YMMV / Star Trek Voyager S 3 E 16 "Unity"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Given that Voyager just upgraded the cooperative's security systems, the attack that immediately follows, leading to being trapped in a bunker about to be overrun, is rather suspicious. The invaders might actually be members of the cooperative (rather than rival factions) who thought that Riley and the others were too extreme in advocating for a forced Hive Mind. Or Voyager was incompetent in designing their security systems. Or both.
• Narm:
  • Riley's dramatic and seductive whisper, which she speaks with through the entire episode straight, comes off more like a phone sex worker role playing for a customer's crisis-situation fetish.
  • Also, the neural link montage.
• Vindicated by History: At the time of its initial airing, it was widely seen as very underwhelming for the first Voyager episode to have the crew encounter the Borg (or former Borg, in this case), causing the show's creative staff to write the "Scorpion" two-parter in an attempt to make up for it. Nowadays, divorced from the heavy and misleading hype it was given prior to its first airing, this is usually seen as a very serviceable episode that does something different with the Borg (albeit with the later "Survival Instinct" being an arguably more successful take on the same basic idea) and avoids subjecting them to the same Villain Decay that they'd suffer as the show went on.