offensive and absurd! she's obviously lying. why would she do that? maybe you can answer that. she's your crew member. first she attacks me then she invents these ridiculous stories and you try to place the blame on me. is this a negotiating tactic? i have no hidden agenda. i'm simply trying to clarify what happened. i told you. we went to my laboratory to adjust the guidance system on the particle-beam rifle. and that took two hours? she insisted on absolute precision. confirmed that seven was exposed to an intense thoron discharge. she was-- after the rifle's power cell overloaded. we reported the accident immediately. she now remembers that you fired the weapon at her deliberately. that's preposterous. the doctor tells me the blast could have rendered her unconscious. but it didn't. we were both startled for a moment and after i apologized for the accident she asked if i had a dermal regenerator

which you recognized as borg. i was aware she'd been a borg. she told me herself. did you ever express curiosity in that technology or try to examine it more closely? no. you never considered the potential value it might have as a weapon? is that what you think i've done? you may not realize how dangerous borg technology can be. if you've taken even a single nanoprobe i need to know about it right now. i'd like to examine your laboratory to be absolutely sure. no. this has already gone too far. then i'll have to contact the authorities. maybe they'll be more helpful. are you willing to risk our trade agreement all on the basis of one crew member's delusions? yes. now...

you've stated the rifle's power cell overloaded that's right. can you describe in more detail how that occurred? i was showing her how to polarize the emitter matrix. i must have tuned the induction frequency too high. were you unfamiliar with that procedure? no. i have done it 100 times. it was a careless mistake. how many times do i need to apologize? i am not seeking a statement of remorse. then what do you want?

trick me into confessing? you can't, because there's nothing for me to confess! i haven't done anything wrong! one of our crew members claims that you have. your crew member, seven of nine... she's very fortunate. how so? she has an entire crew leaping to her defense. i have no one. the entharan representative will be here shortly. help me. he's more interested in protecting diplomatic relations with people like you. surely he'll want to know the truth. that's all we're seeking. you don't understand. on my world, we depend on trade with alien species. there are strict protocols about those relationships. even being accused of violating them is a serious offense.

. i won't be trusted any longer. i'll be ruined. please... i never hurt your crew member. don't do this. i'm afraid i have no choice. but i assure you our investigation will be conducted in a fair and impartial manner. you strike me as a man of your word. if you tell me i won't be prejudged then i believe you. w e you feeling? i am undamaged. but how do youfeel? seven, your physical scars have healed but the psychological effects are still there. you'll have to deal with them.

in order to heal. kovin attacked you... violated your rights as an individual. it's important that you recognize that so you can understand any hostility or resentment you might be feeling. resentment is a human trait. it has no structure, no function i want no part of it. you're going to have to begin accepting the fact that your human feelings exist and that suppressing them can damage you. if i am not aware of these feelings how can i express them? you this. what would have happened if kovin had tried to take borg technology directly from the collective? he would have been assimilated. precisely. which is why he chose you. he could get what he wanted without running any risks. it was my individuality which made me vulnerable. exactly. he violated that individuality.

it was the act of a coward. yes! someone who was willing to use you in the cruelest way tt he could create new weaponsrj and sell them. i believe i am beginning to experience anger. anger toward kovin. good. that's a perfectly healthy, normal response. and when kovin gets what he deserves you're going to feel much better. gistrate. this is my laboratory. there are no examination tables. i told you. just workbenches. is this the entire facility? yes. we should scan for signs that the room may have been altered recently. during her regression

she said a device like this was used to remove her optic implant. that's a micro-caliper. i used it to remove the casings over the guidance system on the particle-beam rifle. and isn't this an electrodynamic probe? yes. hmm. it's equipped with a monofilament stimulator. could it be used to manipulate the neurotransmitter levels in a human brain? t is. but with proper modifications? with modifications i could reconfigure your combadge to manipulate neurotransmitters. what's your point? i believe you've just made it. there's cellular residue on many of these instruments. it matches seven's genome. with your permission, sir i'd like to take these tools back tovoyager

need. tuvok: doctor, there are a number of borg nanoprobes on the surface of this table. i'll just collect a sample. hmm... that's where her arm was hit when the rifle overloaded. the dispersal pattern is consistent with a dermal rupture. these nanoprobes were recently regenerated. if this were nothing more than cellular residue d be dormant. but these have been activated in very specific pattern. i have seen enough. kovin there is sufficient evidence here to detain you pending official proceedings. no. please... no. stay where you are. kovin, don't... kovin: i trusted you. you said it would be an impartial investigation

well, i'm not going to let this happen. tuvok to voyar. janeway here. mr. kovin has transported out of the laboratory. can you track his present position? stanby. kim: i'm picking up a transporter signature 300 kilometers above the surface. paris: captain, a ship is powering its engine at those coordinates. magistrate, do you want us to follow? yes... but i'd like to join you. we'll beam you tovoyager. stand by. kovin's ship is on a heading of one-eight mark two-five. set an intercept course. get ready to lock on a tractor beam. he's only at half impulse. his ship may not have warp engines. we're at 9,000 kilometers d osg. i'm engaging the tractor beam.

disappeared. he generated a photonic pulse. we'll have to reinitialize the entire sensor array. do it. our investigation has suddenly turned into a manhunt. the fact that he's running shows that he's got something to hide. until we find out what that is

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warp signature from kovin's ship. we're now in pursuit. in the meantime tuvok and i have been examining the tools from kovin's laboratory. this isn't getting us anywhere. seven's cellular residue is on every one of these but that would be true if she simplyhandledthem. my examination of the rifle is equally inconclusive. it may have overloaded accidentally... or not. i'm getting a bad feeling about this, tuvok. we aren't finding anything that implicates kovin. i told him our investigation would be impartial. i believe it has been. it has... but i'll admit i had some preconceptions about him. they may have influenced my judgment. the strongest evidence so far is the nanoprobes the doctor found. the fact that they were regenerated suggests that kovin was experimenting with them. we don't know a great deal about the interaion between nanoprobes d rghyoly.

ifle blast on seven's arm and see what happens to the nanoprobes. good. maybe that'll give us some answers. is this really necessary, captain? she's suffered enough trauma already. we don't want to make accusations against an innocent man. we have to do everything we can to find some concrete evidence. he is not an innocent man. i know what he did to me. but we must have proof. and this experiment may provide us with it. to simulate the energy of a thoron blast. we'll collect thin layers of your skin tissue and examine the effects. it won't be painful. i am not afraid. i am angry. i know. try to be patient. we may have some answers soon. all right, let's see

i think you better take a look. what do you see? the nanoprobes... are regenerating in exactly the same pattern we saw in kovin's laboratory. it appears to be a spontaneous response which could have been caused by the energy released from the thoron weapon. it doesn't matter. kovin is guilty. seven... there's no doubt in my mind that you believe what you're saying but is it possible-- justpossible that the memories you and the doctor recovered aren't accurate? how could that be?

medical procedures. you undoubtedly witnessed other victims being assimilated. could that be what you're remembering? you know that's not right. tell them. everything led me to believe that you were a victim. your extreme response to kovin in engineering your irrational fear when i was examining you... something prompted that behavior, and i believed it was a repressed memory of your ordeal with kovin. that is what it was. but if i'm to be impartial, i have to acknowledge that your neurology is still something of a mystery to me. i can't be certain what triggered those memories. and we can't ignore the fact that this evidence supports kovin's story... and not yours. you were the one who helped me to understand what happened and now you're denying it. no one's abandoning you, but we have to do what's right. we have to find kovin and tell him what we've learned.

when kovin gets what he deserves. i want him to be punished.

janeway: mr. paris. he's in range. visual. hail him. no response. he's charging weapons. open a channel-- all frequencies. mr. kovin, this is captain janeway. we believe we've made a mistake in accusing you. we only want to correct the situation. stand down your weapons.

your pursuit. i can damage your ship. we're not here to take you by force. then let me go. kovin, listen to me. the proceedings must be resolved. this is a trap. janeway: no. we've discovered information that supports your story. i don't believe you. we've reexamined the evidence. finding the nanoprobes led us to the wrong conclusion. we know now that your thoron rifle did overload. please... hoton pulses. shields down to 82%. janeway: back off. give him breathing room. he's coming about, heading right for us. direct hit to the power grid. he's going to destroy your vessel. captain? he's come under enough fire from us already. harry, beam him off his ship. he's thrown up a scattering field.

ing. (main power goes off) shields are down. he's shunting all power to his photonic emitters. we must protect ourselves. disable his ship. no. evasive maneuvers-- hard to port, full thrusters. aye. kim: i've almost got a lock on him. a few more seconds. he's charging weapons again. captain, his emitters are overloading. all his systems are destabilizing. open a channel. kovin, shut down your scattering field. let us beam you aboard. kovin! he's firing. harry?! i can't find anything to lock onto, captain. there's nothing more we could have done.

mr. paris, set a course back to the entharan colony. 51658.2. i spent the past three days being cross-examined by the entharan authorities but the matter is finally resolved. i wish i could say the same about my own state of mind. doctor. yes. i'm here for my weekly maintenance. oh, of course.

metabolic rate is stable. electro-optic implant is aligned. your blood pressure is... slightly off but within tolerance. you're in perfect health. see you next week. i do not feel perfect. what do you mean? i am preoccupied by kovin's death. join the club. it's all i can think about. as a borg, i was responsible for the destruction of countless millions and i felt nothing but now... i regret the destruction of this single being. it's called remorse, seven. it comes into play when you make a mistake... and you feel guilt about what you've done. another new emotion

han i enjoyed anger. will the feeling subside? yes... but not quickly. i would rather not have to wait. i'm afraid you don't have much choice. but maybe i do. i've isolated the algorithms responsible for my desire nd my original programming. i want to delete them. why? it was my... urge to experiment my infatuation with improving myself that led to this tragedy. i fancied myself a psychologist, a ship's counselor but i wasn't prepared for the complexities that come with such a responsibility. in my enthusiasm to help seven of nine

i became a self-righteous advocate. i didn't stop to think for one second that i might be wrong. that mustn't happen again. you want to go back to the state you were in when we first activated you? i'll still be capable of treating any and all medical conditions but without the risk of overstepping my bounds. it's for the best, captain. oh, i'm not so sure. s benefited greatly from your improvements over the years. request denied. i won't turn back the clock because of one mistake... no matter how serious... and no matter how you might feel. i'm a physician.

n't live with the thought that... i might do it again. with any luck... that knowledge will prevent it from happening again. we all rallied around seven, doctor myself included. i wanted her to know that she was part of this family that we would support her fight for her no matter what. we let our good intentions blind us. and we all have to live with it. but to delete that burden

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previously on enterprise... archer: admiral forrest has been killed. the syrrannites were responsible and they'll be dealt with accordingly. your posion is terminated immediately. surak. you're seeing the past through my eyes. the culture you've come to know isn't the one i helped to create. syrran did something to me before he died. he chose you. ( gasps ) he has surak's katra. we can't reach them, and they can't reach us. the may be in grave danger. find what my people have lost. find the kir'shara. v'las: blanket the area. use all necessary force. make sure there are no survivors. you're presiding over a massacre. the high command is planning to attack andoria.

set a course for andoria. maximum warp. and now, the conclusion. the andorians have deployed most of their fleet in defensive positions around paan mokar. we gave them that planet when we signed the treaty. why would they move their forces there? they believe we're preparing to retake it. we've been using unmanned probes to generate false warp signatures in that system. why weren't we informed of this? it's possible that andorian agents have penetrated the high command. it's necessary to limit access to this information. our forces are actually stationed here-- preparing to launch an invasion of andoria. there are members of the council who are not convinced an invasion is necessary at this time. we know they have the xindi technology. you've all seen the data. data can be falsified. v'las: we received this sensor telemetry two days ago.

that stole the xindi prototype. our operatives tell us the prototype was taken back to andoria, where it was disassembled. we have reason to believe the imperial guard plans to equip their vessels with similar weaponry. do you have evidence of this? they didn't steal the prototype because they were merely curious. i'm certain of one thing-- sooner or later, the andorians will make use of this technology. is it logical for us to wait for that day? ? it's been a long road ? getting from there to here ? it's been a long time

ill see my dream come alive at last ? ? i will touch the sky ? and they're not gonna hold me down no more ? ? no, they're not gonna change my mind ? ? 'cause i've got faith of the heart ? ? i'm going where my heart will take me ? ? i've got faith to believe ? ? i can do anything ? i've got strength of the soul ? ? no one's gonna bend or break me ? ? i can reach any star ? i've got faith ? i've got, i've got ? ? i've got faith ? faith of the heart.

we've sent word to the syrrannites in the mountains. they'll care for the wounded. how far to the capital? two days. we need to get back to enterprise... tell starfleet what we've learned about the embassy bombing. we have a more important mission. we've to get this to the capital. i don't understand. the kir'shara contains surak's original writings.

it would have an enormous impact on the high command and all of vulcan. i've got two teams working on it. both launchers should be on line in a few hours. anything else? permission to speak freely? admiral gardner ordered us to return to earth, yet we've set a course for andorian territory. we are going back. we're just taking a small detour first. have you told starfleet you're planning to warn the andorians? no. have you any idea what the admiral will do when he finds out? i'll save you a seat at my court-martial. is there anything else? the vulcans have legitimate reasons for launching this strike. if we alert the andorians, we will be betraying our closest ally.