Riley Frazier was a human active in the 24th century.
Biography[]
In early 2367, Doctor Riley Frazier was aboard the USS Roosevelt at the Battle of Wolf 359 when the ship was boarded and the crew assimilated by the Borg. (TNG episode: "The Best of Both Worlds") (VOY episode: "Unity") As the cube ran out of available drone slots, excess assimilatees were sent aboard the cube's auxiliary sphere back to the Delta Quadrant. (TNG novel: Greater Than the Sum)
The next year, the cube carrying the assimilated Frazier encountered an electrokinetic storm, severing it from the Collective. The survivors regained their individuality and settled on a nearby M-class planet, only for violence to break out among differing personalities of different species. Frazier and her friends formed the Borg Cooperative, but they were outnumbered by competing factions.
In 2373, Frazier's distress call was answered by Commander Chakotay of USS Voyager. Frazier requested help to establish a new localized hive mind to stop violence on the planet, but when Captain Janeway tried to refuse, Frazier briefly hijacked Chakotay's nervous system to do it anyway. With order reestablished, the Cooperative saw off Voyager on its journey. (VOY episode: "Unity")
Alternate timelines[]
In a parallel timeline where Voyager was forced to stay in the Delta Quadrant, Species 8472 attacked the Cooperative in early 2374 in their quest to kill all Borg, with the Cooperative developing an effective nanoprobe-based defense in response. Unfortunately, that earned them the attention of the Collective, which re-assimilated the members of the Cooperative and their innovation. Six months later, Chakotay regretted Riley's society didn't have the chance to flourish. (VOY - Myriad Universes - Infinity's Prism novella: Places of Exile)
In early 2381 of the First Splinter, the Caeliar dissolved the Borg Collective galaxy-wide and recruited almost all surviving drones to join the Caeliar gestalt. Riley Frazier and some of her compatriots decided to remain behind on their planet as the Caeliar could not take in their fully-organic children. Unfortunately, the Tarkons (sic) then annexed the planet and turned it into an exile colony, forcing the Cooperative survivors underground. Later that year, Voyager returned to the system to contact Frazier and was able to overcome the Tarkons to evacuate all remaining Cooperative survivors elsewhere. (VOY novel: The Eternal Tide)
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Background information[]
This character is consistently referred to as "Doctor Riley Frazier", though no story has ever specified if Frazier is a medical or academic doctor.
External link[]
- Riley Frazier article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.