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An away team prepares to beam down into the caves of an apparently abandoned mining colony with gallicite deposits that may be used to replenish the ship's warp coils. B'Elanna Torres is working with Ensign Vorik, who suddenly proposes marriage to her. He grabs her head, upon which she knocks him down. In sickbay, the Doctor concludes that Vorik has entered the pon farr. In the caves on the planet, the away team climbs down a steep cliff. Neelix falls down, breaking his leg. B'Elanna apparently loses her nerve and runs away. Tuvok surmises that she too suffers from pon farr after a mind meld with Vorik. A search team catches up with B'Elanna, but suddenly they are surrounded by aliens that don't register on the tricorder. B'Elanna manages to overwhelm one of them when an earthquake strikes the cave. She and Tom are separated from the rest of the away team. B'Elanna wants to mate with Tom, but he initially refuses her advances, knowing that she would not normally behave this way. Tuvok and Chakotay learn from the aliens, the Sakari, that invaders overran their colony a long time ago, and that the survivors chose to hide in the caves ever since. On the ship, Vorik tries in vain to cope with his pon farr using a holographic mate. He beams down to the planet and challenges Tom to the koon-ut-kal-if-fee. B'Elanna accepts the challenge herself and fights with Vorik, until both of them have overcome the pon farr. Remains of the aggressors are found on the Sakari planet: the Borg.
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- In Star Trek: Amok Time, which introduced the Vulcan concept of Pon Farr, it was made clear that the challenge of Kali Fee is a fight to the death. This seems to have been forgotten, as it would be illogical in this case if the lady is allowed to chose herself as a combatant. Either the rules were changed in the interim, or the purging of the Pon Farr led to the fight to the death requirement being set aside.
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- . BrianB on Friday, July 09, 1999 - 1:04 pm: Aren't Vulcans supposed to be super strong? Not even Kirk could defeat a frenzied Spock in TOS's Amok Time. How the blazes did the ½-Klingon, ½-human Torres whup the hide off Vorik? I guess with the Ponfarr Vorik gave her, she gained some of his strength. No wonder he tried to cheat and nerve pinch her right off the bat. It's a good thing he fell asleep in mid-battle. ScottN on Friday, July 09, 1999 - 1:43 pm: BrianB, Klingons are supposed to be pretty tough too. Matt Pesti on Sunday, August 08, 1999 - 10:04 pm: According to "The Baseball DS9", Klingons are stronger than Vulcans. But in the original series, Kirk routinely punched out Klingons. Also Young Spock in ST3 threw one a couple feet.
- Gary C. on Wednesday, February 16, 2000 - 1:24 am: So the Borg took out this planet? I thought their attacks on planets are of a consistent and identifiable type, with the big "scoop" and all. None of that was on this planet. That would only happen on planets with cities or large towns, which may not have been present here.
- I doubt the Borg would miss some assimilation targets because they fled into some caves. Depends on what the walls of the caves are made off!
- Don't the Borg vaporize or beam back to the ship their dead, like in I Borg, Q Who, BOBW? Continuity suffers again. The required circuitry may have been damaged in the drone whose skeleton was found.
- Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 3:22 am: Instead of, or perhaps in addition to, ropes why not use anti-gravity boots? Mr. Spock had a pair in Star Trek V, or has Starfleet forgotten how to manufacture them? In the NextGen episode Bloodlines Picard mentions an antigravity harness for climbing. So why didn't Paris, B'Elanna and Neelix use such a device in this episode? (Of course the same question could be asked of Picard, Dr. Crusher and Worf in Chain of Command.) There may be many environments where anti grav systems cannot be relied on.
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