VOY · SEASON 77×01

Unimatrix Zero, Part II

NOMADIC PICK · FAN FAVOURITEJaneway takes the fight to the Borg Queen.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
4 October 2000
ON
UPN
STARDATE
54014.4
DIRECTED BY
Mike Vejar
PRODUCTION NO.
247

WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky; story by Mike Sussman and Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

With the away team inside a Borg cube, Janeway gambles everything on helping the drones of Unimatrix Zero fight back against the Borg Queen.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
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Janeway turns down the Borg Queen's offer of transwarp technology in return for abandoning the drones of Unimatrix Zero. Her plan is to release a modified nanovirus aboard a Borg cube so that those who visit Unimatrix Zero keep their memories when they wake and can organise a resistance. Janeway, Tuvok and B'Elanna are captured and assimilated, but the Doctor has protected their minds with neural inhibitors, and they continue the mission from inside the Collective. In time Tuvok's protection begins to fail. The Queen destroys her own ships to root out awakened drones and threatens to wipe out everyone in Unimatrix Zero unless Janeway negotiates. Janeway calls her bluff and concludes that Unimatrix Zero must be closed down so the Queen cannot exploit it. A Borg sphere crewed by liberated drones helps Voyager rescue the away team, and the newly independent drones begin a civil war against the Collective.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01The seventh season premiere. Filming for this episode, and for the final season, began on 22 June 2000.
  2. 02Tuvok reveals that he was born on the Vulcanis Lunar Colony rather than on Vulcan itself.
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