‘DARK FRONTIER’ (VOY)

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Here is another episode from Season 5 of ‘Voyager’. It is a two-hour movie-length episode featuring the Borg that is the equivalent of a two-part story. It is a brilliant Borg story and I greatly enjoyed it.

The Voyager team have destroyed a Borg probe and recover some salvage. They hope to get a transwarp coil that will hopefully get them home faster through their journey to the Alpha Quadrant.

This has the Voyager team going on an undercover mission on a Borg ship, including Janeway, Tuvok, B’Elanna and Seven of Nine. Seven however experiences sensations while in her regeneration cycles.

It results in Seven abandoning the Voyager crew and re-joining the collective. She’s taken to the unicomplex (that is essentially ‘Borg City’ in space) where she’s reunited with the Borg Queen there.

The Voyager team now have to rescue Seven from the collective and to bring her back home to the ship. It’ll be a dangerous mission as they use the Delta Flyer to venture in the unicomplex to find her.

This episode’s guest cast includes Kirk Baily and Laura Stepp as Magnus and Erin Hansen, Seven’s Mom and Dad. There’s also Katelin Peterson who guest stars as Seven as a little girl – Annika Hansen.

There’s also Scarlett Pomers as little Naomi Wildman and Susanna Thompson as the Borg Queen for the first time in ‘Voyager’. I’m surprised Alice Krige didn’t play the Borg Queen for most of ‘Voyager’.

I liked how this episode opens with the Borg ship coming across the Voyager ship and confronting them. The Borg corridors are pretty scared and there some clever visual shots made by the director.

This two-hour episode is full of Borg moments. I like how the Borg Queen’s construction sequence was done in this two-hour episode compared to how it was achieved from ‘Star Trek: First Contact’.

I also liked the action scenes when the Borg ships chase the Delta Flyer in a time portal. I also like it when the Away Team go undercover to retrieve the transwarp coil and the Borg drones chase them.

Seven gets to explore her family records in this story, which features flashback sequences with her as little girl Annika and her parents. This is before Seven gets assimilated by the Borg at a young age.

‘Dark Frontier’ is a great feature-length two-hour episode from ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ with the Borg. This episode certainly should be seen and enjoyed over a pizza during a late evening for two hours.

‘Dark Frontier’ (VOY) rating – 10/10

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