Unimatrix Zero

This Story: Season 6 Episode 26 (production code 246)
VOY Overall: Episode 146
Trek Overall: Story 570a, Episode 602
Airdate: 24 May 2000
Story by Mike Sussman
Teleplay by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Directed by Allan Kroeker

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 66.  This contradicts the hard limit set in “The Cloud” of 38.
• The last episode of Season 6.
• The official title of this episode is “Unimatrix Zero”, not “Unimatrix Zero, Part I”.
• An early working title for this episode was “Connections”.
• The Delta Flyer is destroyed by the Borg in this episode.  It’s replaced in the episode “Imperfection” by a new version that’s identical to the old.
• There is a scene that shows a bunch of decapitated Borg heads.  One of them is the same physical prop of Brent Spiner’s head from “Time’s Arrow” as well as “Datalore“.
• Tom Paris is re-promoted to Lt Junior Grade after having been demoted to Ensign in the episode “Thirty Days“.
• This episode ends with an echo to “The Best of Both Worlds Part I” where the captain of the ship is assimilated by the Borg.
• Mark Deakins plays both Axum and “Five of Twelve” in this episode.  It was also the Hirogen Turanj in “The Killing Game” and Tourney in Star Trek: Insurrection.
• The only time I’m aware of where Janeway fights with a Klingon Bat’leth.

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