Our Survival is Your Survival

Alliance with The Borg

[Bridge]

TUVOK: 

There are three planets in this system. Inhabitants, all Borg. 

A vessel is approaching.

JANEWAY: 

All stop. Shields up.

TUVOK: 

They're hailing us.

JANEWAY: 

Open a channel.

BORG [OC]: 

We are the Borg. 

You will be assimilated. 

Resistance is futile.

TUVOK: 

They've locked onto us with a tractor beam.

JANEWAY: 

Borg vessel, This is Captain Janeway 

of The Starship Voyager —

I have Tactical Information 

about Species-8472. 

I want to negotiate.

BORG [OC]: 

Negotiation is irrelevant. 

You will be assimilated.

JANEWAY: 

Borg vessel. What you're receiving is a sample of the knowledge we possess. 

If you don't disengage your tractor beam immediately, 

I will have that data destroyed. 

You have ten seconds 

to comply. 

We know you're in danger 

of being defeated. 

You can't afford to risk 

losing this information. 

Disengage your tractor —

(Janeway is beamed away.)

[Borg Cube]

BORG [OC]: 

State your demands.

JANEWAY: 

I want safe passage 

through your space. 

Once my ship is 

beyond Borg territory, 

I'll give you our research.

BORG [OC]: 

Unacceptable. Our Space is vast. 

Your passage would 

require too much time. 

We need the technology now.

JANEWAY: 

If I give it to you now, 

you'll assimilate us.

BORG [OC]: 

Species-8472 must be stopped. 

Our survival is your survival. 

Give us the technology.

JANEWAY: 

No. Safe Passage first, 

or No Deal.

BORG [OC]: 

State your proposal.

JANEWAY: 

Let's work together, 

combine our resources. 

Even if we do give you 

the technology now, 

you're still going to need 

time to develop it. 

By working together, 

we can create a weapon more quickly. 

If you escort us through your space 

we can perfect the weapon as we —