Borg Sphere

• Janeway and Korok, onboard the Borg sphere, battle the Borg Queen on Voyager.
• Janeway outmaneuvers the Queen, who is then incapacitated by Icheb's pathogen. Voyager's engines and weapons are deactivated.
• The awakened Bedlam world being destroys the Madborg cube, then attacks the sphere. The sphere is destroyed.
• Janeway and the Free Borg beam to the Best, where they join the fight against the Madborg and turn the tables against them.

 

Bedlam's surface

• The Away Team beams down and explores the planet's incredible surface. Primitive locals converge, growling...and attack the Away Team.
• The Away Team fights the locals...who flee when the Madborg beam down and attack the Away Team themselves.
• The Away Team fights the Madborg, who fight with erratic, un-Borglike ferocity. (More hand-to-hand combat, verbal outbursts, unpredictability.)
• The Away Team kills two of the Madborg. While tussling with the third, Seven is surprised to see that it's Axum. He takes advantage of her surprise and moves in for the kill.
• Chakotay incapacitates Axum just in time and saves Seven's life. They decide to move him to a cave.
• In the cave, Seven tends Axum's injuries. She removes a bizarre implant from his skull, unlike any Borg device she's seen. The implant is what made him a Madborg.
• Free of the Madborg's influence, Axum wakes and explains how he came to be there...that he traveled through a nearby transwarp hub (the one from "Endgame," actually) to join with Korok and seek an alliance with the Bedlamites, only to be attacked and assimilated by the Madborg. He reveals that the Day of Reckoning is supposed to be that very day.
• Seven and Axum share a moment as Chakotay steps outside to contact Voyager. Axum says he really missed Seven, and one of the reasons he came to the Delta Quadrant was to look for her. Seven says it's strange to meet him face to face, in his Borg form, after so many encounters in Unimatrix Zero, in which they were free of Borg implants...and in which they were never truly physically together. He reaches out to touch her face...and Chakotay runs back in, weapon drawn, fleeing the Madborg. He tells them that they have to go deeper into the caves.
• Chakotay, Seven, Axum, Chell and Dalby move into the caves. They detect a huge chamber ahead, and follow their tricorder readings to it. They emerge into a vast cavern holding a glittering underground city...the hidden Bedlamite civilization.
• The Away Team wanders into the city. They say "Maybe the idea of these people attacking the Borg isn't so unbelievable after all." Then, a group of Bedlamites converges on the Away Team, growling as if they're about to attack. They spring...
• Instead of attacking the Away Team, the Bedlamites leap over and around them and pounce on a Madborg emerging from around a corner. They all pile onto the Madborg, silently...and he drops to the ground, succumbing to a psychic assault by their organic collective. As they leave the twitching, subdued body on the ground, their tiger-striped leader removes his fur and reveals his true form...silvery, translucent, shimmering skin.
• Zenya, the leader of the Bedlamites, reveals that the Bedlamites are actually the Imic, disguised as the original Bedlamites to avoid assimilation by the Borg. He describes the collective link of his people, which evolved since their arrival on Bedlam. (Ironically, since they came there to flee the Borg Collective.) What happened to the original Bedlamites? Quakes follow the question.
• Quakes rock the underground city. The Away Team wants to know what's going on. Zenya reaches into the collective link, seeking information, and Imic on the surface describe powerful shifts of the planet-covering organisms. Then, a stronger force interposes itself on the link. He shakes violently and screams.
• Zenya seems to fall into a trance, under outside control. Imic assemble from all around and advance as one on the Away Team. Zenya explains that Bedlam itself now speaks and thinks and acts through him, and all the Imic. The massive organisms covering the world are the true Bedlamites, merged and transformed over the centuries into a planetary consciousness...and they have altered and developed the Imic, as well. Now, it is time to rise up as promised ages ago and exterminate all Borg...starting with the Borg among the Away Team...namely, Seven and Axum.
• Chakotay, Chell and Dalby surround Seven and Axum with weapons ready...and Chakotay tries to convince the Imic to spare their lives. Bedlam and the Imic decide to probe Seven and Axum's minds...and the painful probe leads the two to scream in agony.
• Bedlam and the Imic agree to spare Seven and Axum, claiming that their ability to experience love for another individual signifies their freedom from the Collective. (His love is for her, but they won't say who hers is directed at.) The Imic and their adopted planet turn their attentions outward, looking for Borg to kill.
• The world being lashes out at the Madborg cube, crippling it.
• The planet attacks Korok's sphere.