History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion

* CloningBlues: Biomimetic Tom Paris gets his partner Harry Kim to see the downside of their Captain Janeway getting them to Earth by suggesting that the real Harry Kim is already home on Earth having Sunday dinner with his family, and that people will see him as an imposter if he comes strolling in to greet them.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Chakotay and Tuvok retrace their route and come across the Demon-planet, recalling the events of that episode. Tuvok looks extremely uneasy when they start to come to the same conclusion.

* SlapSlapKiss: {{Lampshaded}} re Tom and B'Elanna:
--> '''Seven:''' Given the volatile nature of their relationship, one might have predicted homicide rather than matrimony.

The real ship draws near, but Ensign Kim, Seven of Nine and Neelix are the only main crew still living with most of the ship being held together by force fields; they are unable to hail the original ship or come out of warp. Ensign Kim orders the warp core to be dumped, which would drop them out of warp; it succeeds, but at the cost of the ship also disintegrating. By the time the real ''Voyager'' comes into contact with the ship's last known coordinates, they are too late -- all that is left is just formless particles of debris from which no investigations can be made. At which point Captain Janeway records a brief note in the ship's log and tells Ensign Paris to resume course.

The real ship draws near, but Ensign Kim, Seven of Nine and Neelix are the only main crew still living with most of the ship being held together by force fields; they are unable to hail the original ship or come out of warp. Ensign Kim orders the warp core to be dumped, which would drop them out of warp; it succeeds, but at the cost of the ship also disintegrating. By the time the real ''Voyager'' comes into contact with the ship's last known coordinates, they are too late -- all that is left is just formless particles of debris from which no investigations can be made.

--> '''B'Elanna:''' You stood by me when most people would have run for the nearest airlock. You were willing to see past my shortcomings...and to take all the bumps and bruises that came along with it. You made me a better person...even though I put up one hell of a fight.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Writers commented that part of they liked about this episode was exploring how the characters would react when faced with certain death, including Tom Paris denying his own reality to avoid facing his pain while Janeway falls back on her own goals to avoid acknowledging the scale of the problem.

The story starts with Lt. Tom Paris and Lt. B'elanna Torres marrying each other, which turns out to be a happy moment for the crew...although they do not notice beneath their feet how the floors and the Jeffries tube below them are starting to ominously distort. (And wait, didn't Tom get demoted?) B'elanna and Seven of Nine soon find out, though, with Seven discovering that the distorting section of the ship is losing molecular cohesion and B'elanna saying that it's radiation from the warp core that's causing the demolecularization. Then B'elanna herself starts to develop signs of the same problem, as do a few other crew members who worked in Engineering. She eventually dies despite Tom Paris and the Doctor's best efforts to save her.

Near the end of the story, with Ensign Kim, Seven of Nine, and Neelix as the only main crew still living with most of the ship being held together by force fields, they soon spot the real ''Voyager'', but are unable to hail them or come out of warp. Ensign Kim orders the warp core to be dumped, causing the ship to be violently torn apart. By the time the real ''Voyager'' comes into contact with the ship's last known coordinates, they are too late -- all that is left of the biomimetic copy of ''Voyager'' and its crew is just formless particles of debris from which no investigations can be made.

* PrinciplesZealot: Biomimetic Janeway is so adamant with the crew sticking to Starfleet principles, despite the fact that she and the crew are not the originals, that she has her ''Voyager'' back away from a Demon-class planet protected by asteroid miners rather than risk getting into a fight with the miners and destroying their ship. Chakotay calls her out on this, which makes her eventually realize that turning back home to the original Demon-class planet that they came from is the only sound option they have left.

* BottleEpisode

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Janeway and Chakotay are giddy at the idea of flying right through the center of the Milky Way galaxy, even though all the exploding stars and black holes would make it a navigational nightmarish impossibility. (Not to mention the [[Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier superbeing living out there, waiting for a starship.]])

** Played straight when Chakotay and Tuvok recap the events of "Demon" to eachother.

* AsYouKnow

* AsYouKnow: Seven lampshades this when B'Elanna tells her how to operate the warp core, something she already has extensive knowledge of.

** Janeway orders that the environmental systems be set to simulate a Class Y planet, in an effort to slow their decay. As mentioned in "Demon," such a planet has a temperature of 500 kelvin (or roughly 230 Celsius, which is hotter than most baking temperature). The interior of the ship and all its inhabitants, who are now used to a Class M environment, would not be able to survive.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Biomimetic Neelix suggests for their honeymoon, Tom and B'Elanna take a cruise on a sea of liquid ''argon''. Argon is only a liquid between -189 and -185 degrees Celsius! Granted, this takes place on the holodeck, but given how often the safety protocols decide to break...

-->'''Tuvok:''' You may not want to know.

* MessageInABottle: The crew of the biomimetic copy of ''Voyager'' try to send one in the form of a probe to the real ''Voyager'' in the case that they don't survive their journey home to the Demon-class planet, but unfortunately it was destroyed upon launch.

** InUniverse when Neelix doesn't understand the point of throwing rice over a married couple in a wedding instead of eating it.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Janeway and Chakotay are giddy at the idea of flying right through the center of the Milky Way galaxy, even though all the exploding stars and black holes would make it a navigational nightmarish impossibility.

The story starts with Lt. Tom Paris and Lt. B'elanna Torres marrying each other, which turns out to be a happy moment for the crew...although they do not notice beneath their feet how the floors and the Jeffries tube below them are starting to ominously distort. And wait, didn't Tom get demoted? B'elanna and Seven of Nine soon find out, though, with Seven discovering that the distorting section of the ship is losing molecular cohesion and B'elanna saying that it's radiation from the warp core that's causing the demolecularization. Then B'elanna herself starts to develop signs of the same problem, as do a few other crew members who worked in Engineering. She eventually dies despite Tom Paris and the Doctor's best efforts to save her.

The story starts with Lt. Tom Paris and Lt. B'elanna Torres marrying each other, which turns out to be a happy moment for the crew...although they do not notice beneath their feet how the floors and the Jeffries tube below them are starting to ominously distort. B'elanna and Seven of Nine soon find out, though, with Seven discovering that the distorting section of the ship is losing molecular cohesion and B'elanna saying that it's radiation from the warp core that's causing the demolecularization. Then B'elanna herself starts to develop signs of the same problem, as do a few other crew members who worked in Engineering. She eventually dies despite Tom Paris and the Doctor's best efforts to save her.

* NoodleIncident: Another early clue that this ''Voyager'' isn't the real one is the mention of several past incidents, like an alien race that sabotaged their life support system and a battle fleet that tried to conscript them.

* HopeSpot: Biomimetic Kim spotting the real Voyager. ''Brutally'' crushed when the only way they can reach it ends in the ship's destruction. Their whole existence amounts to little more than a footnote in the real Janeway's log.