History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS2E21Deadlock

* ResetButton: The damaged Voyager is the one that survives, and we see repairs consisting of crewmen replacing bulkhead panels in a well-lit corridor with clean carpets.

* DeathIsCheap: [[ButtMonkey [=DamagedVoyager!Harry=] dies by being cast out into space]], then [=DamagedVoyager!Samantha's=] baby dies. Then the entire [=DamagedVoyager=] ''crew'' dies, except for [=IntactVoyager!Harry=] and [=IntactVoyager!Baby Girl Wildman=] who are carried to the damaged ''Voyager''.

* BoardingParty: The Vidiian boarding party outnumbers the crew of ''[=Intact!Voyager=]'' by at least 2-to-1, making it quite clear that defeat is inevitable.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Ensign Wildman's daughter and Harry, both of whom had their [=DamagedVoyager=] selves killed off while their selves from the intact ''Voyager'' take their places on the damaged ''Voyager''. The scene of Harry going to Sickbay to rescue baby Wildman seems to indicate that [=IntactVoyager!Samantha] may have already been killed by the Vidiians.

* HollywoodTactics: The crew shows remarkably poor discipline when defending the ship from the Vidiians.

* BattleDiscretionShot: The Vidiians break into Sickbay. After cutting to what's happening on the bridge, we cut back to an unconscious Duplicate!Kes laid out on a biobed.

* Laconic/CrossphaseViewport: The communication system and viewscreens of either Voyager becomes this, allowing the two copies to communicate with each other. Subverted in that there ''is'' a physical portal link between the two versions of the ship.

A jolt to the ship immediately follows, and ''Voyager'' begins to lose power for no apparent reason. Janeway suggests a sequence of proton bursts might work as a stop gap, but before Torres can prepare, the ship starts being hit repeatedly... by proton bursts?

The Bridge finally manages to stem the damage by magnetizing the hull, but whatever relief this buys them is small comfort next to the enormous litany of damage Tuvok has to report. Severe hull damage, no power, inoperable warp coils, failing environmentals, tens of casualties, and two deaths... Harry Kim and Wildman's child.

The Janeway from the pristine, undamaged Bridge immediately reports what she saw and orders a not-dead Ensign Kim to scan for anomalies. She then goes to Sickbay to check on Wildman's equally living daughter, and the unconscious figure of the Kes who disappeared from the damaged ship.

It seems only the intact ''Voyager'' is visible to the attackers, but without power, it is defenseless against such a huge opponent. The Vidiians [[BoardingParty board their ship]] with overwhelming numbers, cutting through the crew with impunity. With no hope of repelling them, Janeway orders Kim to find Wildman's baby and take her to the other ''Voyager'', then initiates the self-destruct sequence.

* BaitAndSwitch: It looks like the crippled ''Voyager'' will be sacrificed, but then Vidiian soldiers swarm the other ''Voyager''.
* BattleDiscretionShot: The Vidiians break into Sickbay. After cutting to what's happening on the bridge, we cut back to an unconscious Kes being plonked on a biobed.
* BigNo: Harry when he encounters the empty maturation chamber, thinking the Vidiians [[WouldHurtAChild have taken the baby]]. Fortunately that lets the Doctor, who's hiding with the baby, know he's there.

* BoardingParty: The Vidiian boarding party outnumbers the crew of ''Voyager'' by at least 2-to-1, making it quite clear that defeat is inevitable.
* CallBack: Harry wondering whether he is "really" Harry at the end parallels Future!O'Brien's musings at the end of [=DS9=]'s "Visionary".

* CharacterDevelopment: As the attack continues, Ens. Wildman asks the Doctor if her baby is going to die. Instead of the unemotional response he would have given before, he tells her, "Not if I can help it!"

* ColdEquation: Two ''Voyager'''s, one severely damaged. Attempting to fully separate them would destroy both vessels. Trying to evacuate the crew through the rift joining them would destabilize it to the same result. So when the Janeway of the damaged ''Voyager'' tells her counterpart to go back to her own vessel, they both realise she intends to blow up her own ship to preserve the other.

* CutTheJuice: Both ''Voyager'''s are sharing the same anti-matter drive. This leaves them helpless when the Vidiian warship turns up, as they've no power for weapons or shields.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Naomi Wildman and Ensign Harry Kim, both of whom had their original selves killed off while their alternate selves from the duplicate ''Voyager'' took their places on the original ''Voyager''.
* DeathIsCheap: [[ButtMonkey Harry Kim dies by being cast out into space]], then the baby dies in Sickbay. Then the entire crew dies, except for Harry Kim and the baby who are carried to the alternate ''Voyager''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Deck 15 in this episode is portrayed as just another standard looking deck with standard doors, carpet, and Jeffrey's Tubes, even though it is at the bottom of the ship. In the later episode [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E20GoodShepherd "Good Shepherd"]], Deck 15 is a utility deck that looks less comfortable and more mechanical in design (though it's possible those are just two separate areas of Deck 15 shown in either episode).
* EscortMission: Harry Kim is ordered to haul a baby through 10 decks [[RaceAgainstTheClock in 5 minutes]] before the ship explodes.

** When Kim and Torres are working to repair the hull breach on Deck 15, Torres realizes they don't have enough time to both repair it and get out alive. She orders Kim to get away from the ever-widening breach, but he ignores her, saying he just needs a little bit more time-- but the ship is suddenly hit with a large jolt, causing him to lose his footing and be killed as he is blown out into space.

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[DeathOfAChild Subverted]] with the death of the newborn Naomi on the surviving ''Voyager'', but then DoubleSubverted (in a sense) when her counterpart is rescued from the destroyed ''Voyager''.

* InternalHomage: To ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''. A Vidiian boarding party reaches the duplicate ''Voyager'''s bridge only to be greeted by the last seconds of a self-destruct countdown.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Apart from Harry Kim escaping with Naomi Wildman, the duplicate ''Voyager'' just sits back and lets the Vidiians come on board their ship...just before it self-destructs.
* LongestPregnancyEver: The writers appeared to forget that the first mention of Wildman's pregnancy in "Elogium" wasn't actually when the baby was conceived, which was before the show even started. {{Handwave}}d in later episodes by the child being a HalfHumanHybrid.

* MoodWhiplash: Captain Janeway is forced to evacuate the destroyed bridge, but is startled to see a ghostly image of herself and the other Bridge crew calmly sitting in their seats. We then cut to that crew, on an intact bridge, with Janeway staring at a ghostly image of herself "looking like hell". This is our first indication of the alternate ''Voyager''.

* ResetButton: The wrecked Voyager survives, and we see repairs consisting of crewmen replacing bulkhead panels in a well-lit corridor with clean carpets.
* RunningGag: The Doctor asks if his counterpart had decided on a name.
* ScreamingBirth: Justified when you're giving birth to a HalfHumanHybrid with forehead spikes.
* SelfDestructMechanism: When it becomes clear that the Vidiians are going to succeed in their takeover, the Janeway on the undamaged ''Voyager'' initiates the self-destruct and destroys the ship (notably marking the only time in an episode of the TV series that a self-destruct isn't aborted).
* StatusQuoIsGod: Janeway orders Harry and the baby over to the other ''Voyager'' to replace the ones they've lost, before blowing up the ship. On a vessel crawling with hundreds of Vidiian soldiers, they make it unharmed.

* ThatsAnOrder: When Harry Kim balks at crossing over to the other ''Voyager'' leaving everyone else to die when Janeway sets off the SelfDestructMechanism.

* TwoKeyedLock: Averted; Captain Janeway can blow up the ship all by herself. In previous Trek series, several senior officers were required to verify the command.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Deck 15 in this episode is portrayed as just another standard looking deck with standard doors, carpet, and Jeffrey's Tubes, even though it is at the bottom of the ship. In the later episode Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E20GoodShepherd, Deck 15 is a utility deck that looks less comfortable and more mechanical in design (though it's possible those are just two separate areas of Deck 15 shown in either episode).

* CharacterDevelopment: As the attack continues, Ens. Wildmann asks the Doctor if her baby is going to die. Instead of the unemotional response he would have given before, he tells her, "Not if I can help it!"

* ColdEquation: Two ''Voyager'''s, one severely damaged. Attempting to fully seperate them would destroy both vessels. Trying to evacuate the crew through the rift joining them would destablize it to the same result. So when the Janeway of the damaged ''Voyager'' tells her counterpart to go back to her own vessel, they both realise she intends to blow up her own ship to preserve the other.

* CrossphaseViewport: The communication system and viewscreens of either Voyager becomes this, allowing the two copies to communicate with each other. Subverted in that there ''is'' a physical portal link between the two versions of the ship.

When the duplicate Kes regains consciousness and recounts her story, things start to make sense. ''Voyager'' hit a [[NegativeSpaceWedgie divergence field]] in the nebula that caused all matter -- but not ''anti''matter -- to be duplicated. Meaning there are now two ships and two crews, linked by the spacial rift on Deck 15 that Kes fell through, but with only one source of energy to sustain them.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Deck 15 in this episode is portrayed as just another standard looking deck with standard doors, carpet, and Jeffrey's Tubes, even though it is at the bottom of the ship. In the later episode Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E20GoodShepherd, Deck 15 is a utility deck that looks less comfortable and more mechanical in design (though it's possible those are just two seperate areas of Deck 15 shown in either episode).

* SuspiciouslySmallArmy: Three hundred and [[ArcNumber forty-seven]] Vidiians board ''Voyager'', but we never see more than three at a time.

* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Ensign Kim does a cool one during the shootout in Sickbay. Also counts as TheCastShowOff, as actor Garrett Wang learned it during a stage combat class and decided to ThrowItIn.

* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Averted, mainly because each Captain Janeway knows what the other would do in their circumstance, so it saves unnecessary argument.

* ResetButton: TrashTheSet!Voyager survives, and we see repairs consisting of crewmen replacing bulkhead panels in a well-lit corridor with clean carpets.

** Due to there being two ''Voyagers'' drawing from the same power source, one needs to be destroyed either to make it out in one piece. The doomed ''Voyager'' also takes out the Vidiians with it, self-destructing while they're ransacking the place.

* CharacterDevelopment: As the attack continues, Ens Wildmann asks the Doctor if her baby is going to die. Instead of the unemotional response he would have given before, he tells her, "Not if I can help it!"

* ShoutOut: A subtle one to ''Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'': a Vidiian boarding party reaches the duplicate ''Voyager'''s bridge only to be greeted by the last seconds of a self-destruct countdown.

* HeroicSacrifice

* ResetButton: TrashTheSet!Voyager survives, and we see repairs consisting of crewman replacing bulkhead panels in a well-lit corridor with clean carpets.

* {{Technobabble}}: Doubled, what with two Captain Janeway's and Chief Engineer Torres' on screen.

* TrashTheSet: But don't worry, it'll all be fixed by next week.

-->'''Janeway''': We're Starfleet officers, Harry. Weird is part of the job.

Janeway's first order of business is to stop the proton bursts that are tearing their twin apart, but now it's a race against time against their rapidly hemorrhaging power. The two ships establish communication to coordinate a solution to their predicament. When their first attempt to merge the ships back together fails, the two captains meet in person to brainstorm alternatives. They can't merge the ships without both blowing up. They can't separate the ships without both blowing up. They can't move the crew of one ship to the other [[RuleOfThree without both blowing up]]. The captain of the damaged ship tells her counterpart to return so they can try the merge again, but the latter sees through her: she's going to [[SelfDestructMechanism destroy her ship]] to save the other.