Line #64 Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E23Displaced


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Every nine minutes, this happens. Maybe Tuvok can rethink [[SwissCheeseSecurity his security measures]] while he's elsewhere.]]
3	''Voyager'''s crew start to disappear, replaced by members of an alien race.
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5	!!This episode provides examples of
6	* AchillesHeel: The Nyrians are extremely sensitive to the cold. So are Klingons, which isn't good for B'Elanna, who gets stuck in a frozen wasteland with Tom.
7	-->'''Tom:''' I would have thought all that hot Klingon blood would have kept you warm.\
8	'''B'Elanna:''' Shows how much you know about Klingons. They have much less tolerance for the cold than humans do.\
9	'''Tom:''' Really? I thought that was Cardassians.\
10	'''B'Elanna:''' [[TakeThat No, they just complain about it more.]]
11	* AirVentEscape: The requisite clambering through Jeffries tubes.
12	* AggressiveNegotiations: Janeway gives the shivering Nyrians a choice between surrendering so everyone can be returned to their native ships and worlds, or freezing to death. They don't hold out long.
13	* AlienAbduction: One that looks like the result of a NegativeSpaceWedgie until the truth comes out.
14	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Which Janeway and Tuvok use to their advantage, by hacking into the Nyrian database via the English translation algorithm.
15	* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: {{Downplayed}}; the Nyrians' planet is around a red giant star so, while they can survive on the ''Voyager'', it is uncomfortably cold and bright for them. Also, each alien species kidnapped by the Nyrians is hosted in an enclosure with a different environment. This becomes a plot point when the Nyrians are threatened with imprisonment in the coldest environment on their ship.
16	* [[KilledMidSentence Beamed Mid-Sentence]]: Tuvok and Janeway.
17	* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Nyrians appear confused and harmless at first.
18	* BlindedByTheLight: Chakotay brings the lights up to full strength to blind the Nyrians (who are sensitive to light) in Engineering.
19	* CallBack: From "Distant Origin" where B'Elanna loses a SideBet with Tom, which means she has to try out his Klingon workout program.
20	* CharacterTics: Tom finds B'Elanna [[ShipTease subconsciously copying]] his BadassArmfold and changes it to hands-behind-back.
21	* ChekhovsGun: The Nyrian sensitivity to cold is introduced quite early.
22	* CriticalStaffingShortage: Crewmen keep disappearing while aliens appear in their place. Before too much longer, they're down to a skeleton crew, and then it turns out it's a ploy to take over the ship, beaming crew members off one at a time and replacing them with their own people.
23	* DeadpanSnarker: The Doctor is in rare form in this episode.
24	-->'''EMH:''' Welcome to Sickbay. Take a number.\
25	''later, as B'Elanna adjusts his optical sensors to scan for portals.''\
26	'''EMH:''' Then I can begin my new career as a tricorder.
27	* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on Voyager]]: But only briefly. Chakotay does as much damage as he can, then surrenders.
28	* DoubleMeaning: "Things were [[{{Tsundere}} pretty chilly there for a while. It feels good to be warm]]."
29	* EvilAllAlong: As soon as B'Elanna starts to catch on to the whole scheme, the Nyrians show their true colors and get much more aggressive with their hostile takeover of ''Voyager'', starting with B'Elanna [[SheKnowsTooMuch being beamed off the ship as soon as possible]].
30	* FacialDialogue: Usually in response to [[EveryoneCanSeeIt P/T shenanigans]].
31	* FoodAsBribe: Janeway barters food for information from Jarleth. Fortunately human food is to his liking.
32	* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The Nyrians' translocator technology can move people up to ten light-years in an instant, through shields at least as advanced as ''Voyager's'', but Tuvok and Janeway quickly realize such long distances greatly reduce its capacity (which is why the Nyrians translocate people one at a time), thus removing any possibility the crew could use it to help shorten their journey.
33	* GadgeteerGenius: Tuvok constructs an [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised energy weapon]] from [[MacGyvering replicator and sonic shower parts]].
34	* GildedCage: The Nyrians have prepared an environment suited for each alien race, with replicators, entertainment, and other amenities.
35	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The security mook guarding Rislan is standing too close and peering into the warp engine. Rislan knocks him out and takes his phaser.
36	* HappinessInSlavery: Jarleth has been imprisoned for years and likes his GildedCage. When ''Voyager'''s crew have a serious chance of breaking out, he becomes quite alarmed and quickly surrenders to the Nyrians.
37	* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Janeway uses the Nyrian teleportation system against them.
38	* IntimateHealing: Tom breathes on B'Elanna's hands to warm them.
39	* IResembleThatRemark: B'Elanna is NOT HOSTILE!
40	* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: A hypothermic B'Elanna tells Tom to keep going without her. Tom [[ThatsAnOrder orders her]] to keep moving.
41	* JustOneMan: Chakotay finds himself the last man on ''Voyager''. He does as much sabotage as possible so the Nyrians can't make off with the ship, then downloads the Doctor into his mobile emitter and [[ISurrenderSuckers surrenders so the Nyrians will beam them both to the others]].
42	* KillItWithIce: When ''Voyager'''s crew is trapped in a prison with different environments for different species, Tom and B'Elanna dispose of two Nyrian mooks (from a very warm planet) by luring them into a subzero habitat. Later Captain Janeway beams the rest of the Nyrians there, and threatens to keep them there until her ship is returned.
43	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Chakotay is confronted at gunpoint and puts down his own phaser, saying, "Alright, I know when to quit." Subverted however as he's a PlayAlongPrisoner.
44	* MoralMyopia: The Nyrians put their prisoners in a GildedCage and bitch about their [[UngratefulBastard ingratitude]].
45	* NotWhatItLooksLike: B'Elanna and Tom get beamed back to their colleagues, holding each other tightly because of the cold. Everyone smirks.
46	* ObfuscatingStupidity: The Nyrians play dumb and confused when they first appear on ''Voyager'', at least until they execute their plan.
47	* OneBulletLeft: The improvised phaser only has one shot left in the power cell. Fortunately one of their two pursuers has already collapsed from the cold.
48	* POVCam:
49	** B'Elanna when she gets beamed to the Nyrian ship.
50	** The Doctor when his vision has been modified to see the portals.
51	* PlayingCyrano: The Doctor keeps chiming in with advice when B'Elanna and Tom are trying to argue. He's not helping.
52	* ProperlyParanoid:
53	** Chakotay hopes that maybe he's just being paranoid. He isn't.
54	--->'''Chakotay:''' I want access to all systems restricted to authorised voice prints only. Seal off any part of the ship that we're not using and place security forcefields around sensitive areas. Warp core, armoury, torpedo bays. And let's hope I'm just being paranoid.
55	** Earlier in the episode, Chakotay expresses that the Nyrians seemingly haven't done anything wrong, but Janeway has a bad feeling...
56	--->'''Janeway:''' Chakotay, I don't care how they seem. All I care about is that I've had a knot in my stomach since the first Nyrian arrived. Something about this is wrong, I can smell it. Look at us, running around the ship, checking sensors and spinning theories, while the Nyrians slowly replace our crew. Consider this. There has been a consistent interval of nine minutes and twenty seconds between these exchanges. At that rate, our entire crew will be gone in eighteen hours. Tell me that doesn't put a knot in your stomach.
57	* RedHerring: A wormhole with one end inside ''Voyager'' appears to be the culprit, until B'Elanna realises the sensor readings have been faked.
58	* RedOniBlueOni: With Tom and B'Elanna wearing the appropriate red and blue outfits in the Klingon holodeck program.
59	* [[RemonstratingWithAGun Remonstrating With a Bat'leth]]: B'Elanna waves around her ''bat'leth'' while venting over a Klingon martial arts program Tom has roped her into. Tom tells her to stop before she puts his eye out. When the first Nyrian unexpectedly beams on board the ship a moment later, B'Elanna gesturing at him with a giant curved blade does not reassure the Nyrian that they mean no harm.
60	* SheKnowsTooMuch: B'Elanna discovers the wormhole data has been planted in their computers. Rislan knocks out the security mook and prepares to beam B'Elanna off the ship.
61	-->'''B'Elanna:''' What are you doing?\
62	'''Rislan:''' Moving you to the head of the line.
63	* ShipTease: Loads of BelligerentSexualTension between B'Elanna and Tom.
64	* StartsStealthilyEndsLoudly: Our heroes are able to quietly sneak through the Nyrian ship, until Janeway and Tuvok set off an alarm.
65	* SwapTeleportation: The crew of ''Voyager'' are being swapped with aliens one by one. The aliens pretend they don't know what's going on, but this is actually their method of taking over a ship.
66	* TakeANumber: When the Doctor welcomes yet another Nyrian.
67	--> "Welcome to Sickbay. Take a number."
68	* TechnicalPacifist: The Nyrians prefer guile over violence; even when resorting to the latter, they never kill anyone on ''Voyager''.
69	* ThatsAnOrder: Taleen when her mooks balk at following our heroes into a frozen environment. Then Tom to B'Elanna, who complains that Tom only has seniority by two days.
70	-->'''Paris:''' On your feet now, Torres. That's an order.\
71	'''Torres:''' You can't give me orders. We're the same rank.\
72	'''Paris:''' I am a bridge officer, and I have seniority.\
73	'''Torres:''' Oh yeah, by two days!
74	* TrainingFromHell: [[NotSoAboveItAll Not that Vulcans boast of course]], but Tuvok can't resist explaining how Starfleet tactical training was nothing compared to the Rite of Tal'oth, involving four months in the Vulcan desert with only a knife.
75	* TranquilFury: Janeway, in the climactic scene, uses a phaser to corner the Nyrians in charge, and tells them to surrender or she'll leave them in the subzero habitat to freeze to death. Janeway, understandably so, couldn't give two shits about the well-being of these crooks.
76	* TryAndFollow: B'Elanna and Tom go into a subzero environment, knowing the Nyrians won't follow. They do, but collapse from the cold.
77	* {{Tsundere}}: B'Elanna is hot and cold, and not just in an artificial environment.
78	* WalkAndTalk: The episode opens with B'Elanna and Tom doing a Walk And Argue.
79	* TheWallAroundTheWorld: The custom environment is surrounded by wilderness that marks the limit of their environment. Fortunately a friendly alien called Jarleth has already found out how to pass between the environments for trade purposes.
80	* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Having kidnapped the ''Voyager'' crew and stolen their ship, the Nyrians expect them to be ''grateful'' for sticking them in a GildedCage instead of killing them. Shockingly, they aren't.
81	* WeaponizedTeleportation: The Nyrians conquer other colonies and [[SpacePirates seize passing vessels]] by teleporting their people in one-by-one, at long range so no-one suspects teleportation is involved. [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard Then Janeway and Tuvok use it against them.]]
82	* YouAreInCommandNow
83	-->'''Chakotay:''' How do you like your first day as Chief of Security, Ensign?\
84	'''Ensign Lang:''' It's everything I dreamed of, sir.\
85	'''Chakotay:''' Who says there's no room for advancement on this ship.

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