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DARK FRONTIER Episodes 109 & 110 Part E

Excerpt(s) from the Hansen logs are narrated in this style.

 

Seven is rooted to the ground by the sight of the advancing drones.

Janeway: "This way. Seven!" This breaks the spell and Seven hurries after her.

At the rendezvous co-ordinates, Tuvok taps his combadge. Via comms: "Bridge, stand by for transport."

Drones move in on their position.

Janeway and Seven appear. Kim calls to them: "Hurry!"

Janeway and Seven join them. Tuvok: "Energise."

They are beamed out, just before the drones reach them.

Paris: "I've got them. Transporter room 1." Suddenly a group of drones transport onto the Bridge!

Paris turns and sees them. The drones start moving toward Voyager crew to assimilate them! Chakotay: "Beam them out of here." Paris: "I can't get a lock. They've adapted to our transport frequencies."

A drone advances toward Chakotay. Chakotay: "Computer, freeze program, both holodecks!" The drones freeze. It was all a holodeck simulation!

Chakotay: "What happened?" Paris: "They tapped into our transporter beam."

Chakotay, via comms: "Chakotay to Holodeck 2. We got the transwarp coil but we also picked up some uninvited guests."

Janeway, via comms: "What was our time?" Chakotay, via comms: "Two minutes twelve seconds." Janeway, via comms: "Twelve seconds too late. Once we disable their sensor grid we only have two minutes until it regenerates." Chakotay, via comms: "Did you run into any problems?" Tuvok, via comms: "None."

The away team continue to discuss it. Seven: "We were efficient." Kim: "What if we beam directly into the transwarp chamber?" Janeway: "There's too much shielding." Tuvok: "Perhaps we could modify our transporters."

Janeway: "I've already explored that option. It won't work." Kim: "Twelve seconds - might as well be an eternity."

Seven: "The Hansens. They were able to remain inside a Borg cube for several hours without being detected." Kim: "How?" Seven: "I'm not certain." Janeway: "Well, keep investigating." Seven: "Yes, Captain."

part of the bare holodeck

Janeway: "We've run enough simulations for one day. Let's work on refining our tactics, anything we can do to shave a few more seconds off our little heist. Computer, end program." The holoprogram deactivates, leaving the bare holodeck.

Janeway and Seven talk as they leave for their posts, starting to talk just as they exit the Holodeck and come round the corner of the corridor from it. Janeway: "I don't know about you but I'm glad to be back on Voyager. Borg vessels make my skin crawl." Seven: "It was a holodeck re-creation." Janeway: "Close enough. We've just spent the last three hours dodging drones. It didn't bother you?" Seven: "Your point?" Janeway: "You seemed a little nervous in there." Seven: "The last time I was on a Borg vessel I was a drone. The re-creation was unsettling." Janeway: "You were reluctant to look at your parents' research and now I sense you're a little reluctant to go on this mission. Maybe I'm pushing you too fast." Seven: "I'll adapt." Janeway: "It's easier said than done. It's been over two years since you came face-to-face with the Collective. Are you sure you're up to it? I need everybody working at peak efficiency." Seven: "You doubt my ability to function." Janeway: "No, I'm simply voicing my concerns." Seven: "They are unjustified." Janeway: "I hope so, because the next time we won't be on the holodeck." Seven: "Understood." She leaves for her quarters in Cargobay 2.

In Cargobay 2, Seven gets out another PADD of the Hansen logs and starts to read it just as the doors open.

Naomi enters. Seven: "Naomi Wildman."

Naomi: "I had a bad dream. Can I stay with you for a while?" Seven: "Where is your mother?" Naomi: "She's working in engineering, and Neelix is on a duty shift. Please? I won't bother you." Seven: "Very well." Naomi: "It looked just like this." Seven: "What did?" Naomi: "In my dream. There was Borg stuff everywhere." Seven: "Elaborate." Naomi: "I went on the mission, the one my Mom told me about, the Borg sphere, but it didn't work. Everybody got assimilated."

Seven: "Nightmares are caused by irrational fear. They're not real. They can't damage you. Try to ignore it."

Naomi: "Mom said we're going to steal something."
Seven: "A transwarp coil."
Naomi: "Will you be on the sphere?"
Seven: "Yes."
Naomi: "Are you scared?"
Seven: "We will succeed."

Naomi: "But what if you don't? What if they make you a drone again?" Seven: "Naomi Wildman, you agreed not to bother me." Naomi: "What's it like to be a drone? Does it hurt?" Seven: "You will terminate this line of questioning." Naomi: "Do the Borg have kids? What do they look like? Are they friendly?" Seven is disturbed - she herself as a child asked those questions of her father. Seven: "Return to your quarters immediately!"

Naomi, as a Borg implant appears in her left cheek: "Resistance is futile."

Seven taps her combadge. "Seven of Nine to Security. Intruder alert!"

The Borg seem to have invaded Voyager!

Borg Queen's voice: "They can't hear you." Seven: "Who are you?" Borg Queen's voice: "I am the Borg. Seven of Nine, tertiary adjunct of Unimatrix zero one, you've become weak." Seven: "This is a dream. I'm regenerating."

Borg Queen's voice: "It's not a dream. We've accessed your neural transceiver. Our thoughts are one. We know about Voyager's plan to invade the sphere. It will fail."
Seven: "If that's true, then why haven't you assimilated them?"
Borg Queen's voice: "We've come to make you an offer. Rejoin the Collective and we'll spare Voyager."
Seven: "Why me?"
Borg Queen's voice: "Because you are unique."

The contact suddenly ends, and Seven finds herself in the Cargobay which now looks to her exactly as it did before. She finds herself staring at the salvaged Borg debris.

Magnus, making a log entry: "Field notes, USS Raven, stardate 32629.4. After three months of tracking our Borg cube, the vessel entered a transwarp conduit. We followed in its wake. Our sensors tell us we've travelled all the way to the Delta Quadrant, the Borg's native territory."

On the bridge of the USS Raven, Erin is looking at live footage transmitted by Magnus from the Borg cube to make a visual record of Borg behaviour.

Erin, as interference obscures the transmission, via comms: "Magnus, you're breaking up." Magnus, via comms: "It's just some bio-electric interference. Stand by." He makes adjustments. "Is that better?" Erin, via comms: "Much. How's Junior?"

On the Borg cube they are studying. Magnus, via comms: "He took a real beating when that plasma conduit blew out."

Magnus, via comms: "He's regenerating."

Magnus is in hiding as he watches Junior.

Magnus, via comms: "Wait a minute, something's happening."

Magnus, via comms: "Bill and Needle-fingers just arrived. This is odd. They're making repairs to Junior." Erin, via comms: "I thought drones from different subunits didn't interact." Magnus, via comms: "Looks like we were wrong."

Magnus, via comms: "They deactivated him." Erin, via comms: "Why?" Magnus, via comms: "Maybe he was too badly damaged."

Magnus, via comms: "They're dismantling him. They must be salvaging the components."

Magnus's "shield" fritzes. Erin, via comms: "Your bio-dampener is losing power. It's time to come home."

Magnus, via comms: "I've got another minute or so. Stand by." He talks as he checks the bio-dampener device he is wearing on his left upper arm. "We may not get another chance to observe this behaviour."