UPN airs the 121st episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Vaughn Armstrong (Star Trek: Enterprise) guest stars. This is one of only two episodes written or co-written by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) during his very brief tenure on the Voyager writing staff.
Stardate 53049.2: Voyager docks at a gigantic Markonian space station and the crew engage in cultural exchanges with the station’s population. While some of these exchanges cause security headaches for Tuvok – including petty crimes and Tom and Harry’s ill-fated night on the town – the greater threat goes unnoticed. Three individuals who were formerly Borg drones – fellow members of Seven of Nine’s unimatrix – slip aboard, attempting to force a connection with her. Survivors of a Borg scout vessel crash over five years before Seven joined Voyager, the three suffer a constant neural link forcing them to share every thought. Despite their individuality, they cannot explain this connection. But when Seven decides to assist them in retreiving lost memories, she discovers that she is responsible for the former drones’ condition…and must now decide whether they should be returned to the Collective to extend their lives, or enjoy freedom at last for a few brief weeks.
written by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthyCast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Vaughn Armstrong (Lenser), Bertila Damas (Marika), Tim Kelleher (V’chan), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Jonathan Breck (Dying Borg), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)
Note: Marika’s nose shows that she is a Bajoran, so shouldn’t she swear to the Prophets instead of exclaiming “oh my God”? The Borg are also effective at recycling – in her Borg form, Marika is wearing Hugh’s eyepiece.
LogBook entry by Earl Green

