufferableGenius: Serova. Her scientific skills may be spot-on, but her people skills are terrible.
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* SiblingYinYang: Serova is passionate, stubborn, and antagonistic while Rabal is calm, reasonable, and diplomatic.
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* SiblingYinYang: RedOniBlueOni[=/=]SiblingYinYang: Serova is passionate, stubborn, and antagonistic while Rabal is calm, reasonable, and diplomatic.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Serova is pushy and uncompromising, and gets pissy anytime someone questions her theory. She turns out to be right.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: JerkassHasAPoint[=/=]TheExtremistWasRight: Serova is pushy and uncompromising, and gets pissy anytime someone questions her theory. She turns out to be right.right.
* LaymansTerms: Geordi rattles off a string of {{Technobabble}} on how they can escape the rift, which he simplifies by comparing it to surfing.
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Series:Series/{{Star Trek The Next Generation}}\\
Episode: Season 7, Episode 8\\
Title: "Force of Nature"\\
Previous: "Attached"\\
Next: "Inheritance"\\
Recapper: Star Tropes]
Series:Series/{{Star Trek The Next Generation}}\\
Episode: Season 7, Episode 8\\
Title: "Force of Nature"\\
Previous: "Attached"\\
Next: "Inheritance"\\
Recapper: Star Tropes]
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* StartXToStopX: Serova tries to prevent a coming disaster by revealing it in a way that can't be ignored. However, in doing so, she actually ''causes'' the disaster to happen.
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* RedOniBlueOni[=/=]SiblingYinYang: The passionate, stubborn, antagonistic Serova is red; the calm, reasonable, diplomatic Rabal is blue.
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* RedOniBlueOni[=/=]SiblingYinYang: The SiblingYinYang: Serova is passionate, stubborn, and antagonistic Serova while Rabal is red; the calm, reasonable, diplomatic Rabal is blue.and diplomatic.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The passionate, stubborn, antagonistic Serova is red; the calm, reasonable, diplomatic Rabal is blue.
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* RedOniBlueOni: RedOniBlueOni[=/=]SiblingYinYang: The passionate, stubborn, antagonistic Serova is red; the calm, reasonable, diplomatic Rabal is blue.
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* NoWarpingZone: The Hekaras Corridor becomes this thanks to the proven threat of another NegativeSpaceWedgie.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The idea that warp engines could be dangerous to the fabric of universe is not mentioned again in ''The Next Generation'' or other ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series. The warp 5 speed limit is referred to a couple of times in the following episodes, but after that it disappears too with no explanation.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The idea that warp engines could be dangerous to the fabric of universe is not mentioned again in ''The Next Generation'' or other ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series. The warp 5 speed limit is referred to a couple of times in the following episodes, but after that it disappears too with no explanation. Most fans just {{Handwave}} it away with the assumption that someone simply invented a safe warp drive and everyone converted to it.
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* StartXToStopX: Serova tries to prevent a coming disaster by revealing it in a way that can't be ignored. However, in doing so, she actually ''causes'' the disaster to happen.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The idea that warp engines could be dangerous to the fabric of universe is not mentioned again in ''The Next Generation'' or other ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series. The warp 5 speed limit is referred to a couple of times in the following episodes, but after that it disappears too with no explanation.
* StartXToStopX: Serova tries to prevent a coming disaster by revealing it in a way that can't be ignored. However, in doing so, she actually ''causes'' the disaster tohappen.happen.
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* GreenAesop: The "pollution" from warp engines is a thinly-veiled reference to other forms of pollution in the real world, especially the types caused by automobiles and other vehicles of various types. As a result of this episode, the Federation imposes a speed limit of warp 5 on all starships except for cases of extreme emergency, until a more permanent technological solution can be found.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The passionate, stubborn, antagonistic Serova is red; the calm, reasonable, diplomatic Rabal is blue.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The passionate, stubborn, antagonistic Serova is red; the calm, reasonable, diplomatic Rabal is blue.blue.
* SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic: Near the end, the consequences of heavy ship traffic through the corridor is projected on a map like this. Within mere decades, the entire sector would be a ''minefield'' of the type of [[NegativeSpaceWedgie subspace warp rifts]] that Serova caused.
* StartXToStopX: Serova tries to prevent a coming disaster by revealing it in a way that can't be ignored. However, in doing so, she actually ''causes'' the disaster to happen.
* SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic: Near the end, the consequences of heavy ship traffic through the corridor is projected on a map like this. Within mere decades, the entire sector would be a ''minefield'' of the type of [[NegativeSpaceWedgie subspace warp rifts]] that Serova caused.
* StartXToStopX: Serova tries to prevent a coming disaster by revealing it in a way that can't be ignored. However, in doing so, she actually ''causes'' the disaster to happen.
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A pair of alien scientists claim that warp drive damages subspace.
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The ''Enterprise'' must find a way to rescue the imperiled transport without making a bad situation even worse.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Serova's [[DrivenToSuicide extreme method]] of proving her theory creates the NegativeSpaceWedgie that she and her brother had been trying to prevent, both endangering two Federation starships and messing up the climate on her home planet decades before anyone's rady to deal with it.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Serova's [[DrivenToSuicide [[SelfDestructMechanism extreme method]] of proving her theory creates the NegativeSpaceWedgie that she and her brother had been trying to prevent, both endangering two Federation starships and messing up the climate on her home planet decades before anyone's rady ready to deal with it.
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Series:Series/{{Star Trek The Next Generation}}\\
Episode: Season 7, Episode 8\\
Title: "Force of Nature"\\
Previous: "Attached"\\
Next: "Inheritance"\\
Recapper: Star Tropes]
A pair of alien scientists claim that warp drive damages subspace.
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* CassandraTruth: Serova feels this way with nobody believing her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Serova's [[DrivenToSuicide extreme method]] of proving her theory creates the NegativeSpaceWedgie that she and her brother had been trying to prevent, both endangering two Federation starships and messing up the climate on her home planet decades before anyone's rady to deal with it.
* RedOniBlueOni: The passionate, stubborn, antagonistic Serova is red; the calm, reasonable, diplomatic Rabal is blue.
Series:Series/{{Star Trek The Next Generation}}\\
Episode: Season 7, Episode 8\\
Title: "Force of Nature"\\
Previous: "Attached"\\
Next: "Inheritance"\\
Recapper: Star Tropes]
A pair of alien scientists claim that warp drive damages subspace.
!!Tropes:
* CassandraTruth: Serova feels this way with nobody believing her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Serova's [[DrivenToSuicide extreme method]] of proving her theory creates the NegativeSpaceWedgie that she and her brother had been trying to prevent, both endangering two Federation starships and messing up the climate on her home planet decades before anyone's rady to deal with it.
* RedOniBlueOni: The passionate, stubborn, antagonistic Serova is red; the calm, reasonable, diplomatic Rabal is blue.
