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SCORPION Episodes 68 & 69 Part J

Voyager enters a Borg solar system. The crew are at red alert as they approach the Borg planet. Tuvok reports: "There are three planets in this system. Inhabitants: all Borg. A vessel is approaching." Janeway: "All stop. Shields up."

Voyager holds position. A Borg cube flies into view and stops in front of the ship.

Tuvok: "They are hailing us." Janeway: "Open a channel." The voice of the Borg Collective is heard: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

The ship jolts slightly. Tuvok explains: "They've locked onto us with a tractor beam." Janeway: "Borg vessel, this is Captain Janeway of the starship Voyager. I have tactical information about Species 8472. I want to negotiate." The Borg: "Negotiation is irrelevant. You will be assimilated."

Janeway turns to Torres, and signals her by nodding. Torres activates the transmission of data.

The information sent includes the images of the alien cells being assimilated by a Borg nanoprobe.

Chakotay watches. Janeway: "Borg vessel, what you're receiving is a sample of the knowledge we possess. If you don't disengage your tractor beam immediately, I will have that data destroyed. You have ten seconds to comply."

After a tense moment, Tuvok reports: "Their tractor beam is still active." Janeway to the Borg: "We know you're in danger of being defeated. You can't afford to risk losing this information. Disengage your tractor-" Suddenly Janeway dematerialises as the Borg transport her off Voyager!

The Borg transport Janeway from Voyager's bridge to a Borg cube, while the cube holds Voyager in a Borg tractor pulse. (pop-up window)

She materialises on a catwalk in the middle of the Borg cube's vast interior, a tiny figure among the thousands of Borg drones that line the walls in their alcoves. The Borg: "State your demands."

Janeway: "I want safe passage through your space. Once my ship is beyond Borg territory, I'll give you our research." The Borg: "Unacceptable. Our space is vast. Your passage would require too much time. We need the technology now." Janeway: "If I give it to you now, you'll assimilate us." The Borg: "Species 8472 must be stopped. Our survival is your survival. Give us the technology." Janeway: "No. Safe passage first. Or no deal." The Borg: "Your demand is unacceptable."

The Borg: "State your proposal."
Janeway: "Let's work together, combine our resources. Even if we do give you the technology now, you're still going to need time to develop it. By working together, we can create a weapon more quickly. If you escort us through your space we can perfect the weapon as we-"
Suddenly the Borg cube shakes! The movement makes Janeway partly lose her balance and her head is flung forward over the railing before she recovers.

What is happening is that a bio-ship is attacking the Borg cube! The assault is shaking both the Borg cube and Voyager.

The Borg cube sustains damage.

On Voyager's bridge Chakotay demands: "Where did that ship come from?" Tuvok: "A quantum singularity has appeared 20,000 kilometres away. The bio-ship is heading directly toward the planet." Torres: "The Borg shields are weakening. We might be able to break free of the tractor beam." Chakotay: "Can you get a lock on the Captain?"

Tuvok: "Not yet." Paris: "Commander, there are nine more bio-ships coming out of the singularity!"

As the Species 8472 bio-ships gather, the Borg Collective informs Janeway: "We have made our decision."

A number of Species 8472 bio-ships head for the Borg planet. In formation, eight of them, one by one feed a tendril of glowing energy toward the central ship which acts as a focus and concentrates all the combined energy toward the Borg planet.

Species 8472 bio-ships combine weapons to fire a devastating blast at a Borg planet. (pop-up window)

The massive beam of energy bombards the Borg planet.

Fire and debris from the explosions blows out into space, and the maelstrom begins to catch Voyager, which is still held with the Borg cube's tractor pulse.

The shower of molten debris poses a threat to Voyager and the Borg cube!

Janeway: "What's going on?"

Eventually the planet explodes in a gigantic blast!

The surviving Borg cubes flee at top speed.

Voyager, still in the Borg cube's tractor pulse, is taken along too.

The Borg cube races into the distance, taking Voyager with it!

This is where Part One of the story ends, as aired on television, ending Season 3.