tuvok. tuvok. yes. and you? noss. we'll go to my vessel. i see you've already been there. mayday, mayday. paris to voyager. respond. aw, come on. her name is noss. she was attacked by two humanoid males. you sure she didn't attack them? they were attempting to rob her. seems to be a local pastime. but somebody stole our med-kits. food. what's the status of the shuttle? fractures throughout the hull environmental systems down impulse engines are beyond repair. told you we should have brought the delta flyer. communications appear to be functional. won't do us any good. every time i transmit a signal it gets bounced back by the distortion field that pulled us down here. looks like we fell into some kind of gravity well. as far as i can tell this planet is a part of an entire solar system that is stuck in a pocket of subspace. fascinating. yeah. scientific interest aside tuvok: no doubt voyager has begun a rescue effort. the doctor? his mobile emitter was damaged in the crash. with luck, i might be able to repair it and bring him back on-line. tuvok: make it your top priority

tuvok, if you can hear me, we have to terminate the meld. tuvok! tuvok!! l'rah tu m'rok. ( voices yellingngnd screaming ) ( voices yelling and screaming ) commander? seven! commander? voices: please help us. please d d't leave us. seven! power output's down to 29 percent. 22... 1717. we took a direct hit to the power grid. stand d . we're switching to emergency backup. tuvok! seven! bridge, the vinculum's powering up again. janeway: the field emitters are back on-line. it's working. power output down to 19 percent. 13 percent. ( voices yelling and screamimi ) seven! seven! it's done, captain. the vinculum's off-line. seven? ( weakly ): yes. doctor: we have her back, captain. hail the lead vessel. tell them we're surrendering the vinculum. no response. lock onto the damn thing. they're withdrawing. take us out of here, tom. warp nine. captain's log, stataate 52356.2. after nearly a week of regeneration seven of nine has finally recovered from her ordeal. neuroprocessor, cortical receptors, all stable. she's fit to return to duty. what about her other person

tuvok. i've shut down life support everywhere but decks one and five. it should provide an extra hour of breathable air. chakotay to voyager. janeway here. we found tom and harry. first good news i've had all day. we're on our way back now. what's your position? two kilometers away. captain... transporters are coming back online. we should be able to beam you back from that distance in a few minutes. have the doctor standing by. ( snoring ) computer, lights. maximum illumination. everybody up. rise and shine, mr. neelix. what's going on? it's checkout time. it's the middle of the night. medicine knows no time clock.

janeway to tuvok... no! no, no, no. please... no more. hold your fire, tuvok. captain, we are continuing to submerge. hold your fire. acknowledged. i want some answers. i'm trying to understand. this is hard for me as well. alive? yes... but not the planet. the silver blood. the compound that sampled harry's dna... and created you... yes... but it's never been conscious, never sentient before now... before me and the other. tom paris. we're the first. don't you see? you showed us. when the compound came in contact with tom and harry it experienced awareness for the first time. before, it was only instinct, sound and light and heat. but those two... showed us thought. i'm beginning to understand. and now you want more. you want to duplicate the rest of this crew and populate this planet. you're trying so hard to reach home but this can be home. not for me and not for my people. do you understand why we can't stay here? i think so. well, then release us. die than be alone. we deserve life. this silver blood that created you... it duplicated harry without killing

you and tuvok were in the alien habitat for nearly three hours. anything could have happened down there. true. why don't you have tuvok meet us in sick bay? the doctor can perform a microcellular analysis. tuvok's already there. you could've just asked me to report to sick bay. given ensign gentry's reaction i thought i'd be a little more don't feel singled out. i've asked the doctor to examine the entire crew. there's no telling how 8472 got their information about starfleet-- from the borg, earth. for all we know there's been an impostor on board. cell morphology normal. all of your nucleotide sequences are accounted for. you're 100% human. that's a relief. and tuvok? green-blooded vulcan through and through. well, two down, 125 to go. right. i don't want to be late. just be home before midnight. yes, ma'am. i've enhanced this tricorder with a transoptic datalink. it should help you access some of their systems. type-one phaser, modified to fire borg nanoprobes. right. do you always arm yourself before a first date? you've never had a date with

tuvok to janeway. the kyrians have killed three of the engineering crew; they took seven of nine they're now on deck two, section 32. acknowledged. remember your offer to make me a diplomat? well, it looks like i don't have much of a choice. tell the doctor we have casualties. janeway to tuvok. we're approachchg section 31. the evacuation of deck two is complete. send three security teams to this deck then seal all the access points. acknowledged. how typical of the kyrians. what do you mean? they fight the same way they live-- deviously. (footsteps) janeway to tuvok, the e rians are in the mess hall. we're going in. yoururrew is heroic, captain. i happen to be invulnerable to phasers but i appreciate the compliment. captain? go. daleth: tedran, this is between us. leave them out of it. i know what you're doing-- an alliance with these aliens. janeway: we were trading with them, nothing more. you expect me to believe that? you plan to use this ship to destroyus. now, lay down your weapons and i promise

harry, tuvok, tom do the same with her ship. see if the navigational logs support what she's saying. gentlemen. i agree we should take precautions i want to make sure we're not being manipulated. i agree. if we grant her asylum we'll be in the position of having to protect her. if we're going to commit to that we should certainly find out if she's telling the truth. i'd appreciate your thoughts on that. aye, captain. i have successfully downloaded the navigational logs from your vessel. good. compare them with your own logs displayvoyager'sroute toward the alpha quadrant. now overlay my route. there, you see? our ships traveled together for at least two weeks. you could have falsified your navigational logs. there is no proof that you ever came aboardvoyager. that's what i always liked about you two-- such unyielding logic, such refreshing skepticism. run a diagnostic on my logs. you'll find they haven't been altered. (door opening) to be legitimate but thereare further steps to take. then take them. i thought you might like to

tuvok, target the ship off our r rt bow. fire a few warning shots. tuvok: shields down to 64%. do we have propulsion? not yet. he was attacked by an intruder. these burns are severe. i disabled the alien. it may still be alive. bring it to sick bay. shields are down. they're reinitializing the dampening field. we're losing power. they've stopped their attack. they're beaming off the ship. there's another vessel approaching. we're being hailed. on scrcrn. i'm lieutenant commander tuvok of the federation... i had to fire 13 spatial charges to driri those ships off. i expect to be compensated. of course. now... tell me... if you're age 50-75, massmutual makes it easy to get quality life insurance coverage, at a aost that can fit your budget. call massmutual today and ask about guaranteed acceptance life insurance. it's designed to help cover final expenses such as funeral costs, medical bills, and other debts. while no one wants to think about these costs, it's important to prepare e r them. ey're inevitable, and often add up to more than you think. without insurance, that expense

tuvok here. i'm on the dauntless in the engine room and i found something that qualifies as unusual. ( sighs ) computer, display data block 14-beta, auxiliary display. seven, i could use your help. i'm trying to reconstruct the last fragment of the starfleet message. arturis said it was irreparably damaged. i know, but i think he gave up too easily. intuition. it's intuition if i'm right. i've designed a new decryption algorithm. let's give it a try. captain i will not be going with you to the alpha quadrant. i can understand your reluctance. it's been hard enough dealing with a crew of 150 individual humans. i am not overwhelmed. i simply do not wish to live among humans. well, whether you like it or not, you're one of us. you've come a long way from that drone who stepped out of a borg alcove nine months ago. don't turn your back on humanity now not when you're about to take your biggest step-- earth your home. i may have come a long way but not in the direction you think. you exposed me to you

forget about what it's called, tuvok. in the world of captain proton it's the most powerful weapon that there is and because it's photonic it's lethal to these aliens. juststefore chaotica can use it to destr earth. and you think that proton namely you, of course,e, ? well, we'd have to knock out the lightning shield first. a force field. yeah. now you're catching on. the destructo beam on my rocket s sp can disable the death ray but only if someone gets inside the fortress of doom and can shut down the lightning shield. and who does that? arachnia, queen of the spider people. charming. in the story, he's in love with her. he's been trying to form an alliance since chapter three. she's the only one that he trusts the only one that can get close enough to disable the lightning shield. sosobody is going to have to take on her character. who'd you have in mind? oh, no. it's the role of a lifetime. captain, need i remind you that we have exhausted all other possibilities those distortions, we're trapped. think of it as starfl

begin scanning for seven, tuvok. aye, captain. i have a task for you. we're planning to deploy a new mode of assimilation designed for highly resistant species. i want you to program the nanoprobes. your technology has changed since i left the collective. my knowledge is insufficient. species 5-6-1-8. human. below-average cranial capacity. minimal redundant systems. limited regenerative abilities. our previous attempts to assimilate them were all direct assaults. they failed so we've created a more surreptitious strategy. you intend to detonate a biogenic charge in earth's atmosphere. it would infect all life-forms with nanoprobe viruses. dual. by the time they realized what was happening half their population would be drones. inefficient. the virus would take years to proliferate. we've waited this long. interface with the central alcove. begin programming the nanoprobes. be sure to enhance the viral sequencers. this is no different. to you, perhaps. part of me is still human. i will not assist in their destruction. we all originated from lesser specie

tuvok, vorik and jurot died in a shuttle crash about two months ago. suder was killed in a conflict with a species called the kazon. that's fortunate... for you, i mean. if i'd known you were harboring telepaths i would have had to arrest you for breaking our cardinal protocol. they were valued members of my crew, inspector not criminals. perhaps. captain... do you trust me? not for a second. exactly. and why should you? trust has to be earned. it's gradual and yet it's the foundation of every relationship professional and personal. it's also a concept alien to the telepathic races. why take someone at their word when you can simply read their mind? ( door opens ) we've completed our inspection. however, their sensor logs indicate they deviated from their assigned course on two occasions. in both cases, to avoid ion storms. imperative 32, codicil 626: "all gaharay vehicles "that deviate from prescribed flight vectors will be impounded, their crews detained and relocated." prax, it's clear the captain didn't intend to break protocol. i expect we can ove

seven: its maturation rate tuvok, erect a level-ten force field around this section. post round-the-clock security. you intend to let it mature? the alternative is to pull the plug and i'm not prepared to do that-- not unless i have to. resume your analysis. i want to know exactly what we're dealing with here. or should i say whom? yes, captain. i've adapted the astrometric sensors e borg force field. i thought you said this thing was a fetus. an hour ago it was. the drone has entered the fourth phase of gestation. in human terms, it is a child of six years. doctor: you mean a boy of six years. from what i can tell, the drone is male. seven, route your sensor data to sick bay. i want to run a few medical scans. stand by. borg implants comprise approximately 27% of his body. curious. his body plating is composed of poly-deutonic alloy. just like my mobile emitter. the nanoprobes must have extrapolated that technology. it could explain his unique design. wait a second. the doctor's emitter came from the 29th century. it's 500 years more advanced than anything we've got.

commander tuvok? we're being hailed. ( beeping ) well, you better answer them before they open fire. ( sighs ) kim here. tuvok: ensign, you are in direct violation of the captain's orders. return to voyager immediately and bring derran tal with you. yes, sir but why bring tal? she's wanted by the varro authorities there's no point in lying. we found a schematic for the parasite on your personal database. to some of us, it's more like a prison. so you've resorted to sabotage no doubt involving him. mr. kim's complicity remains to be proven. he had nothing to do with our movement. "movement"? tell them. jippeq: it's none of their concern. you'll need to explain. a small group of dissidents... it's not a small group. there are hundreds of us. what are you trying to achieve? our freedom-- the right to live as we choose to go where we choose. to destroy it. we're trying to dismantle it. the parasites weren't placed randomly. they're targeting the linkages between segments. each segment will become its own

tuvok: captain to the bridge. tom. chakotay's in trouble. he tried to contact us but his signal was cut off. a force field went up around the habitat. we can't get a lock on him. has your vessel been detected? i don't think so. at least no one's tried to take a shot at us yet. hold your position. keep trying to locate him. we're on our way. yes, ma'am. bring those borg weapons on-line. red alert. all hands to battle stations. take us out of orbit. what'll you have, son? i'm a single malt man, myself. aged 200 years. been saving it for a special occasion. and i'd say this is special enough, mm-hmm. a toast... to earth. ah. chakotay. first officer, uss voyager. species 8472. origin: fluidic space. well, now that we've been formally introduced how many ships? cat got your tongue? i asked you a question. how many vessels do you have in the delta quadrant? one. how did you find us? we detected what looked like a federation subspace transmission. we wanted this simulation to be accurate to the last detail. we obviously went a little too far. now t

tuvok, why don't you go next? computer, begin recording. encode message for delivery to naomi wildman. acknowledged. hihihoney. i know you're feeling sad right now but i want you to listen to me very carefully, okay? first of all, i love you. second, i want you to know that i'm proud of you how smart you are, how funny how kind you are to other people. and i know that you are going to grow up to do extraordinary things. last-- and i know this is a hard one-- try not to be scared. warning: oxygen depletion in ten minutes. listen to neelix. bye, honey. naomi? go away! where is she? she doesn't want to talk to you. you lied. i thought you vaporized. naomi re-liquefied me. now leave. computer, delete characters. unable to comply. holodeck controls have been encoded. delete us? i wonder if this liar can swim? we could always hang him from one of my branches. naomi. please let me talklko you. it's okay. you be nice. hey, there. is my mother dead? we don't know. what happened? the away team was trying to avoid an ion storm. they had to land on a p

tuvok, i'll need a class-two shshtle tom, set a course for... forget it. we're not going to let you die out here. have a little faith, b'elalaa. i'll have a shuttle, plenty of rations. i'll survive. alone in the delta quadrant? no offense, but... i've made my decision. what about us? don't we have a say? he's right, captain. i'd be willing to brave this void if it meant keeping you with us. tom... set a course. lieutenant, i gave you an order. i can't follow that order, ma'am. harry, take the helm. i wiwi not comply. what's a hologram to do? as you can see you're not the only ononwho's had time to evaluate the past. yes, i can see that. you realize you could all be hangege for mutiny. looks like we need another option. we fire torpedoes the instant we cross the threshold. ortex begins to collapse we jump into high warp. there'll be a massive shock wave on our tail. i'll reinforce the aft shielding. there's still one obstacle-- the malon. antimatter waste has weakened the bulkhead surrounding their cargo hold. a direct phasesestrike should disable them. poe

tuvok: they can see us. how? i don't know. up. chakotay: three? energize! where's seven? she had a change of heart. report. the sphere's changing course. they're retreating. they're bringing their remaining transwarp coils on-line. pursuit course. target their propulsion system. welcome home. [captioning sponsored by ramount television and united paramount network (voice pre-echoing): this wasn't part of our agreement. (voice pre-echoing): you failed in your last mission. the klingon empire is intact. you knew there would be consequences. please, i won't disappoint you again. we'll restore it but only if you succeed in your next mission. but... you're disabling me. proceed with the extraction. (high-pitched whine) (whimpering) ? it's been a long road ? getting from there to here ? it's been a long time ? and i will 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

oh, come on, tuvok. aren't you curious? yes, but we have a task at hand. the phase modulator. (door beeping) come in. status report. everything's going according to schedule. good. the omega directive doesn't allow me to say mu but i want you to know what to expect. at 0600 hours, i'll be leaving in a shuttle with seven of nine. would it be out of line to ask where you're going? i can tell you this: one of two things is going to happen. either seven and i will susueed on our mission and return within a few days or your long-range sensors will detect a large explosion in subspace. if that occurs you'll have ten seconds to jump to warp and get the hell out of here. head for the alpha quadrant i always thought that starfleet was run by duty-crazed bureaucrats but i find it hard to believe that even they would order a captain to go on a suicide mission. this shuttle excursion is your idea, isn't it? let's just say i've had toamendthe directive and i expect you to follow the given the circumstances. m. that's expecting a lot. you'reresking me to abandon my captain and closest frien

tuvok: captain...? janeway: it's true, tuvok. to pull out of the city. aye, captain. turanj, order our hunters to end the fighting. this is madness. we're winning this battle. the future of our people, our civilization depends on this agreement. acknowledged. you heard him. release the captives. i'll tell the others. order all units to withdraw to these positions. have you? yes. but the commandant is a aool. he doesn't understand. he's neverermbraced the fuhrer... or his vision. one does not cooperate with decadent forms of life. one hunts them down and eliminates them. the commandant speaks of civilization. y, rome fell to thehepears of our ancestors... as the jews are falling now. look at our destiny. the field of red. the purity of german blood. the blazing white circle of the sun that sanctified that blood. no one can deny us, no power on earth or beyond-- we are driven by the very force that gives life to the universe itself. we must countermand the commandant's orders. to who we ar stay and fight. e. chakotay: all units, clear the valley. return to your previous

commander tuvok, tactical. doctor, there's no telling what condition seven will be in when we find her. you'll come along. i'll be leading the away team. the rest of you will remain onvoyager and maintain position at the threshold of our transwarp conduit. we may need tactical support when we return. you'll be taking your orders from commander chakotay. we'll be searching for one individual among thousands of drones... t to let her go. let's get started. all systems go. we're ready for the jump. bring the coil on-line. prepare for transwarp. we're at critical velocity. engage, mr. paris. trswarp in four... three... we've arrived. are you ready? i have familiarized myself with the species. (weapons' fire) 39 of their vessels are converging on our position. they're firing weapons. our shields are failing. we will be destroyed. how do you propose we adapt? i was thinking the same thing. adaptation complete. they're no longer a threat. go to the primary assimilation chamber. you'll monitor the bio-extraction proces

tuvok, reroute auxiliary power to the deflector dish. retransmit the alien's message on all subspace bands. aye, captain. deflector at full capacity. chakotay. ( humming melody ) ( humming same melody ) ( humming together ) ( stops humming ) i'm sorry. my wife tells me i'm tone deaf. not at all. you were right on key. if you enjoy music we can run some opera programs after we're finished. i'd like that. i think we're ready for a look inside. e me for saying so but this appears to be a rather crude instrument especially when we have such advanced equipment at our disposal. i often find the simplest tool is the most effective. all of our elaborate scanners and laser scalpels they remove us from our subjects. actually, feeling the anatomy the consistency of the internal organs it can be very instructive. why don't you do the honors? uh, make a vertical incision, say, 12 centimeters starting here. ( squealing ) we're hurting it. doctor, it's a hologram. of course. i guess as a hologram myself, i have a certain empathy. keep going. extraordin

oh, you don't know commander tuvok. if he sees one electron out of place he calls for red alert. ( laughing ) ( frustrated sigh ) those things are important. i think about them, too. but sometimes you need to follow a different kind of protocol. if you believe in something strongly enough you can't ignore it... even if it means breaking a few rules. that's why i took this shuttle decompress but every time i break a rule . i'm like some kind of... borg drone-- except i was designed to be the perfect starfleet officer. top of his class... captain of the velocity team, interstellar honors. first field assignment-- bridge officer on a starship. every cadet's dream come true. you're not a program. in fact, i envy your freedom. i mean, your crew's mission-- totoeek out life... what could be more liberating?

mputer, identify the cause of the power failure. ( door opens ) tuvok: captain's orders. power from astrometrics has been rerouted to the navigational array at least until we've completed our journey through the wormhole. i've made contact with a vessel inside the anomaly. starfleet? alien. the pilot attempted to warn us away. aid we were being deceived that the wormhole is not what it appears to be. the preponderance of data suggests otherwise. the data is flawed. as is your reasoning. may i ask you a personal question? are you looking forward to seeing your wife and family? indeed. and is that desire stronger than you expected it to be? your point? i believe you are being manipulated. otherwise, you would be willing to listen to my concerns. access to the astrometrics lab is restricted until further notice. ( soft clattering ) ( louder clattering ) naomi wildman. your presence here is unauthorized. state your intentions. i'm... hiding. from whom? everyone. they're all acting strange. even mom. elaborate. she keeps smiling all the time, talking about earth like it's the

tuvok: is there any way to increase our speed? none. we're at maximum. maintain course. if i know the captain she's already got a plan. any ideas? not presently. we better think of something. we come face-to-face with your former family in less than an hour and that's one reunion i'd like to miss unless you're looking forward to rejoining the collective. i do not believe i am. not the ringing opposition i was hoping for, but i'll take it. a drone could walk through this force field like it was thin air. is there enough borg technology left in your body to let it adapt? however, i would need to adjust my cranial implant. would a microfilament do the trick? it might. then let's get you one. once you get outside, access that control panel and disable the force field. then we'll try to reach the engine room. and employ the emergency shutdown procedure. sufficient. you will need deja vu. captain? if i recall this is where our relationship began in a brig nine months ago. i severed you from the collective and you weren't exactly happy about it. no, i was not. i realize that i'

tuvok? mission accomplished. we've arranged for our guests in sick bay to be taken back to their homeworld and we can finally put this mission behind us. this will be my last encrypted log concerning the omega directive. the classified data files will now be destroyed. i wondered who wawarunning my program. master da vinci doesn't like visitors after midnightht. he protested. i deactivated him. what're you doing here, seven? this simulation contains many religious components. i was studying them to help me understand what i saw in cargo bay two. the data wasn't clear but chances are it was simply a chaotic anomaly, nothing more. for 3.2 seconds... i saw perfection. when omega stabilized, i fefe a curious sensation. as i was watching it, it seemed to be watching me. the borg have assimilated many species with mythologies to explain such moments of clarity. i've always dismissed them as trivial. perhaps i was wrong. if i didn't know you better... [captioning sponsored by paramount television and upn previously on e

tuvok. welcome. captain. i know you put yourselves in danger to rescue me. i want to thank you. i'm glad we could help. i was so eager to test my new engine i pushed it beyond its limits. coaxial warp doesn't seem to be the smoothest way to travel. it's a violent procedure, but it allows a ship to travel through space at incredible speeds. considering the dangers this method of travel hardly seems logical. that's probably true but if i were worrying about danger t. where are you from? the fourth planet in the benthan system. that's about 20 light years from here. i'll speak to my engineers about helping you with repairs. without your coaxial drive, it's a long way home. (door beeping) come in. (short exhale) i'd like to ask you a favor. like to help steth repair his ship. this isn't a good time to ask. what do you mean? i've been reading a report from the doctor. you didn't show up today. well, i was a little busy this morning... saving someone's life, as i recall. is there something wrong, tom? anything bothering you? nothing is wrong. since when is not wanting to spend time wi