30th Anniversary VOY Discussion Marathon

[Nate the Great]

JANEWAY: If your analogy's correct, how do we get through that sheet of ice?
TORRES: Look for a crack.
JANEWAY: Or make a crack. Take something and smack it into the ice until it buckles.
TORRES: Wait a minute. What if we've already made a crack in the ice?
JANEWAY: When we first entered the event horizon.
(Er, how do you make a hole in gravity?)

Exactly. Here we have the start of what SF Debris calls the Magic Meeting Room, a place where metaphors become real.

JANEWAY: If we saturate the event horizon with warp particles, we might be able to see the escaping through the rupture we made when we entered.

Warp particles? What the heck are those supposed to be? Couldn't you just use tachyons?

JANEWAY: Mister Tuvok, take the main deflector off-line. Mister Kim, reroute the port and starboard plasma flow to the main deflector. We can use it to generate a warp field.

The sheer amount of nonsensical Treknobabble in that one dialogue would make me BSOD if such things were possible.

JANEWAY: We found the crack. That's the important thing. Now, how do we make it bigger.
TORRES: Put a wedge in it and force it open. We could try a dekyon beam.

Dekyons were last featured in "Cause and Effect" where they were used to send a transmission to Data in the next time loop. I don't think that these two cases are reconcilable.

The Fiver

Janeway: I can't think of anything to do with Kes and Neelix, so I'm putting them on the senior staff.

The Dilbert Principle in action.

Paris: I don't blame you! Hey B'Elanna, wanna take a shuttle with me later? We could start something called P/T*....
Torres: Oh, that's realistic.

The link leads to the 5MV FAQ, which doesn't mention P/T at all. Is it the wrong link?

Carey: Congratulations on being Chief Engineer, Torres.
Torres: You don't mean that.
Carey: Who cares? I'm disappearing in two episodes.

Yeah that's one of the weird things about Carey. He features in two more episodes before his sudden disappearance. Then he appears twice in episodes where he's used as a marker to indicate "this is the past" as though he died. Then he reappears in "Friendship One" just to die.

Memory Alpha

* Brannon Braga outright said that he didn't care at all about technobabble consistency in this episode. He also implies that he doesn't care about people who do care about it.
* In the first draft of the script the Maquis ship was explicitly called "Zola". It's now usually known as the Val Jean.
* Memory Alpha has a nit of it's own. Janeway says that both Voyagers have exactly the same readings, but their Voyager should show two fewer lifesigns because they're not on the ship.
* Seska is in Engineering, but in this episode they mistakenly put her in a Science uniform. Oops.

Nitcentral

* Someone points out that the close captioning calls Doc "Zimmerman". Whether this is really a nit is up to interpretation.
* Much discussion about calling the ship "The Voyager" instead of just "Voyager".
* Neelix mentions the Illidarians, but the ship won't visit them until the end of the season. Shouldn't the ship have moved past them by then?
* Many mentions of how the event horizon isn't a solid object that you can't punch a crack into.