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** It may be more that the Qomar are superior in certain, less obvious ways and interpret this as them being superior in all regards, with the crew basically [[SureLetsGoWithThat just accepting it as they're trying to be polite]][[note]]the Qomar may also be confusing 'complicated' with 'advanced' -- their propulsion systems are beyond the ability of the Voyager crew to figure out how they work enough to repair them, but don't actually seem any more efficient and can fail dangerously when being subject to a normal scan[[/note]].
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** It may be more that the Qomar are superior in certain, less obvious ways and interpret this as them being superior in all regards, with the crew basically [[SureLetsGoWithThat just accepting it as they're trying to be polite]][[note]]the Qomar may also be confusing conflate 'complicated' with 'advanced' -- their 'advanced'. Their ship's propulsion systems are beyond the ability of the so delicate that they're disabled simply by Voyager crew to figure out how they work enough to repair scanning them, but don't actually seem any more efficient and can fail dangerously when being subject to a normal scan[[/note]].immediately blame Voyager's "primitive" scanners for the failure.[[/note]].
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* CallBack: "Prime Factors" also involved a species that was only interested in what Voyager had to offer because it was new.
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** "Prime Factors" also involved a species that was only interested in what Voyager had to offer because it wasnew.new.
** The Doctor impresses the Qomar by humming "Pop Goes The Weasel". In TNG's pilot episode "Encounter At Farpoint", Data was whistling the song on the holodeck when he meets Riker, showing him how devoted he is to becoming more human.
** "Prime Factors" also involved a species that was only interested in what Voyager had to offer because it was
** The Doctor impresses the Qomar by humming "Pop Goes The Weasel". In TNG's pilot episode "Encounter At Farpoint", Data was whistling the song on the holodeck when he meets Riker, showing him how devoted he is to becoming more human.
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** It may be more that the Qomar are superior in certain, less obvious ways and interpret this as them being superior in all regards, with the crew basically [[SureLetsGoWithThat just accepting it as they're trying to be polite]].
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** It may be more that the Qomar are superior in certain, less obvious ways and interpret this as them being superior in all regards, with the crew basically [[SureLetsGoWithThat just accepting it as they're trying to be polite]].polite]][[note]]the Qomar may also be confusing 'complicated' with 'advanced' -- their propulsion systems are beyond the ability of the Voyager crew to figure out how they work enough to repair them, but don't actually seem any more efficient and can fail dangerously when being subject to a normal scan[[/note]].
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* IronyAsHeIsCast: Singer/songwriter Music/PaulWilliams playing a being with no concept of what music is.
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* NotSoDire: Seven calls for a RedAlert, saying the Qomar are attempting to sabotage Voyager by clogging up their comm system with tons of irrelevant data. Is this the obligatory Crisis Of The Week to provide StuffBlowingUp for the promo trailer? No, [[IdiotBall Seven is just overreacting]] to an inundation of fan mail.
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* NotSoDire: Seven calls for a RedAlert, saying the Qomar are attempting to sabotage Voyager by clogging up their comm system with tons of irrelevant data. Is this the obligatory Crisis Of The Week to provide StuffBlowingUp for the promo trailer? No, [[IdiotBall [[ComicalOverreacting Seven is just overreacting]] to an inundation of fan mail.
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* StockFootage: The matte painting of the Zahl colony from "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell}} Year of Hell]]" is reused here as the Qomar homeworld.
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* StockFootage: The matte painting of the Zahl colony from "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell}} "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]" is reused here as the Qomar homeworld.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: Tuvok says they should throw the Doctor's fans off ''Voyager'' because they are interfering with ship's functions.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: Tuvok says they should throw suggests throwing the Doctor's fans off ''Voyager'' because they are they're interfering with ship's functions.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The aliens ended up developing an analog program similar to The Doctor who is designed exclusively to perform insane melodic constructions far beyond the normal speech patterns he was designed with. He asked Torres to help boost his capabilities, but she lets him know they would have to remove other aspects of who he is in order to do so.
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* CelebrityIsOverrated: The Doctor realizes that the aliens were not really enamored with him and his talents so much as the raw mathematical vibrations that was turned into music. Once the aliens started creating their own pieces that reached far beyond the vocal register even the Doctor could emulate, [[WhiteDwarfStarlet he lost all popularity in an instant]].
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* AdvancedCivilizationHollowImagination: The Qomar are brilliant when it comes to mathematics and science, but limited in terms of creativity, to the point that they have never developed the concept of music. Even when Tincoo attempts to create music, it's tuneless and unlikely to be appreciated by anyone else, due to how coldly and rigidly-scientific it is.
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* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: An indirect, serious example of this occurs when the Doctor and Janeway are debating about his decision to leave the ship, as the Doctor initially objects to Janeway apparently treating him like he's just another component of ''Voyager'', but when Janeway asks if he's sure the Qomar can support him the Doctor's first response is to talk about how they're capable of maintaining his program and Janeway clarifies that she was talking about his ''emotional'' needs.
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* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: An indirect, serious example of this occurs when the Doctor and Janeway are debating about his decision to leave the ship, as the ship. The Doctor initially objects to Janeway apparently treating him like he's just another component of ''Voyager'', but when Janeway asks if he's sure the Qomar can support him the Doctor's first response is to talk about how they're capable of maintaining his program and Janeway clarifies that she was talking about them supporting his ''emotional'' needs.
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* HumblePie: The Doctor gets a big old plate of it by the end of the episode.
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* HumblePie: The Doctor gets a big old plate of it by the end of the episode.episode, ashamed that he let his ego get so great that he didn't realise that the Qomar were more interested in the technical aspects of music rather than the emotional scale he was trying to explore.
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* InstantFanClubInstantFanClub: The Doctor impresses the Qomar just by humming a few bars of "Pop Goes the Weasel".
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Inverted from the usual when the Doctor denies Tincoo is his girlfriend after she's already demonstrated her lack of interest in him.
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Inverted from the usual when the Doctor denies Tincoo is his girlfriend after she's already demonstrated her lack of romantic interest in him.
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* StylisticSuck: Played with. The song composed by Tincoo [[HellIsThatNoise sounds god-awful to human ears,]] but the Qomar audience goes absolutely ''nuts'' for it.
* TakeAThirdOption: Knowing the Doctor is torn over whether to leave Voyager, Tincoo decides to solve the problem by building a singing hologram, and can't understand why the Doctor is so upset.
* TakeAThirdOption: Knowing the Doctor is torn over whether to leave Voyager, Tincoo decides to solve the problem by building a singing hologram, and can't understand why the Doctor is so upset.
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* StylisticSuck: Played with. The song composed by Tincoo [[HellIsThatNoise sounds god-awful to human ears,]] ears]], but the Qomar audience goes absolutely ''nuts'' for it.
* TakeAThirdOption: Knowing the Doctor is torn over whether to leaveVoyager, ''Voyager'', Tincoo decides to solve the problem by building a singing hologram, and can't understand why the Doctor is so upset.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: Tuvok says they should throw the Doctor's fans off Voyager because they are interfering with ship's functions.
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* MoodWhiplash: The Qomar are complaining about the poor standard of medical care and trying to switch off the Doctor's vocal subroutines when he starts singing. They become instantly fascinated.
* NotSoDire: Seven calls for a RedAlert, saying the Qomar are attempting to sabotage Voyager. Is this the obligatory Crisis Of The Week to provide StuffBlowingUp for the promo trailer? No, [[IdiotBall Seven is just overreacting]] to an inundation of fan mail.
* NotSoDire: Seven calls for a RedAlert, saying the Qomar are attempting to sabotage Voyager. Is this the obligatory Crisis Of The Week to provide StuffBlowingUp for the promo trailer? No, [[IdiotBall Seven is just overreacting]] to an inundation of fan mail.
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* MoodWhiplash: The Qomar are complaining about the poor standard of medical care and trying to switch off the Doctor's vocal subroutines when to stop him from snarking back at them until he starts singing. They singing, causing them to become instantly fascinated.
* NotSoDire: Seven calls for a RedAlert, saying the Qomar are attempting to sabotageVoyager.Voyager by clogging up their comm system with tons of irrelevant data. Is this the obligatory Crisis Of The Week to provide StuffBlowingUp for the promo trailer? No, [[IdiotBall Seven is just overreacting]] to an inundation of fan mail.
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* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: An indirect, serious example of this occurs when the Doctor and Janeway are debating about his decision to leave the ship, as the Doctor initially objects to Janeway apparently treating him like he's just another component of ''Voyager'', but when Janeway asks if he's sure the Qomar can support him the Doctor's first response is to talk about how they're capable of maintaining his program and Janeway clarifies that she was talking about his ''emotional'' needs.
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* HaveYouComeToGloat: The Doctor asks this of Seven after he goes back to Voyager with his holographic tail between his legs. Seven reads him her fan letter instead.
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* InformedAttribute: The Qomar and Voyager frequently make mention early on that the Qomar are vastly more technologically advanced than Voyager, but this is never demonstrated. The closest thing to a demonstration is that the Qomar themselves seem to possess extreme natural mathematical aptitude.
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* InformedAttribute: The Qomar and Voyager ''Voyager'' frequently make mention early on that the Qomar are vastly more technologically advanced than Voyager, ''Voyager'', but this is never demonstrated. The closest thing to a demonstration is that the Qomar themselves seem to possess extreme natural mathematical aptitude.
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* TheseusShipParadox: Invoked when the Doctor asks B'Elanna to modify his program so that he can sing Tincoo's composition even when that would involve potentially deleting his medical subroutines to make space for the new data. B'Elanna points out that if he has to change that much of himself to sing, would he really be ''himself'' afterwards?
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''Voyager'' comes across an alien culture that has never heard music before, and the Doctor demonstrates it with his musical talent, leading to his decision that he was going to leave ''Voyager''.
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''Voyager'' comes across an alien culture that has never heard music before, before and is enamored by the Doctor demonstrates it with Doctor's singing. When he becomes an overnight celebrity on their planet, he considers resigning his musical talent, leading commission aboard Voyager to his decision that he was going to leave ''Voyager''.live the life of a star.
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** Tincoo however is able to develop a more sophisticated hologram in a short time, something that represents years of work for Dr Zimmerman.
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* BagsOfLetters: A future tech example, as ''Voyager'''s computer systems are all clogged with fan mail for The Doctor from the Komar.
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* BagsOfLetters: A future tech example, as ''Voyager'''s computer systems are all clogged with fan mail for The Doctor from the Komar.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The JustAMachine debate for "Flesh and Blood".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The JustAMachine debate for "Flesh and Blood".Blood"; there's even a TitleDrop for that episode.
