Line #11 Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E17SpiritFolk


1	Running the Fair Haven program nonstop has destroyed the holodeck protocols keeping the characters from becoming self aware.
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3	!!This episode provides examples of:
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5	* AIIsACrapshoot: Normally the [[{{Hologram}} holodeck]] protocols prevent the computer characters from noticing the inconsistencies of the users as they act outside of the programmed expectations. However, running continuously has [[HolodeckMalfunction somehow broken those protocols]], causing the holodeck characters to discuss the [[TheFairFolk unusual people]].
6	* AmbiguouslyChristian: The Doctor's playing a collared priest in a presumably Catholic town, but his church and sermon both contain no overtly religious elements whatsoever.
7	* AnimalReactionShot: When the Doctor insists that the cow can't be Maggie because he saw her earlier, the Maggie!Cow bellows angrily.
8	* AndYouWereThere:
9	** Once outside the holodeck and walking ''Voyager'' hallways, Michael Sullivan picks out crewmembers to Janeway, identifying them as customers of his tavern.
10	** Maggie regarding her 'dream' that she was walking through the town [[NotWearingPantsDream wearing only a bell around her neck.]]
11	* BreakingTheFourthWall: In-universe. The holodeck characters become self-aware of the strange comings and goings of the ''Voyager'' crew.
12	* BrickJoke: In "Fair Haven", Tom said he wasn't going to include {{leprechaun}}s in the program. Here the townspeople conclude that Neelix must be one.
13	* BurnTheWitch: With their attempts at banishment a failure and Michael apparently disappeared, the townsfolk start to gather the kindling.
14	* ClarkesThirdLaw: Any [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Sufficiently Advanced Humans]] are indistinguishable from spirit folk.
15	* CoolCar: Shamus loves Tom's horseless carriage.....until he sees Tom use the computer to fix the broken axle.
16	* ContinuitySnarl: The nightclub program in Deep Space Nine also ran nonstop for a long time, but none of the characters showed any signs of self-awareness or other malfunctions (except Vic Fontaine, but he was programmed that way from the start). Maybe the Cardassians just have better holo-tech, or [=DS9=] can call on holodeck specialists from the Federation.
17	* DisapprovingLook: When Tom promises that no inhabitants of Fair Haven will ever be turned into cows again (referring to his prank on Harry, which escalated a possibly manageable situation into hysteria), Janeway rolls her eyes.
18	* EasilyForgiven: Once the people of Fair Haven learn to accept the ''Voyager'' crew as time-travelling spacemen rather than TheFairFolk, everything is more-or-less back to normal.
19	* ExactEavesdropping: Michael Sullivan overhears Tom and Harry discussing how his perception filter is damaged. Thanks to Janeway increasing his education in "Fair Haven" he can make some sense of their technobabble, so he pretends to have been 'fixed'.
20	* TheFairFolk: What the Fair Haven characters think the ''Voyager'' crew are.
21	* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Seamus trying to banish Tom and Harry back to the Other World.
22	* ForcedTransformation: Maggie, thanks to Tom turning her into a cow as a prank.
23	* HolodeckMalfunction:
24	** The malfunction this week is that the "perception filter" is broken, meaning that, while still in the confines of their program, the characters notice things which they ordinarily shouldn't (such as Tom ordering the computer to fix his broken axle).
25	** Later a holodeck panel gets shot by alarmed locals, causing the grid to jam so the Voyager crew can't just shut it down. And as usual, the holodeck safeties are offline.
26	* [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe I Can't Believe a Starship Captain Like You Would Notice Me]]
27	-->'''Michael:''' My door is always open. But you're the captain of a starship, I'm a barkeep.\
28	'''Janeway:''' Just because we're from different worlds doesn't mean we can't care for each other.
29	* IdiotBall: Tom Paris once again tries to talk with the Fair Haven people that there's some mistake and they shouldn't be capturing them... instead of immediately pausing the program considering they are aware the holocharacters are not behaving the way they should be. This of course leads to the holocharacters somehow managing to shoot a holodeck panel (as Tom once again tries to explain instead of act) and cause it to malfunction so that the security protocols are offline.
30	* IKnowYourTrueName:
31	** Played with... Shamus tries to get power over the hypnotized Doctor by asking his true name, only to get the honest answer "I haven't picked one yet."
32	** Michael jokes that as he knows her true name now, he's impervious to Janeway's charms.
33	* InescapableNet: Tom and Harry are trapped under one, until they use the "Freeze Program" command to escape. Temporarily.
34	* IncomingHam: The Doctor [[DramaticEntrance throws open the doors]] to the church. "SINNERS!"
35	* {{Irony}}
36	** Sullivan's argument for coexisting with the crew is that they've never used their seemingly magical abilities against them. Even assuming they're willing to overlook the ForcedTransformation that Maggie was subjected to earlier in this very episode, he might want to ask [[RetGone his wife]] about that.
37	** The townsfolk grumble about Tom Paris "coming and going through town as if he built the place." Which he did!
38	* KissMeImVirtual: Janeway's virtual bartender boyfriend Michael Sullivan gets to meet with her outside the holodeck.
39	* MoralMyopia: Janeway insists the Fair Haven characters are real enough that they shouldn't just purge the program to save Harry and Tom. She also ignores how, by following that train of logic, her previous tampering with the program can basically be described as her [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdering Michael's wife]] and then brainwashing him and every else in town to [[{{Unperson}} forget she ever existed]].
40	* MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks: The Doctor, because he's connected to the holodeck program once his mobile emitter is removed.
41	* MythologyGag: On getting beamed into Voyager, Michael comments that he had a cousin who went to America and saw some strange things, "but nothing like this." [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E10ConcerningFlight The last time a holodeck character escaped his confines]], he assumed he'd gone to America.
42	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Janeway refuses to consider just shutting down the program to save Tom and Harry on the grounds that it might damage the Fair Haven characters. Instead she sends in the Doctor to try talking down the villagers, only for said plan to fail instantly and result in them stealing the Doctor’s mobile emitter... therefore meaning Janeway now can’t just shut down the program for fear of potentially deleting the ship’s only medical officer.
43	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Although he doesn't quite understand what's going on, Michael pretends he's been successfully reprogrammed so Tom and Harry will discuss their plans in front of him.
44	* {{Oireland}}: Of all the plot lines to follow up on, we just had to go back to the Irish stereotypes.
45	* OnlySaneMan: Michael Sullivan tries to stop everything from getting out of control. Of the Voyager crew, B'Elanna whose idea of pulling the plug is the one that makes the most sense.
46	* PlotHole: Things really start to go to hell when the townsfolk spot the control panel Tom and Harry were working on and Milo shoots it, causing the holodeck to get locked out and [[HolodeckMalfunction the safety protocols to go offline (of course)]]. Except the safeties were working just fine until the panel was shot, so how could holographic bullets have done any damage to it?
47	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder
48	-->'''Doctor:''' After all, one spiteful act deserves another, right? ''(congregation nods)'' Wrong!
49	* SayingTooMuch: Father Mulligan starts talking about "man or woman, husband and wife, [[LadiesAndGerms photons and forcefields]]..."
50	* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: At one point Janeway comments that Michael runs on "300 deciwatts". Not only is "300 tenths of a watt" an odd way to say "30 watts", it's a shockingly low power draw. (Modern PC [=GPUs=] can draw anywhere from 80 to 100w).
51	* SequelEpisode: For "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E11FairHaven Fair Haven]]".
52	* ShamingTheMob: The Doctor tries this as Father Mulligan, but the townspeople just take him prisoner too, having seen him 'disappear' on a previous occasion. Janeway and Michael are more effective in talking down the mob later on.
53	* ShoutOut: Michael gives Janeway a gift of ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' to test the idea that she is one. Later Janeway uses ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' to suggest to Michael that they're time travelers, and hands him a copy of ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt''.
54	* StealthSequel: The episode is basically ''[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E11FairHaven Fair Haven]], Part II''.
55	* TomatoInTheMirror: At least the Voyager crew is smart enough to know that telling the Fair Haven residents they're just holograms is a bad idea.
56	* TorchesAndPitchforks: Or shotguns and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis in-can-tations!]] Not to mention red twine and ash berries.
57	* UrbanLegend: Legend has it that in 1846 the spirit folk made the inhabitants of an entire town vanish into thin air, after first ruining the potato crop. Of course, that was during the Irish Famine when a lot of people either died or emigrated to avoid dying.
58	* WithAllDueRespect: B'Elanna's WhatTheHellHero to Janeway.
59	-->'''B'Elanna:''' With all due respect, Captain; Michael can be reprogrammed. Tom and Harry can't.
60	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: B'Elanna suggests they simply cut the power to the holodeck which would also erase the program, but Janeway is unwilling to just discard the Fair Haven inhabitants, whom the crew have become attached to.
61	* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Chakotay suggests that if they can't repair Michael Sullivan, Janeway should just tell the truth. Janeway points out that explaining she's a starship captain and he's a 300 deciwatt holodeck programme might be difficult. In the end she settles for a HalfTruth and AFormYouAreComfortableWith; letting the inhabitants of Fair Haven think they're real, while revealing who Voyager's crew are, but claiming they've traveled back in time to visit the past.
62	* YouTalkTooMuch: Listening to the Doctor preaching away to his captive audience, a woman in the congregation mutters, "He loves the sound of his own voice."

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