Scorpion
- Episode aired May 21, 1997
- TV-PG
- 46m
About to enter Borg space, Voyager finds a threat so devastating that even the Borg cannot deal with it.About to enter Borg space, Voyager finds a threat so devastating that even the Borg cannot deal with it.About to enter Borg space, Voyager finds a threat so devastating that even the Borg cannot deal with it.
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
- Borg
- (uncredited)
- Borg
- (uncredited)
- Science Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Borg Drone
- (uncredited)
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Brooks
- (uncredited)
- Voyager Ops Lt. j.g.
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe pile of dismembered Borg seen on the disabled cube was actually a twelve-inch pile of Playmates Toys action figures.
- GoofsWhen Janeway orders Chakotay to take an away team to the Borg ship, she tells him that they will keep an open com link and an active transporter lock on them. When Chakotay is on the Borg ship, he needs to tap his communicator and request a connection with Captain Janeway. This would not be necessary if they had an open com link. Later Torres can not get a lock on the away team to transport them. She should have known the lock was down previously if she was actually keeping an active lock on the away team.
- Quotes
Commander Chakotay: There's a story I heard as a child, a parable, and I never forgot it: A scorpion was walking along the bank of a river, wondering how to get to the other side. Suddenly he saw a fox. He asked the fox to take him on his back across the river. The fox said, "No. If I do that, you'll sting me, and I'll drown." The scorpion assured him, "If I did that, we'd both drown." So the fox thought about it, finally agreed. So the scorpion climbed up on his back, and the fox began to swim, but halfway across the river, the scorpion stung him. As the poison filled his veins, the fox turned to the scorpion and said, "Why did you do that? Now you'll drown too." "I couldn't help it," said the scorpion. "It's my nature."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: Voyager: The Voyager Conspiracy (1999)
Basically, Janeway and the crew are en route. They've entered the heart of what is now Borg space, as is established in this episode. When they cross the Borg's space, they realize the Borg aren't going after them. It's a very tense scene (but being subjective, nothing truly scary like when the Borg were on "TNG" and the brief apperance they had in "Descent," when the Borg were still the "TNG" Borg): a group of Borg ships clash with Voyager, and a Borg ship scans the ship to see if they can assimilate (another hilarious thing which I'll compound on). The grass is not always greener on the other side, as the saying goes, because there is a catch to the Borg leaving the space and apparently giving Voyager a chance to a faster way home. It's revealed, that a force more threatening than the Borg (as was ominiously hinted in "Unity") has been destroying their ships (we see it in the very beginning obviously during the teaser).
What follows is a violent scene, rife with a lot of defacation, as the Borg ship remaints literally look like poop and b**gers all over space. This is perhaps the grossest of all the Borg episodes on "Voyager," as usually the defactionfest is limited to the inside of the Borg ships. And this isn't me being negative. I do love this episode. Tom famously says the line upon seeing this, "Who can do this to the Borg?" At this point Chakotay and the crew are starting to think there's a catch to this. And to all the morons who think "Voyager" wasn't dark, Janeway contemplates the unthinkable in this episode - and I will reveal it only because it's somewhat common knowledge (and doesn't spoil the plot) - realizing that not taking an opportunity is sentencing themselves to likely permenent exile, and that going unprotected is suicide, during the Holodeck, she appeals in a very dark scene, to the Devil, and the unthinkable is proposed: cooperation with the Borg. It is very uneasy. How do we know it'll work? How do we know the Borg will be able to keep their end of the bargain should they agree to Janeway's terms? The doubtful and pessimistic Chakotay correctly says it: you can't change the nature of the beast. What follows is a cat and mouse chase and eventually Janeway reaches the Borg. The rest is for you to see.
- robert-macc
- May 27, 2024
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3