Line #21 Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E25S6E1Equinox


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Another Federation ship in the Delta Quadrant? Man, what are the odds of that?]]
3	''Voyager'' encounters another Federation ship that has been stranded in the Delta Quadrant, only to discover that they have been using aliens as a power source and a means to get back home.
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7	* ActionPrologue: ''Equinox'' under attack.
8	* AffectionateNickname:
9	** Burke calls B'Elanna "[=BLT=]" (her initials) and she calls him "[[VitriolicBestBuds petaQ]]". When Tom shows symptoms of jealousy over this, Harry calls him "Turkey Platter" (TP being his initials).
10	** And then [[http://reviewboy.com/equinox.html Jim "Reviewboy" Wright gets into the act]]:
11	---> "Clapping Tom on the elbow in a sympathetic "sucks to be you" gesture, Hot Kimchi[[note]]Harry Kim[[/note]] leaves Turkey Platter[[note]]Tom Paris[[/note]] to simmer in his own juices."
12	* ApeShallNeverKillApe: The nucleogenic lifeforms don't believe that humans would really attack other humans, although a quick perusal of any era of human history could clear up that misconception.
13	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After Ransom okays operating on Seven and tries to cover with IDidWhatIHadToDo.
14	-->'''Seven:''' You destroy lifeforms to attain your goals, then claim that they left you no choice. Does that logic comfort you?
15	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Seven forgives the Doctor for turning evil and doing unauthorised brain surgery, but gets a little of her own back by claiming that his rendition of ''My Darling Clementine'' was off key. The Doctor challenges her to a duet.
16	* AssholeVictim: The ''Equinox'' crew that mutinied against Captain Ransom following his HeelFaceTurn, including B'Elanna's old flame.
17	* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Turns out that there's a Starfleet regulation (specifically Regulation 191, Article 14) stating that in combat situations, the captain of the more heavily-armed ship has overall command. In real-world militaries, it's usually the senior captain who would make the final call, based on date of promotion. (Although the episode's novelization reveals that Janeway only quotes half the regulation, and it doesn't actually allow her to order Ransom and his crew to AbandonShip.) As Reviewboy summarizes, "When you're flying ''Brute Force One'', you call the shots."
18	* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: When asked, Janeway tells Ransom that she's never broken the PrimeDirective, just... "bent" it on occasion.
19	* BondOneLiner: After the Doctor deletes the ''Equinox''' EMH and shuts off the transmission to Burke.
20	-->'''Doctor:''' I'm afraid your physician is no longer on call.
21	* BrokenPedestal: Ransom is famous in Starfleet for rediscovering a species thought to be extinct and making first contact with them; as a fellow scientist, Janeway always wanted to meet him. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor ... And it turns out that he's been killing sentient lifeforms to use as fuel, violating his oath as a Starfleet officer. Janeway's ensuing DeathGlare is almost as deadly as the nucleogenic lifeforms.
22	* TheChainsOfCommanding: Ransom cites these for his actions, maintaining that getting the paltry survivors of his crew home necessitated using sentient creatures as fuel. Janeway doesn't buy it for a minute.
23	* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: When Janeway asks Ransom about his Prime Directive violations, he says something ambiguous about "walking that line once or twice" before drawing attention to the fallen dedication plaque on TheBridge.
24	* {{Cliffhanger}}: An alien swoops down on Captain Janeway...ToBeContinued.
25	* CombatPragmatist:
26	** Recognizing that ''Equinox'' is otherwise no match for ''Voyager'', Burke has his EMH transmit information about ''Voyager's'' DeflectorShields, allowing ''Equinox's'' torpedoes to penetrate those shields and damage ''Voyager'' directly. By the time the Doctor beats his EvilCounterpart, they've done enough damage to leave ''Voyager'' adrift.
27	** After earlier being outsmarted by the ''Equinox'''s EMH, The Doctor wins round two by simply telling the computer to delete its program.
28	* ContinuityNod:
29	** According to ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', thermolytic reactions are very bad for organic beings. This episode shows why -- anyone who [[TouchOfDeath gets hit by one of the subspace aliens]] suffers a thermolytic reaction that leaves their body desiccated like a mummy.
30	** To ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', wherein an enemy vessel knowing a Federation starship's deflector shield frequencies can shoot right through them and inflict damage directly, which is what led to the end of the ''Enterprise''-D. Here, the ''Equinox'' EMH takes a less subtle approach of directly reporting ''Voyager'''s shield frequencies straight to his vessel's bridge. At least until the Doctor returns to his sickbay and deletes his EvilCounterpart to put a stop to it.
31	** Much as in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', the protagonists' ship fatally disables their target (also Starfleet) vessel by destroying its port warp nacelle, from behind, using a torpedo.
32	** A random line near the end of Part 1, stated from Captain Ransom, asking is his alternative to being destroyed, "Thirty years in the brig," seems to be a major easter egg to a line Janeway says in a dream sequence in the episode, "Thirty Days", earlier in that season. Coincidence, I think not!
33	** The regulation that Janeway quotes which gives her overall command is apparently the same one that allowed Captain Picard to take command of the Starfleet armada in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', as the new ''Enterprise''-E was the most powerful Starfleet ship on the battlefield.
34	* CriticalStaffingShortage: ''Equinox'' is running on a skeleton crew, especially since they went through over half of their {{Red Shirt}}s only a month after getting pulled into the Delta Quadrant. On the other hand, the survivors help alleviate ''Voyager'''s problems in this area, once they've been knocked down a few pips.
35	* CutenessProximity: Everyone's general reaction to "Captain's Assistant" Naomi Wildman introducing herself to Ensign Gilmore.
36	* CuttingTheKnot: Rather than fight the ''Equinox'' EMH for control of his sickbay, The Doctor simply tells the computer to delete him.
37	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Chakotay says that she's getting a little vendetta-y, Janeway says that she's simply going to hunt Ransom down "whatever it takes, no matter the cost" as though that's not the very definition of the word "vendetta".
38	* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Ransom would prefer Seven to voluntarily give up the codes she used to lock the ''Equinox'' crew out of their alien-powered propulsion system rather than watch the Doctor dissect her brain for them.
39	* DressingAsTheEnemy: The ''Equinox'' EMH poses as his ''Voyager'' self to free his crewmates in ''Voyager's'' brig.
40	* EasilyForgiven:
41	** Seven forgives the Doctor for his actions, and they make a date for some DuetBonding on the holodeck. This one at least has the excuse of Seven knowing the fact the doctor was more or less brainwashed.
42	** Despite spending most of the second half baying for his blood, one conciliatory hail from the deposed Ransom is all it takes for Janeway to decide he's acting in good faith again.
43	** Janeway and Chakotay also resolve their falling-out after a short discussion about their actions and the symbolic way the ship's nameplate fell off the wall. This in particular is said to be one of the things that soured Ronald D. Moore on writing for the show, as he just found it completely ridiculous, even going so far as to write on the episode's script "This is a total betrayal of the audience. This is wrong. You can't end the show like this. If you are going to do all this other stuff, you can't end the show like this, because it's not fair, because it's not true, and it just wouldn't happen."
44	** Averted with the survivors of the ''Equinox''. They all become stripped of rank and with limited privileges aboard ''Voyager''. Janeway makes it clear that she regrets trusting them off the bat and that it'll probably take a long time and significant effort on their part for her to deem them trustworthy.
45	* EndOfAnAge: "Equinox: Part I" was the last ''Voyager'' episode to air concurrently with ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. "Equinox: Part II" was the first time since the 1992 ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' two-part episode "Chain Of Command" where only one ''Star Trek'' series was on the air at a given time.
46	* EnergyBeings: The nucleogenic lifeforms; in fact it was because of this trope they were used as a sort of LivingBattery by the ''Equinox'' crew.
47	* EvenEvilHasStandards: As ruthless as he is, even Ransom is so disturbed by the [=EMH=] singing in harmony with a half-lobotomized Seven that he has to leave the room.
48	* EvilCounterpart: The ''Equinox'' has its own Mark One EMH [[MadDoctor without ethical subroutines]], and who seems as loyal to his crew as ''Voyager[='=]''s Doctor is to theirs. Of course, given how Ransom treated his EMH, it's doubtful that the ''Equinox'' Doctor developed genuine loyalty as ''Voyager'''s did, and more likely that it was programmed into him, making the dark inversion even greater.
49	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Roxann Dawson gets a new wig which is more wavy than her previous straightened 'do.
50	* FallenHero: Captain Ransom of the ''Equinox'' went from a respected Starfleet captain to a man authorizing the systematic murder of sentient beings for the benefit of his crew.
51	* FinishDialogueInUnison:
52	-->'''Janeway:''' We've been stranded in the Delta Quadrant for five years. We were pulled here against our will by an alien called--
53	-->'''Ransom/Janeway:''' ...the Caretaker.
54	* FirstNameBasis: Janeway notices that Ransom allows the ''Equinox'' crew to address him by his first name. (She is also on first-name basis with her senior staff, but they haven't entered first-name basis with ''her'' except for Chakotay.)
55	--> '''Ransom:''' When you've been in the trenches for as long as we have, rank and protocol are luxuries.
56	* FrictionlessReentry: Averted. When ''Voyager'' catches up to the ''Equinox'' in orbit of a planet, Ransom has the ship fly into the atmosphere so ''Voyager'' will have to pursue. With ''Voyager'' still being harassed by the aliens, they can't afford to stress their shields trying to keep up, allowing Ransom to make a getaway.
57	* GoingDownWithTheShip: Ransom dies piloting his ship a safe distance away from ''Voyager'' as the aliens breach the warp core.
58	* GoodCopBadCop: Janeway and Chakotay interrogate Lessing. Janeway wants Lessing to give her the tactical status of the ''Equinox'''s captain, Ransom. She threatens to lower the shields in the room, which would allow the aliens an opening to get through and attack him, while she and Chakotay leave the room. Lessing demonstrates his familiarity with this trope, looking at Chakotay and asking "I suppose the plan is that you're going to come to my rescue now, right?" Chakotay, however, admits that "There's no plan as far as I know. The Captain's on her own." When Lessing continues not to talk, Janeway and Chakotay leave the room and Janeway proceeds to do just what she said she was going to do, shocking Chakotay, who thought she was only bluffing. Chakotay ends up going in there to rescue Lessing. (He does crack, but not before being badly spooked.)
59	* {{Hallucinations}}: Ransom tries to escape his conscience in his HappyPlace, a personal holoimager, but keeps running into a hallucination of Seven of Nine there that acts as his conscience. It eventually turns into one of the nucleogenic aliens for a JumpScare.
60	* HeelRealization: Two for the price of one.
61	** Ransom after seeing hallucinations of Seven and a nucleogenic alien.
62	** Janeway admits at the end that Chakotay had good reason to oppose her as she was slowly becoming Ransom (The end justified the means).
63	* HellIsThatNoise: The extra-dimensional aliens have to open portals into our universe to attack. When a portal forms, the first thing people hear is a high-pitched, whining hiss. It's pretty creepy for the characters, who are asking, "WHERE IS IT? WHERE IS IT?". If they aren't fast enough, it's the last sound they'll hear.
64	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Janeway slides down the rungs as she relentlessly pursues Ransom.
65	* HopeSpot: In the penultimate act of part I, the crimes of Ransom and his crew are exposed and they've been locked up, Janeway and her officers are looking for a way to communicate with the creatures, and a peaceful resolution seems imminent. Then the Doctor is disabled by his EvilTwin who releases Ransom and the others from confinement, and then [[HyperspeedEscape they escape]] on the ''Equinox'' with Seven as their prisoner, leaving ''Voyager'' under attack. ToBeContinued...
66	* HourglassPlot: Ransom and Janeway swap roles in the second episode, with Janeway feeling the pressure and compromising her ideals, while Ransom rediscovers his humanity.
67	* HumansAreBastards: The ''Equinox'' crew systematically capture, kill and process the nucleogenic aliens to speed the ship and crew's flight home. As a result, it's understandable why the aliens end up with a massive grudge towards them and their ship.
68	* HydePlaysJekyll: The EMH from the ''Equinox'' forcibly trades places with the Doctor on ''Voyager''. In Part I, he helps free his shipmates under the guise of the Doctor, and in Part II, he periodically advises them about ''Voyager'''s plans. After he's brought back to normal on ''Voyager'', the Doctor lampshades this, saying "It's quite disconcerting to know that all someone has to do is flick a switch to turn me into Mr. Hyde.".
69	* HyperspeedAmbush: ''Voyager'' catches up to ''Equinox'' during the climax and destroys one of her nacelles with a couple of torpedoes.
70	* ICantFeelMyLegs: Noah Lessing when Harry and Seven find him. Fortunately, his legs are still there, and he's later seen moving under his own power.
71	* IceQueen: Seven becomes one of these as she remains DefiantToTheEnd towards Ransom, Burke and their crew.
72	-->'''Burke:''' You might try letting your shields down, or it's going to be a lonely trip.
73	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Janeway doesn't buy it when Ransom tries to justify his actions via the Starfleet rulebook.
74	--> '''Ransom:''' Starfleet Regulation 3, Paragraph 12: "In the event of imminent destruction, a captain is authorized to preserve the lives of his crew by any justifiable means."\
75	'''Janeway:''' I doubt that protocol covers mass murder.\
76	'''Ransom:''' In my judgement, it did.\
77	'''Janeway:''' [=UNacCEPTable=]!
78	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Captain Ransom is clearly taken by his beautiful captive, and offers to replace Janeway as a role model, but Seven coldly refuses him and continues to appear as a hallucination to needle Ransom's conscience.
79	* InsigniaRipOffRitual: The ''Equinox'' survivors are stripped of rank and turned into ordinary crewmen.
80	-->'''Janeway:''' The last time we welcomed you aboard, you took advantage of our trust. You betrayed this crew. I won't make that mistake again. Noah Lessing, Marla Gilmore, James Morrow, Brian Sofin, Angelo Tassoni, you are hereby stripped of rank. You'll be expected to serve as crewmen on this vessel. Your privileges will be limited, and you'll serve under close supervision for as long as I deem fit. This time, you'll have to earn our trust. Dismissed.
81	* IOweYouMyLife: Averted. While Lessing expresses his gratitude to Seven of Nine, his "Angel of Mercy." he doesn't make a quip about her predicament even though it more than likely the fact she about to be dissected is common knowledge on the ''Equinox'' crew.
82	* ItCanThink: The first sign that the aliens are intelligent is when they deliberately focus their attacks on a single area of ''Voyager's'' shields, collapsing it in seconds and nearly breaking through if not for some quick thinking by Harry.
83	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope:
84	** Ransom and the ''Equinox'' crew have been doing this for a while, starting from using the remains of a nucleogenic alien that died due to bad luck, and moving to systematically capturing and murdering the beings to supercharge their warp drive for a quick(er) flight home.
85	** Janeway then does this in response, with her RoaringRampageOfRevenge on the ''Equinox'' and her crew leading to progressively darker places.
86	* JustFollowingOrders: Ransom pleads for leniency for his crew, saying they were only obeying their captain. Janeway's response: "Their mistake." She does show some leniency towards the survivors -- that is, stripping them of rank and putting them to work under close supervision for the foreseeable future rather than throwing them in the brig.
87	* KarmicDeath: Certain crew members of the ''Equinox'', prominently Lt. Burke, got seriously owned by the very aliens they were using.
88	* KnockoutAmbush: Tom and Chakotay pull this on Lessing and an ''Equinox'' RedShirt in order to capture them for interrogation.
89	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Since ''Equinox'' isn't built for combat, Ransom's trademark is a willingness to hide and wait out his opponents rather than risk a direct confrontation. This is entirely sensible, considering the only chance he has against ''Voyager'' is when they have a mole on board sending the shield frequencies so their attacks can get through.
90	* LastWords:
91	-->'''Ransom:''' You've got a fine crew, Captain! Promise me you'll get 'em home!\
92	'''Janeway:''' I promise.
93	* LoopholeAbuse: Ransom, when called out by Janeway on his killing the aliens, invokes a Starfleet regulation permitting a captain to take any justifiable action to stave off the imminent destruction of their ship. Janeway quickly points out that no sane person would consider ''mass-murder'' a "justifiable action".
94	* MeaningfulName: The equinox is the time (twice each year) when day and night are of equal length, typically around March 20 and September 22 of any given year ([[MeaningfulReleaseDate fittingly, Part II premiered on September 22, 1999]]). The ''Equinox'' is ''Voyager'''s darker parallel.
95	* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Subverted in that out of the entire ''Equinox'' crew, only five of them survive, and out of those five, only one of them (Marla Gilmore) is a woman.
96	* TheMole: The ''Equinox'' EMH poses as our Doctor on board ''Voyager'', sending information on ''Voyager''[='=]s DeflectorShields to Burke during their final battle.
97	* MoodDissonance: Ransom is disturbed by Seven StrappedToAnOperatingTable, mindlessly singing a duet with the MadDoctor who's operating on her brain.
98	* MoralityChip: Both the ''Equinox'' and ''Voyager'' EMH's have their ethical subroutines deleted by the ''Equinox'' crew.
99	* MoralMyopia: Ransom calls out Janeway's moral preaching over his escalating to mass murder against a sentient species to convert their corpses into warp drive fuel, completely overlooking the consequence of his forsaking any sense of morality being that said sentient species members are now out for all his crew's blood, and have been terrifyingly effective at exacting their vengeance.
100	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: The EMH aboard the ''USS Equinox'' had his "ethical subroutines" removed so he would gladly experiment on the extradimensional aliens to turn them into a fuel source. The Doctor likewise becomes fully willing to dissect Seven's brain to get access to the codes stored there when Ransom does the same to him, despite their being friends (and his unrequited love for her).
101	* TheMutiny: Burke mutinies against Ransom when he wants to surrender. Janeway mentions Chakotay could have done the same when she walked right up to the MoralEventHorizon, but he says it would have been "crossing a line".
102	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Captain ''Ransom?'' [[DeadpanSnarker Sound like a character our heroes can trust]]!
103	* NewOldFlame: For BLT. Too bad he turns out to be a treacherous jerk who'd rather let her become a victim of the aliens that were attacking them.
104	* NoodleIncident: Early in their voyage, the ''Equinox'' encountered a species called the Krowtonan Guard. Nothing is mentioned about them except that they are very territorial, and Ransom's decision to cross their space cost the lives of over half his crew.
105	* TheOner: One of Trek's greatest, clocking in at 2 minutes and 40 seconds; for the entire final scene, the camera follows Janeway from the conference room, where she scolds the ''Equinox'' survivors and strips them of their rank, into the bridge, where she reconciles with Chakotay before they notice that ''Voyager's'' commemoration plaque has fallen off its place on the wall.
106	* PerpSweating: Captain Janeway threatens to let the aliens have their way with an ''Equinox'' crew member she captured to make him start talking. Chakotay thinks this is going too far and ends up getting the information out of the crew member without letting the aliens get at him.
107	* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Or in this case, dead aliens.
108	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Captain Ransom beams Seven and all but his bridge crew to ''Voyager'' before allowing the aliens to destroy his ship. Since ''Equinox'' has disabled ''Voyager'', his last act is to pilot the ship far enough away so ''Voyager'' isn't caught in the blast.
109	* RedShirt: In addition to all the casualties on the ''Equinox'', several nameless crewmembers on ''Voyager'' bite the dust, one of whom flatlines in Sickbay before the EMH can be brought back online.
110	* RevealingCoverUp: The ''Equinox'' crew deliberately flooded the science lab where they conducted experiments on the nucleogenic aliens with harmful radiation to keep the ''Voyager'' crew from learning about their crimes. However, B'Elanna and Tuvok see through the ruse, and send the Doctor over to poke around and find out what they're so desperate to hide.
111	* RevengeBeforeReason: Janeway fully admits that she's going to get Ransom no matter what it takes. She eschews Chakotay's suggestion that they prioritize communication with the aliens in favor of hunting down the ''Equinox'', which is what they have to resort to in the end anyhow.
112	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The aliens mercilessly attack the ''Equinox'' for killing several of their own. When ''Voyager'' flies in to help, her crew become targets as well.
113	* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The ''Equinox'' met the Ankari more than 10,000 light-years from where they meet ''Voyager'', but Janeway is later able to meet with them within 50 light-years. It is stated that the ''Equinox'' met them on their home world. They are a spacefaring race, and ''Voyager'' meets one of their ships. But the group Janeway meets seem to know all about what has been going on (though given that they can communicate with the nucleogenic aliens, that's not surprising)
114	* ShellShockedVeteran: Marla Gilmore panics in turbolifts because they have no escape route in case fissures open up.
115	* SoundtrackDissonance: InUniverse -- while lobotomizing Seven, the Doctor sings "Clementine" and an improvised variant of "Dem Bones." Ransom is clearly disturbed by it.
116	* StatusQuoIsGod: Ronald D. Moore was furious over how the Janeway/Chakotay conflict was just dropped at the end of the episode and never brought up again. Neither do we hear about the former ''Equinox'' crew who are on probation, even in "Good Shepherd" which deals with several problematic crewmembers.
117	* SubvertedCatchphrase: The ''Equinox'' EMH posing as the Doctor, seeing ''Voyager'''s sickbay littered with casualties.
118	-->"Please state the nature of the... ''[looks around]'' don't bother."
119	* TastesLikeFriendship: At the end of the episode, Janeway and Chakotay reconcile by agreeing to bring salad and croutons to Neelix's potluck.
120	* TemporarilyAVillain: The Doctor is reprogrammed to perform unethical-at-best medicine by Ransom.
121	* TooDumbToLive: When the Doctor makes his way back to ''Voyager'' (with his return restoring his ethics), the ''Equinox''-EMH threatens to destroy him by saying he's planted explosives throughout the holomatrix and all it will take is a signal -- "Computer, delete the ''Equinox'' Emergency Medical Hologram." Whoops.
122	* TouchOfDeath: The aliens desiccate any living being they manage to touch, though PlotArmor saves Janeway and Chakotay from glancing blows at the start of the second half.
123	* TranquilFury: Janeway as she informs the ''Equinox'' survivors that they're being stripped of rank for their crimes.
124	* TheUnfettered: Evil!Doc enjoys no longer having morality subroutines, as it makes him more efficient.
125	* VillainHasAPoint: Ransom, when he calls Janeway out on judging him for his breaking of Federation principles. While it's ambiguous whether Ransom is telling the truth about his ship's supposed hardships before they began provoking the aliens (he makes the above statement right after Janeway has called him out on multiple BlatantLies, and the episode gives us naught but Ransom's word on this particular matter), his point still stands, if only in a hypothetical context.
126	-->"It's easy to cling to your principles when you're standing on a vessel with its bulkheads intact, manned by a crew that's not starving."
127	* WeakWilled: Turning off his MoralityChip turns the Doctor instantly evil, despite the ''Equinox'' EMH [[FridgeLogic showing crew loyalty without ethical subroutines]]. At the end of the episode, Seven promises to beef up his security with some Borg algorithms.
128	* WhamLine: The line that reveals just how far gone the ''Equinox'' crew is, before ''Equinox's'' EMH disables ''Voyager's'' and the ''Equinox'' crew retakes their ship:
129	--> '''Equinox's EMH''': They deleted my ethical subroutines.
130	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The first alien was killed solely by accident, but the ''Equinox'' crew began doing it on purpose to get home. When continuing their practices means operating on Seven, Ransom realizes how much he's devalued sentient beings.
131	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The five surviving members of the ''Equinox'' crew are absorbed into ''Voyager's'' crew...and we never hear from any of them again.
132	* WhatTheHellHero: Chakotay confronts Janeway multiple times over the course of the two-parter, calling her on her vendetta-level pursuit of the ''Equinox'' crew. She just removes him from duty to put a stop to it. She threatens to do the same to Tuvok, who wisely shuts up.
133	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Rather than argue with or fight the ''Equinox'' EMH, the Doctor simply has the computer delete his EvilCounterpart and moves on to stop the transmission of ''Voyager'''s shield frequencies.
134	* WithDueRespect: When Ransom announces his intention to cooperate with Janeway.
135	--> '''Burke:''' Rudy, with all due respect, have you lost your mind?\
136	'''Ransom:''' Just the opposite.
137	* WritersCannotDoMath: In the space of the same conversation between Janeway and Ransom, it's first implied that harvesting the aliens would hardly be of any benefit to the ''Equinox'' at all (increasing their warp efficiency by 0.03%), then that just one alien gave the ''Equinox'' the same kind of 10,000 light-year jump that ''Voyager'' got from the slipstream drive earlier in Season 5, and then that they'd have to harvest 63 more aliens (meaning that each alien would provide around 500 light-years' worth of fuel), which would shorten the journey home to about a year.
138	* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: B'Elanna says Tom is cute when he's jealous.

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