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Another Janeway episode...was more of a Mrs. Borg rather than a Mr. Borg type of episode even though I did spend my early years in Indiana before I was assimilated.
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Juggernaut
The writers must be brain dead when it comes to putting together a B'Elanna episode. In "Juggernaut" we get the recycled script used for the episode in which she and the Doctor beam over to the ship where the ships hologram has killed everyone. Just add some radiation, the Malon, a deranged radiated Malon, sub Neelix/Chakotay for Doc and you basically have the same plot just a different ship.
As the Malon ship spirals out of control and is ready to explode B'Elanna (in her Starfleet issue T-Shirt) saves the day much like the episode last season. Where is Seven during this replay? Back in Astrometrics providing support for Janeway's plan to save the quadrant from a big burst of theta radiation. In what has become typical this season, we either get a lot of Seven or about five minutes or less in some support role in Astrometrics.
Mr. Borg complements makeup for the radiated Malon. Just add a few Borg implants and he could be one of the guys.
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The Fight
Many questions are answered in this episode of Voyager caught in Chaotic Space including:
1. Chakotay wraps-up the list of command members experiencing some sort of emotional breakdown either of their own making (Janeway, Neelix, B'Elanna, Tom, and Harry) or due to an alien influence (Seven).
2. If an episode deals with aliens and dreaming, Chakotay is you man (Waking Moments)
3. Most of the episodes this year have something to do with the holodeck
4. Some of the writers from DS9 must be transferring to Voyager (DS9 has the cast members talking as the prophets and in this episode, the aliens use Voyagers command staff to relay their message)
5. Dr. Chaotica does not live in Chaotic Space.
Seven is on screen for less than five minutes. Jeri only has a few small scenes in Astrometrics and in the dream sequence but not much more than that.
Mr. Borg thought this episode should be called "The Sleep" rather than "The Fight" because this Borg had trouble keeping his bionic eye open for the entire hour of this episode.
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Course: Oblivion
Seven catches a bouquet? Seven and Harry as a couple? It's all here in this episode filled with a major plot twist. What did Mr. Borg think about this one....read all about it in our upcoming newsletter.
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The Disease
Harry goes for some alien karma in this episode. For some reason women from other planetary
systems find him irresistible. This is the second episode in which Harry and alien love are
the main emphasis of the storyline. Remember the planet of women that tried to literally
suck the life out of him a couple of seasons ago? In this Harry story, Voyager is helping an
alien ship get up to running order as a goodwill gesture. In the interaction between crews,
Harry meets his love interest. Without medical clearance and approval of the Captain, Harry
performs a one-on-one First Contact with the alien female named Tal . Ok, what happened to
Seven and Harry? The writers seem to have blown out the relationship between those two
without giving us any clue why. Although the alien woman does have a look that resembles
Seven in a wig. Getting back to the story, Harry quizzes Seven on love and gets the Borg
response that love is like a disease (and so we get the episode title). Seven then observes
Harry glowing (literally) and wisks him off to sickbay. In sickbay Harry asks Seven to leave so he can
have a man to holo doc talk. When the Doc finds out about the close encounter, of the
strangest kind, Harry gets a free pass to see Janeway. Janeway reminds him that Starfleet
had a three centimeter thick book on interspecies mating (how its not done). When Harry
confronts his lover, he finds the glowing is part of the mating ritual for her species.
In the B plotline, we get info that life on the alien ship being helped by Voyager, is not
all honey and roses. Saboteurs unleash a ship eating bug to gain their freedom from the
mothership. When the bug starts munching on Voyager it's time to get to the bottom of all
this nonsense. Guess what, yes…Tal is a part of the saboteurs on the alien ship. When Tal
is taken into custody, the story focuses on Harry. When Harry smarts off to Janeway, he gets
off the hook due to the Docs report showing he has biomedical link to his new mate. (Mr.
Borg note: If Harry was a drone on my cube, I would have disassembled him at this point).
Meanwhile, on the alien ship, the ship-eating bugs set loose by Tal start tearing the alien
ship apart. As pieces start flying into Voyager, Janeway risks the ship (again) to save the
alien ship from breaking apart. Val's buddies decide to let Voyager go before it is
destroyed. Additionally, he allows and the rebel crew to leave the collective. Harry says
goodbye to Val and Seven decides that love is not a disease but is actually a strength for
humans.
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Dark Frontier
The Boys are back in town and Seven is wanted...by the Borg and what the Borg want they
usually assimilated? Will Seven be assimilated? What will Mr. Borg think about this one?
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Bliss
What is really bliss about this episode, well it's the first episode in a while were Mr. Borg
awards Five Borg Heads. Jeri finally gets to kick a few heads and take names in this one.
The episode begins in the Delta Flyer with Seven, Tom, and the Wildman horned girl bonding together (You may ask why the girl is in the Flyer, well the only reason I could determine was to set the future scenes between Seven and the small one). When the trio arrives back on Voyager, Seven is surprised to see Astrometrics filled with a giddy command staff messing with her stuff. While Seven was away, the crew found what they think is a wormhole with a one-way ticket home. When Seven casts doubt on the whether the hole is real or Memorex, Janeway shoots her down with a verbal barrage. A trip to sickbay reveals the Doc does not appear to be as giddy as the rest. Seven enlists the Docs help in determining what is going on. The Captain believes Sevens' apprehension about returning to earth clouds her ability to share the joy. A skeptical Seven breaks into Janeway's logs and begins to see a pattern. Janeway originally calls the wormhole an elaborate ruse but begins to change her views about it with each new log entry until she fully believes it is a conduit home. Our drone then sprints to Astormetrics for further analysis including contact with a ship stuck in what now appears to be a large Venus Flytrap (yes they describe it as a Pitcher (SP?) plant but more people know what a Flytrap is). When Chakotay arrives, she tries to explain the situation but the Commander will not listen and in walks Tuvok. Seven is told she may no long go to Astormetrics and is escorted out. In the meantime, the crew receives messages from home that bolster the hysteria. In one communiqué, Starfleet instructs the crew to shut the Docs program down and to deactivate Sevens' Borg transceiver. With the help of Naomi, Seven escapes Chakotay and initiates a site to site transport to engineering. Beaming in with a modified pulse rifle, she zaps B'Elanna and the engineering crew, erects a force field, and takes control of the ship. Janeway then figures she can zap Seven by pushing a charge through the control panel. It works and Seven is sent sprawling to the ground (Ok Seven, Janeway jolted you as a full Borg in Scorpion II and here we go again. Next time Mr. Borg suggests you wear gloves when you attempt to take control of the ship. Which by the way seems very easy (taking control of the ship) for you to do? With Seven down, the ship heads into the mouth of the wormhole, but in reality it is the mouth of a monster . As they enter, the crew goes into lala land and each crewmember begins experiencing a dream sequence (including the first sighting of Tuvok's wife). As the ship is panned, we see the crew laying around like broken sticks scattered about the ship. Since Naomi was unaffected by the monster, she is spared being knocked out. She runs to Seven and yells at her to wakeup. It seems to work as Seven snaps out of her zapped condition quickly. With a fully restored Seven, it's off to the races to save the ship including enlisting the alien (Katia) in the other trapped ship. First order of business is to get the ship out of the monster before it is digested. Seven and Katai want to kill the monster but Doc intervenes saying it would be wrong to kill a sentient life form. For some reason, Seven decides to go with Docs plan to get the monster to in essence sneeze them out. Working with Katai and Doc, she vents antimatter while Katai discharges energy bursts into the lining of the beast. But there is a twist, since Seven wants to escape; the monster can use its telepathic powers to trick her. It seems the monster can only transplant images for those that desire a certain event to occur. Or in this case, it gives the writers the ability to highlight Seven in the episode by laying the crew unconscious (which is a good thing). After Katai and Doc snap Seven back into reality, they succeed in getting the monster to spit them out. As Doc revives the crew there is disbelief in the fact they are not home. Seven begs out of discussing the saving of the ship deferring all questions to Doc before heading to her alcove for some much needed regeneration.
Gravity (Two Borg Heads)
The storyline opens as a young Tuvok is being schooled back on Vulcan for breaking the rules. Flashing to the present we find Tom in another crashed shuttle on another barren planet (Note to writers: How about putting the crew down on a planet with a little vegetation. Can it be that hard to CGI some plants or tree type backgrounds?) Tom is then attacked by an alien woman (Noss) who steals supplies and a med kit. In a touching scene the spider eating/Tom-beating alien is saved from attacking horned faced aliens by Tuvok. After a reunion with Tom in the shuttle, in which we find they are imprisioned in a solar system stuck in a pocket of subspace, it's action time. When a group of angry horned space aliens approach the shuttle, Noss shuffles them off to her marooned ship. The ship serves as home base secured by a force field system. Up and till this point Noss spoke in her tongue and Tom and Tuvok got an earful of guttural sounds. When the Doctor's emitter is repaired we find he was encoded with a universal translator. In a matter of a few scenes Noss is speaking broken English. As the days stretch to months and the months to years, Noss develops a love interest in Tuvok. Returning to the early Tuvok in Vulcan training days we find he had developed a weakness for women that was cured by his Jedi, I mean, Vulcan master. When Noss tries to score Tuvok, he rebuffs her attempts creating a little bit of friction within the trio. Meanwhile back at the ranch, Voyager gets caught in the subspace sinkhole. Janeway devises a way to dislodge the ship and calls on the help of Seven and command staff in Astrometrics to devise a way to recover the wayward two. A new alien pops up and Captain Harry carries on a conversation with Supervisor Yost before Janeway hits the bridge. It seems the aliens are tired of getting their ships sucked in and plan to close the hole in 24 of your earth hours. Janeway gets in gear to save her crew as Seven determines the closing of the hole will cause the collapse of the planetary system inside. To add drama to the episode the writers include a twist of spatial time distortion. Seems each minute amounts to hours and days within the interior planetary system. As the aliens on the planet begin an offensive on the ship (not sure why they would want the derelict ship) Voyager comes up with a way to communicate through the probe (sent in earlier) that they have found a way to transport them to the mother-ship. Problem is, Tom and Tuvok have to compensate for the time differential and be able to fend off the attacking horned aliens (which look like they could be the Wildman girls father)before the transport will take place. Going down to the wire Noss is injured during the attack with Tuvok coming to her rescue. With only seconds left, the transport is completed and it's back to the ship and anchors away for the sinkhole and the universe within it. After some touching dialog and a Vulcan mind meld between Noss and Tuvok, Noss is beamed back to her planet as Voyager continues her journey to the next episode.Latent Image (Three and a Half Borg Heads)
If anyone is keeping a score card this season I will help you update it now. First episode Janeway and Neelix lose it emotionally, then B'Elanna heads south followed by Seven, Harry, and Tom. That only leaves a few characters, in the main cast, to head into the world of insanity. After this episode, the list is even smaller as the Doctor visits loony town. The episode begins as the Doc is taking Deep Body scans of the crewmembers for his medical records (and to begin this storyline) when the trouble begins. After the special effects guys/gals do a CGI show with Harry (we see Harry's body being built from skeleton to a full skin and bones Harry). For longtime Star Trek fans, this is the reverse effect of the one shown in the Next Gen episode where the Chorus for the Negotiator was zapped. Ok, back to the story, well it appears, on further inspection, that Harry has had an operation the Doctor does not remember doing. This sets the Doc in search of the reasons for this blank space in his memory bank. Janeway and the command staff rebuff the attempts of the Doc to get to the bottom of this. Our Drone Seven steps in and helps the Doc rebuild the deleted memory blocks and the mystery begins. The erased memory encompasses a birthday party for an ensign that Seven, the Doc, and longtime Voyager watchers cannot seem to remember. Doc's memory is erased again before completing the work with Seven causing him to set a trap for the responsible party. Using his deep body scan instamatic, he finds Janeway is the guilty party. After storming the bridge, the Captain sends him back to sick bay for reprogramming after confirming his program had developed a flaw that had to be corrected. Seven then confronts Janeway in some of the strongest dialog between the two concerning the reprogramming of Doc to correct the flaw. After Janeway infers that the Doc is no more of a sentient life form than a replacator, Seven reminds her that the Borg technology in her body is similar to the replicator technology and yet she has been given the right to be an individual. Seven's logic works on the Captain as she gives the Doctor the right to see the reason for the reprogramming. It seems ensign nobody, Harry and Doc were on an away mission when an alien attacks them, beams into the shuttle and fires on Harry and the ensign before the Doc beams him back to his ship (Doc, next time space these guys). When the injured are beamed back to sickbay, the Doc and Tom must decide who to save and guess what? The ensign is the one drawing the short straw and meets the great list of red shirts in the sky. After having chosen who lived and who died, the Doc heads off to lala land and must be reprogrammed. (Mr. Borg note to writers--- you have already had an episode this season in which a second holo doc was created so why not do it here. In addition, there are over 150 crewmembers on the ship with only one doc….come on now!) Doc then decides to work out his demons so, he is put in isolation with one crewmember constantly keeping suicide watch. Janeway pulls first duty and philosophizes with Doc on the meaning of life and death. In the end the Doc is still fighting his gremlins as the episode fades to black.Additional Seven note: Why is Seven not on board with the rest of the command staff in the reprogramming of Doc. The writers leave Sevens' motives unclear. Does she know the reason for the reprogramming but wants to help Doc or, has Janeway left her out of the loop?
Bride of Chaotica (Two Borg Heads)
When a fire on the bridge set at Paramount forces the writers to do the majority of the screenplay off the bridge what direction do you think they take? If you said another holodeck episode, you would be correct.The further adventures of Caption Proton begin as Tom and Harry view a Proton recap of their last holodeck excursion. As the dynamic-duo hit the planets surface Harry cracks a remark that the planets surface looks the same as the last episode the two had experienced. Tom responds that sets were expensive in the 50's and they had to reuse them often. Kind of like Voyager does in the 90's with its rock surface set. Amazing what a camera angle can do.
As Tom and Harry begin their new chapter in Chaotica, a disturbance begins in the holodeck that is beyond the normal programmed storyline. In a disturbing sequence, Harry shoots one of Chaoticas evil soldiers not once, but twice, and then does a happy dance over the dead body. Back on the bridge, Voyager hits a layer of subspace disrupting the warp field. After trying to breakout of the subspace layer, Janeway finds they are stuck. Seven and B'Elanna work in astrometrics to find out what is going on. Seven takes the words out of Janeway's mouth on a possible solution to unstick the ship (you go Borg-girl).
Back on the holodeck, the program continues to run (Here we go with another out-of-control holodeck program). When aliens from another dimension, that dress in Elliot Ness style zoot suites, beam into the program the trouble begins. The bad guys in Chaotica grab the aliens and execute one of the explorers as the other beams away. Voyager is stuck for three days and the strain for the Captain can only be broken by a cup of coffee. Meanwhile back on deck six, holodeck number two, the excitement revs-up when the aliens start firing on the Voyager holo images. Tom and Tuvok survey the damage and determine the aliens from the fifth dimension are indeed responsible for the ship getting rocked around. Photonic charges from the fifth dimension are raining down on Chaotica's fortress. In astrometrics our drone Seven has developed a visual link to the holodeck to monitor the action (Note to the crew: You better think twice about some of those holo programs you use unless you don't mind Seven getting a peek). Seven finds the holo program to be infantile form of entertainment and a part of frivolous human behavior.
Back on Tom's ship, they meet one of the aliens who are photonically based versus good old carbon based units. Seems the transdimensional aliens believe Chaotica is real and Tom, Tuvok, and Voyager are simulations. Seven suggests the Doctor be used to rectify this situation, as he is also photonic. Tom dupes the Captain into a role in the holonovel to correct the situation (Janeway wears a size 4 costume). The Doc acts as the President while Janeway, as Queen Arachnia, must stop Doctor Chaotica from using his deathray on the aliens.
Janeway shows up as the Queen (oh brother!) in a 50's style outfit to disrupt Doctor Chaotica and allow Proton to disable the deathray. Doc gets the aliens to agree not to fire on Proton's ship but Janeway fails in her initial attempt to get Chaotica to lower the shields and allow Proton to do the job. In a quick twist, the Captian turns the table on Chaotica including a shot to his gut with a raygun. Doc, Tom and Harry fire on the deathray and save the day in the same moment that Voyager clears the subspace field. Just remember that you have not seen the last of Chaotica (although Mr. Borg would not miss him if we don't see him in future episodes and give us more Seven).
Counterpoint (Two Borg Heads)
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Infinite Regress (Five Borg Heads)
Seven shines in this episode that plays on the all the races assimilate by the Borg. As an added bonus Seven gets to bite B'Elanna.Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7 Pic 8 Pic 9 Pic 10 Pic 11
Nothing Human AKA - A Bugs Life on B'Elanna
Membership has its benefits and reading the review on this episode is one of them. See Mr. Borgs review in the December 1998 Newsletter.Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7 Pic 8 Pic 9 Pic 10
Timeless (Three Borg Heads)
Add Slipstream technology, the Delta Flyer, A Borg Tempral Transceiver, Harry, an Iced Voyager, a Dead Janeway and Seven, mix a little of the future and what do you get ...that's right...last weeks episode. Enjoy Jeri back in her new brown suit and catch Mr. Borg's review coming sometime in the future.Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7 Pic 8 Pic 9 Pic 10
Once Upon a Time(Two Borg Heads)
This is a Neelix goes off the cliff episode featuring the Wildman horned girl. One thing you can say about the horned kid, she is on an accelerated growth plan. Since her last episode she has aged at least four or five years. In the B plot, Ms. Wildman, in the Delta Flyer, hit one of those nasty level five Ion storms that causes the Flyer to crash land on an M class planet. This is not your ordinary surface crash, no it is a bury the sucker 3 km into the planet kind of crash. Additionally the air supply is running out and Voyager's ETA is going to make it a cliffhanger as to their survival of the occupants (Wildman, Tom, and Tuvok). Back on Voyager, Neelix is in charge of taking care of the little Wildman who likes to explore the holodeck children's tales to pass her time. When it seems that the Flyer may be lost, Neelix goes psycho on the Captain when Janeway asks him to tell the child the condition of her mother. One Seven scene revolves around the girl's fear that our Drone Seven will assimilate her in Neelix's cafeteria and grill when Seven asks to sit at her table. Neelix then contemplates whether a spaceship is not an ideal place to raise a child. He quizzes Seven on her human family and what emotions she has concerning their induction into the Borg Hall of Fame. Seven brushes off her tough life background giving him the 'I would like to space you' look. Neelix and little Wildman spend a lot of time in the holodeck in the Wood – Fire – Water space fairytale getting a 'this is life and it ain't always a bowl of cherries' experience. Meanwhile back at the M class planet, Seven helps map the caves the Flyer is stuck in and a team is sent in to get them out. In a quick resolution to the problem before the Ion storm chews up Voyager, they beam the Delta Flyer back to Voyager, get out of the storms way, reunited mom and child, and chill Neelix out.In the Flesh (Three Borg Heads)
First Episode for Seven's New Blue Uniform!!We have met the enemy and the enemy is us, well sort of. Really it's species 8472 who have found a chemical compound that allows them to morph into human forms. You got that right, 8472 has replicated the Starfleet Academy on a holo ship (they must have borrowed the ship from 'Insurrection') and have mutated themselves into humans (via isomorphic injections). Chakotay starts the episode out by observing the reproduction with his holo camera and befriends one of the 8472 human female impersonators. When Tuvok pulls Chakotay back to reality and back to the ship they encounter a problem and have to beam one of the aliens to the ship for their escape. In the human form, 8472 is as vulnerable as a regular human is (what a flaw). When the Doctor does his DNA test he finds that the natural form of the impersonator is indeed 8472. As the captured 8472 wakes-up he finds he is among those dirty Borg loving humans and initiates a self-destruct system. One can only guess this is done to avoid capture. In that classic Starfleet officer falls in love with alien maneuver, Chakotay beams back into the simulation to meet the female he befriended and recon the reason for the simulation. Meanwhile back at the ranch, the Doc and Seven retest the Borg nanoprobe weapons to make sure they can still take out 8472 if they need to. To the delight of both, they find the probes are still effective.
On the holo simulation Chakotay probes the 8472 female to find the reason for the recreation. Unknown to him, the 8472's have figured there is something odd about him. After some smoozing by Chakotay, the night ends with a kiss (to determine his species), confrontation and capture by the aliens. After capture he is interrogated by the female and by My Favorite Martian (Which begs the question – the TV show should have been named 'My Favorite 8472'). Janeway responds by lining Voyager up against the holo ship and threatening to use the nanoprobes. Seven and Janeway debate using the weapons with Seven in favor of their use and Janeway against.
Janeway calls a meeting on Voyager with the 8472. In the conference room 8472 details their plan to send the trained Starfleet impersonators to Earth to keep track on any potential attack plans against them. The Captain calls for understanding and relays they were not Borg flunkeys in the war against them. To bolster understanding, she will trade the nanoprobe weapon technology for the isomorphic technology (sounds fair to me – NOT). Seven puts up some resistance but the Captain overrides her concerns. After some more posturing by the 8472 they agree to not fight and to tell their leaders the humans are not all bad (but the Borg are still on their list). The story ends with Chakotay getting an invite to fluidic space by the female and Janeway befriending My Favorite 8472.
Addendum: Hey 8472 how about some better defenses for your holo ships (yes, they have other holo ships spread across the galaxy). You got Voyager people beaming in and out in addition to Voyager knocking on your door at the end of the episode without any resistance.
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Extreme Risk (Three Borg Heads)
B'Elanna starts the episode with a suborbital dive in more ways than you might imagine. This must be the season for all principle Star Trek actresses to have a plot line were they fall off a cliff emotionally. First the new Dax character in DS9 then Captain Janeway, and now B'Elanna. Watch out Seven you may be next (I hope not). Now back to the episode…were we find B'Elanna is taking the safety protocols off the holo programs putting her in eminent danger including broken bones etc.. She is so emotionally challenged that she allows Seven to head a team she was supposed to take charge of. In the A plot line, Voyager has fired a probe that attracts our friends the Malon. Remember the Garbage people they met in the Night episode. This time they are after the probe for that home grown (Borg) multi-spatial technology incorporated in it. After the Malon lock a tractor beam on the probe, Voyager sends the command to break the beam and send the probe into a gas giant. Janeway then puts Voyager in overdrive to collect the probe. Meanwhile back at the gas giant, the foolish Malon decide to take their freighter into the giant to retrieve the probe, bad move on their part because the atmospheric pressure implodes the ship (kind of like the Borg sphere in 'One"). Their buddies show up and a space race begins to build a shuttle to retrieve the probe. On Voyager, a staff meeting is punctuated by a dazed B'Elanna, the gang tries to figure out how to lasso in the probe. When conventional ideas are dumped, Tom jumps up and shows the command staff the plans he has worked on for the Delta Flyer shuttle (If Tom was working on this all the time, I can see why B'Ellana fell off the cliff?). Faster than you can say 'Captain Proton' the ship is on its way to being completed. Our girl Seven scans the Malon ship and finds they are hard at it to build a shuttle of their own. In the B plot, we find B'Ellana's reason for behaving in an odd manner revolves around her inability to accept the death of her Maquis friends in the battle with the Dominion (this must refer to the episode 'Message in a Bottle'). Chakotay has her confront the situation and quicker than you can say 'Captain Proton', she resolves the problem.As the Delta Flyer is completed, or nearly completed (watch out for those darn microfractures), the shuttle crew prepare for liftoff. With a tshirted B'Ellana, a commanding Harry, our magnifaciant Seven, and a buff Tom (Thanks 'I Think' to Tom's Fan Club President for this Pic) at the controls, it's off to retrieve the probe. But wait, the Malon have already taken off and the Delta Flyer must catch and overtake this race of polluters (yes, it seems all their ships vent antimatter waste). After taking a few hits from the Malon, Seven delivers a special present to them… Borg inspired photonic torpedoes. Meanwhile in the firefight with the Malon, B'Elanna uses a phaser and a few other assorted parts to rig a force field to save the Delta from a fractured plate that lets go under the pressure of the gas giant's atmosphere. Well they don't blowup the Malon shuttle but do send it spiraling out of control. Before you can say 'Captain Proton' they have retrieved the probe and are back on the ship and the show is over.
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Drone (Four Borg Heads)
The episode opens with our Borg Seven learning to smile (The Bulgarian judge gives her a 5.5 in the smile portion of the Borg Olympics). Doc enters the cargo bay and catches Seven in the act and then it's off to the episode. Seven, the Doctor, Tom, and B'Elanna trash another class two shuttlecraft when they get to close to a plasma surge in that darn gravimetric shear of an expanding proto-nebula. When the shuttle is about to explode (oops there goes another shuttlecraft) an emergency beam-out brings them back to Voyager but the beam-in is not easy and the Doctor's holo emitter is damaged. After a nights sleep, B'Elanna takes a sonic shower with an impatient Doctor contacting her in the shower for a show. My question is..why have a video com panel in the bathroom? Seven starts her day with her Borg transceiver picking up Borg activity. When an ensign enters the science lab, he is tubed by the combo holo emitter/nano probe mutant to sample his DNA. When Seven and Tuvok get to the lab, the little critter has built a maturation tube somehow and then jumped into it to incubate itself. Janeway says keep it, so its off to the races for this 29th century Borg. Because of the constraints of a one-hour show, the drone develops in a matter of hours. The Captain gives the go ahead to Seven to be the Ambassador to the new Borg and instruct the drone in the ways of humanity. When One (the name he gives himself) matures, Seven pops the switch to release the new Borg. Seven runs into a roadblock communicating with One until she interfaces with him to transfer her knowledge. One gives her a big headache when he does a deep scan, I mean a neural probe beyond what Seven had anticipated. Seven then enlists Neelix to bring her data nodes to feed One information on what it is to be an individual. Meanwhile, the Doctor gets antsy about not getting his holo emitter back. The emitter is now in the coconut of One. When One assimilates the knowledge and becomes more of an individual it's off to see Janeway. In a continuation of the last episode, Janeway acts in a wimpy fashion in her first contact with One. Seven befriends One and adapts one of the alcoves in the cargo bay to charge him up. While One is in the alcove at night, his Borg proximity transmitter fires up and calls his buddies. A sphere responds and heads toward Voyager for the linkup. Seven and Janeway show the destructive tendencies of the Borg to One to demonstrate the evil side of Borg. (We get no respect) When the sphere meets the ship, One sides with Voyager and helps break the ship from the Borg tractor beam. One then decides he must transport to the sphere to save the ship. On the sphere, One tries to reason with the Borg to no avail before initiating a sequence to take the sphere into the nebula. After destroying the sphere, One enacts a force field around him and is transported to Voyager. In a give a break ending, a very crippled One will not let the Doctor save him and dies under the eyes of the Doctor and Seven. The death is to keep the Borg from trying to get Voyager to obtain One's knowledge. But wouldn't the Borg come after Voyager for the knowledge retained in the data banks? Also, why shield himself from the explosion of the Borg sphere if he intended to die? But then again, if he died on the sphere, the Doctor would not get the holo emitter back so Robert Picardo, I mean the Doctor, would be stuck in sick bay. I guess that's what makes Star Trek, Star Trek. In the end Seven looks into the mirror she was learning to smile with, and grieves for One as does Mr. Borg.Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7 Pic 8 Pic 9 Pic 10
NIGHT (Two and a Half Borg Heads)
Into the 'Void' goes the crew of the Voyager as we find out how the crew handles being in the 'Dark Side' a vast sea of dark space. Janeway and Neelix are the weak link in the crew mix. Both head south in the face of nothingness. Janeway even laments the fact she misses us (the Borg) almost wishing there were some Cubes to face. Tuvok kicks his feet up in astrophysics. When Seven finds him, he tells her he finds solitude in her room. Our Borg Seven offers to implant a Borg stem to allow him to recharge at the Spa Borg in the cargo bay but he declines. Seven then gets roped into a halo simulation of a 30's Buck Rogers plot when the fun begins. Aliens that look like the lost cousins of the Vidiians attacks Voyager and have fun running around the ship (again I say…Would someone please lock that back door). After Voyager is thrown into darkness (the new aliens cannot take bright light) they are driven by a new species that look like a castoff of one of the Dune clans. This species is spewing radiation in the vortex resulting in the destruction of the Night species. Janeway puts the crew at jeopardy by trusting the Night species and returning one of their people to a fleet of their ships. That works out ok but, the Dunesters (Malon) in the vortex are waste haulers venting the waste on purpose. Janeway tries a little bargaining to cleanup this Three Mile Island situation and when that fails the decision is made to collapse the vortex to save the new Vidiians (the crew stages a mutiny after Janeway decides she alone will stay to destroy the vortex...even Seven disobeys Janeways commands..What was our drone thinking?). After the calculations are completed, it's off to collapse the vortex. But first, the waste hauler is neutralized, then they dump a few torpedoes out the back door to clog up the vortex before it's back to the stars for our merry crew.(Technical point: The aliens throw the ship into darkness by sapping all power to everything but life support and the holo decks? Are these guys good or what? To top it off, the holo simulation goes dark which brings up the question as to how the aliens knew what programming code to change in the simulation program for just the lights to go out. Then they leave a flashlight functional!)
The Doctor - 'A vote of Borg confidence, who can argue with that.'
Seven to Janeway - 'Chance is irrelevant, we will succeed'
Seven - 'Captain Proton to the rescue'
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