Not super shockingly Janeway isn't pleased Chakotay ignored her orders to stick with the plan. But it does seem like they are back on the same team in the end of the episode so there is at least that. The introduction of Seven of Nine seemed to work fairly well within the episode which was cool, I had remembered it standing out a bit more, but I am sure I had heard the news of Jerry Ryan joining the cast long before the original airing. It seems Janeway also managed to get through this whole thing so far without actually giving tech to the Borg which is the opposite of how I remembered it. It does seem odd that they seem to think they have made it through all of Borg space this quickly, but I am pretty sure they end up being wrong in any case.
We open where we left off with Voyager being dragged by a cube with the captain on board and Kim still doing very poorly in sickbay. Janeway contacts Voyager and tells Tuvok to beam over and assist her. After he arrives the two are taken to a "work area" although it seems to just be another nondescript room without any tools or whatever you use to put nanites into a weapon. The Borg try to "temporarily" assimilate Janeway and Tuvok but Janeway threatens to destroy the nanites if they do and requests a spokesborg to work with. The Borg provide Seven of Nine, an assimilated human woman, to work with them. She insists on building a massive super weapon to kill all of 8472 but Janeway convinces her creating that many nanites will take too long. Instead they decide to modify some torpedoes to deploy them, but before the plan can get much further they are attacked. The cube sacrifices itself to save Voyager beaming the captain, Tuvok and a group of Borg into a cargobay at the last second.
Janeway is hurt badly and Chakotay takes command. At least Kim is finally recovering as the synthesized nanites do the job. Seven tells Chakotay that he needs to change the plan and fly several more days into Borg space to give them the nanites they need but he refuses. Instead he plans to maroon them on a planet with the nanites so other Borg can come pick them up. Seven is pissed and instead sets a plan in motion to send them into the liquid space of 8472. She pulls it off but not before Chakotay vents the cargobay sending all the Borg but her into deep space. They arrive in liquid space just as Janeway wakes up. She is pissed at Chakotay but they come up with a plan. She prepares for a fight and tells Seven that Chakotay is in the brig. The attack goes great and they manage to destroy a bunch of 8472's bioships. Seven lets them out of liquid space and then tries to take over Voyager and fly it back to the Borg. Janeway has other ideas and has Chakotay link with the Borg to distract Seven while Torres overloads her link to the collective. It works and she is broken from the Borg and left for the Doctor to try and bring some humanity back to.
Review: Not quite as strong as part I, but enough action to keep things entertaining. I skipped the entire Kes psychic visions thing since it seemed pretty worthless to the story and she is only around for maybe one or two more episodes in any case.
7 out of 10
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