Line #179 Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[Series/That70sShow "How about you beam my foot to the bridge and I'll create a temporal disturbance in]] [[JustForFun/FootInYourAss your ass!"]]]]
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4	->''This is one year I'd like to forget.''
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6	Obsessed with restoring his species to greatness no matter the cost, a military temporal scientist creates changes in history that all but destroy ''Voyager.''
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8	!!This two-part episode provides examples of
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10	* TwoDSpace: Averted with the creation of the [[TheBigBoard Astrometrics lab]], so ''Voyager'''s course no longer has to be represented on flat screens. Annorax's vessel plays the trope straight.
11	* AMillionIsAStatistic: Annorax and his crew are willing to erase billions of people from existence, simply to get a few percentage points closer to their ideal timeline.
12	* AbandonShip: Averted at first; Chakotay suggests they abandon ''Voyager'' and use the shuttles to sneak through Krenim space. Janeway refuses to consider the idea until the cliffhanger end of Part One.
13	-->"[[TeamMum I’m not breaking up the family]], Chakotay. We’re stronger as a team -- one crew, one ship."
14	* AchievementsInIgnorance:
15	** The temporal shields make ''Voyager'' immune to the changes caused by the Timeship when the crew didn't even know that was a threat they needed to be protected from.
16	** Unfortunately, the temporal shield also prevents the damage to ''Voyager'' and her crew from being "healed" from the reset.
17	* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: When saying goodbye to a blind Tuvok, Janeway cups his face in both hands.
18	* AndThenWhat:
19	** Brought up by Janeway when the Doctor tries to relieve her of duty due to her potential PTSD, as she forces him to acknowledge that the ship doesn’t have the resources to keep her confined even if they would go through with that order.
20	** Janeway also asks this when Chakotay first suggests the idea of abandoning the ship - sure, a bunch of escape pods and shuttles could probably sneak through Krenim space much easier than the starship itself, but those pods and shuttles would have a distinct disadvantage with weapons and shields, and, even if they did make it through to the other side, what would they do without ''Voyager'''s resources going forward in their journey home? Even Chakotay acknowledges that he didn't like the idea, but he had a duty to suggest it all the same.
21	* AnyoneCanDie: [[SecondLawOfMetafictionalThermodynamics Surprisingly averted]] despite the [[ResetButtonSuicideMission inbuilt]] ResetButton, and the alternate timeline of "Before And After" in which both [[SacrificialLion Janeway and B'Elanna]] were killed during the Year of Hell. At most, two Nihydron vessels are erased during the climactic battle, but it's unclear whether the two crewmembers (B'Elanna and Harry) assigned to work with the Nihydron are actually on-board those ships.
22	* ApologeticAttacker: Annorax has the grace to apologize before trying to wipe ''Voyager'' from existence.
23	* ArtisticLicenseShips: Contrary to what Paris seems to think, compartmentalizing a ship via transverse bulkheads did not originate with the ''Titanic'', having been invented in China in the 5th century AD and having become near-universal in Western ships as well a century before ''Titanic''. It's also ridiculous that Starfleet vessels wouldn't ''already'' have such compartmentalization.
24	* AttackPatternAlpha: In this case, Janeway orders Attack Pattern Omega.
25	* BeardOfSorrow: Chakotay gets pretty scruffy on the damaged ''Voyager''.
26	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: {{Inverted}} with the Krenim and the Zahl--the latter look less like humans but are friendlier to ''Voyager''.
27	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted when Janeway gets a severe burn scar on one side of her face, though strangely her famous red hair is unsinged. Meanwhile Seven's face is pristine as always.
28	* ABirthdayNotABreak: Janeway's birthday means little on a half-destroyed ship.
29	* BombDisposal: Seven finds an unexploded chronoton torpedo lodged in the hull. She can't defuse it as it's about to explode, but she can scan it for the exact temporal variance which will enable them to create effective shields.
30	* BookEnds: The two-parter started with ''Voyager'' coming across an aggressive but underpowered Krenim ship trying to bully ''Voyager'' while [[BoisterousWeakling lacking any sort of weaponry to back it up]]. After Annorax restores most of the Krenim Imperium, the timeline shift has ''Voyager'' being pounded on by a much more powerful ship, and the same commander is now a full-on {{Jerkass}} who casually threatens to have the crew executed, with Janeway commenting that they have been dealing with these attacks for weeks now. After the timeship is destroyed the timeline resets to Day One where ''Voyager'' comes across the original, smaller Krenim ship, whose commander is now much more reasonable and politely requests that they divert around the area, which Janeway agrees to do.
31	* TheBore: The Doctor insists on giving a speech at the opening of the Astrometrics Lab, despite the ill-concealed impatience of his fellow crew, who take the first excuse available to leave the room en masse.
32	* BrutalHonesty: Janeway says they need to leave the nebula before their repairs are complete. Only Seven [[WhatTheHellHero voices what everyone's thinking]], and is told off for it later by Tuvok.
33	-->'''Seven:''' As a Borg, I submitted to a single authority: the Collective. Over the past several months I've been encouraged to think and act as an individual. It is difficult to know when to restrain myself.
34	-->'''Tuvok:''' Remember this guideline. The Captain is always right.
35	-->'''Seven:''' Even when you know her logic is flawed?
36	-->'''Tuvok:''' ({{beat}}) Perhaps...
37	* BullyingADragon: Subverted; a fifteen-man, lightly-armed Krenim vessel makes a pathetic attempt to scare off ''Voyager''... until a time shift turns it into a powerful warship with torpedoes that can pass right through their shields.
38	* ButterflyOfDoom: Another fine example of how one man's repeated attempts at changing the past to find the "perfect" timeline he accidently erased leading to ever more disastrous consequences. Things are spiraling out of control, precisely because the timeship is based on the idea of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon Laplace's Demon]]'' which is contradicted by both Quantum Mechanics and Chaos Theory.
39	* CallBack:
40	** A time distortion passes over the bridge; when it clears, Janeway is still standing in center frame, except the ship is now on RedAlert. This shot is very similar to one from TNG’s "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E15YesterdaysEnterprise Yesterday’s Enterprise]]".
41	** Seven hints at the events of ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', in which the Borg also tried to remove a troublesome enemy by changing the timeline.
42	** A tea cup falling from the table and shattering is from ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''.
43	* CaptainNemoCopy: A man of culture who isolates himself and his crew from the outside world, driven by a quest that wrecks destruction on them all.
44	* TheChainsOfCommanding: The Doctor diagnoses Janeway as suffering from traumatic stress syndrome. It's not a stretch to guess Annorax is under similar strain, though his is largely self-induced.
45	* ChekhovsGun:
46	** Many of the events depicted in "Year of Hell" were foreshadowed in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E20BeforeAndAfter Before & After]]", e.g. Neelix becoming a security officer and the torpedo stuck in the hull. This despite the fact that the character used to foreshadow the events (Kes) is no longer on board.
47	** Paris' transverse bulkheads idea comes in handy when ''Voyager'' needs to pull a HyperspeedEscape and loses part of the outer hull.
48	* CliffHanger: At the end of Part One, Tom and Chakotay have been abducted by Annorax, and ''Voyager’s'' crew takes to the {{Escape Pod}}s.
49	* CloseEnoughTimeline: Defied; Annorax achieves this at the start of the episode, with the erasure of the Zahl restoring the Krenim Imperium to 98% of its original scale. However, because his wife's colony has not been restored to him, he is determined to keep trying.
50	* ColdEquation: The Doctor leaves a hatch open as long as he can, but eventually has to close the door on two crewmen who wouldn’t make it before an explosion destroys most of that deck.
51	* CompanionCube: Janeway gives a moving speech on behalf of ''Voyager.''
52	-->'''Tuvok:''' Curious. I have never understood the human compulsion to emotionally bond with inanimate objects. This vessel has done nothing. It is an assemblage of bulkheads, conduits, tritanium, nothing more.
53	-->'''Janeway:''' Oh, you're wrong. It's much more than that. This ship has been our home. It's kept us together. It's been part of our family. As illogical as this might sound, I feel as close to ''Voyager'' as I do to any other member of my crew. It's carried us, Tuvok, even nurtured us. [[GoingDownWithTheShip And right now it needs one of us.]]
54	* CripplingOverspecialization:
55	** The Krenim timeship is immune to conventional weapons fire because its shields keep it outside the space-time continuum, an OutsideContextProblem. When the time core is disabled, the ship becomes a GlassCannon.
56	** The WaveMotionGun on the ship has no other setting besides "erase from existence," which means no matter how precise their target the results are always taking a sledgehammer to the timeline. In fairness, it has to be said that Annorax is perfectly aware of this, hence his rigorous attention to detail and trying to take every outside factor into account when making the temporal calculations.
57	* CriticalStaffingShortage: With several dozen crewmembers dead already from the Krenim attacks, Part 1 ends with significant damage to ''Voyager'''s basic systems to where it can't support everyone anymore. Janeway orders most of the crew to escape pods to find help.
58	* CurbStompBattle: When the timeship's conventional weapons open fire, they cripple the attacking fleet in seconds.
59	* DamageControl: With only a skeleton crew on board, their entire time is spent fixing repairs.
60	* DeathSeeker: Janeway chooses to remain on ''Voyager'' for the final battle even though it's almost certainly too damaged to survive combat.
61	* DeflectorShields: ''Voyager'' is getting hammered because the Krenim torpedoes use temporal technology that can pass right through ''Voyager''’s shields. Thanks to Seven's analysis of the chronoton torpedo, they develop temporal shields that have the unexpected side-effect of [[RippleEffectProofMemory leaving them unaffected]] whenever Annorax changes the timeline, which previously they hadn't even been aware of.
62	* TheDeterminator: Janeway and Annorax are each, in their way, determined to protect their people, but Janeway's actions are all defensive and focused on a clear threat where Annorax is consumed by an obsession that drives him to eliminate innocents in the name of restoring one specific person.
63	* DistinctionWithoutADifference:
64	-->'''Tuvok:''' It is inappropriate to contradict the captain in front of the crew.
65	-->'''Seven:''' That was not my intention. I simply pointed out that her decision was wrong.
66	* DoctorsOrders: Averted -- using a precedent well-established in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' continuity, the Doctor tries to relieve Janeway on medical grounds, but Janeway counters that he has no way to enforce that order.
67	* DramaticShattering = PortentOfDoom: Janeway finds her lucky coffee cup has survived the destruction of the Ready Room. Just then the Krenim attack and the cup is [[SymbolicallyBrokenObject knocked off the table and smashes]].
68	* EnemyMine: Annorax tries to make an ally out of Chakotay in order to solve their common problems. Tom and Janeway are more successful in gaining allies to oppose him.
69	* TheEndOrIsIt: After the timeship is destroyed, history gets a ResetButton back to 'normal' and we see Annorax in a happy moment at home with his wife whom he'd previously wiped from existence. She convinces him to put his work aside and join her, and the camera finishes on a shot of his table, on which lie the plans for the timeship. Even then, the PointOfDivergence condition still applies. Even if Annorax builds a "second" (original) timeship, the complexities of the time-line do not guarantee a repeat of the past events.
70	* ExactTimeToFailure: The Doctor gets angry at Janeway for spending more than the time he recommended breathing a DeadlyGas, though it's justified in this case as him trying to minimize Janeway's exposure.
71	-->'''EMH:''' I told you eight minutes on that deck, not eight-and-a-half, not nine, and certainly not twelve!
72	* FakeBetterAlternateTimeline: Double example. A Krenim named Annorax had previously tried to win the Krenim war against the Rilnar by removing the latter from history. This caused a plague that would have been averted by the presence of Rilnar DNA in the Krenim genome. Annorax attempted to fix that with another temporal incursion, causing the disappearance of his home colony and his wife.
73	* FinalSolution: Annorax isn’t just trying to make the Krenim Imperium greater than its rivals, but to destroy those rivals from ever having existed (as well as restore the colony planet where his wife lived). He's at least humane enough to realise what he's doing is wrong, but [[KnightTemplar not enough to stop]].
74	* FirstNameUltimatum: Chakotay calls his captain “Kathryn” when she rejects his birthday present. [[AnchoredShip She ignores him]].
75	* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: The Krenim timeship’s temporal disruption beam. [[TooDumbToLive Makes you wonder why any of the ships of Janeway’s fleet would willingly fly in front of it during the final battle]]...
76	* ForeverWar: The crew of Annorax’s vessel have been trying to change history for over ''two hundred years'' as no-one can age inside the temporal field. When Annorax tells his NumberTwo they have all of eternity to get it right, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever he doesn't look happy]].
77	* GoingDownWithTheShip: Janeway even invokes the trope.
78	* HairMemento: All Annorax has left of his wife is a lock of her hair.
79	* HandOfDeath: The Krenim all wear black gloves.
80	* HeelRealization: Chakotay gets this when he sees Annorax wipe out another civilization, simply to see what will happen.
81	* HeroicSacrifice: Janeway crashes ''Voyager'' into the timeship in the hope that the destruction of the ship will cause the timeline to revert to normal. Luckily, it works.
82	* HesDeadJim: Time changing for the worst is immediately marked by a [[RedShirt dead ensign]] on the bridge.
83	* HonorBeforeReason:
84	-->'''Tuvok:''' Given ''Voyager''[='=]s damaged state, the probability of your surviving an armed conflict is marginal.
85	-->'''Janeway:''' Oh, I know the odds, but I have to stay. ''Voyager''[='=]s done too much for us.
86	** After achieving a 98% restoration, a result they had never witnessed in ''200 years'' of trying, Obrist argues that they should dismantle the weapon and return to their people. But Annorax is determined to keep going until his homeworld is restored.
87	* HyperspeedEscape: Krenim warships can only do Warp Six, so ''Voyager'' (with a maximum cruising velocity of Warp 9.975) at least has the option of outrunning them. The last time Janeway tries this, however, large parts of the hull come flying off due to the structural damage it has sustained so far.
88	* IAteWhat: Annorax [[NoMrBondIExpectYoutoDine makes a meal for Chakotay and Paris]]. They seem to enjoy the food until they find out where it came from. Each dish that Annorax has had prepared is the last remnants of a civilization he has completely removed from history with his temporal weapon. There are about 20 different items on the table, showing the scale of what he has done. Chakotay and Paris' horror is palpable.
89	-->"This bottle is the only component left of the once powerful Malkoth race. Everything else about them, cities, culture, the very species itself never existed, because of me. Every dish you see here comes from a civilisation that has been erased from time. Mister Paris, you're devouring the last remnants of the Alsuran Empire."
90	* ImmortalityField: The timeship is clearly protected by one, considering that Annorax and his crew haven't aged a day in over 200 years.
91	* InternalRetcon: Implicit for every SeriesContinuityError up to that point.
92	* IronicEchoCut: From Annorax and Chakotay toasting their alliance with [[ManOfWealthAndTaste crystal wineglasses]] to the crew of ''Voyager'' toasting their absent friends with the Elixir of Endurance in battered metal cups.
93	* ItsAllAboutMe: Annorax claims his time-alterations are to restore the Krenim Imperium to its former glory. But it's obvious he only really cares about bringing back his wife and homeworld, especially after he declares a 98% restored Imperium (with his wife's colony in the missing 2%) isn't good enough. Paris even notes that Annorax has reached a point where he appears to basically believe that Time itself has a ''grudge'' against him and is punishing him for his hubris by 'withholding' his wife.
94	* ItsALongStory: Seven knows about Zephram Cochrane's vessel ''The Phoenix'' [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact because the Borg were present during those events]]. “It’s a complicated story.” Since this episode took place before ''Voyager'' had re-established contact with the Federation, it's understandable that they wouldn't be aware of those events.
95	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Annorax reflects on how easy it was to use the temporal weapon the first time, and how easily he's continued to justify it.
96	* JustOneSecondOutOfSync:
97	** Krenim chroniton torpedoes generate a field which pushes them out of normal space-time until the moment of impact, rendering all defensive measures worthless against them until ''Voyager'' can generate a similar field of its own.
98	** Annorax's ship has a temporal core which has the same effect, rendering the entire ship immune to changes in the timeline and somehow making the entire crew immortal as long as it's active.
99	* KarmaHoudini: Annorax ends the episode living happily with his wife on their home colony, with no memory of his 200+ year campaign of temporal genocide. Of course, technically he never committed those crimes in this new timeline...
100	* LethalChef: ''Voyager'''s crew drink a toast to absent friends, only to pull disgusted expressions at Neelix's latest concoction. At least this time the limited resources give him a good excuse.
101	-->'''Neelix:''' I call it the Elixir of Endurance. It's loaded with amino acids, carbohydrates; all the nutrients necessary for the crew to withstand these stressful conditions.\
102	'''Torres:''' Ration cubes.\
103	'''Neelix:''' Well...yes, but this time, pureed and mixed with water and enhanced with Talaxian spices.\
104	'''Seven:''' It is offensive. Fortunately, taste is irrelevant.
105	* TheLostLenore: Annorax is obsessed with tweaking the timeline until his wife is brought back to him.
106	* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: An egregious example, as Tom goes straight from showing off his modifications to ''Voyager's'' hull to assisting the Doctor with triage. This is literally the case when the crew AbandonShip except for a scratch crew made up of the main characters.
107	* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Chakotay suggests using the weapon ship to erase a comet, which would prevent ''Voyager'' from entering Krenim space. Annorax has him run a simulation that demonstrates what the actual result of this would be -- namely the eradication of all life within 50 light years, as fragments from the comet had landed on a planet billions of years in the past and helped create life on it, which eventually gave rise to a spacefaring species.
108	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Obrist helps Tom sabotage the timeship because [[ForeverWar he wants their ordeal to end]].
109	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg are TrueCompanions
110	-->'''The Doctor:''' Who would have thought this group of voyagers could actually become a family: Starfleet, Maquis, Klingon, Talaxian, Hologram, Borg, even Mr. Paris.
111	* {{Necromantic}}: The reason Annorax keeps aiming for the perfect result is because he erased his wife from existence, and they lived on a colony that only exists in the original timeline.
112	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''Voyager's'' temporal shields are enough to throw off Annorax's calculations, causing him to come after them when his latest incursion reverts the Krenim to a pre-warp status.
113	* NeverTrustATitle: The final date subtitle is Day 257 as they engage in the final confrontations with the Timeship. This makes the span of the episode closer to 9 months. Day 1 with the first temporal incursion Janeway comments that their Krenim attacks have been going on for several weeks at that point, so there is some wiggle room but still not a full year. That said, it came from the [[ArtifactTitle previous Voyager episode]] "Before and After" as the term used by the crew to describe the Krenim encounter, and such nicknames are rarely precise.
114	* NoSell: As long as the temporal core is active, Annorax's ship is immune to enemy attacks.
115	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Annorax compares his attempts to restore his original timeline to ''Voyager's'' journey home, in an attempt to sway Chakotay.
116	-->'''Chakotay''': You've been at this for 200 years, Annorax. What makes you think you're ever going to succeed?\
117	'''Annorax''': What makes you think ''Voyager'' will ever reach Earth? The odds against you are astronomical. Yet you keep trying.
118	* NothingPersonal: Annorax tells Janeway that he bears her no malice; she's just an obstacle he needs to get rid of.
119	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When the Doctor tries to relieve Janeway on medical grounds, she threatens to shut down his program. He points out that threat alone is proof that she's not thinking rationally. To her credit, she apologizes.
120	* OpenAirDriver: In the final battle, the ''Voyager'' has it's bridge opened up and a makeshift forcefield keeping Janeway inside. Janeway decides to ram the timeship, which causes time to revert to before the ship came to be in the first place.
121	* OutsideContextProblem:
122	** The Krenim, and specifically the timeship and their temporal-based weapons. Janeway and the ''Voyager'' crew have no idea what is causing the temporal shockwaves, let alone that they are a weapon, and have no defenses against the Krenim’s temporal torpedoes until near the end of Part I.
123	** The timeshield they developed ended up [[RippleEffectProofMemory protecting them from another timeline alteration]] from Annorax, which in turn throws off all their calculations to where the Krenim fleet are cargo transports instead of warships. This serves to attract Annorax to target ''Voyager'' for temporal destruction...
124	* ThePerfectionist: Annorax. After being told that they've achieved a 98% restoration, he orders another temporal incursion and makes it clear he won't stop until "every colony, every individual, every blade of grass is restored."
125	* PlotArmor: Tuvok is only a few feet away from an exploding torpedo, and while he's permanently injured, his only injury is blindness. Seven, who he shielded with his body, is uninjured.
126	* PlotParallel: As noted under TheDeterminator, [[MirrorCharacter Annorax and Janeway]] are both facing the annihilation of everything they hold dear, with the viewer getting a ringside seat to [[TheChainsOfCommanding how well they handle it (or don't)]] and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo what means they are willing to justify]] to achieve their desired ends. Janeway is proven willing to [[HeroicSacrifice give up everything]], even [[DeathSeeker her own life]], while Annorax will [[AMillionIsAStatistic sacrifice everyone]] ''but'' [[ItsAllAboutMe himself]] (and his power). This is even represented symbolically by their {{Tragic Keepsake}}s: Janeway, though touched by the watch Chakotay gives her, insists that it should be recycled because its components would be better used helping everyone on the ship, while Annorax refuses to "recycle" the lock of his wife's hair, instead retaining it in a stasis field to keep him focused on his goal.[[labelnote:*]]And ironically, it may be his refusal to sacrifice, to let this piece of her go, that is preventing him from achieving what he seeks, thanks to the way the timeshield and RippleEffectIndicator works.[[/labelnote]]
127	* PointDefenseless: Averted. The timeship has [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] like conventional weapons on the sides of its hull.
128	* PointOfDivergence:
129	** Annorax gains a 98% restoration of the Krenim Imperium which his NumberTwo insists is a CloseEnoughTimeline, but Annorax continues with his quest to change the timeline because he's obsessed with getting the perfect result (his wife is part of the unrestored 2%). The second time he tries, ''Voyager''’s new temporal shields are enough to throw off his calculations and revert the entire Imperium to a pre-warp state.
130	** In Part 2 Annorax demonstrates why such precision is important. Chakotay tells him ''Voyager'' made a course correction eight months ago to avoid a comet, putting them on a heading into Krenim space, so he suggests erasing the comet from time. [[ButterflyOfDoom Annorax says that would destroy almost 8000 civilizations]].
131	--->'''Annorax:''' Four billion years ago fragments from that comet impacted a planet. Hydrocarbons from those fragments gave rise to several species of plant life which in turn sustained more complex organisms. Ultimately several space-faring civilisations evolved and colonised the entire sector.
132	--->'''Chakotay:''' By erasing the comet I altered all evolution in this region.
133	--->'''Annorax:''' [[TimeyWimeyBall Past, present and future. They exist as one. They breathe together.]] You're not the only person to make this mistake. When I first constructed this weapon ship I turned it against our greatest enemy, the Rilnar. The result was miraculous. With the Rilnar gone from history, my people, in an instant, became powerful again. But there were problems. A rare disease broke out among our colonies. [[GenocideBackfire Within a year, fifty million were dead. I had failed to realise that the Rilnar had introduced a crucial antibody into the Krenim genome and my weapon had eliminated that antibody as well]].
134	--->'''Chakotay:''' And you've been trying to undo that damage ever since, but each time you pull out a new thread, another one begins to unravel.
135	* PreMortemOneLiner: Just before [[RammingAlwaysWorks crashing]] ''[[RammingAlwaysWorks Voyager]]'' [[RammingAlwaysWorks into the timeship]], Janeway declaims rhetorically, "Time's up!"
136	* RammingAlwaysWorks: Janeway rams ''Voyager'' straight into the timeship, causing all history to [[ResetButton reset to the beginning of the year]].
137	* RedAlert: Newly-promoted security officer Neelix consults Tuvok on what the audio warning should be. “Do you want it to say, ‘Intruder alert’ or do you want it to say something more dramatic like ‘Warning – intruder alert’ or ‘Intruders among us! Danger! Danger! Intruders among us!’?
138	* RealMenGetShot: Tuvok takes getting blinded with the expected Vulcan poise. Janeway shows this trope applies to women too.
139	-->'''Janeway:''' Tell the Doctor I'll be coming back with severe burns.
140	* ResetButton:
141	** Invoking this trope, to restore the lost greatness of Annorax's society, is the timeship's entire purpose.
142	** Destruction of the timeship undoes two centuries of Annorax's timeline tweaks and returns the timeline to its original form with a single difference; Annorax never built the timeship.
143	* RetCon: "Year of Hell" was originally meant to be all of season 4, and wasn't going to involve a ResetButton, and would have involved a more general conflict with the Krenim, rather than a single time-ship. The departure of Kes also means that it's Seven who deals with the chronoton torpedo; neither is there any mention of Kes' warning about the Krenim. Although the former, at least, is explainable by Kes altering the timeline. What is not, however, is how, the Year of Hell went from ''Constant attacks by the Krenim'' as stated in Before and After, to ''dealing with a single timeship'' (although that could be explained by the fact that, without Seven around, ''Voyager'' likely never devised the temporal shield in that timeline -- meaning that Annorax's calculations were never thrown off, the Krenim just got stronger with each incursion and Annorax himself never had any reason to go after ''Voyager'').
144	* RetGone: Essentially what the Krenim timeship is designed to do in-universe, and what it ultimately does to itself when Janeway rams it.
145	* RetroUpgrade: Paris comes up with transverse bulkheads to seal off ''Voyager''’s sections in case of a hull breach. He got the idea from the ''Titanic''.
146	-->'''Janeway:''' [[AnalogyBackfire As I recall, it sank.]]\
147	'''Paris:''' I admit I’ve improved on the design.
148	* RidiculouslyDifficultRoute: Janeway doesn't take the first warning seriously as the Krenim commander is hardly a threat, and she's never been the type to back down from casual bullying. Suddenly they're inside the territory of an aggressive species, but it's not revealed how they got there in this alternate timeline (it's possible they got in the path of a Krenim offensive). Averted when Janeway accepts the polite warning of the Krenim commander at the end, and avoids the 'disputed' region.
149	* RippleEffectIndicator:
150	** The weaselly Krenim subcommander who cringed in the presence of ''Voyager'' becomes very smug indeed when his guns outmatch theirs. At the end of the episode, he's a little cool, but respectful.
151	** Subverted with [[TragicKeepsake the lock of hair belonging to Annorax's wife]], which is not only on the timeship but kept preserved in a stasis crystal, so it can never be affected by any of the changes in the timeline he causes. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It's entirely possible]] that this is ''why'' he can't ever get 100% recovery, because time can never fully change or reset to bring her back so long as a piece of an erased timeline still exists; his smile when the crystal is broken and it vanishes could suggest he's realized this. See the YMMV tab for more details.
152	* RousingSpeech: Janeway to her crew before they abandon ship.
153	* RuleOfThree: The Krenim warship commander appears three times, each with a different personality due to the changing circumstances of the Krenim Imperium.
154	** The first time, he's a xenophobic but pathetic nuisance, trying to assert his will over a ship ten times larger than his. Janeway all but laughs at him.
155	** When the timeline changes, he becomes a SmugSnake, calmly and heartlessly discussing the wholesale slaughter of ''Voyager'''s crew.
156	** And, finally, after the ResetButton, he shows a professional demeanor, firmly yet politely requesting ''Voyager'' avoid this area of space, and wishing them safe travels when they comply.
157	* RuleOfSymbolism: Chakotay gives Janeway a watch for her birthday in an episode about time. Counts as an InUniverse version too, as it's a replicated reproduction of a watch belonging to a 19th-century captain who brought his ruined ship home against all odds. Janeway originally refuses to accept the gift, as they have limited replicator supplies. Later, she finds it again and attaches it to her belt.
158	* SeriousBusiness: What's the first thing Janeway retrieves from the trashed Ready Room? Her coffee pot, of course!
159	* [[HesDeadJim She's Dead, Jim]]: The first temporal shift reveals a ruined bridge and a dead female crewman.
160	-->'''Chakotay:''' She's dead...
161	* ShoutOut:
162	** WordOfGod says Annorax was named after Professor Arronax, the narrator of ''[[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea]]''.
163	** Paris sarcastically calls Annorax 'Captain Bligh', referencing the ''[[Film/MutinyOnTheBounty Mutiny on the Bounty]]''.
164	** His anthropomorphism of time as a ruthless, cunning foe is straight out of ''Literature/MobyDick.''
165	** Janeway demands trioxin to treat her injuries. The Doctor refuses, perhaps because it has a habit of [[Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead turning people into zombies]].
166	* SmallNameBigEgo: The initial Krenim attack on ''Voyager'' is brushed off because the Krenim in that timeline have limited warp and weapons capability, despite his arrogant posturing, but that timeline only lasts a few days before Annorax's next major temporal incursion.
167	* SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring: Stuck in a turbolift, Harry and B’Elanna play a quiz game. Most fanfic writers would make them have sex instead, but B’Elanna has internal injuries.
168	* SpaceClouds: A crippled ''Voyager'' hides inside a nebula so dense that it produces a visible fog inside the ship's corridors. Captain Janeway even orders the hull breaches sealed to avoid having an "indoor nebula." One would think she'd be more concerned about all the air escaping...
169	* SpannerInTheWorks: ''Voyager'' is able to rig up temporal shields; however, this leaves it unaffected by the temporal shift, while at the same time upsetting all the changes that Annorax is trying to make.
170	* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Averted; the Doctor grabs Janeway's upper arm to stop her leaving Sickbay. She responds with a DeathGlare and a threat to shut down his program.
171	* SwivelChairAntics: The Krenim captain after the time shift lets him take a level in arrogance.
172	* TakingTheBullet: Tuvok shields Seven from an explosion, permanently blinding him.
173	* TemptingFate:
174	** During ''Voyager’s'' first encounter with a Krenim vessel, Janeway scoffs at the threat from the inferior ship, telling its captain that she’s not turning around “unless he’s got something bigger in his torpedo tubes.” Cue the first [[NegativeSpaceWedgie temporal shockwave]], which transforms the [[GoddamnBats puny Krenim vessel]] into a [[DemonicSpiders massive warship armed with temporal torpedoes]]...
175	** Janeway gripes that this is turning into the Week of Hell. A year later, things have gone FromBadToWorse.
176	* ThatsAnOrder:
177	** Tuvok to Seven when she stays to calculate the temporal variance of the torpedo, enabling ''Voyager'' to construct a shield against them...and delaying Tuvok so he gets blinded by the exploding torpedo.
178	** The Doctor insists the captain give him time to treat her injuries, whereas Janeway just wants a hypo of trioxin to keep her going.
179	--->'''EMH:''' Trioxin is used in emergency situations as a stop-gap measure. Your lungs have suffered serious damage. They need to be treated properly. Doctor's orders.\
180	'''Janeway:''' Captain's orders. Trioxin. Now.\
181	'''EMH:''' Aye, aye. It's your body. Who am I to judge? [[SarcasmMode I'm only the Chief Medical officer.]]
182	** Chakotay ordering Tom to not do anything against Annorax. Not that Tom seems inclined to obey that order.
183	* TimeIsDangerous: Obviously Annorax's weapon is one of the most horrific ever shown in the franchise, but his obsession with it has led him to think of himself as less of an engineer confronted with a problem so much as a [[TheProfiler profiler]] [[Series/CriminalMinds chasing]] an [[MonsterOfTheWeek UnSub]].
184	-->'''Annorax:''' When I tell that Time has moods, a disposition to be intuited, I'm not speaking metaphorically.\
185	'''Chakotay:''' What do you mean?\
186	'''Annorax:''' Anger is one of its moods. Anger and the desire for retribution, vengeance. Time itself has tried to punish me for my arrogance. It has kept me from my wife, denied me my future.
187	* TimePassageBeard: Chakotay starts growing at least a Time-Passage Mustache when he is first seen in Part 2 on board Annorax's time ship. It is soon shaved off when he is brought out of his holding cell to meet with Annorax.
188	* TheTimeTravellersDilemma: Invoked and played to its obvious conclusion; the best thing to do with a time machine is ''un-invent'' it.
189	* TitleDrop: Subverted
190	-->'''Janeway:''' This is turning into the [[TemptingFate week of hell]].
191	** The TitleDrop actually occurred in "Before and After"
192	-->'''Paris:''' That was the beginning of the Year of Hell. Well that's what some of us call it now.
193	* ToAbsentFriends: Well, "distant" friends, actually, but the sentiment is close enough.
194	* TooDumbToLive: During the final battle, two of ''Voyager's'' allies fly directly in front of the weapon ship after making an attack pass, leaving them open for a full temporal burst that erases them from time.
195	* TragicKeepsake
196	** Annorax keeps a lock of the hair of the wife he accidentally erased from time in a special container that shields it from dissipating into nothing because it can't exist in the world he created. As his vessel is destroyed, he watches helplessly as the container breaks and the hair vanishes from existence... and then he smiles as he realizes he's about to get exactly what he's wanted; the weapon backfiring erases itself from history, restoring all of his victims -- including his wife.
197	** Janeway is quite moved when she finds Chakotay disobeyed orders to recycle the watch, and wears it from then on.
198	* TrashTheSet
199	-->'''Janeway:''' You have the Bridge...what’s left of it.
200	* {{Unperson}}: In a sad moment, Obrist admits that he stopped celebrating his family's birthdays because they probably died centuries ago. Or worse, they may have been erased from history altogether.
201	* VestigialEmpire: When Annorax first built the weapon ship, the glory days of the Krenim were long behind them and he used it on their greatest enemy in an attempt to restore the Imperium to power.
202	* VillainousBSOD: Annorax has been frustrated in his quest for so long, he believes that Time itself is somehow punishing him for trying to change it.
203	* VoodooShark: Annorax and his crew are ageless due to their ship's temporal shields, which protect them from the flow of time. It doesn't stop them from eating and breathing.
204	* TheWatchmaker: Janeway realizes that she's starting to lose track of time. Chakotay chirps that he has a remedy for that, and presents her with a pocket-watch. She later finds the watch again while rooting through ''Voyager'''s wrecked upper decks. It also symbolizes Chakotay's newfound power as an apprentice onboard Annorax's timeship.
205	* WaveMotionGun: An unusual one in that it doesn't just destroy its targets; it ''erases'' them from history.
206	* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: The Krenim Imperium's response to ''Voyager'' trying to negotiate a way through their space is just to shoot at them.
207	* WhatTheHellHero: Tom tells off Chakotay for working with Annorax, and various crewmembers question Janeway on her recklessness.
208	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Annorax may be content to spend eternity rewriting history, but his crew sure isn't...
209	* WholePlotReference: At least the portion set aboard the Krenim temporal weapon ship is this to ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea''. Referenced in the name Annorax -- a version of Arronax, TheNarrator of the aforementioned novel.
210	* WildCard: ''Voyager'' for Annorax; because she arrived unexpectedly from such a faraway sector and is generating her own temporal field, it's impossible to predict her effect on the timeline. Annorax initially considered the ship to be a minor element, but when the temporal shields throw off his latest incursion, he decides to take a closer look.
211	* WithAllDueRespect: As per usual for this trope, Janeway uses it on someone she obviously doesn’t respect at all.
212	-->'''Krenim subcommander:''' Reverse course, or be destroyed!\
213	'''Captain Janeway:''' With all due respect, unless you’ve got [[CompensatingForSomething something a little bigger in your torpedo tubes]] I'm not turning around.
214	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Annorax can't, because his home no longer exists -- he accidentally {{Ret Gone}}d it two hundred years ago, along with his wife and children. He's been desperately trying to correct that mistake ever since, without success.[[note]] And even if he somehow managed it, he ''still'' wouldn't have a family to go back to, as they'd be long dead by now. Whether he would retire satisfied that they got to live out their lives, or continue to rant and rave at time for keeping them from him, we'll never know.[[/note]] In the end, however, history is changed so that he never left home in the first place.

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