Talk:Author, Author (episode)

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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 Tom Paris Uniform Colours 3 Mother Kim 4 Marseille 5 Klingon Aphrodisiac? 6 Removed comments

Mike, why did you rv my edit? All I did was make a lk for optronic pathway. Jaf 23:33, 9 Nov 2005 (UTC)Jaf

I left that link in -- but you capitalized links to improper nouns like cloaking device. That's what I reverted. -- Captain Mike K. Bartel^talk 23:35, 9 Nov 2005 (UTC)

• In the reference section? I didn't think any nouns were decaped when they stood alone like that, I though the improper noun cap rule was a sentence structure thing. Jaf 23:37, 9 Nov 2005 (UTC)Jaf
  • Well I think its been S.O.P. to leave them lower case, just for appearances sake. if you want to suggest a change, you should probably log in. There have been vandals today. -- Captain Mike K. Bartel^talk
• It's not really something I feel needs to be changed, I just thought I had been seeing them the the other way. Jaf 05:19, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)Jaf

Perhaps a stupid question but... where does the name "Katanay" come from?

Neither in the Italian dubbing nor in the original, the First Officer's name is mentioned; how did you get it?

See you soon.

Guido.

[edit] Tom Paris Uniform Colours

In background information it states: "With this episode, Robert Duncan McNeill becomes the only other Voyager cast member (besides Robert Picardo) to wear all three department colors on his uniform. (Paris usually wears red, wore gold in "Worst Case Scenario", and wears blue here.)"

However, this is not true, Harry Kim has also worn all three wearing gold normally, blue in this episode and red in "Endgame". 212.139.76.90 01:48, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure that it matters, but when we see Harry Kim, it is in an alternate timeline kinda thing. That might be a distinction, but then again, it might not. Since we are talking about actors (McNeil, Picardo) it may be relevant. Hope this helps. ----Willie 20:51, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mother Kim

"Ensign Kim's mother implies that she has never spoken to Janeway (she says Janeway "sounds like a lovely woman"), yet in "Caretaker", Janeway, describing Kim's mother as "delightful", says that she had told her that she couldn't send her son's clarinet on to the ship as there wasn't time."

Since Voyager was embarking on her maiden voyage and was in a hurry, the conversation about the clarinet probably wasn't spoken, but typed as a letter.

[edit] Marseille

The Tom Paris character in the Doctors holonovel is called Lieutenant Marseille, reffering to a holodeck creation of Tom Paris is suited in that French city. Or do they refer to Hans Joachim Marseille, the legendary fighter pilot of WWII who had 158 air victories against the British in the African desert, therefore he was called "The Star of Africa" ? Due to the fact that both men were successfull pilots that comes to mind I guess. Friedie

Occam's razor would imply the holo-Tom is named for the city in France. Resonancewave 21:05, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd say... obvious joke. If someone's name "Jack London" and you want to parody him, you name him "Jack Manchester" or "Jack Liverpool". It's definitely named after the city... because it's a clever parody of Paris... also being a city name. -- Sulfur 21:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, the city in which Tom Paris's holoprogram is set. The city after which the flying ace WWII hero is named. Doubly clever, in addition to being obvious. 76.200.144.250 21:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Klingon Aphrodisiac?

Is that really a reference? It seems more like a coincidence to me. Reference implies that it was intentional. I think that's up for debate. - TerranRich 21:48, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed comments

Removed the following:

Nitpick-* Ensign Kim's mother implies that she has never spoken to Janeway (she says Janeway "sounds like a lovely woman"), yet in "Caretaker", Janeway, describing Kim's mother as "delightful", says that she had told her that she couldn't send her son's clarinet on to the ship as there wasn't time.

Speculative- * The initial scene of the holonovel portrays the shooting of one critically injured crewman to force treatment of a lesser injured crewman. A similar situation took place during the episode "The Killing Game, Part II". Turanj, a Hirogen commander, tried to force the Doctor to treat a slightly injured Hirogen over a more injured crewman, and when the Doctor refused, he was deactivated for his trouble. One could guess that the Doctor needed to vent his frustration from this event in the holonovel.

Unproven coincidence- * Also interesting to note is that the scene in the holonovel where its analogs of Janeway and Torres are ready to decompile the EMH program is similar to a scene from "Latent Image", where the actual Janeway and Torres allow The Doctor to experience the memories that they were trying to prevent him from remembering, though Janeway originally had the intention of keeping him from ever remembering to keep his program from re-experiencing the looping error between his ethical and cognitive subroutines. Similar to Seven of Nine speaking in defense of The Doctor's rights to individuality in that episode, her holonovel analog also does the same. --31dot 21:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)