Editing Borg Cooperative (section)

==Decisive action==

Horrified by the chaos around them, the cooperative planned to force the disparate races on the planet to live in harmony by re-establishing the neural link between all of the former Borg on the planet, recreating the collective. The cooperative believed this new collective would not be dominated by the Borg desire to assimilate other races and that it would be able to cooperate and solve problems to build a new society.

In order to reestablish the collective, the group planned to reactivate the neuroelectric generator on the abandoned cube and redirect it toward the planet. Within a few minutes this would generate a strong enough neuroelectric field to link all of the former Borg into a new collective.

However, the members of the cooperative had no means of returning to their starship. When [[Rank|Commander]] Chakotay of the USS Voyager crash-landed on their [[planet]], they were finally given the opportunity they needed.

Chakotay helped them repair their communications array after they healed him of a serious head wound by briefly linking him to the cooperative's mini-collective.

On returning to Voyager, he explained their plan to use the abandoned Borg cube to bring all the planet's inhabitants into a new collective mind and so stop the war. Although applauding the ideals behind the idea, Captain Janeway refused to allow the plan to proceed.

Using their communications array, the cooperative took over Chakotay's mind using a residual link between him and the members of the cooperative. They forced him to go to the Borg cube, where he restored power to the neuroelectric generator.