Fifth Season - Episode 123

I, BORG

Stardate: 45854.2
Rating: 18 Humour: - Action: - Tension: ++ Romance: +

Alternate Titles: German: "ICH BIN HUGH"

tten By: Echevarria, René
Director: Lederman, Robert
Executive: Berman, Rick
Piller, Michael
Roddenberry, Gene
Supervisor: Taylor, Jeri
Producer: Livingston, David
Co-Producer: Lauritson, Peter
Menosky, Joe
Moore, Ronald D.

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt.Cmd. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Guinan: Whoopi Goldberg
Hugh: Jonathan Del Arco

Plot

The Enterprise encounters a crashed Borg scout ship and rescues a Borg from the wreckage. Picard plans to use the Borg to destroy the rest of his race by infecting the Borg with a computer virus and returning him to the Borg. However, as the crew works with the Borg to discover his programming so they can write the virus, they begin to have doubts about using him to destroy the rest of his race.

Goofs

During the first time in the lab, Three of Five asks "Do I have a name?" "I" should not have been used, it should have been "we".

Quotes

Hugh:	"Locutus..."
Picard:	"Yes, I am Locutus of Borg."

Hugh:	"Why are you here?"
Picard:	"This is a primitive culture. I am here to facilitate its incorporation. Identify yourself."
Hugh:	"Hugh."
Picard:	"Identify yourself!"
Hugh:	"We are Hugh."
Picard:	"This is not a Borg identification."
Hugh:	"Third Of Five."

Picard:	"This culture will be assimiliated."
Hugh:	"They do not wish it."
Picard:	"Irrelevant."
Hugh:	"They will resist us.
Picard:	"Resistance is futile.
Hugh:	"Resistance is not futile. Some have escaped."
Picard:	"They will be found. It is inevitable. All will be assimilated.".
Hugh:	"Must Geordi be assimilated?"
Picard:	"Yes."
Hugh:	"He does not wish it. He would rather die than be assimilated."
Picard:	"Then he will die."
Hugh:	"No, Geordi must not die. Geordi is a friend."

Picard:	"You will assist us to assimilate this vessel. You are Borg. You will assist us."
Hugh:	"I will not."
Picard:	"What did you say?"
Hugh:	"I will not assist you."
Picard:	"I"?
Hugh:	"Geordi must not be assimiliated."
Picard:	"But you are Borg."
Hugh:	"No. I am Hugh."