Line #70 Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E14Coda


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voy_coda_189.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:RIP Captain Kathryn Janeway; loving sister, devoted leader. [[MustHaveCaffeine Sucked back like a hundred coffees a day]].]]
3	Captain Janeway is seemingly killed in a shuttle crash and her consciousness remains behind as she refuses to believe she is dead.
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5	!!This episode provides examples of:
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7	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: After its identity is revealed, the alien presents this excuse for appearing as Janeway's father.
8	* AgentScully: Encouraged by Janeway's father. She doesn't let Daddy down.
9	* AllJustADream: About 90% of the episode takes place in Janeway's mind.
10	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The alien presents the matrix it's trying to lure Janeway into as wonderful, just the place for a BoldExplorer like her.
11	* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: With eulogies for the captain.
12	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with phage-ridden Janeway.
13	* BittersweetEnding: Janeway is safe, but she's left disturbed by wondering if the alien she encountered was just a one-off threat native to the Delta Quadrant or something more.
14	* BridalCarry: Chakotay carries an unconscious Janeway out of the shuttle.
15	* BurialInSpace: Janeway's body is fired off in a photon torpedo.
16	* CallBack:
17	** The Vidiians from Season Two return, and B'Elanna's DNA providing a possible cure for the phage is mentioned.
18	** When the crew are investigating what happened to Janeway, a scenario similar to what we saw in TNG's "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E24TheNextPhase The Next Phase]]" is suggested, with Janeway walking through walls and people similar to Ensign Ro and Geordi La Forge.
19	** One of the RedHerring explanations (a GroundhogDayLoop) is also particularly reminiscent of the TNG episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect Cause And Effect]]" with its repeatedly fatal NegativeSpaceWedgie.
20	** Chakotay mentions that Kes has previously shown the ability to detect an unseen presence. [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E12Cathexis His own, in fact.]]
21	** [[https://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/3x15/coda_223.jpg "Admiral Janeway"'s uniform]] resembles a cross between the uniforms introduced in ''Star Trek II'' and the uniforms from the first 2 seasons of TNG.
22	* CaptainCrash: Chakotay not only crashes another shuttlecraft, he kills his captain too! Fortunately the latter is AllJustADream.
23	* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Chakotay frantically tries to revive Janeway, complete with a ShipTease-y bit of mouth-to-mouth. He actually even shouts "Breathe, damn it. Breathe! Don't you die on me now. Come on, [[FirstNameBasis Kathryn]]. Breathe!" However, this actually turns out to be a hallucination of Janeway's, suggesting she herself is familiar with the trope.
24	* DeadlyGas
25	** Chakotay has to carry Janeway out of the crashed shuttle because it's contaminated by a hydrazene gas leak.
26	** The Doctor euthanising Janeway with a [[HaveANiceDeath colorless and pain-free]] neural toxin.
27	* {{Determinator}}: '''Janeway.''' She spends the whole episode telling ''death'' to take a seat, and at one point states that even if she ''were'' dead she would rather wander the halls of Voyager as a ghost because [[GoingDownWithTheShip the captain stays with her ship no matter what]].
28	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: More accurately, she gave it a SeeYouInHell for the ages. Her "go back to Hell" line at the climax doubles as a truly epic ShutUpHannibal, and a ''Voyager'' fan favorite moment in general.
29	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The alien [[{{Satan}} wears red and vanishes into a fiery 'afterlife']] after being told to go back to Hell.
30	* DyingDream: The alien tries to convince Janeway that TheManyDeathsOfYou, and the flashes of the Doctor trying to revive her back on the planet, are just {{hallucinations}}.
31	* ExcessiveSteamSyndrome
32	-->'''Computer:''' Warning. Hydrazene gas levels at one hundred twelve parts per million. [[AbandonShip Begin evacuation procedures.]]
33	* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Justified; the Doctor has stopped working on the Phage cure as they're well past Vidiian space. And it wasn't even real anyway.
34	* GoIntoTheLight: Averted; Janeway is [[DoNotGoGentle suspicious and doesn't go]].
35	* GoMadFromTheIsolation: What the alien says will happen if Janeway stays.
36	* GroundhogDayLoop: The first part of the episode seems to be a constant reset to Janeway and Chakotay appearing in the shuttlecraft, with a loop occurring every time Janeway dies.
37	* HarsherInHindsight: InUniverse, Chakotay jokes about becoming captain if a [[WilliamTelling William Tell]] stunt goes wrong. When Janeway actually does die and he's left in command, he's devastated.
38	* HesDeadJim: Averted with an attempted resuscitation scene.
39	* HilariousOuttakes: An almost epic one, courtesy of Robert Beltran blowing a line and then just deciding to have some fun with it.
40	-->'''Chakotay:''' If you're going to emit that tachyon ship -- beam, ship it down to the ship, and we'll ship it outta here.[[note]]Actual line: "If you're going to emit that tachyon burst, you'd better do it now. In a couple of minutes those ships'll be right on top of us."[[/note]]
41	-->'''Janeway:''' Here goes!
42	-->''[Laughter ensues]''
43	* HopeSpot: Janeway is able to alert the telepathic Kes of her presence, and the crew leap into action with the required TechnoBabble. But after three days of fruitless searching both physically and telepathically, they give up.
44	* InnocentInnuendo: At the beginning of the episode, Janeway and Neelix are speaking in ambiguous terms about some sort of group event Neelix organized the previous night. With lines like "You were really good last night" and "It's been a long time for me" going back and forth between them, it seems like they're talking about an orgy. It's not until the next scene that it's revealed they were talking about a talent show.
45	* MadDoctor: Janeway merely imagines the EMH to be like this during a hallucination when she awakens in sick bay after a shuttle crash. The doctor coldly informs her that she has a fatal illness and refuses to let her see anyone else, then erects a forcefield to perform involuntary euthanasia on Janeway.
46	* MagicAntidote: Averted; the Doctor can't find a cure for the Phage, and points out that the Torres DNA would provide a vaccine, not a cure. Of course, [[AllJustADream none of it is real]] anyway.
47	* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Captain Janeway goes through several different deaths in each of the time loops before she exits into the one where she sees that she has died when their shuttle had crashed on the planet.
48	* MasterOfIllusion: The alien posing as Captain Janeway's father.
49	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is Captain Janeway's experience really just another first contact with a strange alien species (which was detectable on a medical tricorder scan of her cortex), or (far from the first) contact with someone from the afterlife? The story reports, you decide.
50	* MeaningfulName: The shuttle Chakotay and Janeway pilot is called ''Sacajawea'', a female Native American BoldExplorer.
51	* MercyKill: In one death, Janeway has the Phage and is euthanized by the Doctor [[NightmareFuel without her consent]].
52	* MindMeld: Tuvok aiding Kes in searching for Janeway's spirit.
53	* MustBeInvited: The alien seems to be about to force the issue near the end of the episode, but Janeway points out that if he could force her to go with him, he would've done it already.
54	* NearDeathClairvoyance: Captain Janeway believes that she is experiencing this.
55	* NotSoAboveItAll: Janeway at the talent contest doing the Dying Swan, and munching on berries on an away mission.
56	* NotSoStoic: Chakotay breaks down in ManlyTears when his beloved [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious Kathryn]] dies.
57	* ThePlague: In one of the time loops, Captain Janeway has contracted the "phage" from the Vidiians and the Doctor uses a lethal sedative on her to put her out of her misery before she suffers.
58	* PrematureEulogy: One glaring example is where Janeway receives ''four whole minutes'' of this while floating between life and death, watching it play out. It's to be expected in a show where people die and come back to life every week.
59	* {{Psychopomp}}: The alien, or so it claims.
60	* RedHerring: Various Trek cliches are rolled out such as hostile aliens, temporal anomalies, or a NegativeSpaceWedgie to hide what's really going on.
61	* SeeYouInHell: The alien points out that Janeway is in a dangerous profession, and he'll be waiting for her when she dies, whereupon "you will nourish me for a long, long time." Janeway tells him to "[[Awesome/StarTrekVoyager Go back to Hell, coward."]]
62	* ShipTease: One of the teasiest episodes for Janeway/Chakotay not named "Resolutions." It even ends with them "celebrating" her "cheating death" with a romantic holodeck program.
63	-->'''Janeway:''' I cheated death. That's worth a celebration, don't you think? Bottle of champagne, moonlight sail on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_George_(New_York) Lake George]], how does that sound?\
64	'''Chakotay:''' Like something worth living for.
65	* ShipperOnDeck: Janeway wishes Tom and B'Elanna will stop squabbling and form a genuine friendship. Also counts as {{foreshadowing}}, given that the P/T relationship takes off in the next episode.
66	* SomethingAboutARose: More ShipTease when Chakotay presents Janeway with a pink rose.
67	* SpotTheImposter: A suspicious Janeway asks a bunch of questions, but the alien puts up a convincing front as her father (likely because it can read her mind). However it loses patience when it looks like Janeway's shipmates will revive her, which alerts her since her real father was a patient man who wanted his offspring to learn their own lessons.
68	-->'''Janeway:''' My father would ''never'' act like this. He always believed I had to learn my ''own'' lessons, make my ''own'' mistakes. He never tried to shield me from ''life'', why would he try to shield me from ''death?'' You're not my father.
69	* SwivelChairAntics: Janeway is relaxing in the shuttle with her knee propped on the console joking with Chakotay before things get serious.
70	* TapOnTheHead: Averted; Chakotay uses his medical scanner to reduce Janeway's cranial swelling, and she's still staggering about afterwards.
71	* TemptingFate: In one hallucination, Janeway tells the Doctor she knows she's in good hands. When she next wakes up, he tries to euthanize her.
72	* ThatsAnOrder: Janeway when the Doctor decides to MercyKill her. Unfortunately [[DoctorsOrders neither the Doctor]] or the ship's computer is accepting her commands.
73	* TreacherousSpiritChase: Whatever he may be, this "spirit" is definitely up to no good.
74	* TryingNotToCry: Torres and Kim during their respective eulogies for Janeway, [[HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim who does cry]].
75	* WeWillMeetAgain: The alien, upon getting a massive NoSell from Janeway. Counts as NightmareFuel if he really is waiting for her in the afterlife.
76	* WilliamTelling: Janeway suggests to Chakotay that he could play William Tell and blast an apple off of her head with a phaser for Neelix's Talent Night.
77	-->'''Chakotay''': Sounds great. If I miss, I get to be captain.
78	* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Janeway finds that Chakotay doesn't remember any GroundhogDayLoop after returning to Voyager, despite doing so earlier. Janeway heads for Sickbay while her crew investigate regardless.
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