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* AmbiguousSituation: When Janeway summons security to her ready room, they find her and "Tom" struggling with/trying to strangle each other. Is she still fighting off the body-swapper before he can claim her, or has he already done so and is strangling his prior body? (Either because it's still required to finish the transformation, or to knock the real Janeway out [[HeKnowsTooMuch so she can't reveal the truth]].) A short time later it's revealed to be the second one, but then another ambiguity is left unclear: was the one who summoned security Janeway (i.e., she called for help just before the switch happened) or the alien (wanting them to witness the struggle so they'd believe "Tom" to be guilty)?
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* AmbiguousSituation: When Janeway summons security to her ready room, they find her and "Tom" struggling with/trying to strangle each other. Is she still fighting off the body-swapper before he can claim her, or has he already done so and is strangling his prior body? (Either because it's still required to finish the transformation, or to knock the real Janeway out [[HeKnowsTooMuch so she can't reveal the truth]].) A short time later it's revealed to be the second one, but then another ambiguity is left unclear: was the one who summoned security Janeway (i.e., she called for help just before the switch happened) or the alien (wanting them to witness the struggle so they'd believe "Tom" to be guilty)?guilty, and stun him)?
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* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Thanks to reading Tom's personnel file (and being told about things like his relationship with B'Elanna), the body-swapping alien is able to do a fairly good job of impersonating him. However, either he didn't make it through the whole thing, or details beyond Tom's biographical information and service record weren't in it; he had no idea about Tom's medical studies with the Doctor, and didn't seem to know about his friendship with Harry (let alone that they'd been golfing together). This carelessness seems to be something of a FatalFlaw for him (despite how it would interfere with him assuming new lives), since he doesn't understand ''Voyager'''s command hierarchy when Seven calls him on accessing ship's files without permission (or supposedly on Tom's behalf), nor does he seem aware of the fact that Paris wouldn't be allowed to drink on-duty (or that the ship's computer would catch that he had done so through the replicator records), or even how to find Sickbay. Whether being in a rush or getting arrogant is responsible is up to the viewer.
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* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Thanks to reading Tom's personnel file (and being told about things like his relationship with B'Elanna), the body-swapping alien is able to do a fairly good job of impersonating him. However, either he didn't make it through the whole thing, or details beyond Tom's biographical information and service record weren't in it; he had no idea about Tom's medical studies with the Doctor, and didn't seem to know about his friendship with Harry (let alone that they'd been golfing together). This carelessness seems to be something of a FatalFlaw for him (despite how it would interfere with him assuming new lives), since he doesn't understand ''Voyager'''s command hierarchy when Seven calls him on accessing ship's files without permission (or supposedly on Tom's behalf), nor does he seem aware of the fact that Paris wouldn't be allowed to drink on-duty (or that the ship's computer would catch that he had done so through the replicator records), or even how to find Sickbay. Whether [[RaceAgainstTheClock being in a rush rush]] or getting arrogant is responsible is up to the viewer.viewer.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The shapeshifting alien only has a set amount of time in a given form before he reverts to his previous one; as he gets closer to the deadline, he starts involuntarily shifting and has to concentrate to maintain his current form. The haste this necessitates (in the episode he has a little more than three hours before reversion) may explain why [[ImpostorForgotOneDetail he missed crucial details in Tom's file]] (or didn't spend enough time learning more about his life/the ship and its crew) and had to improvise, and also why he was reading up on Janeway so soon after becoming Tom.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The shapeshifting alien only has a set amount of time in a given form before he reverts to his previous one; as he gets closer to the deadline, he starts involuntarily shifting and has to concentrate to maintain his current form. The haste this necessitates (in the episode he has a little more than three hours before reversion) may explain why [[ImpostorForgotOneDetail he missed crucial details in Tom's file]] (or didn't spend enough time learning more about his life/the ship and its crew) and had to improvise, and also why he was reading up on Janeway so soon after becoming Tom.
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* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Thanks to reading Tom's personnel file (and being told about things like his relationship with B'Elanna), the body-swapping alien is able to do a fairly good job of impersonating him. However, either he didn't make it through the whole thing, or details beyond Tom's biographical information and service record weren't in it; he had no idea about Tom's medical studies with the Doctor, and didn't seem to know about his friendship with Harry (let alone that they'd been golfing together). This carelessness seems to be something of a FatalFlaw for him (despite how it would interfere with him assuming new lives), since he doesn't understand ''Voyager'''s command hierarchy when Seven calls him on accessing ship's files without permission (or supposedly on Tom's behalf), nor does he seem aware of the fact that Paris wouldn't be allowed to drink on-duty (or that the ship's computer would catch that he had done so through the replicator records). Whether being in a rush or getting arrogant is responsible is up to the viewer.
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* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Thanks to reading Tom's personnel file (and being told about things like his relationship with B'Elanna), the body-swapping alien is able to do a fairly good job of impersonating him. However, either he didn't make it through the whole thing, or details beyond Tom's biographical information and service record weren't in it; he had no idea about Tom's medical studies with the Doctor, and didn't seem to know about his friendship with Harry (let alone that they'd been golfing together). This carelessness seems to be something of a FatalFlaw for him (despite how it would interfere with him assuming new lives), since he doesn't understand ''Voyager'''s command hierarchy when Seven calls him on accessing ship's files without permission (or supposedly on Tom's behalf), nor does he seem aware of the fact that Paris wouldn't be allowed to drink on-duty (or that the ship's computer would catch that he had done so through the replicator records).records), or even how to find Sickbay. Whether being in a rush or getting arrogant is responsible is up to the viewer.
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: B'Elanna mispronounces Camaro as CA-ma-ro, not Ca-MA-ro.\
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: B'Elanna mispronounces Camaro as CA-ma-ro, not Ca-MA-ro.\
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The body-stealing alien does learn about Tom by reading his personnel file; it's just it either didn't include things outside his biography, education, and role on the ship (so no mention of his friendship with Harry or his learning medicine from the Doctor) or he hadn't gotten to those parts yet.
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: B'Elanna mispronounces Camaro as CA-ma-ro, not Ca-MA-ro.
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: B'Elanna mispronounces Camaro as CA-ma-ro, not Ca-MA-ro.\
* AmbiguousSituation: When Janeway summons security to her ready room, they find her and "Tom" struggling with/trying to strangle each other. Is she still fighting off the body-swapper before he can claim her, or has he already done so and is strangling his prior body? (Either because it's still required to finish the transformation, or to knock the real Janeway out [[HeKnowsTooMuch so she can't reveal the truth]].) A short time later it's revealed to be the second one, but then another ambiguity is left unclear: was the one who summoned security Janeway (i.e., she called for help just before the switch happened) or the alien (wanting them to witness the struggle so they'd believe "Tom" to be guilty)?
* AmbiguousSituation: When Janeway summons security to her ready room, they find her and "Tom" struggling with/trying to strangle each other. Is she still fighting off the body-swapper before he can claim her, or has he already done so and is strangling his prior body? (Either because it's still required to finish the transformation, or to knock the real Janeway out [[HeKnowsTooMuch so she can't reveal the truth]].) A short time later it's revealed to be the second one, but then another ambiguity is left unclear: was the one who summoned security Janeway (i.e., she called for help just before the switch happened) or the alien (wanting them to witness the struggle so they'd believe "Tom" to be guilty)?
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* ChokeHolds: The alien shapeshifter nearly strangles Janeway to death... Or so it appears...
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* ChokeHolds: The alien shapeshifter nearly strangles Janeway to death... Or so it appears... Since he also does this when swapping bodies with Paris, it seems to be a required part of the process. (Or else physical touch of ''some'' sort is required, and strangling is the easiest way to take out the person whose life they've stolen at the same time.)
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Steth tries to impersonate Tom without bothering to learn anything about his life. It takes a lot of fast-talking and flattery to keep the ruse going as long as it does and even then, that cover is blown laughably fast.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Steth tries to impersonate Tom without bothering to learn anything learning everything about his life. It takes a lot of fast-talking and flattery to keep the ruse going as long as it does and even then, that cover is blown laughably fast.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Twice--Seven catches "Steth" downloading Tom's personnel file to learn about his life, just before he steals his identity, and later she catches "Tom" reading ''Janeway'''s personnel file, revealing who he plans to become next.
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* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: Thanks to reading Tom's personnel file (and being told about things like his relationship with B'Elanna), the body-swapping alien is able to do a fairly good job of impersonating him. However, either he didn't make it through the whole thing, or details beyond Tom's biographical information and service record weren't in it; he had no idea about Tom's medical studies with the Doctor, and didn't seem to know about his friendship with Harry (let alone that they'd been golfing together). This carelessness seems to be something of a FatalFlaw for him (despite how it would interfere with him assuming new lives), since he doesn't understand ''Voyager'''s command hierarchy when Seven calls him on accessing ship's files without permission (or supposedly on Tom's behalf), nor does he seem aware of the fact that Paris wouldn't be allowed to drink on-duty (or that the ship's computer would catch that he had done so through the replicator records). Whether being in a rush or getting arrogant is responsible is up to the viewer.
