History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS5E11LatentImage

--> "Leave me alone! Let me go! WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE? WHY DID I KILL HER? WHY DID I DECIDE TO KILL HER? WHY? SOMEBODY TELL ME WHY!"

* HeroicBSOD: The Doctor is revealed to have done an almost literal (as he's a computer program) version of this (using the OutDamnedSpot version) following an incident in which two patients were equally at risk and equally treatable; he chose the one he was better friends with, which was [[AIIsACrapshoot contrary to his programming]]. The memory was erased from his program, and when it was restored he suffered the same condition but eventually recovered.

* YouWontFeelAThing: For once this is true, as the Doctor assures Naomi. To demonstrate, he allows her to take a holo-photo of him.

* UnexpectedGenreChange: At first the episode seems like a standard Crisis of the Week involving hostile aliens and wiped memories, then changes into a debate on the rights of artificial lifeforms.

* {{Montage}}: The opening scene of the Doctor taking holo-photos of the crew. Until he has to lower the camera to get little Naomi in the frame. All together now: ''[[CutenessProximity D'awwwww...]]''

* WhatTheHellHero: The Doctor is ''pissed'' at Janeway once her actions are revealed. Seven Of Nine backs him up on this. Janeway eventually softens up.

* WorstAid: Those scoop stretchers used to place Harry and Jetal on the biobeds are used incorrectly--they're designed to unhinge at one end, then close on either side of the body like scissors, to avoid spinal damage when lifting the casualty onto a stretcher.

* SeriesContinuityError
** At the time of Jetal's death, Kes was assisting the Doctor in Sickbay, not Tom Paris.
** Seven says the species that attacked the shuttle is not known to the Borg, yet the Stardate of the attack was just before ''Voyager'' reached Borg space.

* CrazyPrepared: After his program is deactivated and altered once, the Doctor duplicates his memory files and orders the computer to reactivate him if something like that happens again. He also sets up his holo-camera to record whoever tampers with his program.

* AesopAmnesia: Hitherto we had been given to understand that Janeway, and the rest of the ''Voyager'' crew, had come to respect the Doctor as a sentient being and accept him as a member of the crew, yet according to this episode they still ultimately see him as JustAMachine; Janeway outright says he's more like a replicator than a person, and treats him as nothing more than a malfunctioning computer that needs rebooting. Only after Seven, who is herself [[{{Cyborg}} part machine]], calls her out on this and questions whether she would receive similar treatment, does Janeway start to reconsider this position.

* ContinuitySnarl: The events of the Doctor's breakdown apparently took place prior to Seven joining the crew. Yet in the flashbacks, Janeway is wearing her hair not in the [[FanNickname bun of steel]] or the ponytail she wore during season three, but in the loose bob she has in the present, and Tom is acting as the Doctor's nurse in Sickbay, with no mention of Kes.

* BackstoryInvader: An inverted example. Jetal has never been seen before this episode, but she [[RememberTheNewGuy always existed]], it was just that the Doctor's memory of her was erased. This probably isn't just because Voyager lacks a B-Cast, however, since the episode [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools relies on creating a mystery about her identity]] that wouldn't have been possible if they'd used a recognizable person like Lieutenant Ayala.

* PlotTwist:

* ContinuitySnarl: unintended one. The events of the Doctor's breakdown apparently took place prior to Seven joining the crew. Yet in the flashbacks, Janeway is wearing her hair not in the [[FanNickname bun of steel]] or the ponytail she wore during season three, but in the loose bob she has in the present, and Tom is acting as the Doctor's nurse in Sickbay, with no mention of Kes.
** The former, could at least be explained due to not having right length of hair when the ep was made and the latter at least had ep in season 1 where Tom was to double as a nurse a few times.

* OrwellianEditor: Janeway repeatedly attempts to delete the Doctor's memories and even ordered all evidence of Ensign Jetal to be erased from existence.

* ContinuitySnarl: The events of the Doctor's breakdown apparently took place prior to Seven joining the crew. Yet in the flashbacks, Janeway is wearing her hair not in the [[FanNickname bun of steel]] or the ponytail she wore during season three, but in the loose bob she has in the present, and Tom is acting as the Doctor's nurse in Sickbay, with no mention of Kes.

* WorstAid: Those medical stretchers used to place Harry and Jetal on the biobeds are used incorrectly; they're designed to unhinge at one end, then close on either side of the body like scissors, to avoid spinal damage when lifting the casualty onto a stretcher.

* MoralityPet: Janeway reconsiders when Seven tweaks her guilt node.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: To the crew, Jetal is a valued member; to the audience she would be a RedShirt in any other episode. The Doctor's choice to save someone else's life because he values them more brings to mind this question.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Doctor's CharacterDevelopment means this issue affects him more than it should.

* HeroicBSOD: Given that the Doctor's a computer program, the term is more applicable than usual.

* TheUnreveal: Who the aliens were, as well as why they attacked the shuttle and then ''Voyager''. They appear to be SpacePirates, but we don't know as ''Voyager'' [[VillainOfTheWeek never encounters them again]].