Yay, an episode that is filled with nonsense hallucinations! Well, luckily it is only the last third or so, but still. It was actually pretty cool getting to see Jeri Ryan get to play a bunch of different characters and even without the audio cue it would be pretty easy to tell when she had switched. It does seem a little unreasonable that Seven keeps literally all the memories of the various people she assimilated inside her brain, but I guess the borg are really good at compressing data. It also makes a lot of sense that all the species that touch borg space would be struggling to find ways to stop them, and some might even succeed.
We open with Seven waking up in her cargobay to a cacophony of voices. She makes her way to the mess hall where she finds and devours a huge chunk of meat and when she sees her reflection it is that of a male Klingon. The next day Kim finds the core of a borg ship in what seemed like an asteroid field. Janeway decides to avoid the bastard but before the meeting can break up Neelix brings up the issue of the midnight snacker. He gets permission to put locks on the cabinets and they move on. Next we see Naomi following Seven around. She is quickly caught but impressed that Naomi sees her as a form of perfection. But then we hear the voices again and Seven's demeanor changes instantly. She is bubbly and just wants to go play games. She and Naomi play for an hour or so until Seven gets called to engineering and suddenly snaps back to normal without memories of the last hour.
In engineering Seven confirms the signal Torres found is borg, but then changes again and turns into a Klingon warrior who bites Torres before fleeing. She takes out some security guards before being trapped in a forcefield. When Tuvok finds her she believes she is a Vulcan and surrenders before turning Klingon again forcing Tuvok to stun her. In sickbay the Doctor figures out the borg core is responsible for activating her implants which are bringing on the multiple personalities. The track down the vinculum, the processing core of the borg ship and beam it on board. They try to shut it down but there is some sort of virus inside of it.
Eventually Seven figures out the virus was from some aliens the borg assimilated and they manage to track some of them down. They are pissed that Janeway took the vinculum from where they left it to infect any borg who showed up to pick the thing up. For some reason they need to turn it off before turning it over and the aliens are pissed so there is a fight. Tuvok mindmelds with Seven to keep her mind stable. Torres manages to turn the vinculum off just in time to save the and Janeway beams the core into space before fleeing.
Review: Kinda unfocused as an episode. I liked the premise of multiple personalities, but the rest was a bit of a mess. Pretty average.
5 out of 10
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