"Star Trek: Voyager" Scorpion: Part 2 (1997)

User Rating:

8.5/10   

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator: Star Trek)
Rick Berman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Star Trek: Voyager" (1995)

Original Air Date:

3 September 1997 (Season 4, Episode 1)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Voyager finds a solution to combat the invader of Borg space. All Captain Janeway asks is free passage through their territory and Voyager will share their knowledge. |

Plot Keywords:

Space | Captain | Hologram | Doctor | Alien

Cast

Kate Mulgrew	...	Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran	...	Chakotay
Roxann Dawson	...	B'Elanna Torres
Robert Duncan McNeill	...	Tom Paris
Ethan Phillips	...	Neelix
Robert Picardo	...	The Doctor
Tim Russ	...	Tuvok
Jeri Ryan	...	Seven of Nine
Garrett Wang	...	Harry Kim
Jennifer Lien	...	Kes
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Erica Lynn Duncan	...	Annika Hansen (as Erica Lynne Bryan)
Nicki Tyler Flynn	...	Annika Hansen's Mother
David Anthony Marshall	...	Magnus Hansen, Annika's Father

Certification:

Australia:PG

Trivia:

When Seven of Nine tells Janeway and Tuvok about the Multi-Kinetic Neutronic Mine, the visual diagram displays a model that has the exact same configuration as the renegade Borg vessel from the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) episodes "Descent" Parts 1 and 2.

Goofs:

Factual errors: After Chakotay depressurizes the cargo bay and blows the other Borg into space, Seven of Nine manages to save herself, and then contacts Chakotay on the bridge. Chakotay then orders Kim to repressurize the cargo bay. If the cargo bay needs to be repressurized, there's no air there. If there's no air in the cargo bay, it's a vacuum. If it's a vacuum, Seven of Nine should not be able to speak.

Quotes:

Captain Kathryn Janeway: I wonder what's left under all that Borg technology - if she can ever become Human again.
Chakotay: You plan to keep her on board?
Captain Kathryn Janeway: We pulled the plug. We're responsible for what happens to her now.
Chakotay: She was assimilated at a very young age; the collective's all she knows. She might not want to stay.
Captain Kathryn Janeway: I think she might. We have something the Borg could never offer: friendship.

intense on many levels.

The first note of this episode goes to the music: very appropriate and definitely gives an intense feel and sense of foreboding. The next nod goes of course to Kate Mulgrew as this is the most forceful and driven we have seen her in a long time. I really do mean driven: the victory-at-any-cost-and-heck-with-any-other-view, type of driven we see again two seasons later, but here she pulls back and listens before the final moment as opposed to watching the reality unfold at her opponents death.

The conversation Chakotay has with the captain in sickbay and the Borg (seven) in the ready room are not exactly intense but the are central and vital to the episode, not to mention cool; don't miss them. To find the meaning of the episodes title and the code word "scorpion" you will have to watch part one, which is pretty much as good as this one.

The only problem I have with the episode is that we find out a season or so later that the "enemy" they unite against was not and is not an invading force as it is displayed and nearly flat out stated in this episode. ("'your galaxy will be purged' sound familiar?") side note this is Kes' near finest and near final hour, keep that in mind. 4 out of 5 stars.