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.

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