- After an encounter with the Borg, Data feels his first emotion when he gets angry with the Borg. Data then tries to find ways to recreate the situation in order to feel emotions again, whilst the Enterprise investigates the Borg activity, and are bewildered as to why they feel emotions too.—The_Sandheaver
- When Data experiences his first emotion, anger, after an encounter with the Borg, Data tries hard to recreate the experience, and he is blind as to what the consequences will be. Meanwhile, the rest of the Enterprise investigate the mystery as to why the Borg they faced seemed to have names and feelings of their own.—The_Sandheaver
- Enterprise is responding to a distress call from a federation outpost in the Ohniaka system. They find one ship in orbit, not attacking the outpost. Riker beams down to find everyone dead, with plasma burns. The away party finds Borgs on the outpost and a firefight ensues. After an encounter with the Borg during the firefight, Data feels his first emotion when he gets angry with the Borg. He kills the Borg with his bare hands. The Borg retreat to their ship after suffering casualties. The ship disappears after travelling through a subspace distortion before the Enterprise can fire on it.
Riker reports to Picard that the Borg were vicious and did not seem part of the collective. Even their ship did not have the standard cube design of a Borg ship. They referred to themselves as I, instead of We. They had names for each other. and did not seem interested in assimilating the culture or the tech. Admiral Alynna Nechayev (Natalija Nogulich) arrives on the ship to take control of the preparations against a Borg threat. Nechayev is super angry with Picard for letting go of the opportunity to kill the Borg with a virus inside Hugh, when he instead chose to let Hugh go back and re-assimilate in the collective.
Data then tries to find ways to recreate the situation in order to feel emotions again. He admits to Deanna that he also felt pleasure at killing the Borg. He tries to recreate his anger with simulated Borg attacks on the Holodeck, but no amount of tinkering the parameters would help him feel anger again. Whilst the Enterprise investigates the Borg activity and are bewildered as to why they feel emotions too. Picard yells at Riker for not being able to figure out what was the subspace distortion used by the Borg to escape.
Picard gets reports of a Borg attack on another colony and arrives just in time to follow them through the subspace distortion. The Borg turn around and fire at the Enterprise and board it with 2 of their collective. While Riker and Worf kill the Borgs, the ship manages to escape in another subspace distortion. This is also a change as Borg never live their dead behind. The Enterprise finds one of the Borgs still alive. The captured Borg calls himself Crosis (Brian Cousins) and says that The One will destroy them. Crosis presses a button on his arm and Data starts feeling angry again. Crosis lures Data by saying that The One has the ability to get Data to "feel" and experience emotions. Data admits to Crosis that to feel emotions again he would even kill his friend Geordi.
Picard & the bridge find that Data and Crosis have escaped on a stolen shuttle. They emit Tachyon pulses to open the subspace conduit that helps them travel a large distance at 20 times max warp. The Enterprise follows them and finds themselves 65 light years away. Geordi scans 3 planets, with 2 having evidence of advanced civilizations, but destroyed with plasma bursts (Borg weapons). They find the shuttle heading to one of those planets. At the planet they find the shuttle abandoned and engines off for 3 hours. Picard forms 4 man away teams to search the surface in a 20 Km radius (as magnetic interference has rendered their scanner ineffective). He leaves Beverly in charge of the Enterprise and beams down himself.
Picard, Geordi and Deanna find a small structure a few Kms away and enter it. They are captured by the Borg, who reveal that The One is no other than Lore, who then reveals Data. Data says the sons of Soong have joined and will destroy the Federation.
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