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As Locutus cont inues hisquest to destroy the Borg

Queen 500 years in the future,Picard and Seven of Ninehatch a plan to inf i l t rate theBorg col lect ive and destroythem from the inside.

However, three years later,Jean-Luc discoverers that theBorg may have used the ruseof an impending Voldranai iat tack on our galaxy as a

means of gett ing Starf leet intoa vulnerable posit ion.

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