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.