Unworthy of Assimilation

Angry and Frustrated, Spike has a schoolteacher by The Collar

I’m a veal kind of guy — You’re too old to eat.

He snaps his neck instead.

But not to kill.

I feel much better.

MARY SHELLEY :

What is your name, sir?

Our Lady : 

Mary, this is not a good time to talk.

MARY SHELLEY : 

Or names. Are you several men? 

A composite of parts.

CYBERMAN: 

I am BETTER than Men.

MARY SHELLEY :

Yet I still see a soul in there.

CYBERMAN: (laughs) 

What do you think you see, child?

MARY SHELLY : 

I see the man who spared my son. 

Were you a father, before?

CYBERMAN: 

I was.

MARY SHELLEY :

You didn't want to be this way. 

They hurt you, this modern Prometheus. 

You loved once. 

And were loved in return. 

You do not wish to kill.

(She holds out her hand, and it touches it.)

CYBERMAN: 

My name was Ashad. 

I DID spare your son... 

(then grabs her arm) 

Because he's a useless runt, sickly and weak. 

And I DID have children. 

I slit their throats when they joined The Resistance.

(It switches to holding the back of her neck.)

CYBERMAN: 

In Death we are transformed, improved, updated, as you will learn.

SEVEN: 

You are a peculiar creature, Neelix.

NEELIX: 

Thanks. I think.... 

Ah! Here it is. 

Oh, this will be perfect for containing a small amount of protomatter.

 

Last time I used this Little Wonder I nearly lost it to the Kazon.

SEVEN: 

The Kazon -- Species-329.

NEELIX: 

You're familiar with them.

SEVEN: 

The Borg encountered a Kazon colony in the Gand Sector, grid 6929.

NEELIX: 

Were they assimilated?

SEVEN: 

Their Biological and Technological Distinctiveness was unremarkable. 

They were Unworthy of Assimilation.

NEELIX: 

I didn't realise the Borg were so discriminating.

SEVEN: 

Why assimilate a species that would detract from Perfection?

NEELIX: 

Good Point.