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DARK FRONTIER Episodes 109 & 110 Part A

 

On board a Borg probe ship, the unified voices of the Borg Collective note: "A vessel has been detected. Unimatrix four-two-four grid one-one-six. Activate." A drone wakes from regeneration and steps out of his alcove.

The drone heads for a communications console unit.

The drone at the console. Borg Collective: "Alter course to intercept. Vessel identified: Federation Starfleet, Intrepid class, one hundred forty-three lifeforms. Prepare for assimilation."

The Borg vessel alters course to pursue Voyager.

To Voyager: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." Janeway, on Borg monitor: "Break off your pursuit, or we'll open fire." Borg Collective: "Irrelevant." Janeway, on Borg monitor: "Is it? You've scanned our vessel. You know we can match your firepower." Borg Collective: "You will be assimilated."

The Borg ship opens fire on Voyager.

Voyager flees and fires aft phasers.

Voyager's phasers damage the Borg ship. An explosion occurs aboard it.

Borg Collective: "Regenerate primary shield matrix. Remodulate weapons." While the Borg shields are briefly down, the Voyager crew beams a large item onto the Borg ship.

Borg Collective: "Security breach. Starfleet photon torpedo. Disarm weapon."

A drone goes up to it and opens the control unit and starts to examine how to disarm the torpedo.

But it is too late. The torpedo explodes.

The entire Borg ship is destroyed.

Voyager's Bridge.
Chakotay: "I thought we were trying to disable it."
Seven: "The torpedo detonated near the power matrix. It caused a chain reaction."

Janeway: "Survivors?" Tuvok: "None." Janeway: "Debris status?" Kim: "There's a few components intact but they're badly damaged." Janeway: "Begin a salvage operation." Chakotay: "Captain?"

Janeway: "There might be something we can use - weapons, a transwarp coil. I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel lucky today."

The salvaged debris from the Borg probe ship is in Cargobay 2. Janeway enters. Janeway: "Now, this is how I prefer the Borg - in pieces." Chakotay: "Eight kilotons of debris, most of it hull fragments. So far we've recovered two power nodes and a dozen plasma conduits, all in working order." Janeway: "Their propulsion system, anything left?" Chakotay: "B'Elanna found a transwarp coil."

Janeway hefts a piece of debris.

Janeway: "It's lighter than I expected. It must be some kind of polytrinic alloy. Let's hope our little skirmish got back to the Hive mind. Maybe they'll think twice before they attack us again." Chakotay: "It was only a probe. Next time we might not be so lucky."

Kim appears, having been dealing with things elsewhere, and sees them. Kim, alarmed: "Captain, don't touch that."

Janeway: "What is it?" Kim: "I don't know, but a few minutes ago it was crawling around the floor. I think it's some kind of auto-regeneration unit." Janeway: "Thanks for the warning."

To Chakotay: "By my count, we've added at least two years to our journey by avoiding the Borg. I'm tired of turning tail every time we detect a cube."
Chakotay: "Better safe than assimilated."

Janeway: "Mmm." Chakotay: "Maybe I should go to red alert and get it over with." Janeway: "Commander?" Chakotay: "You're about to drop one of your bombshells."

Janeway: "Now what makes you say that?"

Chakotay: "The way you fiddle with your combadge." She looks down and catches herself doing it. "You do it every time." Janeway: "Well, I'll have to keep an eye on that."

The Doctor appears. Excitedly: "Eureka! I was hoping to find one of these." He comes up to them. "It's a servo-armature from a medical repair drone - laser scalpel, bio-molecular scanner, microsuture, all rolled into one instrument." Paris: "No Federation Sickbay should be without one." Doctor: "This could revolutionise the way that I perform surgery." Janeway: "Excellent. Why don't you deactivate it for now."

They go over to where Torres and Seven are crouched beside the salvaged transwarp coil. Torres: "Remodulate the coil frequency." Seven: "No effect." Torres: "Try again." Seven: "The field regulator is fused."

Chakotay: "What seems to be the problem?" Torres: "We can't activate the transwarp coil." Seven: "When a Borg vessel is critically damaged all of its vital technology self-destructs. The coil is beyond repair." Chakotay: "At least the Doctor found a new toy."

Seven: "Captain." She indicates some devices: "Datanodes. One of them is a drone manifest, the other contains tactical information." Chakotay: "Specifically?" Seven: "Long-range sensor telemetry, assimilation logistics and vessel movements for a radius of thirty light years." Janeway: "Well, let's take a look."

Seven: "I'll need to convert the information to Starfleet parameters." Janeway: "Time?" Seven: "Two hours." Janeway: "Do it."

Chakotay notices Janeway is fiddling with her combadge again.