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Janeway comes to an agreement with
the Collective. She will stay aboard the Borg cube to develop
the weapon against Species 8472 while Voyager is escorted safely
through Borg territory. After Tuvok beams over to assist her,
the Borg try to install temporary neuro-transceivers on both of
them, but Janeway insists they be assigned a Borg representative
to communicate with verbally instead. The Borg select a human
female drone, designated as "Seven of Nine."
The crew discovers that Species
8472 and their bio-ships are made of the same organic material;
both will be vulnerable to the nanoprobes. They plan a
large-scale delivery system using Voyager's photon torpedoes.
Back in Sickbay, the Doctor cures Kim with the modified
nanoprobes. Not long after, a bio-ship attacks, and the Borg
protect Voyager. With the Borg cube damaged, Janeway and Tuvok
are beamed to Voyager, along with Seven of Nine.
Janeway is injured in the attack, so Chakotay takes charge of
Voyager. Despite the Captain's plea to maintain their alliance
with the Borg, he balks when Seven of Nine tells him he must
travel deeper into Borg space to link up with their nearest
ship. Unwilling to travel in the wrong direction, Chakotay
decides to drop off the Borg and the nanoprobes at the nearest
uninhabited planet and continue through the Delta Quadrant on
their own.
 Seven of Nine and the other drones seize control of Voyager and
send it through an interdimensional rift into fluidic space, the
domain of Species 8472. The Borg have been there before; they
started the war with 8472 but didn't bargain on their resistance
to assimilation. Janeway orders Chakotay to cooperate with Seven
of Nine to engage the aliens in fluidic space.
Voyager launches the nanoprobe torpedoes, forcing 8472 to
retreat. With their victory complete, Seven of Nine says the
Voyager crew will be assimilated. But Janeway and Chakotay had
anticipated this. He distracts her long enough for Torres to
create a power surge that severs Seven of Nine's connection to
the Borg. Feeling responsible for her fate, Janeway opts to keep
her onboard in the hope that they can restore her humanity.
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