Star Trek: Voyager, Season 6, Episode 16, "Collective"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
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🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Collective,” a badly damaged Borg cube carries young drones who survived a deadly pathogen. As Seven of Nine tries to guide them toward individuality, Janeway must decide whether these lost children are Voyager’s newest allies or a lingering Borg threat. Mission Log meets a new "Collective."Â
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| 0:35.3 | Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, Episode 566, Collected. |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:59.4 | And I'm Norman Lau, sitting in for Norman Lau. |
| 1:03.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we assimilate an episode of Star Trek, peek through its distinctiveness for any morals, meanings, or messages, and then ask ourselves |
| 1:12.3 | collectively if the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 1:16.7 | This week, Collective, the one where seven of nine makes a startling discovery aboard a damaged |
| 1:22.7 | Borg Cube. If things were lonely in Cargo Bay 2 for her, well, they won't be for long when we welcome aboard a whole new crew of Borg kids. |
| 1:32.4 | Norman Lau, I got to say, I like the work that you do sitting in from Norman Lau. |
| 1:36.1 | In fact, I think you might be the permanent guest Norman Lau. |
| 1:39.9 | Well, I'm the second Norman Lau. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm filling in for the first because I have to |
| 1:44.4 | assert the first authority in order to fulfill my destiny in the collective. |
| 1:49.6 | That's how it works, as we learn from today's episode. |
| 1:52.3 | Exactly. |
| 1:53.0 | All right. Well, I tell you, while people are mulling over that, why don't you tell them where |
| 1:58.3 | they can reach us and help us decipher who's first? |
| 2:03.4 | Of course, we'd love to hear from you. Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. Find us on |
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