History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS4E23One

* IdiotBall: In the teaser, Janeway orders Voyager to enter an unknown nebula without a comprehensive scan for harmful effects like radiation beforehand. Ensign Kim detects radiation as they enter but the ship is already being irradiated, causing the bridge crew and many crew members to start becoming incapacitated. Lt. Tuvok has to limp to the navigation console to save the day from the potentially fatal error.

* TwoDSpace: It would take a year to go around the nebula and a month to go through, but based on the graphic shown, this would only be true if the year-long route had them fly to the far edge of nebula. Simply going up and over seems like it would at best add an additional month to their journey -- two at most -- without having to risk the ridiculously deadly radiation.
** That said, the nebula may be larger all around than it appears to be.

** Additionally, there's no friction in space. If ''Voyager'' was at the edge of the nebula there would have been no need for Seven to take extreme measures to keep propulsion online. As long as the ship had enough head of steam, it could literally have coasted through the last few thousand kilometers.
*** Potentially justified if assuming that something in the nebula exerted some form of resistance to ''Voyager'' passing through it.

* {{Claustrophobia}}: Tom Paris doesn't like sleeping in what seems to be like coffins to him. He ends up breaking out of his stasis multiple times.

* InfiniteSupplies: No explanation is given for how they're able to produce stasis pods to hold every member of the crew.

* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: There's an air of sexual menace in Trajis' interactions with Seven. While this is played for the usual AloneWithThePsycho tension at the time, TheReveal that Trajis only exists on Seven's head implies this trope.

* BookEnds: Seven practicing her social skills. [[CharacterDevelopment She does much better at the end.]]

** The end of the episode suggests that taking life support offline would kill Seven within minutes. The entire crew save Seven are in stasis chambers with independent life support. The air supply of a ship designed to crew 400+ individuals is thus exclusively available to a single person. It would take days if not ''weeks'' for Seven by herself to use up all of the available oxygen already within the ship's living spaces, and likewise it would take a decent amount of time for the temperature on the ship to drop to a point that it would become life threatening, especially since Seven would have ample access to heating elements. For comparison, ''Apollo XIII'' was able to remain livable for days despite almost complete systems failure, and that was three men in a cramped space. The cargo bay alone makes the module's habitable area look like a walk-in closet by comparison, and Seven could just open every door on the ship to expand that.
** Additionally, there's no friction in space. If ''Voyager'' was at the edge of the nebula there would have been no need for Seven to take extreme measures to keep propulsion online. As long as the ship had enough head of steam, it could literally have coasted through the last few thousand kilometers, just not as quickly as it would under power.

* RidiculouslyDifficultRoute: Janeway would rather take the short hazardous route than go around.

!!This episode provides examples of

** The end of the episode suggests that taking life support offline would kill Seven within minutes. However given the size of ''Voyager'', and with the rest of the biological crew tucked away in stasis chambers with independent life support, it could take days if not ''weeks'' for Seven by herself to use up all of the available oxygen already within the ship's living spaces. Even loss of environmental control might take considerable time to become life threatening (consider that ''Apollo XIII'' was able to operate for a considerable amount of time with almost every system shut down, and while the landing module did get ''extremely'' cold[[note]]because vacuum is such a poor conductive, the ships had to be overly engineered for waste heat reduction[[/note]] the crew was nonetheless able to endure remain warm using materials they already had on-hand).
** Additionally, there's no friction in space. If ''Voyager'' was at the edge of the nebula there would have been no need for Seven to take extreme measures to keep propulsion online. As long as the ship had enough head of steam, it could literally have coasted through the last few thousand kilometers.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Once again, the writers assume that life-support failure means instant suffocation, even though ''Voyager'' has more than enough air for Seven to breathe.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Seven gets a collective one from a hallucination of the crew.

* IdiotBall: In the teaser, Janeway orders Voyager to enter an unknown nebula without a comprehensive scan for harmful effects like radiation beforehand. Ensign Kim detects radiation as they enter but the ship is already being irradiated, causing the bridge crew to start becoming incapacitated. Lt. Tuvok has to limp to the navigation console to save the day from the potentially fatal error.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: The entire purpose of the episode is to show how Seven of Nine handles herself as the only crew member who wasn't affected by the Nebula, and the burden of getting Voyager through. Her SeparationAnxiety from the Borg only makes things worse as she's now separated from the rest of the crew.

* WorstAid: If anything else had gone wrong, Seven's HeroicSacrifice might have condemned the entire ship. There's a reason the priority of an emergency responder is to protect their own life first, ''then'' the casualty.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Seven gets a collective one from a hallucination of the crew.

* {{Claustrophobia}}: Tom Paris doesn't like sleeping in what seems to be like coffins to him.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation
* {{Hallucinations}}: And very real ones at that. So real that Seven of Nine fires a phaser at one.

* NoSocialSkills: As shown in Seven's holodeck training in this field. At the beginning of the episode, Seven asks B'Elanna and Harry personal questions, but doesn't give them time to answer the questions when she immediately fires off the next question. Later on, Seven attends a holodeck party, but can't put aside her work to become friendly with the other crew members when she calls Janeway and Neelix over to help her out with a problem.

* TelevisionIsTryingToKillYou: If anything else had gone wrong, Seven's HeroicSacrifice might have condemned the entire ship. There's a reason the priority of an emergency responder is to protect their own life first, ''then'' the casualty.

* ImaginaryEnemy: Seven creates an imaginary explorer who antagonizes her for most of the second half of the episode, which is later joined by mutilated crew members and Borg hallucinations. She's deluded to the point that they can be handed objects and open doors.