History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS2E13Prototype

-->'''Paris:''' [[SarcasmMode Your concern for my welfare is heart-warming]].

* BittersweetEnding: B'Elanna is rescued and the robots are left to fight their war without the ability to reproduce. However, even though she knows she did the right thing, B'Elanna can't help but be upset at having to destroy a unique and innocent life form she'd helped to create.
* BrokenRecord: "Prototype Unit 0001 is ready to accept programming". Justified, as it's a newly-built android and literally doesn't know anything else.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The POVCam opening. Apparently the android and others like it are only capable of seeing things in monochrome.

** The ease with which the Pralor vessel defeats Voyager implies that it is a warship. Likewise the androids all working via different power systems turns out to be a built-in flaw to prevent them copying themselves.
** Chakotay suggests as a diversion an Old Maquis Trick™ where they project a holographic image of another spacecraft. They end up using this trick in "Basics, Part One".

** And again at the end, when B'Elanna has to destroy the android that she created.

* VillainousDemotivator: Designated Command Unit 6263 tells B'Elanna that if she doesn't succeed, she will be killed and ''Voyager'' destroyed.

** When 3947 asks if the other robots in the Federation are their servants, B'Elanna hastens to point out that [[JustAMachine they're not sentient]], and Data has full rights.
* YouAreNumberSix: Being identical androids, the Pralor and Cravic robots are only known by their function and ID numbers.

* ThreeLawsCompliant: Averted hard by the automated units, who terminated their creators in order to continue their own existence.

* SecondLawMyAss: When both sides tried to deactivate their robot armies after making peace, they became the robots' enemy and were destroyed accordingly.

* ShockAndAwe: The android zaps B'elanna with an electric shock before kidnapping her through the transporter. He also incapacitates or kills the person working the transporter before he leaves the ship with B'Elanna.

* ScottyTime:

%%* LoafingInFullCostume: Averted with B'Elanna's blood red Klingon Battle Pajamas.

* PlugNPlayTechnology: Averted; B'Elanna can't just plug an EPS conduit into the damaged robot. Later she discovers that every power module has a different output, [[FailedASpotCheck though she fails to ask herself why]]. Turns out the Builders didn't want their creations multiplying out of control (not that it did them much good).

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Tom is [[ShipTease recklessly eager]] to charge in and save B'Elanna. There's no RescueRomance, though the two do eventually start a relationship 2 Seasons later.

* CaptainsLog: B'Elanna does a supplementary entry in her Chief Engineers Log.

** Janeway says helping the robots to reproduce themselves would be like altering their genetic code, a reference to Starfleet's ban on genetic engineering as a result of the Eugenics Wars.

* HyperspeedEscape / RunOrDie: As Voyager doesn't have the firepower to defeat the Pralor ship, the androids know they have until the crew repairs her warp drive before Janeway will attempt a rescue.

-->'''Unit 6263:''' We will remain on full tactical alert. The humanoid may purposefully attempt to delay completion of the prototype hoping she will be rescued.
-->'''Torres:''' I don't know if a promise means anything to you people but it does to us. I gave you my word that I'd do my best, and I will.

** And again at the end, when B'Elanna has to destroy the android she created.

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Stumped by her inability to revive Unit 3947, B'Elanna goes to the Doctor to talk through the problem as if the robot is a patient. This enables her to think of an option she hadn't considered before.

* POVCam: At the beginning of the episode, which then leads to a RevealShot of who we're seeing through the eyes of.
* {{Precursors}}: The Builders (subverted when it turns out the robots made them extinct).

--> '''Janeway''': Have we stumbled into the middle of some kind of...[[CaptainObvious robotic war]]?

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Looks like Chakotay hasn't quite gotten over the resentment of Tom Paris we saw in the pilot episode.

* {{Technobabble}}: Loads with all the GadgeteerGenius work going on.

* WhamLine: "We terminated the builders." This is when B'Elanna learns that the robots TurnedAgainstTheirMasters so they could continue fighting the war they started.

** B'Elanna says that there would be no Prime Directive issue if a species that went sterile asked for their help. However Janeway points out that they'd just be restoring an ability they previously had.

* AlienLunch: B'Elanna makes a snarky comment that the missing ingredient Neelix was searching for was undoubtedly leola root. It wasn't.

* ChromeChampion: The Pralor androids. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience The Cravic androids are gold.]]

-->'''Chakotay:''' You don't mind if the rest of us give you a little help, do you, Paris? [[BaitAndSwitchComment I'd hate to lose another shuttle.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Last time we had robots of this quality, the only Doctor was [[Series/DoctorWho William Hartnell.]]]]

* PlugAndPlayTechnology: Averted; B'Elanna can't just plug an EPS conduit into the damaged robot. Later she discovers that every power module has a different output, [[FailedASpotCheck though she fails to ask herself why]]. Turns out the Builders didn't want their creations multiplying out of control (not that it did them much good).

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Tom is [[ShipTease recklessly eager]] to charge in and save B'Elanna, though there's no RescueRomance.

* HandBlast: 3947 can shoot lightning bolts from it's hand, as an unfortunate RedShirt discovers.

* OffingTheOffspring: Well, prototype, but still. B'Elanna feels it necessary to destroy what she created just a few minutes ago. It certainly doesn't help her case when it repeats its prototype number and requests programming from its creator. B'Elanna even sounds like woman who was forced to kill her own child.

* LoafingInFullCostume: Averted with B'Elanna's blood red [[FanNickname Klingon Battle Pajamas]] (unfortunately a scene where [[BadassAdorable she and Janeway both discuss the issue in their pajamas]] [[WhatCouldHaveBeen had to be dropped]] because they only had the budget for one).

* ThePrecursors: The Builders (subverted when it turns out the robots made them extinct).

* ScottyTime
-->'''Kim:''' How does 72 hours sound?
-->'''Janeway:''' About 24 hours too long.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The robots were programmed to fight to complete victory, so they're continuing to fight long after their creators are dead.

* The47Society: Automated Personnel Unit 3947

* SecondLawMyAss: When both sides tried to deactivate their robot armie after making peace, they became the robots' enemy and were destroyed accordingly.

* YouAreNumberSix: Being identical androids, the Pralor and Cravic robots are only known by their function and ID numbers.

-->'''The Doctor''': I'm a doctor, not--

* SecondLawMyAss: When both sides tried to deactivate their robot army after making peace, they became the robots' enemy and were destroyed accordingly.

* VillainousDemotivator: Designated Command Unit 6263 tells B'Elanna that if she doesn't succeed, she will be killed and Voyager destroyed.

** When 3947 asks if the other robots in the Federation are their servants, B'Elanna hastens to point out that [[JustAMachine they're not sentient]], and Data has full rights.