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** The infection of Species 8472 of Harry's body is a terrifying threat, eating him alive, all through Part 1. Within moments of Part 2, the Doctor has cleared it up and Harry gets back to duty and the deadly nature of Species 8472's infection with a touch is never mentioned again.

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Trope name is Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale, not any of its subpages. Discussion here.


* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: In this case, SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity -- the fifteen cubes destroyed by species 8472 in the first part of the episode are found to be about 5.2 light years from Voyager's position. Captain Janeway orders to lay in a course to their position at warp two. According to [[http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Warp_factor Memory Alpha]], warp two is around 8-10 times the speed of light. Traveling 5.2 light years at that speed would have taken about six months.

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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: In this case, SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity -- the The fifteen cubes destroyed by species 8472 in the first part of the episode are found to be about 5.2 light years from Voyager's position. Captain Janeway orders to lay in a course to their position at warp two. According to [[http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Warp_factor Memory Alpha]], warp two is around 8-10 times the speed of light. Traveling 5.2 light years at that speed would have taken about six months.



* {{Technobabble}}: When trying to beam Chakotay, Tuvok, and Kim off the Borg ship
-->'''B'elanna:''' I can't get a lock on them.
-->'''Janeway:''' What's the problem?
-->'''B'Elanna:''' It looks like bioelectric interference from whatever's coming toward them.
-->'''Janeway:''' Narrow the confinement beam.
-->'''B'Elanna:''' No effect. I'm going to try a skeletal lock.
-->'''Janeway:''' What?
-->'''B'Elanna:''' I think I can get a clean lock on the minerals in their bone tissue. I... [[IndyPloy just came up with it]], but I think it might work.
** [[FridgeHorror That could just as easily have resulted in]] [[NightmareFuel their bones being yanked out of their bodies]], come to think of it...

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* {{Technobabble}}: When trying to beam Chakotay, Tuvok, and Kim off the Borg ship
ship. [[FridgeHorror That could just as easily have resulted in]] [[NightmareFuel their bones being yanked out of their bodies]], come to think of it...
-->'''B'elanna:''' I can't get a lock on them. \n-->'''Janeway:''' \\
'''Janeway:'''
What's the problem?
-->'''B'Elanna:'''
problem?\\
'''B'Elanna:'''
It looks like bioelectric interference from whatever's coming toward them.
-->'''Janeway:'''
them.\\
'''Janeway:'''
Narrow the confinement beam.
-->'''B'Elanna:'''
beam. \\
'''B'Elanna:'''
No effect. I'm going to try a skeletal lock. \n-->'''Janeway:''' What? \n-->'''B'Elanna:''' \\
'''Janeway:''' What?\\
'''B'Elanna:'''
I think I can get a clean lock on the minerals in their bone tissue. I... [[IndyPloy just came up with it]], but I think it might work.
** [[FridgeHorror That could just as easily have resulted in]] [[NightmareFuel their bones being yanked out of their bodies]], come to think of it...
work.
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* AbortedArc: Janeway has created a holoprogram where she can interact with Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, and does so over several future episodes. This replaces the never-completed Gothic mystery where she plays a governess.

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* AbortedArc: Janeway has created a holoprogram where she can interact with Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, Creator/LeonardoDaVinci and does so over several future episodes. This replaces the never-completed Gothic mystery where she plays a governess.
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* RunningGag: Once several occasions, Seven of Nine responds to one of Janeway or Tuvok's questions with "We are Borg".

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* RunningGag: Once On several occasions, Seven of Nine responds to one of Janeway or Tuvok's questions with "We are Borg".

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** They one up it later, when ''Voyager'' sees 15 Borg Cubes coming right at them.

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** They one up one-up it later, when ''Voyager'' sees 15 Borg Cubes coming right at them.


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** And then later, those 15 cubes have been reduced to a DerelictGraveyard, meaning that something ''really'' bad just happened to them.
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* RunningGag: Once several occasions, Seven of Nine responds to one of Janeway or Tuvok's questions with "We are Borg".
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* CurbStompBattle: Species 8472 is winning their war against the Borg. A single 8472 bioship was able to wipe out a fleet of 15 cubes all by itself.

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* CurbStompBattle: Species 8472 is winning their war against the Borg. A single 8472 bioship was able to wipe out a fleet of 15 cubes all by itself.itself, and a group of 10 acting in concert can Death Star ''a planet''.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Janeway's alliance with The Borg is treated as a necessary evil to ensure safe passage through Borg space, but Chakotay opposes her decision on the grounds that The Borg will inevitably betray the crew and try to assimilate them. Though Chakotay does disobey orders to maintain the alliance and prepares to drop The Borg off on an uninhabited world when they order him to take the ship into Borg space, Janeway at least understands why he did it. On the other hand, Chakotay isn't wrong about The Borg when they do inevitably decide to take the ship and assimilate its crew after Species 8472 is defeated, though Janeway isn't wrong that she still has to get the crew home, Borg or no Borg.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Species 8472 proves to be a ''lot'' more powerful than the Borg, and the attempt to invade Fluidic Space and assimilate them results in a devastating counterattack. Worse, they've seemingly assumed that ''every'' being from outside Fluidic Space is like this, meaning the ''entire galaxy'' is at risk from this species' presence...

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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Species 8472 proves to be a ''lot'' more powerful than the Borg, and the attempt to invade Fluidic Space and assimilate them results in a devastating counterattack. Worse, they've seemingly assumed that ''every'' being from outside Fluidic Space is like this, [[YouWillBeAssimilated the Borg]], meaning the ''entire galaxy'' is at risk from this species' presence...
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* CuteMonsterGirl: Q described the first Borg drone Starfleet encountered as "neither a he nor a she". Seven of Nine is [[MsFanservice very much a she]]; even full Borg assimilation can't hide her great... implants. Apparently [[BuxomBeautyStandard large breasts are not irrelevant]] despite the existence of Borg maturation chambers.

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* CuteMonsterGirl: Q described the first Borg drone Starfleet encountered as "neither a he nor a she". Seven of Nine is [[MsFanservice very much a she]]; even full Borg assimilation can't hide her great... implants. Apparently [[BuxomBeautyStandard large breasts are not irrelevant]] despite the existence of Borg maturation chambers. This is due to the evolution of the Borg concept from their first appearance in "Q Who?" to their second in "The Best of Both Worlds": originally, they were meant to be a species which had bio-engineered themselves out of male/female roles and were only interested in other species technology, but the writers came up with the idea of assimilation, which became their primary trait. Seven looks like a human woman because she ''is'' a human woman, not whatever the Borg began as.
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* SubmersibleSpaceship: Voyager gets thrown into "fluidic space", a dimension that consists of nothing but green liquid in all directions. The ship is undamaged, although this may be somewhat justified since it's a different universe with different physical laws.

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* WhamShot: Possibly ''Voyager's'' best-ever teaser; it's two Borg cubes getting blown the hell up with just a few concentrated blasts.

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Possibly ''Voyager's'' best-ever teaser; it's two Borg cubes getting blown the hell up with just a few concentrated blasts.



-->'''Chakotay:''' My God!

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-->'''Chakotay:''' --->'''Chakotay:''' My God!
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* MassOhCrap: This episode has two in quick succession. First, Voyager encounters FIFTEEN Borg cubes. Just one of them managed to destroy 39 ships and kill 11,000 people at Wolf 359, and here Voyager comes across a fleet of them. And they pass by without bothering to assimilate or destroy Voyager. A little later, Voyager runs across those same fifteen cubes... as a debris field. Oh, Crap really doesn't begin to cover it.

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* MassOhCrap: This episode has two in quick succession. First, Voyager ''Voyager'' encounters FIFTEEN Borg cubes. Just one of them managed to destroy 39 ships and kill 11,000 people at Wolf 359, and here Voyager ''Voyager'' comes across a fleet of them. And they pass by without bothering to assimilate or destroy Voyager. ''Voyager''. A little later, Voyager ''Voyager'' runs across those same fifteen cubes... as a debris field. Oh, Crap OhCrap really doesn't begin to cover it.
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-->'''Leonardo:''' What do you see?\\
'''Janeway:''' A wall with candlelight reflecting on it. Why? What do you see?\\
'''Leonardo:''' A flock of starlings, the leaves of an oak, a horse's tail, a thief with a noose around his neck. And a wall with the candlelight reflecting on it.

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