Trivia / Star Trek: Voyager S3E25 S4E1 "Scorpion"

• Author's Saving Throw: This was an apology for "Unity" failing to live up to the hype of the return of the Borg, as Jeri Taylor admitted in the May 10-16, 1997 issue of TV Guide:
  Taylor hopes the May 21 cliffhanger (part 2 airs in late August) will "keep the audience from feeling cheated" by the Borg's Voyager appearance in February's much hyped, but ultimately disappointing, episode called "Unity", which was really more about a band of ex-Borg drones. Admits Taylor, "we were concerned that maybe that wasn't a big enough dose for the viewers, so we dropped the two-parter we had planned, and decided to write an all-out, slam-bang, Borg-as-villain adventure.
• What Could Have Been: Harry Kim was originally going to die from his injuries — Seven of Nine was meant to replace him, not Kes. He was saved because Garrett Wang was named one of People Magazine's most beautiful men. Or so it was originally said. It later came out that Lien had been suffering from mental health issues that affected both her personal and work life. Therefore, it's unclear at best how much of the story about Harry Kim supposedly being the one that was going to be written off is actually true.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: This episode and plot was made very last minute in an effort to ride the popularity of Star Trek: First Contact. The intended two-parter season finale was going to be "Year of Hell" and was pushed back to be produced in season four. They had also written the plot and cliffhanger with little idea how it would be resolved, though set up the idea of Kim's death. Notably this was similar to TNG's big Borg episode "The Best of Both Worlds" and how it was set up to lead to the death of Picard.

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