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title = "Star Trek: Voyager 05x15/16 - Dark Frontier"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-03-22T22:45:00+01:00
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Voyagers crew decide that it's a good time to plan a heist on Borg and steal their transwarp coil.
During the heist, Seven meets the new Borg Queen who has huge interest in her.
We're also witness of Sevens memories from just before being assimilated by the Collective.
## Impressions {#impressions}
Oh, a two-parter!
Of course, it's about the Borg.
Say what you will, the basic premise of Borg still scares me.
The idea of loosing _self_ and to be reduced to a drone?
Not even corporate America is capable of doing it fully.
But I started watching Trek years ago.
When Picard became Locutus, I was some 7-8 year younger.
It was a scary concept, sure.
But here I am, in 2024, a father.
The premise of Borg assimilating children is terrifying.
A young kid loosing _self_ and becoming part of the collective?
Yeah, scary stuff became terrifying.
I get we're dealing with alien-third-reich and _borg-jungen_ make perfect sense.
But in unnerving at the very least.
Here we learn that Hanses fought for the title of worst parents ever.
Not only have they risked their own lives, not only have they not thought of the risk making Anika an orphan, but they took her with them.
They took their little girl to the most dangerous place in known space.
Star Trek is about "boldly going were no one has gone before", but have some restrains!
Even the Doctor agreed.
Speaking of children in dangerous areas of universe - Naomi continues to rock.
When _TNG_ introduced Alexander, they could not throw his character fast enough.
They had no idea how to write children.
But here?
Here she acts like a kid.
Cute and believable.
On the other hand, we're seeing assimilation.
I don't remember how graphical the previous ones we witnessed were, but hot damn.
Strogg... Borg aren't fooling around - arms are cut off, and it's actually scary.
People complained about the eye-removal scene from _Picard_, but it wasn't so off.
But my biggest takeaway: there are privacy protocols on federation ships!
I always wondered how they store all this private info without prying eyes.
The answer: protocol.
Oh! you crazy space-commies!
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Borg ships always gives me a sense of claustrophobia.
Games with Borg ignored how small the living space is there.
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The Death Star makes a guest appearance
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Chibi-Seven
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I am often amazed by the quality of special effects on display here.
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Borg Queen doing her best Alex Murphy impression.
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Say what you will, Queen looks better here than she looked like in Picard.
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> Seven: I will resist
>
> Queen: I know
Factor
The episode is so good, that I don't care that we deserve more of The Doctor.
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