Which is why I’ve never understood the people saying she shouldn’t have joined the Rangers. It makes total sense to me, she’d feel she could do better absolving her soul by helping people directly rather than going through the ranks. (Starfleet refusal or no!)
@@mbpaintballa It might not be perfect but it certainly better than anything we've currently got going on, it's the closest to Utopia We could probably ever achieve
That moment at the end is a great one, "I can't forgive you for what you've done, but I understand why" sometimes understanding is the important part of healing and knowing whether the pain was your fault or even could have been prevented.
She didn't become a child when disconnected, she became an individual borg just like the others with a hybrid individual and borg personality. The others had strong adult personalities that were able to present themselves where 7 did not. She had a child individual personality that couldn't deal with the conflict and retreated to the borg personality for protection. Thats why I think this wasn't her fault, she still had borg instincts driving her and it scared her child personality into submission.
I was going to post this, but then I saw yours. I think you may have phrased it more clearly then I probably would have though. So, I agree with your reasoning. :)
Seems to me that Seven's entire journey has been about finding family. As a child, her last human memory was of her parents being ripped away from her. In the collective, her parents were still there, and the collective itself was a family. This is why when the scout ship crashed, she fought hard to return the others, and herself to the collective. She let them go, but she herself returned to her family. On Voyager, she found a new family. One that was more free. Her connection with Picard and Raffi came about from a desire to bring individuals into her life (I'm guessing when Janeway was promoted to admiral, and with Seven being seen as a Borg by Starfleet, they were forcibly separated). As a ranger, she had let go of all that. She didn't want to be alone, but she couldn't find anything else to do, and felt separated from her family. Raffi being in Starfleet allowed her, reluctantly, to join them, not realising that Raffi being in Intelligence, and Starfleet preferring to keep family members separated, would lead to more isolation. She probably hoped to find a new family on the Titan, but Shaw's PTSD prevented that. She did manage to form a degree of friendship with some of the crew (LaForge), but it was still tough. Just my thoughts.
@@JohnSmith-xq1pz you got a point there. They were infected by that virus in the DS9 episode. Though I would like to see this to believe it. It is a concept that is never seen in show or cannon to my knowledge.
Episodes like that really cemented what good character writing could be for me when I watched Voyager growing up, we all know what the "right" thing to do might be but people are more complicated than that, and a well-written character is a person while they're on the screen/page/etc
I'm trying to remember any moment of self-sacrifice on 7's part, when she wasn't all about self survival? Yeah, she did good stuff in the Rangers but when it meant her life?
I wrote a blog on the episode, “Someone To Watch Over Me” a few years back. This is the episode where Seven tries to learn romantic love and dating. After thinking long and hard on this one I came to the conclusion that Seven of Nine and Annikah are 2 seperate people that tend to cross over, much like Jack the narattor and Tyler Durden in Fight Club. Not exactly but in the same realm. You have Annikah the 6-year-old girl and Seven of Nine a grown Borg drone. Her adult side is all Borg while her human side is that of a child. When Seven's access to the collective is finally severed by the collective at the end of her Borg run and her service begins aboard Voyager the human version of Seven is a mashup of both Annikah the child and Seven the Borg into this new Seven Borg/human hybrid. My only real disappointment in the character is they could have done way mre with this. Granted it was the late 90s, so this is all resrospective but I thought it was an interesting thing to write about. Romantism of a Borg converted to Human, as most of her human self, personality wise, is that of a little child, not an adult, and then forced to be Borg. No she was a child from the start. Nightmares are always more scary to a child, especially if that nightmare is a real, live one... Here is the link to the blog if anyone is curious at my take on Seven and love : mineofilms.me/70-2/
I don't think she can be held responsible for her actions here. the term diminished responsibility springs to mind, she may have technically been disconnected from the collective but their hold over her was still strong. she had hardly even started to assert her individuality.
@@michaelwautraets7126 The cool factor? Is that really the best answer? I'm not asking about why the show creators made that decision. I'm asking why the Borg in universe make such unwieldy ocular implants.
@@kaitlyn__L toucher. I'm sure who ever would have found them, wouldn't had disintegrated them on the spot for being borg drones, disected them for their nano probes or just plainly never showed up. But I must admit: you are right.
@@momo9594 yeah I mean, death was a possibility, certainly. But space is pretty busy in Star Trek, and remember they didn’t get instamurdered when they escaped the second time to seek deborgification surgery
This are one of the many reasons why I can't empathize with the Borg at all. Even if most of the drones are victims, I can't see them as nothing but villains. They are evil.
Hey she basically just lobotomized 3 other borg. We ever said what happened to her relationship with Commander Chakote? I mean other than being erased by bad kurtz trek writers so she could go full lezie for the addict?
@@kaitlyn__L 😁 The place I used to work would bring in pizza for some lunch-hour meetings, so there was often leftover pizza available in the coffee areas afterwards. After some time went by, there were often two or three entire vegetarian pizzas left unwanted. I often took one home and added more marinara sauce, more shredded mozzarella, and laid down Italian salami on each slice. Then I'd put two slices per zip-loc bag into my freezer. What a great deal! Perfect lunch to take back to work, and it worked great in the toaster oven.
@@netgnostic1627 ah, the ones covered and veggies? I don’t even like dislike veg in most situations, but more than a couple on a pizza makes it way too soggy. your alteration sounds good though
