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God Doesn't Play With Dice, Directors Do
Cube #347 is back where it started from Season 5...in the middle of a dangerous hunt by Colors who want to capture the imperfectly assimilated sub-collective. Maybe flux-jumping wasn't so bad after all.

Brains, Trains, and Lightspeed Scooters
Cube #347 has been directed to test a new inertial damper system. Watching is a species which is ever on the quest for a smoother ride since their brains just happen to be over their buttocks (and for whom the term "butt-head" is a compliment). And while trains have absolutely nothing to do with story, one was included so the title would parse.

Tick Tick Tic-Toc
Introducing mech species #6, the Tic-Tocs. While not nearly as advanced nor as powerful as the other mech races, what they lack in firepower they more than make up in xenophobia, numbers, and religion. What a wonderful mixture! Cube #347 is tasked with taking one of their most beloved shrines.

Big Game Hunter, Part I
When a well-paying client wants to pursue A Really Big Trophy, what is a Xenig hunting guide to do? Borg cubes are too common...but they make a dandy bait for something even larger.

Big Game Hunter, Part II
Borg and Dark are locked together, not in mortal combat, but just plain stuck. Tethered to a Xenig Dark trap and lost in an anomoly, will the two enemies be able to work together in order to escape? Or is that asking too much?

Battlechess
Continuing towards the Unimatrix goal, Cube #347 is waylaid once more. This time, however, it is a tea-drinking shade by the name of joe who wants to play a nice, civilized game of Andorian battlechess with Second...using drones from the sub-collective as pieces on a very real board.

Pest Exterminator
Thorny is back, bigger than ever! While no longer bothering Cube #347, the plant is still around, having taken over an entire salvage node of a unimatrix; and within that node are rogue drones. While the Collective could ignore a giant plant, rogues are another matter, especially when said plant takes exception to every extermination squad beamed over to remove them. Bring on the expendible drones from Cube #347; and read this story before the author types this overlong introduction much longer!

Repo Man
Everyone knows what happens when a loan is not paid: the offender is paid a visit by the repo man. This is a fact of life which rates with death and taxes, and not even the Borg Collective can duck on making payments on a multi-century loan. Too bad Cube #347 has been deemed a "marketable item" for repo'ing and eventual sale on gBay; and too bad the crew has been decided to not even be worth the price of parting out.

Rainbow Shift
A transporter/proto-wormhole accident has flung Assimilation into a different polarization...and now allows him to see color! The question is, when a hostile species readies a Final Option, will he choose color or saving the universe. Tough choice.

Garden Gnome Liberation Front
Garden gnomes have taken over Cube #347. Pesky things, garden gnomes. Especially when they are escapees from a high-security prison with Rose bounty hunters on their trail.

Give the Dog a Bone, Part I
Luplup is back, only this time she isn't acting alone. She has been captured by the Second Federation and is now being used as a weapon to sidetrack the Borg Collective while border colonies are evacuated. Only Luplup may have some different plans. Oh, yes, Cube #347 is in there as well.

Give the Dog a Bone, Part II
The match up is everyone against Cube #347. However, all the parties involved - Second Federation, Peach Collective, Luplup - have different ideas of how to exploit Cube #347 and, specifically, Captain. Nothing unusual there. The question is, who will get their hands/claws/nanotubules into Captain first?

Delusions of Grandeur
Dr. Z, a psychiatrist in the high risk ward of Luna Facility #3 of Tantalus V, has a brand new patient, one with a bit of a nanite infestation. Polly wanna double-king checker piece that can fire phasers every second Tuesday?

Tricked Out
Cube #347 has been abducted to serve as the 'ship of interest' in the latest episode of the hit Tri-V show "Tricked Out." Of course, those vessels are generally heavily modified and post-competition survival (in one piece) isn't a given, nor even necessary.

Conspiracy of One
Weapons has gone out of his mind, literally. Leaving his brain behind to go on walkabout in the computer, he has decided to let himself fade away. Unfortunately, the hunter-seeker programs have begun to attack sub-collective members, and only Weapons can set things right. It is up to quasi-personality Ghydin to convince an apathetic Weapons to do so before the situation really gets out of hand.

Hotel California
This time, it is an insignificant wad of gum which plunges Cube #347 into misadventure. In the middle of the Haunted Passage awaits a mysterious station by the name California...

Phat Pharm
Assimilation not only doesn't need to lose weight, as a Borg drone, he physically cannot (at least not without using a large knife). However, this small consideration is unimportant to the employees of the Phat Pharm clinic where the mantra is for clients (actual or mistaken) to reach their desired weight by any means necessary...or else.

Things That Go Kabloomy!
Maybe this singularity torpedo doesn't talk (see "Exchange," Season 5), but such is no consolation when it nonetheless is ticking down to an explosion. The only option is defusing. One just hopes that the vibrations from the storm and the pitched battle don't accidentally set it off.

Season Seven complete