Stardate 50622.4: In response to a distress call with a Federation signature, Commander Chakotay and Ensign Kaplan land their shuttle on a planet. Upon their arrival they are immediately attacked and Kaplan is killed. The injured Chakotay is rescued by an obviously human woman named Riley Frazier. Meanwhile, Voyager discovers an abandoned Borg cube, and Janeway decides to send an away team to investigate. The rivaling factions on the planet are actually all former Borg drones whose link to the Collective was severed in an electrokinetic storm five years ago. Riley Frazier belongs to a group, the Cooperative, who strive to work together instead of fighting each other, and who are linked through their neural implants to that end. Chakotay agrees to join their link temporarily, in order to repair his neural damage. When Voyager arrives, Frazier asks Janeway to reactivate the neuroelectric field generator on the Borg cube, to link all inhabitants of the planet together. Janeway refuses. Chakotay and B'Elanna leave the planet on a shuttle, and Chakotay suddenly receives commands from the Cooperative. He draws a phaser and heads for the Borg cube. An away team led by Tuvok attempts to stop him in vain before he reactivates the transmitter. Chakotay and the away team can be beamed out before the Borg cube explodes, which was set to self destruct by the Cooperative.

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