History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS4E19TheOmegaDirective

All hell breaks loose as the Voyager crew beams up Omega into the containment unit and they start the process to destabilize the molecules. The enemy ships' weapons risk destroying both Voyager and the subspace in the quadrant. As the procedure continues, Seven is shocked when she manages to witness the Omega molecules achieve harmony without any explainable reasons. Despite the achievement, Janeway orders to have the containment unit beamed into space and destroyed, as a minimum safe amount of the Omega molecules have now been safely neutralized. Voyager manages to warp away as the explosion goes off, with the attacking vessels suddenly no longer posing a threat.

* ButtMonkey: Seven engages in her usual Harry-bashing.

** Tuvok is playing kal-toh with Ensign Kim, which they started playing at the end of "Alter Ego".

* ClassifiedInformation: Everything about the Omega particle is restricted to Starfleet Captains and Flagship Officers. The crew are understandably [[DontAsk annoyed at this]], given that they're effectively told to do tasks without being able to use their GadgeteerGenius skills. Seven is brought into Janeway's confidence, as she already knows about the Omega Directive from Starfleet captains who've been assimilated by the Borg. However these rules have been written for the Alpha Quadrant, where a Starfleet captain would call in a specialized Starfleet team to deal with the crisis. Janeway is forced to include her senior staff when the crisis turns out to be bigger than she expected.
* EldritchAbomination: Of a sort; Omega's true nature can't be known, and it's responsible for much destruction and loss of life, including the potential to destroy subspace - the medium of the universe which enables warp-speed. Its very existence is considered the GodzillaThreshold by Starfleet. On seeing its creation, Seven even has the sense that it may be self-aware enough to study her in response.

** Janeway eventually letting the senior crew know what's up. Seven is already aware of Omega and the Omega Directive because the Borg assimilated knowledge of it, likely from Picard and the victims of Wolf 359, and ''Voyager'' is stranded several light millennia away from Federation space and has no access to Starfleet resources, forcing Janeway to throw together an Omega Directive squadron from her own personnel.

* HolyGrail: Omega is actually said to be this for the Borg.
* HyperspeedEscape: When pursued by sublight spacecraft, ''Voyager'' can't flee because of the [[NoWarpingZone damage from the Omega explosion]]. They escape the region JustInTime to detonate the Omega particles.
* IfIDoNotReturn: And for once this trope is meant to be taken seriously, as Chakotay would have only ten seconds to pull a HyperspeedEscape before Omega created a NoWarpingZone, if Janeway's shuttle mission didn't succeed.
* InHarmsWay: Janeway would rather go on a SuicideMission than put ''Voyager'''s crew at risk. Fortunately Chakotay convinces her to at least bring the senior officers into the problem.
* InsufferableGenius: Seven effortlessly completes the kal-toh game Harry has been working on all night, saying it's "elementary spatial harmonics". Kim asks what Seven needs the rest of them for, only to get a MeaningfulLook from Seven. "Forget I asked."

* NoWarpingZone: A single Omega particle detonation can destroy subspace across an entire sector, making warp travel impossible throughout said sector (which has already occurred in the Lantaru Sector), and a large enough chain reaction can take out an entire ''quadrant''. This is why Starfleet is freakin' scared of Omega and wants it destroyed at any cost.
* OhCrap: Many times throughout the episode, especially as the molecule count goes from one to dozens to hundreds to over two hundred million.

* RuleOfFunny: The work 'collective' Seven forms on ''Voyager''. Giving everyone Borg designations would actually be ''less'' efficient, but sets up a gag involving Harry Kim getting demoted.

* TemptingFate: Janeway being so impressed with Seven's containment device that she leaves the Omega project (which is meant to destroy the particle) in her hands. Fortunately Seven proves loyal, despite admitting that she had every reason and opportunity to disobey orders.

* {{Unobtanium}}: Boronite ore, the material needed to synthesize the Omega molecule, is suggested to be very rare -- the Borg only had enough to synthesize one unstable molecule within their vast territory.

-->'''Alien scientist:''' Small minded creatures! You destroy whatever you don't understand!

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Seven plans to work, eat, exercise, and read ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.

* FamousFamousFictional: When discussing the potential of the Omega Particle, Janeway mentions Einstein and the atom bomb, (famous) and [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Carol Marcus and the Genesis Device]] (fictional).

All hell breaks loose as the Voyager crew beams up Omega into the containment unit and they start the process to destabilize the molecules. The enemy ships' weapons risk destroying both Voyager and the subspace in the quadrant. As the procedure continues, Seven is shocked when she manages to witness the Omega molecules achieve harmony without any explainable reasons. Despite the achievement, Janeway orders the containment unit beamed into space and destroyed, as a safe amount of the molecules have been safely destroyed. Voyager manages to warp away as the explosion goes off, with the attacking vessels suddenly no longer being a threat.

Back in the Alpha Quadrant, Janeway would have help dealing with Omega. In the Delta Quadrant, she has her crew, but still feeling guilty about stranding them on the other side of the galaxy, decides she and Seven should go at it alone, just the two of them.

* SoloMissionBecomesGroupMission: Janeway would go by herself to take care of the Omega particle, but since Seven of Nine already knows about Omega, she has no choice but take the former Borg drone along for the ride. However, the rest of the senior officers learn of Janeway's plans and insist on helping her.

* CallBack:
** Tuvok is playing kal-toh with Ensign Kim, which they started playing at the end of "Alter Ego".
** [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Carol Marcus and her Genesis Device]] is mentioned.

* AbsenteeActor: B'Elanna Torres vanishes halfway through the episode because Roxanne Dawson went into labor.