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** The regulation that Janeway quotes which gives her overall command is apparently the same one that allowed Captain Picard to take command of the Starfleet armada in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', as the new ''Enterprise''-E was the most powerful Starfleet ship on the battlefield.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Seven forgives the Doctor for turning evil and doing unauthorised brain surgery, but points out that his rendition of ''My Darling Clementine'' was off key. The Doctor challenges her to a duet.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Seven forgives the Doctor for turning evil and doing unauthorised brain surgery, but points out gets a little of her own back by claiming that his rendition of ''My Darling Clementine'' was off key. The Doctor challenges her to a duet.



* BrokenPedestal: Janeway always wanted to meet Ransom. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor ... And it turns out that he's been killing sentient lifeforms to use as fuel, violating his oath as a Starfleet officer. Janeway's ensuing DeathGlare is almost as deadly as the nucleogenic lifeforms.

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* BrokenPedestal: Ransom is famous in Starfleet for rediscovering a species thought to be extinct and making first contact with them; as a fellow scientist, Janeway always wanted to meet Ransom.him. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor ... And it turns out that he's been killing sentient lifeforms to use as fuel, violating his oath as a Starfleet officer. Janeway's ensuing DeathGlare is almost as deadly as the nucleogenic lifeforms.



* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Ransom would prefer Seven to voluntarily give up her codes rather than watch the Doctor dissect her brain for them.

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* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Ransom would prefer Seven to voluntarily give up her the codes she used to lock the ''Equinox'' crew out of their alien-powered propulsion system rather than watch the Doctor dissect her brain for them.



* {{Hallucinations}}: Ransom tries to escape his conscience in his HappyPlace, a personal holoimager, but keeps running into a hallucination of Seven of Nine there that acts as his conscience.

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* {{Hallucinations}}: Ransom tries to escape his conscience in his HappyPlace, a personal holoimager, but keeps running into a hallucination of Seven of Nine there that acts as his conscience. It eventually turns into one of the nucleogenic aliens for a JumpScare.



** Ransom after seeing hallucinations of Seven.

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** Ransom after seeing hallucinations of Seven.Seven and a nucleogenic alien.



* HydePlaysJekyll: The EMH from the ''Equinox'' forcibly trades places with the Doctor on ''Voyager''. In Part I, he helps free his shipmates under the guise of the Doctor, and in Part II, he periodically advises them about ''Voyager'''s plans. After he's brought back to normal on ''Voyager'', the Doctor lampshades this, saying "It's quite disconcerting to know that all someone has to do is flick a switch to turn me into Mister Hyde.".

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* HydePlaysJekyll: The EMH from the ''Equinox'' forcibly trades places with the Doctor on ''Voyager''. In Part I, he helps free his shipmates under the guise of the Doctor, and in Part II, he periodically advises them about ''Voyager'''s plans. After he's brought back to normal on ''Voyager'', the Doctor lampshades this, saying "It's quite disconcerting to know that all someone has to do is flick a switch to turn me into Mister Mr. Hyde.".



* JustFollowingOrders: Ransom pleads for leniency for his crew, saying they were only obeying their captain. Janeway's response: "Their mistake." She does show some leniency towards the survivors--that is, stripping them of rank and putting them to work under close supervision for the foreseeable future rather than throwing them in the brig.

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* JustFollowingOrders: Ransom pleads for leniency for his crew, saying they were only obeying their captain. Janeway's response: "Their mistake." She does show some leniency towards the survivors--that survivors -- that is, stripping them of rank and putting them to work under close supervision for the foreseeable future rather than throwing them in the brig.



* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: The EMH aboard the ''USS Equinox'' had his "ethical subroutines" removed so he would gladly experiment on the extradimensional aliens to turn them into a fuel source. The Doctor likewise becomes fully willing to dissect Seven's brain to get access to the codes stored there when Ransom does the same to him.

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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: The EMH aboard the ''USS Equinox'' had his "ethical subroutines" removed so he would gladly experiment on the extradimensional aliens to turn them into a fuel source. The Doctor likewise becomes fully willing to dissect Seven's brain to get access to the codes stored there when Ransom does the same to him.him, despite their being friends (and his unrequited love for her).



* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The ''Equinox'' met the Ankari more than 10,000 light-years from where they meet ''Voyager'', but Janeway is later able to meet with them within 50 light-years. It is stated that the ''Equinox'' met them on their home world. They are a spacefaring race, and ''Voyager'' meets one of their ships. But the group Janeway meets seem to know all about what has been going on.

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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The ''Equinox'' met the Ankari more than 10,000 light-years from where they meet ''Voyager'', but Janeway is later able to meet with them within 50 light-years. It is stated that the ''Equinox'' met them on their home world. They are a spacefaring race, and ''Voyager'' meets one of their ships. But the group Janeway meets seem to know all about what has been going on.on (though given that they can communicate with the nucleogenic aliens, that's not surprising)



* SoundtrackDissonance: InUniverse--while lobotomizing Seven, the Doctor sings "Clementine" and an improvised variant of "Dem Bones." Ransom is clearly disturbed by it.

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* SoundtrackDissonance: InUniverse--while InUniverse -- while lobotomizing Seven, the Doctor sings "Clementine" and an improvised variant of "Dem Bones." Ransom is clearly disturbed by it.



* TemporarilyAVillain: The Doctor is reprogrammed to perform unethical-at-best medicine by the ''Equinox'' crew.
* TouchOfDeath: The aliens desiccate any living being they manage to touch, though PlotArmor saves Chakotay from a glancing blow at the start of the second half.

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* TemporarilyAVillain: The Doctor is reprogrammed to perform unethical-at-best medicine by Ransom.
* TooDumbToLive: When the Doctor makes his way back to ''Voyager'' (with his return restoring his ethics), the ''Equinox''-EMH threatens to destroy him by saying he's planted explosives throughout the holomatrix and all it will take is a signal -- "Computer, delete
the ''Equinox'' crew.
Emergency Medical Hologram." Whoops.
* TouchOfDeath: The aliens desiccate any living being they manage to touch, though PlotArmor saves Janeway and Chakotay from a glancing blow blows at the start of the second half.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The ''Equinox'' crew are absorbed into ''Voyager's'' crew and we never hear from them again.
* WhatTheHellHero: Chakotay confronts Janeway multiple times over the course of the two-parter, calling her on her vendetta-level pursuit of the ''Equinox'' crew. She just removes him from duty to put a stop to it.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The five surviving members of the ''Equinox'' crew are absorbed into ''Voyager's'' crew crew...and we never hear from any of them again.
* WhatTheHellHero: Chakotay confronts Janeway multiple times over the course of the two-parter, calling her on her vendetta-level pursuit of the ''Equinox'' crew. She just removes him from duty to put a stop to it. She threatens to do the same to Tuvok, who wisely shuts up.



* WritersCannotDoMath: In the space of the same conversation between Janeway and Ransom, it's first implied that harvesting the aliens would hardly be of any benefit to the ''Equinox'' at all, then that just one alien gave the ''Equinox'' the same kind of 10,000 light-year jump that ''Voyager'' got from the slipstream drive earlier in Season 5, and then that they'd have to harvest 63 more aliens (meaning that each alien would provide around 500 light-years' worth of fuel), which would shorten the journey home to about a year.

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* WritersCannotDoMath: In the space of the same conversation between Janeway and Ransom, it's first implied that harvesting the aliens would hardly be of any benefit to the ''Equinox'' at all, all (increasing their warp efficiency by 0.03%), then that just one alien gave the ''Equinox'' the same kind of 10,000 light-year jump that ''Voyager'' got from the slipstream drive earlier in Season 5, and then that they'd have to harvest 63 more aliens (meaning that each alien would provide around 500 light-years' worth of fuel), which would shorten the journey home to about a year.

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