A tough coded message from Starfleet with a promise of home and a helpful alien adept at cracking language patterns. The coincidence seems too convenient for Capt. Janeway.A tough coded message from Starfleet with a promise of home and a helpful alien adept at cracking language patterns. The coincidence seems too convenient for Capt. Janeway.A tough coded message from Starfleet with a promise of home and a helpful alien adept at cracking language patterns. The coincidence seems too convenient for Capt. Janeway.
- Computer Voice
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- Secuity Team Member
- (uncredited)
- Voyager Ops Officer
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- Borg
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- (uncredited)
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
- Crewman O'Donnell
- (uncredited)
- Voyager Sciences Officer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe shot depicting the Dauntless exiting the slipstream in Borg space features a nebula that was actually a modified, high-resolution image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
- GoofsWhen Captain Janeway discovered the deception that the alien had made she goes to get weapons when it would've been more effective to transport the alien to the brig on Voyager and ask the questions there.
- Quotes
Arturis: You negotiated an agreement with the Borg Collective: safe passage through their space, and in return you helped them defeat one of their enemies.
Seven of Nine: Species 8472.
Arturis: In your colorful language, yes, Species 8472. Did it ever occur to you that there were those of us in the Delta Quadrant with a vested interest in that war? Victory would have meant annihilation of the Borg, but you couldn't see beyond the bow of your own ship!
Capt. Kathryn Janeway: In my estimation, Species 8472 posed a greater threat than the Borg.
Arturis: Who are you to make that decision? A stranger to this quadrant!
Capt. Kathryn Janeway: There wasn't exactly time to take a poll. I had to act quickly.
Arturis: My people managed to elude the Borg for centuries - outwitting them, always one step ahead - but in recent years, the Borg began to weaken our defenses, they were closing in, and Species 8472 was our last hope to defeat them. You took that away from us! The outer colonies were the first to fall, twenty-three in a matter of hours. Our sentry vessels tossed aside, no defense against the storm, and, by the time they surrounded our star system, hundreds of cubes. We had already surrendered to our own terror. A few of us managed to survive - ten, twenty thousand. I was fortunate, I escaped with a vessel, alone, but alive. I don't blame them. They were just drones, acting with their collective instinct. You! You had a choice!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: Nemesis Review (2009)
If you accept that this is the obligatory plot where Voyager gets hope of returning home before having it dashed by associated contrivances, there are plenty of positives.
I like how it connects to a previous episode and the consequences those events. This make the overarching narrative feel stronger.
Certain characters get memorable screen time, particularly Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine with the development of their relationship and psychological factors involved in their clash. Their clashes are always good value for screen time and Katie Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan are great.
- snoozejonc
- Jul 25, 2023
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3