History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS6E16Collective

* GoToYourRoom: Seven tells the children to return to their maturation chambers, but they refuse.

* HostageForMacGuffin: The children demand Voyager's deflector dish so they can contact the Borg Collective. Janeway can't afford to hand it over as Voyager can't go to warp without it, so everyone plays for time.

** When its maturation chamber fails, First refuses to allow the Borg baby to be transported to Voyager for medical treatment, but the rest of his Collective put their collective foot down and back Seven.
** The Doctor makes a point of showing his captain the Borg baby. Despite the CutenessProximity, Janeway doesn't like how he's trying to manipulate her and [[GoodIsNotNice orders him to proceed with the virus]]. She's reluctant to use it however, relying on Seven to sway the children even though Seven herself thinks they may be a lost cause.

* YouWillBeAssimilated: There's a dead body inside the assimilation chamber from a botched assimilation attempted by the children. Harry later gets injected with nanoprobes, which will also kill him if he's not treated.

* HistoryRepeats:
** The Borg attempt to use a Starfleet vessel's deflector dish to contact the Collective, as per ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''.
** A group of Borg who have been severed from the Collective accept the authority of the first leader who offers an authoritive voice, regardless of their actual leadership skills, as per the TNG episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E24S7E1Descent "Descent"]].
** A Starfleet captain is given a weapon to destroy the Borg, and must decide whether to use it or spare a RogueDrone (TNG [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E23IBorg "I, Borg"]]).

* ChildrenAreInnocent

* InvincibleHero:
** Janeway is looking for the Delta Flyer. On detecting the Borg cube, she has ''Voyager'' fly right up to it and start scanning. Either she's read the script in advance, or the Borg's VillainDecay has become so severe a fully-manned cube would be destroyed instantly by Janeway's DeathGlare.
** The Borg are about to tear off their deflector dish when Tuvok finds a flaw in their shields and suggests beaming over the pathogen. Janeway however finds a {{Technobabble}} way of generating a feedback pulse which will either disrupt their shields or damage Voyager further. But Janeway says that it will work, and so it does.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Seven reminds Icheb [[ParentalSubstitute of his mother]].

* {{Invincible Hero}}ine:
** Janeway is looking for the Delta Flyer. On detecting the Borg cube, she has ''Voyager'' fly right up to it and start scanning. [[IdiotPlot Either she's read the script in advance]], or the Borg's VillainDecay has become so severe a fully-manned cube would be destroyed instantly by Janeway's DeathGlare.

* {{Hustler}}: Neelix has never played this, what's it called...poker?

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There's no mention of what ''Voyager'' did with the Borg baby. According to Brannon Braga, the baby was returned to its people offscreen.

* HeroesGoneFishing: Away from their captain's eagle eye, the boys are getting in a poker game while [[WhoIsDriving leaving the Delta Flyer on autopilot]]. They pay the price for their carelessness when a massive Borg cube creeps on them by [[StealthInSpace hiding its approach from their scanners with a dispersal field]].

* TeenageWasteland: In space. With Borg teenagers. The kids think they can function just fine as a collective without any adult drones around, but they lack the cohesion or mental discipline to function as a unit, Borg or not. In practice, it just boils down to First bullying the others into submission.

* TeenageWasteland: In space. With Borg teenagers.