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<TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Descent'</B><BR>(Part II)<BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 253)<BR>by René Echevarria</TD>
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Lieutenant Commander Data has betrayed the Federation, joining his evil brother Lore in assuming leadership of the Borg. Held prisoner by the two renegade androids in a castle-like structure, Captain Picard, Lieutenant LaForge and Counselor Troi learn that Hugh, the free-thinking Borg, disrupted the Collective’s sense of shared identity; Lore realised that his destiny was to make the Borg into totally artificial life-forms like himself and Data, completing the Borg's sense of purpose and ensuring that the age of biological life-forms comes to an end. Aboard the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I>, Doctor Crusher is in command of a skeleton crew. Detecting the approach of the massive Borg ship, she orders those crewmembers still on the surface to return to the ship; however, Commander Riker and Lieutenant Worf insist on staying to search for the captain and his party, and before everyone can be retrieved, the <I>Enterprise</I> is forced to flee the area. Picard’s attempts to get through to Data fail; the three officers are placed in a cell and LaForge’s VISOR is confiscated. Lore informs Data that he plans to conduct neurological experiments on LaForge, tests that have previously given Borg subjects brain-damage. Meanwhile, LaForge determines that Lore has deactivated his brother’s ethical program, and is using a carrier wave to feed him negative emotions; if they can generate a kedion pulse, the program could be reactivated. Elsewhere, Riker and Worf find the Borg castle, but are then captured by a group of Borg and taken to an underground catacomb; here they meet a familiar face: Hugh…

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Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data / Lore</B>), Jonathan Del Arco (<B>Hugh</B>), Alex Datcher (<B>Taitt</B>), James Horan (<B>Barnaby</B>), Brian Cousins (<B>Crosis</B>), Benito Martinez (<B>Salazar</B>), Michael Reilly Burke (<B>Goval</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Alexander Singer
<BR>Produced by Ronald D. Moore and Peter Lauritson
<BR>Co-Produced by Brannon Braga
<BR>Executive Producers Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller and Rick Berman
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<BR>20th September, 1993

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<BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data 

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