I, Excretus
The Cerritos is visited by Shari yn Yem, an official from Starfleet who is there to test the crew through individual holopod drills. The lower decks and bridge crew are forced to change places. They are all fairly confident that they can manage but with one exception they all fail miserably. Boimler is the exception bur he keeps repeating the same test, one in which he faces off against the Borg by himself. His score keeps incrementally increasing but he isn't satisfied and keeps going over and over.
Shari reveals that they have all failed miserably. She is just waiting for Boimler to finish his testing but his success won't change anything. Captain Freeman and her crew scare the tester by heading straight for a Crystalline Entity and when that doesn't scare the tester enough they next head for a temporal black hole.
There are quite a few references to episodes from the original series, the Next Generation, and at least one movie. Excretus was Boimler's Borg name. I could make a laundry list of episodes from earlier series that were referenced in this episode.
This episode was a lot of fun. I loved how Boimler kept repeating the test but then when he more or less had it beat was forced to stay in the holopod and had his score reduced from 100% to 8%.
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