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SCORPION Episodes 68 & 69 Part F

Chakotay and Tuvok are summoned by Kim's urgent voice. "Commander!"

They reach Kim, who is standing in the corridor, tricorder open. Kim: "There's something in here with us, and it's not the Borg. I can't localise it, but it's within twenty metres." Tuvok: "Perhaps the pilot has returned."

Janeway, via comms: "Voyager to away team." combadge Chakotay: "Go ahead." Janeway: "Stand by for transport. We're getting you out of there." Chakotay, via comms: "Good idea." Janeway to Torres, who is operating the Ops console: "Energise." Torres activates the controls but it beeps an alert sound. "I can't get a lock on them." Janeway: "What's the problem?" Torres: "It looks like bio-electric interference from whatever's coming toward them."

In the Borg cube, the away team can hear more scrapes and ominous sounds. Chakotay: "It's within seven metres. Let's get out of here." They hurry away down the corridor.

On Voyager's bridge, Janeway tells Torres: "Narrow the confinement beam."
Torres does so. "No effect. I'm going to try a skeletal lock."
Janeway: "A what?"
Torres: "I think I can get a clean lock on the minerals in their bone tissue. I just came up with it, but I think it might work."

On the Borg cube Borg drones and the away team alike are in retreat from the unknown lifeform.

Chakotay checks his tricorder again. "The lifeform's five metres away, closing." Kim: "From where?"

Suddenly beside them there is an explosion as the wall and Borg equipment explodes outwards in a shower of sparks and debris! In a violent blur of motion we glimpse a large alien.

It swiftly attacks and fells the two Borg drones near the away team.

The back of the top part of the alien.

The alien looks round.

Kim, on the floor nearby, looks up to see the huge alien standing over the dead Borg drones. It towers over ten feet tall.

It lunges at Kim, slashing at him and sending him backwards onto the floor.

He screams in agony. This is the image which Kes saw in her mind earlier.

He, Chakotay and Tuvok dematerialise as they are beamed back to Voyager.

The alien stands over where they were.

An alien appears and strikes down Harry Kim. As he lies screaming he and the away team are beamed out, just as the alien bounds after them. (pop-up window)

On Voyager, Torres reports: "Ive got them." Janeway: "A skeletal lock, huh? We'll have to add that one to the transporter manual."

Paris draws Janeway's attention to the viewscreen: "Captain! The bio-ship is powering up, like it's charging some kind of weapon." On the main viewscreen, they see the bio-ship which is attached to the Borg cube. The alien vessel begins to shimmer with incandescent colours.

Kes, who is on the Bridge, is hit by another mental flash, this time of the alien's face!

Janeway: "Get us out of here - maximum warp!" As Voyager turns away from the Borg graveyard....

....the alien bio-ship sends out a crackling tendril of energy, whip-like, powerful. (It is the same weapon that we saw destroy Borg cubes in the story's prologue or 'teaser'.)

The energy tendril narrowly misses Voyager but even so it strikes the ship's shields....

....and sends the starship spinning wildly!

As Voyager flees a graveyard of Borg cubes destroyed by Species 8472, a Species 8472 bio-ship opens fire, sending Voyager into a spin. (pop-up window)

On the Bridge, people are hurled about. Torres is thrown to the floor but manages with an effort to regain her post.

Paris is temporarily knocked forward over his console. As soon as the ship stops spinning he regains control. He takes Voyager to warp and so the ship escapes. Paris: "The alien ship is not pursuing."

Janeway: "Kes?" Kes: "I could hear its thoughts - the pilot of the bio-ship was trying to communicate with me. They're a telepathic species. I've been aware of them for some time now - the premonitions. Captain, it's not the Borg that we should be worried about - it's them." Janeway: "What did it say to you?" Kes: "It said: 'The weak will perish.'"