Drone

The Borg… Party Poopers of the galaxy!

This Story: Season 5 Episode 2 (production code 196)
VOY Overall: Episode 96
Trek Overall: Story 521, Episode 551
Airdate: 21 Oct 1998
Story by Bryan Fuller & Harry Kloor
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller, Brannon Braga, & Joe Menosky
Directed by Les Landau

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 40 / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 19 (crew of 140 (my count says 134)).
• The titular Drone here (named “One”) was played by J Paul Boehmer.  He also plays a Nazi SS character named “Kapitan” in “The Killing Game” (Parts 1 & 2).  He’s also a Cardassian named Vernal in DS9’s “Tacking Into the Wind“, the Vulcan Mestral in Enterprise’s “Carbon Creek“, and two different Nazi SS characters in the Enterprise episodes “Zero Hour” and “Storm Front“.
• Only the second time we see a Borg Sphere (after the first one in First Contact).
• It is not stated how the Voyager crew are able to regain the Doctor’s mobile emitter at the end of this episode as he has it for all subsequent episodes (and survives into the continuity of the Starfleet Academy series).
• The groundwork is laid here for the creation of the new type of shuttle (the Delta Flyer) in the next episode.

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