History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS1E10StateOfFlux

** Cardassian {{Deep Cover Agent}}s who have been surgically-altered to appear to be other species have been depicted in ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''.

** The Doctor was complaining in "Time and Again" of the confusion created by the loss of the Chief Medical Officer and how no-one had informed him of the Maquis crewmembers. This explains how Seska was able to dodge her medical checkup.

* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: Seska has a ready explanation for not having any Bajoran blood factors; she had a disease as a child in the labour camps, but was saved by a bone-marrow transplant from a sympathetic Cardassian, who of course isn't there to confirm this. But the Doctor reveals that the complete medical text on that disease is part of his database, and this explanation doesn't match the anomalies.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: An attempt to build a food replicator causes an explosion and the crew of the Kazon vessel get melded halfway into the bulkheads. Talk about a VengefulVendingMachine!
* FeedTheMole: Seska and Carey are told that Tuvok is trying to find out where the stolen replicator came from. Actually he already knows and is monitoring the computer inventory to see if anyone tampers with the evidence.

* SeriousBusiness: When Chakotay realises Seska and several other Maquis stole the mushrooms for his stew, he docks them two days replicator rations, including himself (for eating the stew).

* ShoutOut: To [[Film/StarWarsANewHope Obi Wan Kenobi]]'s "Who's the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?"

* StealthInSpace: Tom Paris realises there's a Kazon vessel in orbit that is screened from their sensors (due to information provided by TheMole) when he sees an InvisibilityFlicker with his Mark One Eyeball.

** The blood test needed to find a compatible donor for the injured Kazon exposes Seska as a Cardassian.

* IAteWhat: Chakotay takes one bite of the Leola root and spits it out in disgust. "You expect us to eat this?!"

-->'''Chakotay:''' You were working for her[[note]]Tuvok being undercover on behalf of Janeway and Starfleet[[/note]], Seska was working for ''them''[[note]]The Cardassians, an enemy to both the Maquis ''and'' the Federation[[/note]]. Was anyone on board that ship working for me?

* DoubleAgent: Upon learning that Seska is, in fact, a Cardassian agent, Chakotay bemoans [[FlockOfWolves the apparent prevalence of these in his Maquis squad]].
-->'''Chakotay:''' You were working for her[[note]]Tuvok being undercover on behalf of Janeway and Starfleet[[/note]], Seska was working for ''them''[[note]]The Cardassians, an enemy to both the Maquis ''and'' the Federation[[/note]]. Was anyone on board that ship working for ''me''?

* FlockOfWolves: Ironically noted by Chakotay; if Tuvok was spying for Janeway and Seska was spying for the Cardassians: "Was there anyone on that ship working for me?"

* MoodWhiplash: Seska creepily shifts from Chakotay's dewy-eyed and wrongfully accused Maquis ex-lover, to a ruthless Cardassian spy within a single MotiveRant.

* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Seska figures Neelix will find out about the stolen supplies about…''(cue an angry Neelix on the comm)''

* CordonBleughChef: The RunningGag of Neelix mixing human food with the nutritious but awful-tasting leola root starts here.

* NewOldFlame: Seska was a former lover of Chakotay.

-->''(Chakotay [[CurseCutShort stops Neelix's finger as it reaches the groin]])''

-->'''NEELIX:''' First your windpipe swells, and just when you think you're going to die of suffocation, ow! You get a sharp pain in your knees ''(points at Carey's knees)'' which begins to work its way right up to--

* OhMyGods: Seska exclaims "By the Prophets!" after nearly shooting Chakotay, as per the Bajoran belief system.

* JerkassHasAPoint: It's hard not to sympathize with Seska's rant that Janeway isn't prepared to do what it takes to get her crew home, or even keep them safe. Ironically, when Janeway actually does this in later seasons, the fans condemned her for it, despite sympathizing with Seska's point in the first place.

* {{Frameup}}: Seska frames herself to make it look like Carey is doing so. But Chakotay isn't fooled, having tracked the hack back to a Sickbay console.

* DoubleAgent: Upon learning that Seska is, in fact, a Cardassian agent, Chakotay bemoans the apparent prevalence of these in his Maquis squad.
-->'''Chakotay:''' You were working for her[[note]]Tuvok being undercover on behalf of Janeway and Starfleet[[/note]], Seska was working for ''them''[[note]]The Cardassians, an enemy to both the Maquis ''and'' the Federation[[/note]]. Was anyone on board that ship working for ''me''..?

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last thing we see of Carey is when he's confined to quarters for the duration of the investigation. In later seasons the writers would use Carey for WholeEpisodeFlashback scenes as they wrongly assumed he'd been killed. They realised otherwise when they needed a MauveShirt for Season 7's "Friendship One", creating the [[CharacterStatusInertia inadvertent impression]] that Carey had been locked up in his cabin all that time!

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last thing we see of Carey is when he's confined to quarters for the duration of the investigation. In later seasons the writers would use Carey for WholeEpisodeFlashback scenes as they wrongly assumed he'd been killed. They realised otherwise when they needed a MauveShirt for Season 7's "Friendship One", creating the [[HilariousInHindsight inadvertent impression]] that Carey had been locked up in his cabin all that time!

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Considering how much information you can get out of a tricorder reading, you'd think the Federation would just use those to check for toxins in newly-discovered fruits instead of relying on the word of Neelix, who had not only been mostly an incompetent, selfish nuisance up to that point, but also knows nothing about the biology of humans or any other Alpha Quadrant races anyway.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: An attempt to build a food replicator causes an explosion and the crew of the Kazon vessel get melded halfway into the bulkheads.

After an accident cripples a Kazon vessel, the crew of Voyager find their own technology among the remains, and realise that someone on board their ship is in cahoots with the Kazon.