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Unity

Chakotay responds to a distress call, and discovers a group of different species, many of which originate from the Alpha Quadrant, living on a planet stricken by conflict. After Chakotay learns that they are all de-assimilated Borg, a group of colonists make a very unorthodox and dangerous request of Voyager.

I have been waiting for this one.

In a word: Awesome.

This is Voyager's first real encounter with the Borg.

A Borg cube is found. All 11,000 occupants on it are dead.

The Ex Borg on the nearby planet want to use the cube's systems to re-establish
a collective on the planet. This is because many of these Ex Borg were assimulated at Wolf 359, so we have : Romulans, Klingons, etc, all living on the same planet. Yeah, that spells trouble.

Meanwhile, a dead Borg is beamed to sickbay; the Doctor inadvertantly activates it, though it is dead. He deactivates it before it can do anything. That was a cool scene.

A few of 'em heal an injured Chakotay after forming a temporary link with him.

Voyager finds him and beams him and the Ex Borg woman Chakotay has grown close to, mainly due to the memories they both experienced from the other during that link.

She explains her plan to Captain Janeway, who says she needs to think on it.

The ex Borg take control of Chakotay, thanks to the after effects of the link with him; he takes a shuttle to the Borg cube to initiate their plan.

Janeway sees what he is doing and beams an away team to Voyager to stop him.

He manages to do it anyway, activating the Borg collective device.

The dead Borg on the cube are re-activated! They attack the away team. The team are beamed back to the ship just in time.

The ex Borg initiate an auto destruct sequence on the cube; it blows up and Voyager moves away just in time.

Janeway understands how Chakotay was an unwilling particpant in this, and the two ponder how long before the now unified ex Borg become malevolant.

This is one of my very favorite of any Star Trek episodes.

Maybe soon, I'll compile a list of my twenty favorite episodes of all the Trek episodes.

Nine more episodes to go until Scorpion part 1.

I have missed Seven of Nine; it will be great to see her again in Scorpion, part 2.