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Star Trek Voy - Season 5 - Episode 07

Star Trek Voy - 5x07 - Infinite Regress

Originally Aired: 1998-11-25

Synopsis:
Seven experiences multiple personality disorder. [DVD]

My Rating - 6

Fan Rating Average - 4.77

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Problems
None

Factoids
- Captain Blackwell and the Federation Starship Tombaugh were assimilated by the Borg 13 years ago.
- Borg species designation: 6339, name unknown. First encountered the Borg about 4 years ago. Since that time 11 billion individuals have been assimilated.
- Borg species designation: 180, Ferengi. A curiously extremely low number signifies that the Ferengi encountered the Borg perhaps thousands of years before humans.

Remarkable Scenes
- Seven of Nine's odd behavior in the teaser.
- Naomi shadowing Seven.
- Seven of Nine's personality reverting to that of a human little girl.
- Seven, as a Klingon male, seducing Torres.
- Seven becoming a Vulcan, then becoming a Klingon again and attacking Tuvok. I like her Klingon line just before she attacks him: "You will drown in your own blood!"
- Seven of Nine as a Ferengi.
- The doctor regarding mind melds: "Captain! You can't actually be considering this Vulcan mumbo jumbo!"
- The doctor to Tuvok: "With all these new personalities floating around, it's a shame we can't find one for you."
- The mind meld.

My Review
A rehash of TNG: Masks that doesn't suck. Jeri Ryan does a fantastic job acting out all of her multiple personalities, and the rapport she develops with Naomi is pretty neat as well. We get to see a Borg "vinculum," which is supposedly the central processor at the heart of every Borg vessel, purging individual thought and maintaining the central link to the Collective. Or in short, "bringing order to chaos." We also get an interesting look at an unfortunately nameless species 6339. Their species was mostly assimilated by the Borg, the survivors engineered a virus that attacks Borg vessels, creating this Borg multiple personality disorder. This detail shows intelligent writing, Seven of Nine isn't spontaneously freaking out just because she's in the proximity of Borg technology, which would have been cliched. Overall, the episode was slightly above average.

The following are comments submitted by my readers.

  • From Pete Miller on 2006-11-06 at 1:02am:
    I'd just like to point out that for all of Voyager's flaws, it sure succeeds at one thing: humor. This episode showcases some of the best humor I've seen so far on the show, making full use of Tuvok, Torres, Seven, and the Doctor. More humorous scenes than I can count!

    I actually rather liked this episode; despite the awful-sounding premise, they managed to execute it well. It's too bad they didn't do more with that virus-creating species. They seemed pretty cool.

    And I've got one question (I guess I missed something; maybe it has some super force field or something): Why in the HELL didn't they just phaser the crap out of that vinculum in space?
  • From Dstyle on 2015-06-22 at 9:32am:
    Seven is strapped to the biobed and is starting to hear the voices again. The doctor says something to the effect of, "Just try to focus on my voice!" and then stops talking. Not very helpful, doc!

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