Saturday, May 10, 2008

6.25 the haunting of deck twelve

Something strange is going on. As Voyager drifts into a colourful nebula, power is being shut down purposefully ship-wide. Seven asks Neelix to ‘babysit’ the former Borg children, as their regeneration alcoves will also be shut down. Neelix expresses some reluctance about what to say to them – he doesn’t want to scare them with the true story of what happened. Already they have heard rumors. So Neelix spins a wild ghost story about an electronic life form that surreptitiously invaded the ship as Voyager passed through a nebula. The life form began to attack ship’s system in a seemingly random and aggressive way. But it’s aim was to reach the central computer and communicate with Janeway. Just as conditions got worse, Janeway was able to negotiate with the life form and agree to return it to its home. The Borg kids see through Neelix’ story, believing it to be another one of his wild exaggerations. Little do they know that it is absolutely true.

This is a clever way to frame an otherwise mundane and unexciting story.

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