The Borg Queen alters the virus and plans to release it within Unimatrix Zero and kill all the drones that have separated themselves from the hive mind. But she tells Janeway of her plan, and, hoping to avoid killing the drones, agrees not to release the virus if Janeway will convince the drones to return to the collective. Janeway is ‘sent’ to Voyager as a holographic transmission to seemingly give the order for Voyager to cooperate, but what she is really asking Chakotay to do is to destroy Unimatrix Zero. He does, and the Borg Queen finds herself under attack from former Borg and Borg ships that have left the collective. Just before Unimatrix Zero is destroyed, Seven says a tearful goodbye to her former lover, and Tuvok, Torres and Janeway are beamed out just before the Borg Sphere explodes.
It’s a clever two-part episode, but it is somehow uninvolving, perhaps because in an effort to be exciting, we are rushed through each scene without allowing any dramatic tension to build.
Nits: Why would Tuvok, who has the strongest mind, be the first to be invaded and manipulated by the Borg Queen? And there are all sorts of vague nits about the believability of Unimatrix Zero too.
It NOT a BORG Sphere Janeway + away team are in - its an especially fortified/armoured cube (you even state this in your review of pt1). The Borg Sphere in the episode is that taken control of by the freed mutant gene drones.
ReplyDeleteWith your memory as repeatedly bad as yours for such details(see your "U0 pt1 review "The Raven" MISTAKEN statement ) you really don't have the required skill to nit pick effectively - sorry - IMO
mom, is that you?
ReplyDeleteI wondered the same thing as you; at first it didn't make sense to me that Tuvok would succumb to the hive mind before Janeway and Torres. Then Janeway mentioned a "neural suppressant," and it became clear that their immunity to the hive mind depended on their bodies' metabolizing a neural suppressant drug.
ReplyDeleteIf Tuvok's Vulcan body metabolized the drug faster, that would actually make sense, given what we know about Vulcans. Spock's body was able to throw off poison in "The Apple" that killed humans, and we learned in "The Naked Time" that Vulcans' hearts beat about three times as fast as a human's, so it makes sense that they metabolize drugs faster.