Dark Frontier

Episode aired Feb 17, 1999
TV-PGTV-PG
1h 32m

8.6/10

1.8K

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Jeri Ryan and Susanna Thompson in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

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Aboard the Delta Flyer, Janeway leads Tuvok, Paris and the Doctor on a rescue mission to retrieve Seven from the Borg Queen. whose treatment of Seven is markedly atypical.Aboard the Delta Flyer, Janeway leads Tuvok, Paris and the Doctor on a rescue mission to retrieve Seven from the Borg Queen. whose treatment of Seven is markedly atypical.Aboard the Delta Flyer, Janeway leads Tuvok, Paris and the Doctor on a rescue mission to retrieve Seven from the Borg Queen. whose treatment of Seven is markedly atypical.

8.6/10

1.8K

Directors
- Cliff Bole(Part 1)
- Terry Windell(Part 2)
Writers
- Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
- Rick Berman
- Michael Piller
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Kate Mulgrew and Scarlett Pomers in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, and Roxann Dawson in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Directors
- Cliff Bole(Part 1)
- Terry Windell(Part 2)
Writers
- Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
- Rick Berman
- Michael Piller
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Members of the Voyager crew train on the holodeck for a raid on a Borg ship. Should they be successful, they will steal the Borg trans-warp coil in hopes of integrating the technology into Voyager's systems. The Borg seem to be one step ahead when the Borg Queen communicates with Seven of Nine. Janeway is confused but won't give up on her crewmate and friend. Two years after being liberated from the Collective, Seven of Nine rejoins the Borg, seemingly of her own will. When Janeway finds a history of transmissions from the Borg to Seven, she is convinced that Seven was lured back against her wishes. Meanwhile, aboard the Borg sphere, the Borg Queen attempts to seduce Seven into helping her assimilate Earth. —Meribor

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Trivia
"Dark Frontier" won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. Star Trek nearly swept the category that year; also nominated for it were Thirty Days (1998), Timeless (1998), and What You Leave Behind (1999).

Goofs
On Stardate 32611.4 (2353) the Hansens received approval from the Federation Council on Exobiology to begin their search for and study of the Borg - twelve years before the Federation knew of the Borg's existence. The Enterprise's first encounter with the Borg was in Q Who (1989) on Stardate 42761.3 (2365). Also, Janeway has previously described the Hansens as wanting nothing to do with Starfleet or the Federation.

Quotes
[Janeway examines a spherical object]
Harry Kim: Captain! Don't touch that.
Captain Kathryn Janeway: What is it?
Harry Kim: I don't know, but a few minutes ago it was crawling around the floor.

Alternate versions
Some material was cut from the original feature-length episode when it was split in two parts for reruns, to make room for extra credit sequences and the "previously on" segment. In later airings of the two parts, the cut material was restored. One restored scene shows Seven getting angry after hearing Harry Kim and Tom Paris making anti-Borg remarks in the mess hall.

Connections
Featured in Star Trek: Voyager: The Voyager Conspiracy (1999)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: Voyager - Main Title
Written by Jerry Goldsmith
Performed by Jay Chattaway

Top review

8/10

Good but talky.

When the previous episode ended, Seven walks away from an incursion mission onto a Borg ship. In other words, she rejoins the Collective! Soon you see the Borg Queen do her mega-cool entrance and she talks to Seven--informing her that her time on Voyager was all part of the Borg's master plan (yeah, right--you just don't want to admit you screwed up, Queenie!).

Aboard Voyager, they make a discovery--that the Borg were beaming messages to Seven and perhaps she wasn't responsible for her recent actions. Naturally, the Captain wants to do on a rescue mission-- but they have to locate Seven first.

What is the Queen's/Borg's plan? There obviously is more to the plan that we've seen so far.

I generally enjoyed this episode. After all, it involves the Borg. However, I was surprised just how talky it all was when the Queen began talking and talking and talking to Seven--and it did seem to go on way too long and didn't make a lot of sense.

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