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 * All science in Star Trek is Wischi Waschi science.

Mortal Coil
In
 * Neelix is brought back from the dead but, after performing a native american ritual with Chakotay, decides he wants to die again.
 * The metaphor probably refers to people who should be able to act as adults but fail to do so.

Waking Moments
In
 * Chakotay knows he is dreaming when he sees the moon.
 * he also performs a part of a native american ritual to awaken.
 * a part of the crew is suddenly and surprisingly found dead, sitting around a table, in a dream sequence.

Message in a Bottle
In
 * Tom Paris asks Harry Kim to build an artificial intelligence quickly and without preparation, for his convenience, so he can quit his job in the sickbay and go back to piloting the starship. (Complement: You probably want to take extrem precautions to prevent anybody from creating artifical intelligences, at least under conditions that are not well regulated and broadly appreciated)
 * Quote: "You should be keeping a personal computer logbook" (see friendship book)
 * EMH-I remarks "I take energy from life support", which is a humorous allusion to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics: The medical hologram turns of the life support with unconscious people aboard the ship. [1]


 * [1] A criticism of Asimov's robot laws is that the installation of unalterable laws into a sentient consciousness would be a limitation of free will and therefore unethical, consequently Asimov's robot laws would be restricted to explicitly non-sentient machines, which possibly could not be made to reliably understand them under all possible circumstances. (see also: )

Prey
In
 * Captain Kathryn Janeway tells Seven of Nine about an encounter where her team risked their own lives to save somebody who would have killed them and Seven of Nine disagrees vehemently with her attitude.
 * Quote: "You have condemned a sentient creature to die"
 * Species 8472 comes from a fluidic space. (This could also be a reference to aquatic mammals)
 * The hunter says (in german): "Meine Waffe" (-> "eine Affe" {de} -> "a monkey", assuming this to be self-referential: "I'm a monkey")
 * The hunter says to Captain Kathryn Janeway: "Deliver the creature to us or your crew becomes fair game (unprotected game)". She reacts by uttering only the name Tuvok (-> "tue Wok" {de} -> "put it (him) in the Wok" [1])


 * [1] see edible

The Killing Game
In
 * Virtual Americans fight virtual Nazis inside starship voyager.

Insurrection
In the movie
 * Anij combines three distinct roles: the immortal (who fails to die), the enlightened (who doesn't age as much as the children her people have bannished), the villager (the obvious role).
 * Some metaphors in her speech seem to make sense in more than one role at the same time.
 * Matthew Dougherty squints (peers)
 * Matthew Dougherty uses a duck blinded outpost.
 * The Son'a age quickly. (see sausage)
 * The Son'a don't know what the bright light is.
 * The Son'a find themselves trapped in a virtual reality.
 * Son'a : Sonne {de} -> sun.

Hope and Fear
In
 * Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway play a game of Velocity (-> run) on the holodeck.
 * Seven of Nine doesn't want to go to the Alpha Quadrant when it seems to become possible, even though she has been working for the goal for most of the last year. When it becomes possible to return to the Borg she doesn't want that either and at the end of the episode she wants to continue her travel to the Alpha Quadrant (Bad planning and wanting what currently means to change plans is a recurring phenomenon with in-tuitions; this could be interpreted as "Are you sure?").
 * The message from Starfleet Command can be decrypted in several contradictory but consistent ways (although the earlier version is garbled due to the intent of the person doing the decryption)
 * The alien Arturis employs the emotions of the people to further his goal.
 * The war between the Borg and Species 8472 was in the best interest of his people, so Arturis blames the crew for ending that war.
 * Seven of Nine needs a "hardware modification" [1] to be able to step through a forcefield, probably also hinting on computer security. (Things that cannot be done in software can increase computer security [2] but in the case of an implant that has an (assumed) reliable connection to the brain the ability to modify it from the outside by attaching wires does not seem very desirable, especially when the owner cannot make the modification herself).
 * The crew employs the newly acquired Quantum slipstream drive until it fails only to discover afterwards that the technology shouldn't have been used at all. (childish behaviour)
 * Ships travelling with the quantum slipstream can travel very fast. (-> running on a slippery slope)
 * Quotes:
 * "Intuition is an illusion, the human imagination to be able to predict coincidence".
 * "One feels no anger for a storm on the horizon, one just tries to avoid it."
 * "It's intuition if I'm right" (Complement: More usually it's intuition when it does not make sense without translation).
 * "We have always been one step ahead of the Borg." (Complement: Due to good planning the 'collective' thinks, or should think, several steps further than others.)
 * "I was able to escape with my ship, alone but (terrified voice) alive"


 * [1] A piece of wire.


 * [2] see Security Tokens

Night
In
 * Voyager enters a vast region of space with no stars or systems. (void)
 * Neelix suggests rotating offices. [1] (An idea that may lead to greater job satisfaction and fairer distribution of work at the price of efficiency)
 * The aliens who are burried in poisonous anti-matter garbage lack the conversion (-> conversation) technology.
 * Captain Janeway doesn't want to repeat the mistake of compassion.
 * Captain Janeway is surrounded by mutiny (-> DOS) when she suggests that she wants to be left behind.


 * [1] see also: adhere

Drone

 * The Borg don't bear children. ("not to give birth to children" -> "not to tolerate children")
 * Apparently the Borg One grows into an adult very quickly. (-> "Borg aren't children")
 * The Borg One, who has advanced take-no-logic and, in a way, has gone back in tie-me destroys a ship of the collective and then dies himself.
 * The Borg One, who has advanced take-no-logic and, in a way, has gone back in tie-me destroys a ship of the collective and then dies himself.

Once Upon a Time
In
 * Neelix and The Doctor are educators for a small child (unqualified educators)
 * The Holodeck is a toy for children. (Guess why that could be a bad idea)
 * Tuvok prefers to put down his parting words in writing. (see Education, writing letters)

Timeless
In
 * The Quantum slipstream drive (-> slippery slope) leads the ship to an icy grave.
 * A vulcan children's choir greets the return of the Delta Flyer to earth.
 * The people in the Quantum slipstream 'know' they have no alternative (TINA).
 * Tuvok: "Mr. Neelix, you are an inexhaustible source of surprises" (-> troll)
 * Tuvok is in the role of a wise guy, as he knows that Neelix didn't understand his remark, but he is satisfied that, whoever may be listening, may have noticed his irony.
 * Neelix is in the role of a taxi driver.

Infinite Regress
In
 * Seven of Nine acts according to precedents that are not her own.
 * Seven of Nine tells others things that are true for herself:
 * to Naomi: "Your neocortical development is incomplete" -> "You have a brain problem" (she develops a multiple personality disorder herself)
 * she sends somebody else to sickbay, which is where she should be. (exchange of 'first person', see Subject, Predicate, Object)
 * The vinculum brings chaos to order (the opposite of what it is supposedly ment to do) and sends nonsensical commands.
 * Vinculum is also a latin word, meaning "a means of binding".
 * Seven of Nine acts as an educator to the child Naomi as a consequence from her experience.

Nothing Human
In
 * ethics are the main topic, anti-consequently [1] the probability factor goes down and some of the Wischi Waschi science, the Universal translator, fails and the alien suddenly isn't humanoid anymore.


 * [1] like consequently, but time reversed: the cause follows the effect.

Thirty Days
In
 * conservation law requires compensation for the previous episode and Tom Paris goes several hundred kilometers underwater.
 * further references: fish people, sea above.

Counterpoint

 * Quote: "Trust is unknown to all telepathic species. Why take someone's word when you can read their minds?"
 * Hypothesis: What could a telepathic species be looking for, assuming 'trust' to be a less plausible mutation or oversimplification?
 * Reproducibility [1] of ethical decisions of an individual.
 * Reproducibility of ethical standards over generations.
 * Propagation of ethical standards between individuals (within communities and beyond).
 * Ability to verify ethical and logical consistency and desirability of ethical standards.


 * [1] see also: genetics

Latent Image
In
 * Captain Janeway reaffirms she has a right to modify the consciousness of the holographic [1] doctor.
 * Others seem to arbitrarily make copies of the doctor's memory.
 * Due to narrative causality some references from today's episode to recent edits here:
 * At the end the doctor reads a novel. (see Education, diff, 22 November 2005)
 * Ahni Jetal tells the doctor: "I haven't seen you in month, that's probably why I am in good health" (see Conclusions)
 * The doctor angrily complains that there is no way to stop spaceships and chicken soup, because that has been established 20 billion years ago.
 * The doctor injects Acetylcholine (with reference to carbon).
 * The doctor takes X-ray pictures: "showing bones" / "wearing less than no clothing" [2]


 * [1] hollow ra fish dog tor (-> tor {de} -> fool)


 * [2] You find that metaphor when health professionals take X-rays of you that have no medical indication whatsoever, which they occasionally do. This is, of course, something you should bring to the attention of your health insurance when it happens; that it is a YHVH metaphor is no excuse for anything.

Bride of Chaotica!
In
 * Self referential metaphor: Incidentally what you are watching is only slightly more realistic than this (the program on the holodeck). [1]
 * Photonic (probably in the meaning of "enlightened") life forms start killing holograms until the ship is pushed by its drives (-> following it urges) out of their region of space.
 * Another species takes fiction more serious than intended. [2] [3]
 * The language of the science fiction program on the holodeck is translated to 'plain' Star Trek language.
 * Mutation: There is a language that needs to be translated here, but it's not this one. (It's the YHVH metaphors)
 * Chaotica -> Chaotiker {de} -> People who are chaotic are the common enemy.
 * The doctor mimes the "President of the Earth".
 * Everybody acts according to the idiotic rules set by the holodeck program. [2] [4]


 * [1] The episode is also the complement of being more realistic. Realistic science fiction would be much too useful, that's why there is so little of it. Imagine a television series set in an utterly realistic near future with technologies that are expected to arrive in the next 10 to 50 years and ideas for possible impacts on society, as for example, a 20 hour or less working week, more and different approaches to Cohousing, display technology that can be laminated on every surface (E-paper is coming soon, the question could become how do you stop people from laminating every surface with displays?), maybe a direct online democracy? The interesting news items could be how to regulate autonomous machines, what genetic preselection on humans can be tolerated, how to prevent declining education when people no longer need to work, if they don't want to. What services and goods are available to people without money and how are they made available? What communities without money do exist, what services do they offer to members and how do they interact? What happened to the Millennium Development Goals? What ethics do people apply? Imagine a "Harry Potter" like residential school as a setting but with futuristic but realistic and well considered approaches to education, entertainment and pedagogics.


 * [2] You get that impression with the YHVH language, too.


 * [3] I seem to have a horse in the bathroom, like professor Reg Chronotis, at least judging by the sounds, and I seem to be as forgetful as Prak.[5]


 * [4] Pretending to take fictional scenarios serious can be useful education, see Education, but not in the way of a Star Trek holodeck, but in well though out imagination, which can be much more useful than a holodeck (or video / video game)


 * [5] I daresay induced forgetfulness counts as impolite behaviour among telepaths.

Gravity
In
 * the vulcan master can perform telepathy but prefers to teach with inadequate phrases.
 * "Teachers that do not exploit their ability to teach"
 * Quotes:
 * You only see what is in front of you, you have to see what is behind you.
 * looking back -> Rücksicht {de} -> respectfulness of others / consideration for others
 * Complement: looking back -> looking forward -> planning ahead.
 * EMH: "I'm a Doctor, not a battery" (the hologram only lives to work [1], now he is supposed to vanish when he's not required, to conserve energy.)
 * Paris: You know something? I always thought that beneath that cold, Vulcan exterior lay a even colder Vulcan interior. Now, I'm convinced you're a hopeless romantic. Tuvok: There is no need to insult me, Mister Paris.
 * further references: manifold


 * [1] at least by design

Bliss
In
 * Naomi sees the Voyager as Cohousing, which she is going to miss when the ship reaches the earth, so she doesn't share the wish to get there.

Dark Frontier
In
 * Captain Janeway adapts to the Borg philosophy and wants to assimilate some Borg technology.
 * According to the Categorical Imperative she shouldn't be assimilating if she doesn't want to be assimilated. One could argue that the Categorical Imperative doesn't apply here, which might translate to: "What the Captain needs is a situation where the Categorical Imperative is close to meaningless, to justify her behaviour". (the whole voyage through the Delta Quadrant could be interpreted as "You need people you are never going to meet again").
 * The child that wished to make friends with the Borg later became assimilated by the Borg to become a dissident in the end. (Seven of Nine)
 * "Be careful what you wish for".
 * "Taking the wishes of children too serious".
 * Quote: "Consider it a scientific research on how you were raised." [1]
 * On the Voyager patients apparently accept commands from the holographic doctor, concerning their treatment.


 * [1] Education is an area of knowledge that might deserve some more research. (see education model, Education)

The Disease

 * Quotes:
 * Tuvoc: I wait until his own illogicalness overpowers him. (see Taking the point of view of the other)
 * Tuvoc: I require a desk and a bed, nothing more.

Course: Oblivion
In
 * the Warp drive appears to make people sick.
 * the copies [1] of the Voyager crew die.
 * a display on the ship reads "PATTERN ARRAY" (see Patterns and Antipatterns)
 * some of the crew want to be remembered but don't ask by whom, what for and why at all.
 * the usual collection of protagonist behaviour: The ship makes a very dangerous maneuver but the crew receives no warning whatsoever.
 * the copied crew discovers that they are all made of jelly: Their outer appearance (-> character) is much less under their own control than they thought it was.


 * [1] to cope

Doctor's Orders
In
 * Dr. Phlox
 * feeds something inedible to Porthos.
 * consumes traces of it himself, when he licks his fingers. (you get what you give)
 * has a larger portion of it himself. (following a trend, his own precedent)
 * Probably as a metaphorical consequence of this he finds himself alone on a spaceship and the people he meets are only figments of his imagination.
 * A series of incidents brings him into a situation where his mind is occupied by something different and he sees things from a different perspective (angle) as usual when his fundamental ethics as a health professional are challenged: Can he condemn a member of the crew to die when this can potentially save the live of the remaining crew? (a Moose test) [1]
 * Side note: Dr. Phlox's family is a patchwork family.


 * [1] Incidentally that is a useful way to teach ethics: Allow the pupil to form an ethical position, then change his or her perspective and reintroduce earlier problems from an unexpected angle that challenges earlier convictions, garnish with logical complexities, ambiguities or an element of surprise.

Juggernaut
In
 * Tuvok introduces B'Elanna to vulcan meditation, to allow her to control her impulses and act more adult. [1]
 * the Core laborers work in a dangerous section of the ship and have a high mortality rate.
 * the controller of the malon freighter has a second profession as a sculptor. [2]


 * [1] How many adults pursue education in their spare time and how many more could become interested with more spare time, more and better offers for adult education and, maybe, some mild pressure from the community? (see Could regular schools offer evening schools for adults and pupils?)


 * [2] As the Malon seem to have very little respect for the lives of their own citizens that seems unlikely for their society, unless taken as a metaphor in which case it makes sense. Phrased as a question that could be: What mechanisms for job rotation does a fair society need?

Someone to Watch Over Me
In the topic is education of adults (Seven of Nine wants to acquire human social skills).

11:59
In
 * Captain Janeway's ancestor Shannon O'Donnell has a car crash.
 * Janeway explains that she had been inspired to join Star Fleet by her ancestor.
 * According to Janeway's aunt Martha, Shannon was flown around in a private aircraft.
 * Neelix discovers an image of Shannon O'Donnell in a Ferengi database, which seems to be a very unreliable and untrustworthy source of information (but probably not in this special case).
 * Shannon O'Donnell tells Henry Janeway that her car was actually a rocket ship. (a claim which would be the precedent/goal for Janeway being on the Voyager, at least in the Appropriate to the Species model)
 * Seven of Nine tells Janeway that she posseses only a fraction of her ancestor's DNA, Janeway replies that it is not about chromosomes but about character.
 * Neelix tells Seven of Nine that researching genealogy is a lot like fishing: she has to use a wider net
 * Shannon O'Donnell acts very childish:
 * she has no children because "it didn't arise from the circumstances".
 * she is unemployed and looking for adventure.
 * she wants to leave the planet because it has so many problems.
 * she intends to leave a community without any plans for the future.
 * A later photo shows her with very many children. [1]
 * Captain Janeway notices that history isn't as reliable as she thought.
 * some of the crew of Voyager celebrate Happy Ancestors Eve [2]
 * Quote: Gerald Moss: "I've been media contact at NASA, as far as I know your class came up with the slogan."


 * [1] Having too many children (more than approximately 2.1) is occasionally a metaphor for childishness. This is, as usual, only a trend, not a reliable piece of information.


 * [2] That's probably a complement, at least when you decide to believe in Sippenhaft-karma (which may exist or not exist depending on your own ethical position [3] [4])


 * [3] Accepting the results of Colonization as they are commonly represented might be an implicit opt-in to this.


 * [4] Just for the record: My grandparents did have a farm and a butchery. (abstract: the precedent of messing up the lives of less intelligent creatures)

Relativity
In
 * the Captain of the time ship USS Relativity gives the command to send Seven of Nine through the transporter when that could seriously endanger her health, but in a situation where it seems to be the sensible choice (-> "Apparently you consider non-social behaviour unavoidable?")
 * Quotes:
 * I hope you were not referring to the pot roast with medical emergency?
 * Tempus fugit (-> tie me? fuck it)
 * I haven't phrased grammatically correct sentences for years.
 * Smalltalk reduces my efficiency.

Survival Instinct
In
 * Naomi and Seven see each other as extended family.
 * The trio that hasn't developed advanced ethics remains in a mind meld.
 * Seven is offered to repeat previous behaviour, to return the trio to the Borg collective.
 * This time the lives of the trio depend on them being returned to the Borg collective. (What Seven would have needed the last time would have been a moral excuse for doing what she did).
 * The trio that wanted to leave the collective remained in a collective, while Seven, who wanted to remain left the Borg collective. (-> Somebody else gets what you wished for)
 * The taxi drivers Tom Paris and Harry Kim follow the aggressive trend of the trio.

Barge of the Dead
In
 * B'Elanna Torres tries to wound (-> verwundern) a dead person.
 * In Klingon mythology parents are punished for the misconduct of their children. (Reversal of inheriting karma, see also : Sippenhaft-karma)
 * Quote: The barge, your mother, these are symbols that your subconsciousness uses.

Alice
In
 * Tom Paris buys Alice (-> believes anything)
 * Tom enters a spaceship on a spaceship and becomes even more weird than his usual weirdness (the former is a metaphor for the later).
 * The spaceship Alice sets a direct course to the worst case, a particle fountain likely to kill Tom.

Dragon's Teeth
In
 * Captain Janeway wishes she had a Betazoid, a telepath, at hand to verify the ethics of the Vaadwaur (she ignores the fact that she has a telepath, Mr. Tuvok)
 * Vaadwaur meant 'foolish' in old Talaxian (supposedly due to the fact that those duped by the Vaadwaur were considered foolish, but this explanation is not satisfactory, as the Vaadwaur apparently had been known for surprise attacks)

The Voyager Conspiracy
In
 * Seven suffers from paranoia and constructs some wild theories, which is typical of the universe because it offers a lot of speculation and very little facts.

Pathfinder
In
 * Reginald Barclay dreams up a virtual spaceship on a holodeck.

Fair Haven
In
 * the double standards of the Voyager crew towards holograms are very obvious:
 * If there is an ethical requirement to treat the holographic doctor as an actual person, why can other holograms be treated like software programs?

Blink of an Eye
seems to be a mutation of Robert Forward's novel Dragon's Egg. [1] [2]
 * The holographic doctor has a son, Jason Tebreeze, while on the surface of the planet, but doesn't want to elaborate.
 * Captain Janeway, as usual, makes some bad default choices. [3]
 * People ignore the time differential and waste a lot of time.
 * There is a failure to communicate between the planet and the Voyager, between different levels of the time differential.
 * The pilot, who wants to follow dumb orders strictly, survives while the copilot, who investigates matters, dies.


 * [1] According to the author "A textbook on neutron star physics disguised as a novel."


 * [2] which, from what I can remember right now, contained some amusing pilingual metaphors.


 * [3] e.g.: Time on the planet is much faster and the holographic doctor does not age at all so it would be a good idea to have the doctor permanently on the planet, with a computer terminal, so that the doctor and the people on the planet can enter information and access information entered on the voyager in order to solve the common problem instead of risking the attacks that nearly destroy Voyager. The pilot doesn't return back to the planet, with or without the doctor, while the transporter is still available.

Virtuoso
In the Voyager meets the Qomar (-> coma), who do not understand what music is and immediately begin to extend its possibilities / potentials / options.

Memorial
In
 * the memorial is a computer. (-> commute)
 * Quote: Everybody seems to have a part of the puzzle. (Narrative causality again supplies a link)

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