Descent

DescriptionEdit

The Borg are back -- and nastier than ever. No longer mindless, inhuman drones but cyborg soldiers on a mission to assimilate all intelligent life, their new goal is the complete destruction of the Federation. And in the midst of facing the Borg again, Captain Picard learns that he may be the cause of the change.

Commander Data is changing as well. For the first time in his life, Data feels a genuine emotion -- and that emotion is deadly, destructive rage. When it is revealed that the Borg are commanded by an old enemy out of Data's past, Data must choose between his allegiance tot he Federation and the one thing he wants above all else...

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Part I charactersEdit

Bosus • Corelki • Crosis • Beverly Crusher • Data • Albert Einstein (hologram) • Franklin • Garvey • Gates • Stephen Hawking (hologram) • Hugh • Jae • Kellogg • Geordi La Forge • Lore • Alynna Nechayev • Isaac Newton (hologram) • Jean-Luc Picard • William T. Riker • Dennis Russell • Tayar • Torsus • Towles • Deanna Troi • Darien Wallace • Worf, son of Mogh

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Brooks • Locutus • Noonien Soong

Part II charactersEdit

Armstrong • Albert Barnaby • Crosis • Beverly Crusher • Data • Gates • Goval • Hugh • Jae • Geordi La Forge • Lore • Morik • Jean-Luc Picard • Andrew Powell • William T. Riker • Dennis Russell • Salazar • Spot • Zandra Taitt • Deanna Troi • Worf, son of Mogh

Referenced only 

Noonien Soong

Novelization charactersEdit

Albert Barnaby • Corelki • Crosis • Beverly Crusher • Data • Albert Einstein (hologram) • Goval • Harlock • Stephen Hawking (hologram) • Hugh • Kalin • Geordi La Forge • Lore • Alynna Nechayev • Isaac Newton (hologram) • Jean-Luc Picard • Andrew Powell • Remmis • William T. Riker • Salazar • Solario • Spot • Zandra Taitt • Torsus • Towles • Deanna Troi • Trossin • Darien Wallace • Worf, son of Mogh

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Brooks • Nicolaus Copernicus • Galileo Galilei • Adolf Hitler • Johannes Kepler • Locutus • Michelangelo • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • H. G. Wells

Starships and vehiclesEdit

Soong (Borg Type 03) • USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class) • El-Baz (Type-15 shuttlepod) • USS Gorkon (Excelsior-class) • USS Saladin (Nebula-class)

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USS Agamemnon • USS Crazy Horse

LocationsEdit

Ohniaka III

Referenced only 

Devala Lake • Finala • Mercury • New Berlin colony • Starbase 295

Races and culturesEdit

Android • Bajoran • Betazoid • Borg • Human • Klingon

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Ferengi • Vulcan

States and organizationsEdit

Liberated • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

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Borg Collective • Cambridge University • English Parliament

Other referencesEdit

acting captain • admiral • Amish • android • assimilation • atmosphere • brain • British • captain • carrier wave • cochrane • combadge • cyborg • EM field • emotion chip • ensign • ethical program • flux inhibitor • German • heart • holodeck • hologram • inertial damper • kedion • kilometer • log • metaphasic shielding • meter • Negro • neural net • phaser • phaser rifle • photon torpedo • poker • positronic matrix • robot • sailing • shield • sublight • swimming • star • tachyon • torpedo • transporter • transwarp • transwarp conduit • tricorder • ventricle • VISOR • warp nacelle

AppendicesEdit

Related mediaEdit

• DS9 novel: Avatar, Book One - While experiencing flashbacks induced by the Orb of Memory Data recalls deactivating Lore, from this episode.
• The novel Greater Than the Sum and the Strange New Worlds II short story "Seventh Heaven" feature Hugh after the events of this episode.

ImagesEdit

Novelization imagesEdit

Cover image.

Cover art.

German language edition cover image.

German language re-issue edition cover image.

Data.

Jean-Luc Picard.

Hugh.

Planet.

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Episode imagesEdit

A hologram of Albert Einstein.

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ConnectionsEdit

TimelineEdit

External linksEdit

• Descent article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Descent, Part II article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Descent novelization article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.