History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS2E1The37s

* TechnologyMarchesOn: When Janeway asks why ''Voyager'' didn't pick up the SOS before finding the truck, Harry points out that as a standard radio signal, it only travels at the speed of light, and the ship's communications array isn't configured to automatically detect transmissions that slow.

* DyingDeclarationOfLove: When the 37s are discovered, Fred Noonan (Amelia Earhart's navigator) gets shot in the chest and taken to Sickbay. Thinking he will die, he confesses his love to Earhart. [[NotSoFinalConfession However, he is then healed by the Doctor]] and embarrassed, tries to take back his confession.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Janeway reveals that it's publicly known in the 24th century that Earhart's voyage was actually a spying mission on the Japanese, something that is only a crackpot theory in real life.

* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: The descendants of the 37s regard their cryostasis tubes as a shrine, and even maintain power to the SOS signal. They're surprised when Janeway informs them the occupants are NotQuiteDead.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: There's no hint of racism in the diverse group of 37s, which includes whites, blacks and Japanese.
* QuickNip: Noonan [[INeedAFreakingDrink keeps drinking from his hip flask]].
* RagnarokProofing: There's still fuel and water in the engine, so Tom is able to start the truck. Such liquids would have boiled off in a vacuum, and certainly wouldn't last 400 years.

The leader, John Evansville, explains that the residents of the planet are the [[TransplantedHumans descendants of humans]] who were [[AlienAbduction abducted]] by the Briori in 1937 and later fought off their oppressors to live in freedom. They revere their ancestors who were stuck in stasis, calling them "the 37s". He gives Janeway and the 37s a tour Of their three prosperous cities and invites them all to stay if they wish. Afterwards, Janeway is at a loss on what to do, tempted to settle down in a comfortable human society rather than potentially spend the rest of her life on a starship. She gives everyone in the crew the option to make their own decision.

The leader, John Evansville, explains that the residents of the planet are the [[TransplantedHumans descendants of humans]] who were [[AlienAbduction abducted]] by the Biori in 1937 and later fought off their oppressors to live in freedom. They revere their ancestors who were stuck in stasis, calling them "the 37s". He gives Janeway and the 37s a tour Of their three prosperous cities and invites them all to stay if they wish. Afterwards, Janeway is at a loss on what to do, tempted to settle down in a comfortable human society rather than potentially spend the rest of her life on a starship. She gives everyone in the crew the option to make their own decision.

The leader, John Evansville, explains that the residents of the planet are the [[TransplantedHumans descendants of humans]] who were [[AlienAbduction abducted]] by the Biori in 1937 and later fought off their oppressors to live in freedom. They revere their ancestors who were stuck in stasis, calling them "the 37s." He gives Janeway and the 37s a tour Of their three prosperous cities and invites them all to stay if they wish. Afterwards, Janeway is at a loss on what to do, tempted to settle down in a comfortable human society rather than potentially spend the rest of her life on a starship. She gives everyone in the crew the option to make their own decision.

* WritersCannotDoMath: Tom Paris's attempt to translate ''Voyager'''s speed into AFormYouAreComfortableWith results in an estimate of "about 4 billion miles per second." Warp 9.975, the ship's stated maximum, is about 6,400 times the speed of light, while "4 billion miles a second" is ''21,500'' times and would have resulted in the ship getting home by the end of Season 4. There's no indication that Paris is deliberately fudging his numbers or getting his math very wrong.

* AlienAbduction: The Briori kidnapped humans because WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter - Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.

* IChooseToStay

** Inverted
-->'''Janeway:''' Rust?
-->'''Kim:''' That's correct, Captain. High levels of ferrous oxide. Corroded iron particles.

* TranslatorMicrobes: The 37s are puzzled because the others are all speaking their language.

''Voyager'''s sensors pick up an old Earth truck floating in space. They beam it aboard and all gather to inspect it. Paris, a gearhead, identifies it as a 1936 Ford and gets it started. When he turns on the radio, he picks up an SOS call. Janeway orders the ship to land on the nearby planet hoping to find some passage back to Earth. They land on the planet and find the source of the SOS: a 1930s airplane with some alien technology hooked up as a power source. Investigating further, they pick up signals that lead them into some caves, where they find a bunch of humans in 1930s clothing in held in cryo-stasis. One of them is helpfully wearing a nametag revealing her to be Amelia Earhart.

Janeway get a private audience with Earhart and reveals that it's become common knowledge since her disappearance that her flight was a secret spy mission on the Japanese. Earhart is also impressed by Janeway's description of her legacy as a female pilot. She allows Janeway to talk her into coming to the surface to look at her starship as proof. A group heads to the surface, where they're immediately attached by mysterious masked figures. Janeway manages to flank them and get them to surrender, but the attackers turn out to be human.

The leader, John Evansville, explains that the residents of the planet are the descendants of humans who were abducted by the Biori and later fought off their oppressors to live in freedom. They revere their ancestors who were stuck in stasis, calling them "the 37s." He gives Janeway and the 37s a tour their three prosperous cities and invites them all to stay if they wish. Afterwards, Janeway is at a loss on what to do, tempted to settle down in a comfortable human society rather than potentially spend the rest of her life on a starship. She gives everyone in the crew the option to make their own decision.

The crew grapple with their decision. Even Kim is tempted to leave. The 37s also ponder their decision and ask the advice of Neelix, who vows to stay on ''Voyager''. Earhart privately tells Janeway that she and the rest of the 37s will stay on the planet, to the captain's disappointment. Janeway announces that all crew who wish to stay assemble in the cargo bay at 14:00. While walking to the appointment time, Janeway and Chakotay talk about which crewmen are most likely to go. Janeway finally builds up the nerve to open the cargo bay door and finds it completely empty. Moved nearly to tears, Janeway returns to the bridge, where she finds all of her bridge crew committed to their mission and awaiting orders. She orders them on their way while the 37s watch them leave from the planet surface.

* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: The descendants of the 37's regard their cryostasis tubes as a shrine, and even maintain power to the SOS signal. They're surprised when Janeway informs them the occupants are NotQuiteDead.

* TakeOurWordForIt: The characters talk about the cities on the planet that Voyager visited, but none of them are ever shown.

* AnachronismStew: It's a 1936 Ford pickup truck InSpace. Later they find a fusion generator hooked up to the radio of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy

* BookDumb: Torres identifies the scientific names of the dirt in the pickup truck, but can't piece together that it's ''manure''.

** Everyone ducks for cover when the truck backfires, and Tuvok draws his phaser (though you'd think he'd be unfamiliar with gunshots).

* CordonBleughChef: Averted thankfully when Neelix prepares meals for the 37's that they're familiar with.

* LaymansTerms: Inverted

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The 37's get along better than such a diverse group from the 1930's should.

* RedShirt: Janeway stuns one of the humans. The other two introduce themselves, leaving their colleague unnamed and groaning on the ground.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Think about it. ''Really'' think about it. Aliens that can go at practical speeds across the galaxy to enslave humans, despite the many stronger aliens that were right in the Delta Quadrant. On top of that, no one else has ever heard of these aliens?

* [[ItsBeenDone SNL Did It First]]: The ship encountering a car in space is straight from a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx0xOgFDXFg 1976 SNL parody]].

* StatusQuoIsGod: All the crew decide to stay on Voyager, while all the 37's decide to stay on the planet.

* TranslatorMicrobes: The 37's are puzzled because the others are all speaking their language.
* TransplantedHumans: The 37's and their descendants.

* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: A conflict breaks out because the 37's descendants assume the Briori have come back. Janeway is able to reason with them at phaser point.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Tom Paris's attempt to translate ''Voyager'''s speed into AFormYouAreComfortableWith results in an estimate of "about 4 billion miles per second." Whether this was a writers'-room error or Paris resorting to LiesToChildren, it's quite wrong: Warp 9.975, the ship's stated maximum, is about 6,400 times the speed of light; "4 billion miles a second" is ''21,500'' times, and would have resulted in the ship getting home by the end of Season 4 (but see Headscratchers).
* YouHaveToBelieveMe
-->'''Amelia:''' Put yourself in my shoes, Captain. If you were me, would you believe your story?

''Voyager'' encounters a planet where humans who have been abducted just before World War II were taken to, one of them being a famous figure -- aviator UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart.