History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS3E11Macrocosm

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The Doctor is immune to the macrovirus, but the larger ones prevent him intervening by attacking his mobile emitter.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: The macrovirus plot started because ''Voyager'' went to help a Garan mining colony. The Doctor comes up with an antidote--and the Tak Tak destroy the colony before he can save them.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: After spending the entire episode proving she's the toughest woman in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway turns down an offer of skiing on the holodeck with Chakotay because she just wants to relax in her quarters, painting and listening to light music.

* GhostShip: Janeway and Neelix find the corridors of ''Voyager'' deserted. It turns out the larger macroviruses have dragged the crew to the cargo bays and messhall for some unknown purpose.

* SmallGirlBigGun: Janeway breaks out her trusty [[BfG compression phaser rifle]].

* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: The Doctor's response to Tom Paris hearing the BugBuzz, as several large marcoviruses are hovering nearby.

* ImpendingDoomPOV: As Janeway tries to access the bridge controls something stalks her from behind. Subverted as when it strikes it's not some huge slavering monster, but a macrovirus too small to see.

* FanService: A [[AdrenalineMakeover gun-toting sweaty Kate Mulgrew in a tank top]], belt clinched around her waist to better show off her [[BoobsOfSteel great rack]].

* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: Janeway's habit of [[CharacterTics putting her hands on her hips]] causes a diplomatic incident, as it's one of the [[FunWithForeignLanguages worst insults imaginable for the Tak Tak]], a species that communicates through body language. This was actually an inside joke as Kate Mulgrew would often unconsciously do it during filming.

* LetsSplitUpGang: Justified at first when Neelix gets too ill to walk, Janeway has to climb a vertical shaft to get an emergency medkit. A macrovirus attacks while she's away. Played straight when Janeway and the Doctor take alternate routes to the environmental controls, in case one of them is intercepted by the larger macroviruses. The Doctor is attacked and forced to take shelter inside a shuttlecraft.

* BugBuzz: The macrovirus buzzes, frequency inversely proportional to size.

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: When ''Voyager's'' environmentals go offline, the ship rapidly becomes extremely hot and they treat it like their air-conditioning is now essentially on the fritz. However because vacuum is a very poor conductor, spacecraft have to be engineered in such a way that they can expel and eliminate waste heat from their systems as rapidly and efficiently as possible to prevent them from overheating (this is best demonstrated in ''Film/Apollo13'' where, as with the real Apollo 13 disaster, the crew were subject to brutally cold temperatures while using the unpowered LEM as a lifeboat). This means that even allowing for a lot of heat being put out by the warp core and other systems, the temperature aboard ''Voyager'' should begin ''dropping'' due to the ship's cooling systems (which would not be part of environmental, the same way that your car's AC isn't run by its radiator) eliminating all of the waste heat.

* BrickJoke: In her final conversation with the Tak Tak, Janeway unconsciously puts her hands on her hips again. Fortunately the consul has already ended his transmission.

* ActionGirl: This episode appears to exist for the sole purpose of establishing Captain Janeway's right to follow in the footsteps of Creator/SigourneyWeaver. She succeeds admirably.

* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: Janeway's habit of [[CharacterTics putting her hands on her hips]] causes a diplomatic incident, as it's one of the [[FunWithForeignLanguages worse insults imaginable for the Tak Tak]], a species that communicates through body language. This was actually an inside joke as Kate Mulgrew would often unconsciously do it during filming.

* ContinuityNod

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: When ''Voyager's'' environmentals go offline, the ship rapidly becomes extremely hot and they treat it like their air-conditioning is now essentially on the fritz. However because vacuum is a very poor conductor, spacecraft have to be engineered in such a way that they can expel and eliminate waste heat from their systems as rapidly and efficiently as possible to prevent them from overheating (this is best demonstrated in ''Film/ApolloThirteen'' where, as with the real Apollo 13 disaster, the crew were subject to brutally cold temperatures while using the unpowered LEM as a lifeboat). This means that even allowing for a lot of heat being put out by the warp core and other systems, the temperature aboard ''Voyager'' should begin ''dropping'' due to the ship's cooling systems (which would not be part of environmental, the same way that your car's AC isn't run by its radiator) eliminating all of the waste heat.

* StarfishAliens

* IncrediblyObviousBomb: Janeway puts together an 'antigen bomb' with a conspicuous red digit timer. It gets knocked out of her hands and counts down while Janeway battles a macrovirus at knife-point. She kills the creature and tosses the bomb into the holodeck JustInTime.

* MegaMicrobes
* MonsterOfTheWeek

* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Somehow the DynamicAkimbo became one of the worst insults imaginable for the Tak Tak. Did they have a run-in with ComicBooks/{{Superman}}?

* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture / YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Janeway's habit of [[CharacterTics putting her hands on her hips]] causes a diplomatic incident, as it's one of the [[FunWithForeignLanguages worse insults imaginable for the Tak Tak]], a species that communicates through body language. This was actually an inside joke as Kate Mulgrew would often unconsciously do it during filming.