S05E13 - 'The Accobi Assimilation' - 30/05/15 - Season Finale

[Grizz]

Production Code: 5x13 | AFx59
Episode Title: "The Accobi Assimilation" [ Season Finale Part 2 of 2 ]
Writer: Grizz
Air Date: 30th May 2015

"The Borg cannot be permitted to assimilate Accobi technology"

As the Hera races to the elusive Station Nimoy on a time-sensitive rescue mission, Starfleet musters the available forces of the Tyrella Sector to strike Accobar and retake Pioneer. But Vega is not one to back herself in to a corner - and surprises await on both sides of the sector.

The days of happy endings are over.

You Will Need:

Station Iowa (Included in Ultimate Edition)

[Grizz]

The Accobi Assimilation - Five Teasers

1) It all started in an episode called The Task Force and a mission led by a former First Officer comes around to bite the galaxy in the posterior.

2) '2384. USS Athena. Orbiting Asteroid Base: Alpha.'

3) What will Menden and the away team find in The Director's office?

4) The Hera's crew have retaken Pioneer before... what could possibly go wrong?

5) "There's no light at the end of this tunnel... just a monster."

[Grizz]

An Introduction to 'The Accobi Assimilation' by Grizz

The Borg have grown boring, weak and predictable. They roll up with an insufficient amount of ships, throw out the same old threats and then are inevitably defeated. That's really why I've only two Borg SRP episodes to my name, to date - and each has had a certain twist on the all-too-familiar tale. One of these was in the aborted third season of Asteroid Base.



Facing disbandment, the Starfleet Borg Task Force set out to prove it's relevance in light of a report of a Borg attack. With the Athena's help, they encountered fleeing refugees from an outer colony. The de facto leader of the group, known only as Kendra, was invited aboard the Athena to explain what had happened. But as it transpired, Kendra herself was something of a Borg sleeper drone and attempted to take over the ship. On a nearby world, the task force found what appeared to be the sparse remains of some kind of facility. Kendra was ultimately disabled and beamed in to space while the Athena was chased off by a Borg Sphere. No trace of either was ever found and the story faded away as AB: Alpha's crew were split up and the station destroyed. Only Tim Rogan (and now Lexi Etis) remain in the Accobar System from that time.



So here we are facing a new Borg threat - and whether there are any ties to what happened in 2384 remains to be seen. If I was going to build a storyline around the Borg then it had to be different. So we take out the idea of some Borg attack which is going to be foiled. We take out the invasion aspect. We throw in the Cylon-effect of concealment, deception and paranoia. We hold up the idea of weaponizing the Borg. We take existing threats which Accobar have faced and combine them with an established enemy... and then maybe, just maybe, we might be able to do something interesting. At a time when the galaxy is already teetering on the brink of conflict and the Klingons and the Romulans are heading to war - counting on the Federation to stand between them - we're completely throwing things up in the air.

It might not work, it might be a terrible idea. Perhaps anything Borg puts you off. Perhaps anything other than the traditional Borg threat puts you off. But then we still don't know what kind of threat the Alpha Quadrant now faces at Vega's hands. Maybe we'll have a better idea by the end of this finale, or maybe we won't. But it's setting up a different kind of series when we return for season six - and a change is gonna come.

[Martin Thompson]

Only Tim Rogan (and now Lexi Etis) remain in the Accobar System from that time.

I searched the records this week but was unable to find anything borg-related untill just now you mentioned the Athena heading up a Task Force. It was one of the last episode AB had, and I believe i did not attend that one, seeing as I never cast my vote on the (9/9 Excellent btw) poll. So even though Lexi 'was' there, I did have to read up on the episode info (thats why it was only vaguely familliar to me when i posted about it in last weeks discussion topic).

Anyway, you are correct, to do a good Borg plot you need to have something else (you need have... someone else?). I'm looking forward to how this all ties into whatever is on the surface of Accobar. See you all for the grande finale in 2 days!

[Grizz]

This is tomorrow - attendance permitting.

[Grizz]

This is today. Probably.