She gives it up pretty quickly, too, to the point where later ‘but will she rejoin the Borg?’ threats are pretty toothless.
(Is it any wonder DS9 and I are BFFs?)Įvery ‘reclaim your humanness!’ bit I saw back then seemed like it never quite gave Seven’s resistance a full shake, nor did anyone really concede that, you know, she’s making a really good point.
No lie, I’m a big enough nerd that I one wrote a college paper about how Star Trek‘s ‘humanity is the best!’ attitude really sticks in my craw. The second reason had less to do with her, and more that her presence turned everyone around her into the pro-humanity cheerleading squad. (See also: Enterprise‘s Sex Vulcan - and boy, is that a show I’m not doing a Skip It/Watch It for. Her core design was just so obviously someone’s masturbatory fantasy put on display to attract straight male viewers that I was uncomfortable as a young person, and I’m still more than a little uncomfortable now. Like, I understand how a plain bodysuit is a reasonably unfrivolous outfit, but really if they’d rescued a boy Borg instead, do you think they would’ve put him in a silver suit so tight you could see his balls?Īnd there’s nothing in the universe practical about those heels. One of the reasons was, I will admit now, semi-petty: she was pretty, but she wasn’t just pretty, she was Space Magic Barbie, who had been dressed not only in a tight suit, but in a tight suit specifically made to corset her as prominently possible - and made absolutely no practical sense, to boot. She first appeared on the show when I was sixteen years old, and I felt she was about the worst thing Voyager had going for it. You May Also Like.She! Cannot! Be! Stopped! Once again, Whitney Bishop is venturing into dark terrain - albeit dark terrain featuring a sexy Borg lady. They will meet many foes and many obstacles along the way, but they will also bond as a crew, between those of the Maquis and those of Starfleet. However, after the destruction of the device that transported them to the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager and the crew of the Maquis ship must join together to fight their way back to their home in the Alpha quadrant, which is many years away.
While chasing a renegade Maquis ship in the Badlands, the USS Voyager and the Maquis ship they are chasing are pulled into a vortex, which sends them instantly to the Delta Quadrant. Seven must do this without making the crew suspicious about her actions, as they may see her as a traitor. Seven, now aware of the Hirogen presence, must work to defeat them, while the other Voyager crew are convinced the conflict is real. However, when Seven is wounded, the Doctor uses her Borg implants to alert her to the real situation going on. The Doctor is forced to treat the wounded crew, in order to keep the Hirogen prey alive. Stardate: Unknown The Hirogen take over Voyager, implant neural implant into the crew, and then use them in WWII battle simulations, where the Voyager crew act as the Allied force and the Hirogens act as the German force.