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After being lured back to the hive
during Voyager's mission to steal a transwarp coil, Seven of
Nine is trapped on a Borg vessel. The Borg Queen informs her
that the Borg "allowed" Voyager to liberate her from the
Collective, but she won't be turned back into a drone because
they want to study her memories. With her individuality intact,
the Borg can look through her eyes to help them assimilate
humanity. Meanwhile, Janeway discovers that Borg signals were
being sent to Seven in her cargo bay alcove.
Determined to rescue Seven,
Janeway leads an away team in the Delta Flyer to find the Borg
sphere that took Seven away. They use the stolen coil to take
the shuttle into transwarp space, and incorporate multi-adaptive
shielding based on the Hansens' field notes from the U.S.S.
Raven to go undetected by the Borg.
As Seven is given her first assignment to assist in the
assimilation of a species, she secretly helps four of the
individuals escape. The Borg Queen scolds her, saying that her
human emotions of compassion and guilt are weaknesses that are
causing her pain. However, when Seven pleads with her to let the
getaway ship escape, the Queen grants her request.
After the away team follows the sphere into Borg space, Janeway
prepares to send a message to Seven through her Borg
interplexing beacon. The Queen gives Seven a new assignment — to
assist in the programming of nanoprobes that will assimilate
humans. The Borg plan is to detonate a biogenic charge in
Earth's atmosphere, and Seven will be turned into a drone if she
does not comply. Taunting her, the Queen reveals that one of the
drones standing next to her is Seven's father. Suddenly,
Janeway's signal comes through, and the Queen discovers it.
As the Borg adapt to Voyager's shielding, Janeway is forced to
beam to the vessel and disable the shield matrix around the
Queen's chamber. While Paris eludes the other ships, Janeway
confronts the Queen and orders Seven to leave with her. A
dispersal field is formed around the chamber to block the Delta
Flyer's transporter beam, but Seven tells the Captain to target
the power node above the chamber. This disrupts the Queen's
command interface, and Janeway and Seven are beamed to the
shuttle. They quickly enter a transwarp conduit, but not before
a Borg vessel sneaks in behind them. On Voyager, Chakotay and
Torres fire a full spread of photon torpedoes at the conduit
threshold, collapsing it just as the shuttle bursts through. The
Borg ship is destroyed, and Seven is home again. |
