In [#136 Collective], the Delta Flyer crew are captured by Borg children.

Chakotay, Kim, Paris and Neelix are on a mission in the Delta Flyer, and are spending the relaxation time playing poker, eventually deciding that rather than betting chips the winner will not do the next work detail. Suddenly a Borg cube approaches and the crew scramble to battle stations.

the Delta Flyer crew play poker (see also the banner advert at the bottom of the page)

the approach of a Borg cube is seen through the front window

The Delta Flyer's plasma injectors are damaged, preventing the crew from going to warp. Kim enters a maintenance crawlway to attempt repair but is knocked unconscious by an electrical discharge caused by damage from Borg weapons fire.

Kim lies unconscious in the maintenance crawlway (or Jefferies tube)

Although the crew manage to knock the Borg cube's propulsion offline, the Delta Flyer also loses phasers. They are pulled into the Borg cube by its tractor pulse. The Delta Flyer is equipped with escape pods but they are unable to deploy them before being captured and pulled inside the cube.

the Delta Flyer attempts to flee the Borg cube

the Delta Flyer is caught in the Borg cube's tractor pulse

The Delta Flyer is held within the cube, and all its crew are captured, except for Kim who still lies unconscious in a maintenance crawlway inside the Delta Flyer.

the Delta Flyer, held within the Borg cube;
Kim notices two other alien spaceships that are also in the vast hangar

However, all the adult drones on this particular Borg cube are dead, the cube itself is crippled. The only survivors are a five neo-natal drones (children) (pictured) who have recently emerged prematurely from their maturation chambers. The Borg children hold the captured Delta Flyer crew hostage and demand technology from Voyager, planning to use it to contact the Borg Collective which they wish to rejoin. An autopsy by the Doctor on a dead adult drone determines that a spaceborne virus destroyed the drones but never reached the Borg children who were protected within their maturation chambers.

Kim regains consciousness aboard the Delta Flyer and manages to contact Voyager and is told that if he destroys the Borg cube's shield generator, which is 800 metres from his location, using plasma charges that are aboard the Delta Flyer, he need not make the return trip (because he, and the Voyager hostages, could then be beamed off the cube).

Kim's view of the Borg cube as seen looking through the Delta Flyer's windows

Kim ventures into the Borg cube but is captured by Mezoti, one of the Borg children, and is the victim of a botched attempt to assimilate him. With Kim captured, and Seven now also on the Borg cube having agreed to help the Borg children in return for the release of the previous hostages, the Borg children lose patience with Janeway's stalling tactics and try to physically remove Voyager's deflector. Rather than deploy a pathogen created by the Doctor to destroy the Borg children, Voyager sends a feedback pulse which overloads the cube's shield matrix and its shields drop. The leader of the child drones is electrocuted when he touches the controls. After his death, the Borg children come aboard Voyager and the Doctor removes most of their Borg implants. Kim is treated and recovers from the attempt to assimilate him, and the Delta Flyer is retrieved. (Janeway's log records that Kim is recovering in sickbay, but the Delta Flyer's retrieval is not seen on tv.)

 

CREDITS Thanks to Feeble Minds for the animated star background (tweaked by me). Thanks to Roy Whittle for the floating menu code which is available at Dynamic Drive. Star/nebula backgrounds in title images by me. Delta Flyer images scanned from sources.