Thursday 15 December 2011

Episode 122: Survival Instinct



Hey, it’s a Seven episode, we haven’t had one of those in a while.

Voyager is docked at an outpost with the crew getting shore leave and people on the station allowed onto the ship. They should do tours, “This is where we saw a spatial anomaly”. One of the visitors who is not at all suspicious shows Seven some Borg implants from the old unimatrix to which she belonged but presumably from her reaction he didn’t get them from Space Ebay. She takes them to study while the visitor confers with two others by using his mind. Seven then goes to regenerate (No, not that kind of regeneration). While doing so the three visitors attempt to link (No, not that kind of link) with Seven before Tuvok comes in and phasers them. It turns out that it’s a small universe and they used to be part of the same unimatrix she was. I imagine they found her on Friends Reunited. Years before their Borg sphere crashed on a planet and with no contact to the Borg they became more linked to each other and less to the Borg. These people have now had their link to the Borg severed but are still linked to each other and want to become individuals. Trust me, it’s overrated. The Doctor says that without that they’ll only live for another month or longer in the Borg. Seven decides they should live as individuals and they all go their separate ways.

Quite an ordinary episode considering it was written by TNG and DS9 stalwart Ronald D Moore however I gather his brief time on the Voyager staff wasn’t a happy one.

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