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I, Borg
Enterprise
is charting srars in an area being considered for colonisation.
Data detects a transmission
and Enterprise heads off towards it to investigate. They find
a planet and beam down to its surface where they find a week
life sign - a borg.
Dr. Crusher convinces
Picard to beam it
aboard and it is beamed into a holding cell. Thro goes to
talk to Picard about it, worried about his previous experiance
with the Borg however he says he is fine.
Later, Picard talks to Geordi
about changing the borg into a virus that would infect the
rest of the collective. All the senior staff agree to the
plan except Beverly. Picard says that he is justified in the
annihilation of an entire species.
Meanwhile in the holding cell the borg is up and walking,
trying to find an access terminal. Later Guinan
expresses her concern to Picard about having a Borg onboard,
with a very anti-borg view, not that this is not justified
in her situation.
In the holding cell, Geordi and Worf
go in to adapt the power cell so that the borg can feed from
the energy. He begins talking to Geordi. Later, when Geordi
beams the borg to the science lab to run some tests, Geordi
names him Hugh.
Geordi talks to Guinan about the emotion he is begging to
feel. Guinan tells Geordi the borg are evil and will not have
the ethical debate he appears to be having. He tells Guinan
to go and talk to Hugh. Meanwhile on the bridge Enterprise
detects a borg cube heading their way on long range sensors.
Guinan talks to Hugh and tells him the borg wiped out most
of her species. Later Geordi is talking to Hugh again and
he refers to Geordi as a friend. Geordi and Data talk to Picard
about the virus then Geordi tells Picard he is having second
thoughts. Picard contains to take his hard line on the issue
however.
Picard then goes to talk to Hugh (so much talking hu ;) and
discovers he is becoming an individual. Picard tells the senior
staff that he has reconsidered the plan They decide to give
Hugh a choice. He wants to stay with Geordi but decies to
go back so that the Enterprise will be safe.
He goes down to the planet and is collected by the borg.
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