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• First Officer's log, stardate 50614.2. Ensign Kaplan and I are returning to Voyager, after completing a scouting mission in the Nekrit Expanse.

• Captain's log, stardate 50622.4. While Commander Chakotay scouts for a faster route through the Nekrit Expanse, we are continuing our month-long journey through the sparsely populated region.

• Captain's log, supplemental. We've detected a message buoy, launched from Chakotay's shuttle, and are heading toward it. The autopsy of the Borg corpse is under way.

While attempting to find a faster way through the Nekrit Expanse, Commander Chakotay and Ensign Kaplan pick up a distress call with a Federation signature. When they land their shuttlecraft on the planet, they both come under fire from hostiles. Kaplan is killed by the unknown foes while Chakotay is left injured. He wakes up to find himself in a room where he sees a woman by the name of Riley Frazier. Chakotay soon learns the truth about Riley and the others: that they were once Borg drones, but an attack broke their link with the hive mind. It is postulated that either an accident or an attack from a more powerful species disabled the Borg ship. Commander is a military rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. ... Chakotay (born 2326) is a fictional character of the Star Trek universe, played by Robert Beltran, and was the second-in-command of the USS Voyager, to Kathryn Janeway in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. ... Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... It has been suggested that Call for help be merged into this article or section. ... A map displaying todays federations. ... Shuttlecraft can represent: Shuttlecraft (Star Trek) - Star Trek: This class of ship are small space vehicles which are stored and launched from large starships when personal navigational control is required or when heavier equipment and or a longer range is required than the transporter can accommodate. ... The eight planets and three dwarf planets of the Solar System. ... A hive mind (sometimes spelled hivemind) is a form of collective consciousness strongly exhibiting traits of conformity and groupthink. ... Species 8472 are a fictional race in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, Species 8472 is an advanced race that inhabits the realm of fluidic space. ...

Realizing how far they were from Federation space, they learned how to survive and co-operate with each other. Space has been an interest for philosophers and scientists for much of human history. ...

Due to the blast Chakotay took early on, he soon gets worse. One of the former Borg drones, a Romulan, tells him if he does not let them help him he will die before Voyager arrives. Romulans are a fictional alien species in the Star Trek universe. ...

Using a neural link, they help to heal Chakotay's injuries. During this experience he sees their memories of home, and more.

The inhabitants soon use this link to get him to reactivate a piece of technology aboard the abandoned Borg ship, which links the all the inhabitants' thoughts togther, putting an end to the violence.

However, it activates the Borg ship and its hostile inhabitants. The rescue team sent to intercept Chakotay, along with Chakotay himself, are beamed aboard Voyager. The planet's inhabitants manage to cause the Borg ship's self-destruct sequence before it gained weapon capabilities. Within three seconds the ship exploded. However the inhabitants managed to retain their collective state.

Chakotay discusses the situation with Janeway, and questions how long the inhabitants can retain a sense of morality amidst the power of a collective; it didn't take them long to use Chakotay against his will for their motives.

External links

• Unity article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
• Episode summary from Startrek.com