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* BadassBoast: The very first mention of the titular starship is Janeway expressing pride in her capabilities:
--> '''Paris:''' I've never seen a Federation starship that could maneuver through the plasma storms.\\
'''Janeway:''' You've never seen ''Voyager''.
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* CharacterTic: Our very first sight of Captain Janeway is of her in the trademark [[DynamicAkimbo hands-on-hips position]]. She also has a habit of [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness walking with her hands behind her back]]. Doing this clearly causes Kate Mulgrew to almost stumble when she and Robert Duncan [=MacNeill=] are doing the Janeway/Paris WalkAndTalk.

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* CharacterTic: Our very first sight of Captain Janeway is of her in the trademark [[DynamicAkimbo hands-on-hips position]]. She also has a habit of [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness walking with her hands behind her back]]. Doing this clearly causes Kate Mulgrew to almost stumble when she and Robert Duncan [=MacNeill=] are doing the Janeway/Paris WalkAndTalk.WalkAndTalk over uneven ground.
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* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: While integrating the two crews under one captain [[AHouseDivided makes a good deal of sense]], we don't see any debate on the subject. The Maquis just appear in Starfleet uniform at the end of the episode, the whole issue having been decided off-screen by Janeway and Chakotay.

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* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: While integrating the two crews under one captain [[AHouseDivided makes a good deal of sense]], we don't see any debate on the subject. subject, which is especially notable given how hostile Chakotay is when first meeting Janeway. The Maquis just appear in Starfleet uniform at the end of the episode, the whole issue having been decided off-screen by Janeway and Chakotay.



* AssholeVictim: Two of ''Voyager'''s casualties, the original ship's doctor and Janeway's first officer, just happen to rudely snub Tom Paris before they both die when their ship gets snatched.

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* AssholeVictim: Two of ''Voyager'''s casualties, the original ship's doctor and Janeway's first officer, just happen to rudely snub Tom Paris before they both die when their ship gets snatched.



* BarFullOfAliens: Harry Kim is introduced to the audience in Quarks.

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* BarFullOfAliens: Harry Kim is introduced to the audience in when he's at Quarks.



* BeneathTheMask: Captain Janeway is introduced as an all-business Starfleet captain. Next time we see her, she's gushing with her fiance over a PreciousPuppy in the privacy of her quarters.

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* BeneathTheMask: Captain Janeway is introduced as an all-business Starfleet captain. Next time we see her, she's gushing with her fiance over a PreciousPuppy her dog being pregnant in the privacy of her quarters.



** Ensign Rollins is there to give Janeway someone to [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything hand over the ship to]] after Cavit is killed, because Chakotay hasn't taken on the role of her First Officer yet.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Caretaker. While he feels a sense of duty to care for the Ocampa after his species' intergalactic exploration devastated their homeworld, he does so by turning them into a docile childlike people utterly dependent on him. When he begins to die, he proceeds to abduct, experiment on, and ultimately kill sentient beings from elsewhere in the galaxy in his desperate attempt to produce an offspring to continue his duties, as his female counterpart has long since left him.

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** Ensign Rollins is there to give Janeway someone to [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything hand over the ship to]] after Cavit is killed, because Chakotay hasn't taken on the role of her First Officer yet.
yet and Tuvok is still on the Maquis ship.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Caretaker. While he feels a sense of duty to care for the Ocampa after his species' intergalactic exploration devastated their homeworld, he does did so by turning them into a docile childlike people utterly dependent on him. When he begins to die, he proceeds to abduct, experiment on, and ultimately kill sentient beings from elsewhere in the galaxy in his desperate attempt to produce an offspring to continue his duties, as his female counterpart has long since left him.



* CharacterTic: Our very first sight of Captain Janeway is of her in the trademark [[DynamicAkimbo hands-on-hips position]]. She also has a habit of [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness walking with her hands behind her back]].

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* CharacterTic: Our very first sight of Captain Janeway is of her in the trademark [[DynamicAkimbo hands-on-hips position]]. She also has a habit of [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness walking with her hands behind her back]]. Doing this clearly causes Kate Mulgrew to almost stumble when she and Robert Duncan [=MacNeill=] are doing the Janeway/Paris WalkAndTalk.



'''Kim:''' I'm sorry, ma'am.\\

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'''Kim:''' I'm sorry, sorry...ma'am.\\



** Which pays off later as a BrickJoke:

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** Which pays off later soon after as a BrickJoke:



** The Kazon leader, Maje Jabin, is set up as a recurring villain. He never appears again, with the villain role later taken by Maje Cullah.

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** The Kazon leader, Maje Jabin, is set up as a recurring villain. He never appears again, with the villain role later taken by Maje Cullah.



** The Doctor gets annoyed because people don't shut down his program when they leave Sickbay. The Doctor's stand over this issue is the first in his CharacterDevelopment.

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** The Doctor gets annoyed because people don't shut down his program when they leave Sickbay. The Doctor's stand over this issue is the first step in his CharacterDevelopment.



* MercyKill: The Caretaker tried to bury the Ocampa civilization once he knew he was dying and wouldn’t have the means to take care of them anymore. He saw it as the better option to provide the Ocampa with five years’ worth of supplies and close off their tunnels than risk them going above the service where their survival will be minimal.

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* MercyKill: The Caretaker tried to bury the Ocampa civilization once he knew he was dying and wouldn’t have the means to take care of them anymore. He saw it as the better option to provide the Ocampa with five years’ worth of supplies and close off their tunnels than risk them going above the service where their chance of survival will be minimal.



* NoodleIncident: The accident on Caldek Prime that killed three Starfleet officers and ended Tom's career.

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* NoodleIncident: The accident on Caldek Prime that killed three Starfleet officers and ended Tom's career. Serves as an early example of Tom putting on a JerkassFacade when Harry points out that the only reason he was caught and punished was because his conscience made him confess.



* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Janeway destroys the Caretaker's Array so that the Kazon wouldn't get their hands on its immense technology, even though doing so would strand her own ship in the Delta Quadrant.

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* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Janeway destroys the Caretaker's Array so that the Kazon wouldn't get their hands on its immense technology, even though doing so would strand her own ship in the Delta Quadrant. To be fair to her, the Caretaker intended to destroy the Array himself before dying.
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** Doesn't Janeway take her coffee black?
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* SurvivedTheBeginning: Half the crew dies right at the beginning, courtesy of a Maquis ship's tetryon beam. They never lost more than a handful of people after that unless there was a ResetButton handy.
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Gul Evek, or at least in the larger context of the TNG-era shows. While he sends a distress call and his sensor records are given to Starfleet for Janeway's mission, he doesn't reappear before ''Voyager'' gets shanghaied. He likewise will not reappear over on ''Deep Space Nine'' for the remainder of its run. Probably justified given the whole point of Evek's character was to provide connective tissue between TNG and [=DS9=] as the two shows laid the groudnwork for the Maquis and the build towards ''Voyager''.

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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Gul Evek, or at least in the larger context of the TNG-era shows. While he sends a distress call and his sensor records are given to Starfleet for Janeway's mission, he doesn't reappear before ''Voyager'' gets shanghaied. He likewise will not reappear over on ''Deep Space Nine'' for the remainder of its run. Probably justified given the whole point of Evek's character was to provide connective tissue between TNG and [=DS9=] as the two shows laid the groudnwork groundwork for the Maquis and the build towards ''Voyager''.
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* SadisticChoice: Janeway struggles with the choice of use the Array to send her ship back to the Alpha Quadrant at the risk of endangering the Ocampa or destroying the Array to protect the Ocampa from the Kazon at the risk of stranding the ''Voyager'' crew in the Delta Quadrant, leading to a longer journey home.

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* SadisticChoice: Janeway struggles with the choice of use using the Array to send her ship back to the Alpha Quadrant at the risk of endangering the Ocampa or destroying the Array to protect the Ocampa from the Kazon at the risk of stranding the ''Voyager'' crew in the Delta Quadrant, leading to a longer journey home.
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* TheGoldenRule: Janeway to Chakotey: "That man is a member of my crew. Treat him with the same respect as you would have me treat one of yours."

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* TheGoldenRule: Janeway to Chakotey: Chakotay: "That man is a member of my crew. Treat him with the same respect as you would have me treat one of yours."

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