As usual for Voyager, the trailer for this episode promised something exciting, while the episode itself was mostly talking, with much of it very expositional.
In this case, it's way worse because the trailer screams THE BORG, while the episode tried to hide it for about half its runtime. We're apparently supposed to figure it out when Chuckles does. It makes his captors' constant Borg hint dropping even more annoying. And how convenient that they are able to remove all their visible Borg prosthetics.
And his captors' plan was- what exactly? Wait for someone to find them by their Starfleet signal, hope whoever it is is friendly and doesn't notice the Borg ship in orbit, gain their confidence and convince them to help partly reactivate the cube so that blah blah blah.
It's ridiculous.
There was a lot of potential here, but it badly missed the mark.
In this case, it's way worse because the trailer screams THE BORG, while the episode tried to hide it for about half its runtime. We're apparently supposed to figure it out when Chuckles does. It makes his captors' constant Borg hint dropping even more annoying. And how convenient that they are able to remove all their visible Borg prosthetics.
And his captors' plan was- what exactly? Wait for someone to find them by their Starfleet signal, hope whoever it is is friendly and doesn't notice the Borg ship in orbit, gain their confidence and convince them to help partly reactivate the cube so that blah blah blah.
It's ridiculous.
There was a lot of potential here, but it badly missed the mark.