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Infinite Regress
Seven hears voices
and begns walking round the the cargo bay. She arrives in
the mess hall and begins to stuff her face with food, tearing
at a piece of chicken. In the metal reflection a Klingon
can be seen.
Later in the briefing room, Harry
shows them as 120 kb wide debris field. Seven says it was
a Borg
cube. Neelix also
days the "midnight snacker" is back.
Naomi Wildman begins
to follow Seven arround. Seven finds her and asks her what
she is doing. Neiomi says she is trying to be perfect like
Borg do. Suddenly Seven hears voices and her mind changes
into a childs. She goes off to play with Niomi.
Seven gets a comm call from B'lanna.
Seven returns to a normal and is unaware what has happened
to her. She goes to help B'lanna and then attacks he. She
then takes out two security officers and runs for it.
She is contained on deck 10 though when Tuvok
arrives, he finds Seven huddled in a corner thinking she is
a Vulcan
child. She then changes to a Vulcan on the High Command.
However she soon changes to a Klingon and goes for Tuvok
who stuns her. She wakes up in sickbay still hearing the voices.
The Doctor uses
a neural inhibitor to make them go away.
The Doctor notices several new neutral patterns have surfaced
in Seven's mind. Seven says it could be the interlink frequency
of the Borg communicating with her from the debris field.
Voyager
sets a course towards it.
The Doctor checks Seven's regeneration cycle logs and found
that it was interrupted - revealling the identify of the "midnight
snacker." Seven seems agitated. Voyager arrives at the
debris field and Seven identifies the source as a Borg Vinculum.
Janeway agrees
to beam it aboard. It is beamed to engineering and Seven goes
down to see it. The voices return but the Doctor adjusts her
neural inhibitor levels. Seven begins working to disable it
and finds a virus in the Vinculum. It appears to be attacked
the Vinculum after the Borg assimilated a shuttle.
Seven and the Doctor tell Janeway that species 6339 caused
the virus after nearly being wiped out by the Borg. However
the inhibitor goes offline and Seven changes into a Ferengi
who tries to buy the visual display in Astrometrics.
The Doctor and Janeway convince Seven to go to sickbay. She
offers to sell them new medical equipment. The Doctor erects
a force field around her. Seven begins to turn again and then
goes back to normal. Janeway tries to reassure her but Seven
is not so confident.
B'lanna begins to try and disable the Vinculum. Meanwhile
the Doctor notices Seven's neural patterns is stabilising.
However the Vinculum adapts and its power output increases.
The Doctor tells Janeway her neural patterns have disapproved.
Voyager sets a course for species 6339. Tuvok says he will
attempt a mind meld with Seven to bring her pattern to the
surface. Janeway makes contact with species 6339 who tells
her that the virus in the Vinculum was put their on purpose
to destroy Borg ships.
Janeway asks them to help them treat Seven. The head alien
tells them there is no way to treat Seven and that the Vinculum
must be returned to the debris field so more Borg will be
infected.
Seven comes round and finds herself restrained. The Doctor
tells her about Tuvok's mind meld idea. She agrees before
the other personalities take over.
Tuvok is meditating and then heads down to sickbay. Meanwhile
the alien vessel perpares to take the Vinculum by force. The
Doctor says to Tuvok "all these new personalities floating
around, its a shame we can't find one for you."
Tuvok initiates the meld and finds himself in a warped cargo
bay full of different aliens. He goes looking for Seven but
is mobbed by the aliens. The alien vessel begins to attack
Voyager.B'lanna says she can take the Vinculum offline in
60 seconds.
Power transfer systems are offline and the Doctor tries to
shout at Tuvok to stop the meld but is unsuccessful. He continues
to try and battle his way to Seven.
B'lanna begins to take the Vinculum offline but the field
emiters go down. Janeway switches to backup power and B'lanna
manages to de-activate the Vinculum. The other personalities
disappear and Tuvok ends the meld.
Janeway gives the order to beam the Vinculum back into space
and the aliens break off. Seven revcovers and goes to see
Naomi. She gives her information to study and asks her to
teach her how to play Caduscat - "I wish to participate
in recreational activities."
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