Seven of Nine is now sans most of her Borg implants – she willingly joins the crew, although some of the crew (specifically B’Elanna) still don’t trust her. Neither do an alien race whose home world was decimated by the Borg. They have become professional beggars, and Voyager complies with whatever food and medicine they can spare. While trying to remove the failing Borg technology, the warp core begins to leak tackyon particles; B’Elanna ejects it, and she and Paris go back to retrieve it in a shuttle. It isn’t the best of times for them to share a shuttle – she is angry at him for pressuring her to perform a yearly ritual Klingon ceremony. She think the honor it represents is pointless; he thinks she is denying her Klingon side, her true nature. They arrive at the warp core to find that the aliens have claimed it for salvage and have tractored it away. Their shuttle destroyed, they drift in space with limited oxygen; the situation becomes critical when ion storms force them to share what little remaining air they have. Back at Voyager (which is still working on gaining impulse engines and being able to rescue them), the ship is surrounded by 27 alien vessels. In possession of Voyager’s warp core, they now demand food and medicine. However, Seven of Nine, who assimilated their race, still possesses the knowledge that they lost – how to build self-sustaining units that can be used to replicate anything they need. She creates a prototype – which is much more valuable to them than food itself – and the aliens let them go.
Close to death, B’Elanna tells Tom that she loves him, just before Voyager reaches them and beams them to safety.
A very well-structured episode, cleverly weaving an interesting plot around the points it wants to make.
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