"state your proposal" when you know you've achieved a milestone of the century

"Shields up." Borg: "Awwww, they put their shields up. They're adorable!"

"Our space is vast" Darn that's chilling..

I do love how the Borg were so desperate for the technology that they not only bargain with Janeway, they go out of their way to protect her and save the Voyager from "Species 8472's" assault while sacrificing a few of their own cubes to do it. It's a display of vulnerability we had never seen before from Star Trek's scariest antagonist.

Janeway: This is a sample of the technology we possess Borg: We've seen your video, it's pretty self explanatory, It just looks like a modified nanoprobe attacking 8472's cells, we can work out the rest from here. Prepare for assimilation. Janeway: Crap

One of the biggest lines in trek history; “State your demands. “

The largest flaw in Voyager is that it was unwilling to pursue an extended, sequential storyline even for strings of episodes. I mean, come on. An entire Borg war with S8472 in like two episodes?

I still cant get over how badly 8472 fucked up the Borg. Wolf 359, The Battle of Secor 001 were narrow victories for Starfleet. But 8472 ran over the borg like a hot knife through butter. Damn.

The Borg are one of my favorite characters in Sci-Fi but it was cool to see them get their asses kicked by Species 8472. "There's always a bigger fish." -Qui-Gon Jinn

The sight of the Borg cube pulling Voyager to safety is so surreal. Love this episode.

the borg ship protecting the voyager was one of the best moments that episode

This was one of the arcs that deserved more episodes. And it was a complete turnaround from the bad Kazon storylines.

3:18 Janeway with the oblivion Npc acting.

This just shows that the borg CAN be reasoned with. Granted it's only when interests align, but thanks to Hugh, the borg changed forever.

I always found myself imagining Federation ships in the Alpha and Beta quadrants suddenly finding Borg ships not fighting them and telling them about an alliance made by Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Starship Voyager.

"They locked onto us with a tractor beam." NO SHIT TUVOK

"Our space is vast, your passage would take too much time". Says the people with transwarp tech which could get them across it in about an hour.

“Negotiation is irrelevant. You will be assimilated.” “Okay, then we’ll make an alliance with them inste-“ “Negotiation IS relevant.”

The cube at the end was like "Nope, they just went Death Star on that planet, getting the hell out of here."

There's coffee in that Collective!

I miss Star Trek....

This was my first Trek cliffhanger, when I was a kid...I remember thinking the summer would NEVER end!

"They'll push you, they'll threaten you." I love how Janeway went right up the BORG, spoke to them offering an alliance, shared info to entice, attempted to negotiate, was pushed by them, threatened by them, and then STOOD UP higher to them and pushed back with the truth. No one pushes her!.

Imagine being on a ship and the captain says let's go look for a borg vessel

Scorpion part 1 ending always used to give me chills. A Borg cu e running away from a planet blowing up, Voyager being yanked on a tractor beam like a dog on a leash...

Considering how picky the Borg were about who was worth assimilating it’s kind of a compliment that the Queen herself was so interested in Picard and Janeway.

You've got to admire Janeway. It takes an Iron Lady of a starfleet captain to negotiate alone with a near-omnipresent threat that wants to assimilate her and her ace-up-her-sleeve.

It looks like the Borg pissed off the Vorlons.

Species 8472 has a BADASS theme.

Just my opinion, but representing the Collective this way instead of one or two talking individuals is a lot more effective. It gives the viewer more of a sense of their vastness and inhuman perspective.

When you're used to waiting full episodes for incremental plot developments in ST, to have a bunch of alien ships turn up and just blast a Borg world to pieces with literally Zero introduction was genuinely shocking.

Captain Janeway: ~Refuses to ally with the Kazan in season 2 out of principle ~Allies with the Borg in season 3

Damn awesome how the last borg cube decided to haul ass dragging the ship along with

You can hear her voice almost crack at 'work together'. Great acting

I love the fact that the Borg cube rotated onto the same plane as Voyager. That should be depicted more often in space fiction because...you know...there are (at least) 3 dimensions a vessel can move through.

Star Trek Voyager is my favorite Star Trek series. Love it :)

Species 8472 had an amazing attack pattern

There's the easy way, and there's the Janeway.

I would have loved to see a season long arc of Voyager exploring Borg space finding crippled worlds, refugees, and sneaking their way around losing a fair portion of the crew and having the ship inflicted with compounding damage through the series.

One of the best story lines in the history of Star Trek. 🙂

What I really like about this scene: AFTER the Borg realized Janeway held possible tactical information they could not afford to lose they bring her on board and request her demands. They don’t like her demands and counter it with logic and tactical “reality” attempting to get technology and assimilate more. Janeway does NOT relent or backdown. Silence... The queen and her “staff” calculate possibilities, technical data, their weapons research, battle records, and decide to table assimilation...for now... and humor Janeway or actually listen to her for now. They relent and request her proposal. 02:09

It’s good to know the Borg can say other things other then “We Are The Borg. You Will Be Assimilated”

Nobody: KZfaq Recommendation Algorithm: *Resistance is futile you will watch this video*

And interesting bit, it looks as if the other borg cubes are moving into position to try and shield Voyager and the Cube tractoring it. At least partially, from the exploding planet.

I wonder how the Borg would react to the Cybermen from Doctor Who and visa versa... One wants to become perfect by absorbing all cultures, knowledge, and people into themselves, the other thinks it already is perfect and wants to make everyone else perfect by removing what makes them different from them. Would they fight, team up, or try to convert/assimilate each other? Who would end up dominating?

The way Janeway delivers the line, "You have 10 seconds to comply." Always gives me chills.

Damn, I forgot how good this show was.

Still the most epic series finale ever.

The soundtrack to the episode is amazing.

You know you rock when you can make alliance with Borg.

Having established the Borg as an uncompromising hungering force, to then scared and desperate, really was interesting and top tier Star Trek writing.

Our space is vast... (and the Equinox somehow got past us)

Ever wonder what Starfleet thought when they saw the Voyager logs? Admiral: hmmm it says here you gave the borg bio-weapons that melt people Janeway: Well that was to defeat one of their enemies and get across their space Admiral: And you executed one of your crew a Mr. Tuvix Janeway: Well i needed more crew members anyway Admiral: And there's all those incidents with the time line Janeway: That was sorted out by some future guy, i promise there'll be no more time travel *cough suckers*cough

I have always loved the soundtrack to this episode; especially that last three minutes of it.

I'll be honest, even though TNG post season 2 neglected to use the Borg beyond the stuff with Hugh and Lore, this moment kind of really damaged their reputation. I also think the decision to give them a queen was in direct opposition to the idea of them being a nameless faceless collective. But then again the concept of Locutus was similar.

Captain "War Crimes" Janeway making yet another stellar decision.

This really is Oscar quality stuff. The graphics are stunning and the writing is, well, let's just say it is only eclipsed by the acting.

I always thought it was very chilling to see Voyager being dragged in tractor beam like that was like a dog on a leash...

You know, of all the alien races in Star Trek, I think the Borg are one of the freakiest.

Janeway: "Whats going on, uuugh!", Janeway: "whats going on uugh!" Now repeat!😁😁😁😁😁😁

Cliffhanger! I remember thinking about this all summer then we get Seven of Nine Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix-01 on the Part 2 after. Yowza! I miss good Star Trek.

I can't stand Janeway's stupidity, which starts at beginning of season 4 and continues until the end of the series. She wasted a great opportunity to make an alliance with a powerful alien species which kicked the Borg's collective asses. She arrived to the conclusion the fluidic space alien had to be stopped just because one of them wounded Harry Kim, making her angry to the point she tells Chakotay that maybe the fluidic space aliens deserve to be anhialated, and because Kess has a brief contact with the aliens when she heres "the weak shall perish". All it took was these two things, both of them a misunderstanding which could have been resolved had Janeway tried to contact the aliens and hear their side of the story. But no she decides to pass judgement in an entire species based on vague information. And let's not forget that when she helped the borg she doomed several other worlds that would be assimilated in the years that followed. Bravo Janeway you protected the future of your crew by destroying the future of billions, perhaps even trillions of individuals.

Species 116 has a vested interest in this war between the Borg and Species 8472. Stand down Captain Janeway or Arturis will set a trap for you! - Hope and Fear -

That 1st time that someone has given the Borg a moment of pause.

I love how the borg just beamed Janeway out of there while shes trying to convince them to negotiate...They arrived at their conclusion way before she finished her sentence. Just goes to show how quickly the Borg can reason.

Two words I never thought I'd see in the same sentence "Alliance and borg"

Species 8472... The best thought of ever a race of pure matter living in a universe of liquid matter just awesome

Janeway takes care of Borg cubes as if they were sugar cubes, going into her morning coffee.

Oh god, how I wish this gets remastered some day

3:19 me at a rave and the molly kicking in

I’m so happy that you’re involved 🧑🏼‍🌾

My only quibble with this amazing scene is that the Borg states it would take too much time to transport them past their territory. And yet all they had to do was pulled Voyager inside their docking area - since we know the sphere ship cubes have are around the same size as Voyager - then transwarp out their territory. After that, they let Voyager go and then Janeway drops a probe with the information and they go on their way.

My favourite episode of Voyager. I was just so disappointed in Part 2 however, even if it did introduce Seven of Nine. I was expecting it to lead up to a climatic Borg/Species 8472/Voyager conflict, but instead we just got Chakotay giving Seven a headache...

"Our space is vast. Your passage would require too much time..." Ah no, just give the petty human StarFleet vessel a transwarp coil! ;)

Seeing 8472 destroy an entire planet is awesome. I still remember seeing it for the first time... Chills. :)

The Borg never denies that they will assimilate them, they simply state the fact that for Janeway and her crew to live (presumably upon assimilation) requires they hand them the data. I like the consistency in that I also wouldn't expect a computer to lie or get emotional even with the threat of annihilation.

This is like making a deal with China

“The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the powah of the Janeway.” ~ Darth Kruge ~

The brass score composition is gangsta!

I'll be quite hones. If I had been a Voyager crew member and found out my captain had helped the Borg, I'd start looking for places to jump ship. I wish there'd been more protest from the rest of the crew after everything was over.

If only Thresa May knew how to no deal like this

Picard and Sisko would have just let Species 8472 wreak havoc on the Borg. No more Borg, and no more preposterous and amateurish scripts involving them. And yet another reason why TNG and DS9 blow Voyager completely out of the water.

Pretty much my favorite episode of the series… An enemy so great the borg needed help

1:19 Once Janeway was on the borg ship, they could've assimilated her, and learned everything she knew about the species 8472 weakness from what she knew. That should've been the end of Voyager right there.

Janeway on her own inside a Borg cube discussing a possible alliance gives me the creeps - she is one and they are many - that's why i am not a start ship captain

Why didn't the borg use transwarp conduits to get them out of their space quicker so they could get the research quicker?

Voyager has some of the coolest ideas in Trek, like Species 8472 concept or when they get trapped in that black space and need to either work together or destroy other ships to steal from, to survive

gotta love the cliff hanger so you will tune in next time.. borg towing the voyager away while a planet was just obliterated.. wowa.

Seriously this episode really showed what an amazing show Voyager could have been.

My only problem is that Red Alert by default has shields up, so there was no need for her to issue the command.

0:59 "If you don't disengage your tractor beam immediately, I will have that data destroyed. You have 10 seconds to comply." And then the Borg abduct Janeway and still don't disengage their tractor beam. And the Voyager crew don't destroy the data on Species 8472 either.

That brass score when 8472 attacks the Borg ship - gangsta. Dats how we do

For we (Voyager) have entered Hell, & are it's chief, damned soul.

Species 8472 only retaliated the battle the Borg started.

A superb episode. Love the pacing, the acting, and the soundtrack. That obvious green screen shot of Janeway on the cube though is so very badly lit though. Even for late 90s, it is pretty dire.

In the end the federation and species 8472 made peace with each other so this whole effort was in vain. Janeway should have let species 8472 destroy the borg

Alliance? *laughs in hive mind*

Many can simply fight the Borg, but only one can negotiate with them. Janeway is best captain.

so convenient that the other two cubes were destroyed, but not the one where Janeway was on.

Best episode of Voyager, by far!