Survival Instinct

This Story: Season 6 Episode 2 (production code 222)
VOY Overall: Episode 122
Trek Overall: Story 546, Episode 578
Airdate: 29 Sep 1999
Written by Ronald D. Moore
Directed by Terry Windell

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 60.  This contradicts the hard limit set in “The Cloud” of 38.
• It amuses me that an actor is in the credit sheet officially as “Dying Borg”.  haha.  :)
• The first of two episodes written by “Mr. Klingon” Ronald D. Moore.  He moved here after DS9 finished, but decided Voyager wasn’t for him and left.  The other was the next one – “Barge of the Dead“.
• A background character here wears the same outfit worn by Tandro in the DS9 episode “Dax“.
• The only episode where we see Seven have assimilation tubes inserted into her neck from someone else.
• One of the disconnected Borg mentions they were on the Excalibur.  The last time we heard from that ship was in “Redemption II“, also written by Moore.
• The Borg reference “Species 571” here, but do not elaborate on what it is.
• Bertilla Damas plays both “Three of Nine” and “Marika Wilkarah” in this episode.  She was also the Vulcan Sakonna in the DS9 two parter “The Maquis“.
• Tim Kelleher plays both “Four of Nine” and “P’Chan” in this episode.  He was also Gaines in the TNG finale as well as Pell in the Enterprise episode “The Communicator“.
• Vaughn Armstrong is in this episode.  He’s modern Trek royalty with a metric ton of roles. Will list them all here: Was the Klingon Capt Korris in TNG’s “Heart of Glory” & “Shades of Gray“, the Cardassian Gul Danar in DS9’s “Past Prologue“, the Romulan Telek R’Mor in Voyager’s “Eye of the Needle“, the Cardassian Seskal in DS9’s “When it Rains….” & “The Dogs of War“, Two of Nine & Lansor in Voyager’s “Survival Instinct“, a Vidiian Captain in “Fury“, an Alpha Hirogen in “Flesh and Blood“, the Klingon Korath in the Voyager finale, “Endgame“.  He also did a lot on Enterprise.  He was Admiral Forrest in 14 different episodes of that show.  He was also a Klingon Captain in “Sleeping Dogs“, a Kreetassan Captain in “Vox Sola” & “A Night in Sickbay“, plus the mirror version of Forrest in “In a Mirror Darkly“.

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