Seven begins her life on Voyager with a subdued request. She asks Chakotay for a duty assignment in engineering in a low, soft, almost meek voice. Chakotay agrees, and B'Elanna Torres, the chief Engineer is not happy about it. Thus begins their rocky relationship.
Janeway asks Seven of Nine how she would like to be addressed, offering her her given name, Annika Hansen. Seven of Nine responds with a modicum of concern, saying that she has been Seven of Nine for as long as she can remember. Janeway concedes by offering to call her just "Seven" which, as you can see, I have already begun doing, and it was likely an unnecessary scene to add, as it would seem like a natural transition. Seven deems the designation "imprecise but acceptable." She seems to be getting some of her Borg arrogance back.
B'Elanna makes no secret that she does like Seven from the very beginning. As they are working together in Engineering, Voyager encounters a ship that needs their assistance. Most of their resources and people were destroyed by the Borg. B'Elanna asks Seven in a hostile tone whether she feels any guilt for the billions of lives she helped destroy. Seven evaluates the question and responds with a decisive "no." She senses the friction, however, and excuses herself to go wait in her alcove until she is needed.
Later in the episode she shows herself to be practically immune to the way others treat her, with disdain, disgust, anger, and even fear: she still perceives the world like a Borg drone, although she does admit to Janeway she is finding it difficult to integrate into Voyager's crew. She even offers to give herself up to the aliens when they become hostile and are holding Voyagers warp core hostage, but Janeway begins her long crusade of trying to integrate Seven into the family by refusing to let her go. Later, Seven single handedly saves the day by using her knowledge to help make the damaged alien ship self-sufficient, and Janeway very cheesily lauds her for her first "unexpected act of kindness."
*Costume Update* In this episode, Seven of Nine wears a shiny silver suit with raglan-type sleeves and a mock-turtle neck.
17 September 1997
10 September 1997
The Gift
The Gift
The episode The Gift comes immediately after the conclusion of Scorpion, Part II. Janeway and the Doctor make the difficult decision to operate on Seven of Nine in order to save her life by removing her Borg implants, despite the fact they strongly suspect she will not be pleased to become human again. They were right. She is disdainful of the inefficient way that Voyager operates.
At the same time, Kes begins to transform into some higher being, which causes major problems with the ship when she begins to break down her surroundings beyond the sub-atomic level. As the Captain says, "I've got an Ocampa who wants to become something more and a Borg who's afraid of becoming something less."
Seven, after having many many temper tantrums about feeling alone, small, and weak separated from the collective, and after attacking Ensign Harry Kim and contacting the collective, has been temporarily subdued. 83% of her Borg implants are removed and she begins to accept the inevitability of her situation once we (finally!) lose Kes at the end of the episode when she hurls the ship about 9,000 light years safely away from the Borg, and away from herself. Seven tentatively thanks Janeway and the Doctor for their efforts and pronounces her new, extremely form-fitting suit to be "sufficient." A note on the suit: although the costume designer admits that the whole point of Seven and her suit was to sex up the flailing Star Trek series, the form fitting design can almost be justified if we all just pretend it was made that way to help heal her skin after all the implant removal.
The episode The Gift comes immediately after the conclusion of Scorpion, Part II. Janeway and the Doctor make the difficult decision to operate on Seven of Nine in order to save her life by removing her Borg implants, despite the fact they strongly suspect she will not be pleased to become human again. They were right. She is disdainful of the inefficient way that Voyager operates.
At the same time, Kes begins to transform into some higher being, which causes major problems with the ship when she begins to break down her surroundings beyond the sub-atomic level. As the Captain says, "I've got an Ocampa who wants to become something more and a Borg who's afraid of becoming something less."
Seven, after having many many temper tantrums about feeling alone, small, and weak separated from the collective, and after attacking Ensign Harry Kim and contacting the collective, has been temporarily subdued. 83% of her Borg implants are removed and she begins to accept the inevitability of her situation once we (finally!) lose Kes at the end of the episode when she hurls the ship about 9,000 light years safely away from the Borg, and away from herself. Seven tentatively thanks Janeway and the Doctor for their efforts and pronounces her new, extremely form-fitting suit to be "sufficient." A note on the suit: although the costume designer admits that the whole point of Seven and her suit was to sex up the flailing Star Trek series, the form fitting design can almost be justified if we all just pretend it was made that way to help heal her skin after all the implant removal.
03 September 1997
Seven of Nine
I'm going to go ahead and unabashedly geek out for a bit. I love Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager. She's one of the most interesting token "outsider" characters that Star Trek has come up with. Don't get me wrong, I love Data, but Seven actually has emotions. Not to mention she's way more hot. So I've always wanted to be able to read about her evolution, but nobody has geeked out enough to chronicle it. That's where I come in.
Scorpion
Seven of Nine, tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01, is introduced to us at the beginning of Season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager in the continuation of the last episode from Season 3, in a two-part episode titled Scorpion, Parts I and II. She is the Borg drone assigned to act as a liaison between the individually minded crew of Voyager and the rest of the Borg collective when they forge a temporary alliance to fight Species 8472. She manages to stay in cargo bay 2 when Chakotay orders it decompressed because the Borg are trying to assimilate Voyager after their alliance has ended. She is eventually severed from the collective and incapacitated, and Janeway decides to keep her on board, since her human physiology is reasserting itself, and she would die without medical treatment; and they obviously don't want to wander back to Borg space to take her back. Thus begins season 4. As a Borg drone she speaks in the third person: "We are Borg." She also lets the crew know that the Borg, and therefore herself, consider Star Fleet tactics to be inefficient and divisive. She comes off as rude, although that could just be the standard Borg efficiency--after all, there is no time for emotions.
Scorpion
Seven of Nine, tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01, is introduced to us at the beginning of Season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager in the continuation of the last episode from Season 3, in a two-part episode titled Scorpion, Parts I and II. She is the Borg drone assigned to act as a liaison between the individually minded crew of Voyager and the rest of the Borg collective when they forge a temporary alliance to fight Species 8472. She manages to stay in cargo bay 2 when Chakotay orders it decompressed because the Borg are trying to assimilate Voyager after their alliance has ended. She is eventually severed from the collective and incapacitated, and Janeway decides to keep her on board, since her human physiology is reasserting itself, and she would die without medical treatment; and they obviously don't want to wander back to Borg space to take her back. Thus begins season 4. As a Borg drone she speaks in the third person: "We are Borg." She also lets the crew know that the Borg, and therefore herself, consider Star Fleet tactics to be inefficient and divisive. She comes off as rude, although that could just be the standard Borg efficiency--after all, there is no time for emotions.
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