Assimilation², Issue 8 is the untitled final issue of Assimilation², the Star Trek: The Next Generation—Doctor Who crossover comic miniseries from IDW Publishing in 2012. The story is by Scott & David Tipton, and the art is by Gordon Purcell and J.K. Woodward.
Publisher's description
- The epic crossover between the two greatest science-fiction properties of all time ends here! Our heroes launch a desperate mission behind enemy lines in hopes of ending the CyberBorg threat, but there's a traitor in their midst...
- After successfully retrieving the Borg Executive Library and uploading it into the Conduit, the Doctor, Captain Picard and their team used the TARDIS to board the main Cybership. They were immediately detected, attacked, and divided into two teams. Now, as everything comes to a head, a horde of Borg-enhanced Cybermen stand between them and accomplishing their mission to save the universe...
Summary
Worf and his security guards storm into the Cybership's engine room, phaser rifles blazing, while Amy Pond and Rory Williams provide cover fire. Two of the guards are killed by Cybermen, but they are all able to do enough damage to drop the ship out of warp.
Picard, Data, the Doctor and the Conduit are captured by Cybermen near the ship's bridge. Meanwhile, the USS Enterprise has caught up to the Cybership and begins permeating the ship with a gold-infused particle beam. Picard dons a respirator to avoid breathing the dust as Cybermen begin to malfunction.
The bridge is unaffected by gold exposure as they approach the Cyber-Controller, but Data and the Conduit are able to subdue it. The Doctor physically connects it to the Conduit, then uses the Cyber network to upload the Borg Executive Library and reactivate the Borg Collective. The Borg quickly program all Cyber-ships to auto destruct. The away team hurriedly evacuates back to the TARDIS.
With their mission a success, the Conduit announces that the Borg alliance with the Federation is over. Aspiring to gain the technology of time travel, he attempts to mechanically assimilate the TARDIS. Its living essence retreats into Data, and they all struggle. Worf signals wordlessly to Rory, then grabs the Conduit. Rory opens the door and Worf heaves the Conduit into the time stream. The Doctor safely returns the TARDIS to the holodeck of the Enterprise.
In Ten Forward, William T. Riker shows Beverly Crusher a photo of him playing jazz at Sisko's Creole Kitchen with Marcus Bertrand before his friend became the Conduit. Riker wonders if history will revert now that all traces of the Cybermen have been removed from their universe. The Doctor believes that the assimilation of Delta IV has been undone already, and there will no longer be a computer record of his 23rd century encounter with James T. Kirk. However, they'll retain the memories of everything that happened.
Amy, Rory and the Doctor bid everyone farewell, but the Borg have also retained memories of the encounter, and they resolve to research time travel technology in order to ensure the assimilation of the Time Lord and humanity.
References
Characters
- Marcus Bertrand • Conduit • Beverly Crusher • Cyber-Controller • Data • The Doctor • Jean-Luc Picard • Amy Pond • William T. Riker • Rory Williams • Worf
- Referenced only
- James T. Kirk • Geordi La Forge • Locutus
Starships and vehicles
- Cybership • USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class explorer) • TARDIS
- Referenced only
- Borg ship • USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser)
Locations
Planetary areas
Shipboard areas
- bridge • corridor • engineering • holodeck • Ten Forward
Races and cultures
States and organizations
Science and classification
- assimilation • auto destruct • Borg Executive Library • breathing mask • circuitry • computer bank • cyber-conversion • engine • main drive • PADD • particle beam • phaser • type-III phaser rifle • shields • sonic screwdriver • technology • time travel • warp • weapon
Ranks and titles
Other references
- Borg facility • bone • brain • dimension • genocide • gold • jazz • minute • organic • second • sleeve • throat • time • time stream • trombone • universe
Appendices
Images
Related stories
- TNG movie: Star Trek: First Contact – The Borg start to investigate time travel in order to find a way to assimilate The Doctor.
Production history
- 19 December 2012
- First released by IDW Publishing.
- 13 February 2013
- Collected in Assimilation², Volume 2. (ISBN 9781613775516)
- 5 November 2013
- Collected in the Assimilation² hardcover. (ISBN 9781613777824)
Connections
| Published Order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous comic: Assimilation², Issue 7 |
TNG comics | Next comic: Hive, Issue 1 |
| Previous story: Assimilation², Issue 7 |
Stories by: Scott & David Tipton |
Next story: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever, Issue 1 |
| Chronological Order | ||
| Previous adventure: Assimilation², Issue 7 |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: Cause and Effect |
| Assimilation² crossover series | |
|---|---|
| Volume 1 | Issue 1 • Issue 2 • Issue 3 • Issue 4 |
| Volume 2 | Issue 5 • Issue 6 • Issue 7 • Issue 8 |
External links
- Assimilation², Issue 8 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- * Assimilation², Issue 8 article at Fandom's Tardis Data Core, the Doctor Who wiki
