Infinite Regress
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 25 November 1998
- ON
- UPN
- STARDATE
- 52356.2
- DIRECTED BY
- David Livingston
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 203
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Robert J. Doherty; story by Robert J. Doherty & Jimmy Diggs
As Voyager passes the wreckage of a Borg cube, Seven of Nine starts to change, becoming a different person from one moment to the next.
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Voyager passes through the debris of a destroyed Borg cube, and Seven begins acting strangely. The neural patterns of people the Borg assimilated, stored in her implants, are surfacing, and she switches between personalities: a Klingon warrior, a frightened little girl, a Ferengi and many more. The source is a vinculum, the device in a cube that suppresses individuality. Its signal is affecting Seven, and it is carrying a virus planted by Species 6339, who sacrificed their own people to be assimilated so the infection could spread through the Collective. The aliens, led by Ven, demand the vinculum. As the personalities threaten to overwhelm Seven for good, Tuvok performs a mind-meld to find her and draw her back. Torres disables the vinculum, it is handed over, and Seven recovers. Seven then agrees to play kadis-kot with Naomi.
- 01The story combined two separate pitches: one about a Borg vinculum, and one about Seven experiencing the personalities of people the Borg assimilated.
- 02It introduces the board game kadis-kot, which returns in later Voyager episodes.
- 03The episode mentions the USS Tombaugh, named after Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930.