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This Story: Season 3 Episode 17 (production code 159)
VOY Overall: Episode 59
Trek Overall: Story 488, Episode 515
Airdate: 12 Feb 1997
Written by Kenneth Biller
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 18 / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 13 (one this episode, crew of 141).
• The second (of four) episode of Voyager directed by Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris).
• The colony on the planet used sets that were previously used in the episodes odes “The Chute” and “Fair Trade“.
• The Borg outfits were the same ones used in “Star Trek: First Contact“.
• The first fully CGI rendered Borg Cube happened in this episode.
• While not explicitly seen or mentioned, the eventual “Species 8472” are implied to have fought the Borg here.
• There’s a reference to the famed Wolf 359 battle in Star Trek TNG/DS9 lore here.
• As a Texan, I enjoyed the reference to Texas BBQ in this episode.  :)
• A third shuttlecraft was lost in this episode.
• Ivar Brogger played Orum here.  He was also “Barus” in “Natural Law“.

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