SEVEN OF NINE

'Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One', often shortened to "Seven of Nine" or simply "Seven", played by Jeri Ryan, is a character in the television series ''. She is a human being who was assimilated by the Borg at an early age, and later rescued by the crew of ''Voyager'', whereupon she tried to regain her humanity. She sports several cybernetic implants which give her, among other abilities, superior visual acuity and the ability to sense when the Borg are nearby.
She is introduced in the fourth-season premiere, "".

Contents

Pre-assimilation

The Borg years

Disconnection

Personality

Attire

Key episodes

References

External links

Pre-assimilation

'Annika Hansen' was born in Tendara Colony, to Magnus and Erin Hansen, a pair of exobiologists. While searching for the Borg, the Hansens found a Borg transwarp corridor that allowed them to travel to the Delta Quadrant, on the other side of our galaxy. There they began extensively studying the Borg. One day while studying them their stealth technologies failed, causing them to be quickly discovered by the Borg. Annika was only 6 years of age when she and her parents were assimilated by the Borg on their own ship — the ''USS Raven'' (revealed in episode "The Raven").

The Borg years

At some point after her assimilation, Annika was given the Borg designation 'Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One'. The Borg Collective was all Seven of Nine knew, and they provided her with a sense of order.
During her time as a Borg, Seven helped to assimilate millions of individuals, something which would later cause her to experience feelings of sadness and remorse.

Disconnection

Seven's first appearance in ''Voyager'' was in the fourth season episode "", where she serves briefly as a representative of the Borg during an ill-fated ''Voyager'' alliance with the Borg, and Seven is abruptly disconnected from the hive mind. Commander Chakotay and Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres do this, under the orders of Captain Kathryn Janeway, to prevent Seven's betrayal and the ensuing assimilation of the ''Voyager'' crew. In the aftermath, though given the opportunity to be addressed once again as Annika Hansen, Seven chooses to retain her Borg designation, yet agrees to be referred to simply as ''Seven'' (in the episode ''Day of Honor'').
Following her disconnection, Seven finds in Janeway a mentor who helps her come to terms with her humanity, long-since diminished by the Borg. The Doctor also provides valuable guidance in enabling her to develop social skills, and thus blend in with the ''Voyager'' crew. The Doctor subsequently becomes enamored with Seven, but she does not reciprocate these feelings.
Her character's storyline takes an unexpected turn in the final episodes of the series: she pursues a relationship with Commander Chakotay, after running simulations with a holographic Chakotay.

Personality

Despite Seven's personality seeming to be Vulcan-like, there are differences, some subtle and others not. At times she shows paradoxical displays of arrogance, warmth, passion, and vulnerability, and the customary curtness of her background as a Borg drone.
Seven's mode of speech is also subtly distinctive, with her vocabulary and word usage being reflective of her cyborg heritage. Her speech rarely contains contractions. This characteristic also served to highlight the android nature of Lt. Cmdr. Data in ''.
Seven has a tendency to use highly mechanistic, strict binary (or absolutist) logic. She is largely incapable of perceiving "shades of gray" — something is strictly one way or entirely another. Things were never described in emotional or relativistic terms. The Borg broadly define topics into two categories: relevant or irrelevant.
In the episode "The Omega Directive" it is shown that Seven of Nine may be, in fact, one of the smartest humans in existence due to the fact of her long years as a Borg drone. This is revealed when she has a conversation with Harry Kim.
Seven later undergoes surgery to modify one of her implants. This allows her to properly use emotions.

Attire

After her recovery from the Borg, Seven initially wore a tight silver catsuit with an elaborate underwire system that emphasized her figure. The silver color also had some similarity to the metallic look of a Borg Drone, although it was a much lighter shade.
Later in the series, the silver catsuit was replaced with somewhat more discreet dark red, purple, and blue catsuits. The only exceptions to this are seen in "Relativity" (Starfleet uniform), "The Killing Game" (1940s-era civilian clothing), "Someone to Watch Over Me" (futuristic but elegant dress), "Unimatrix Zero" (pink shirt, grey pants), "Human Error" (elegant dress and Starfleet uniform, both holodeck recreations), "Equinox, Part II" (sundress), and "Workforce" (futuristic professional attire).
The character's attire was criticized by veteran Star Trek writer/producer Ronald D. Moore, who felt she should have a more Borg-like appearance.^[1] Her outfit also annoyed some who felt that it was an attempt by the show's creators to make her sexually appealing to male viewers, without any storyline purpose.^[2]

Key episodes

Seven plays a central role in the following episodes:

★ '' - Seven's first appearance. She acts as a Borg representative and becomes disconnected from the hive mind.

★ '' - Seven experiences flashbacks about a raven as she unknowingly seeks out the ship from where she was assimilated.

★ '' - Seven believes she has been violated by a visiting alien, and she seeks revenge.

★ ''The Killing Game'' - In a deadly holodeck recreation of World War II, Seven helps the Doctor win back Voyager from the hands of the Hirogen.

★ ''The Omega Directive'' - Seven helps Captain Janeway destroy the volatile - but 'perfect' - Omega molecules.

★ '' - A dangerous nebula means that the crew - except for Seven and the Doctor - must go into stasis, and Seven struggles to cope without the company of others.

★ '' - A transporter accident causes Seven's nanoprobes to assimilate the Doctor's mobile emitter, and a new drone begins to mature. Seven acts as guide and mentor to the new drone.

★ ''Infinite Regress'' - A range of different personalities whom Seven assimilated begin to re-emerge in her.

★ ''Dark Frontier'' - The Borg Queen tries to reassimilate Seven into the collective. The episode also follows five-year-old Annika Hansen (Seven) and her parents before they were assimilated by the Borg.

★ '' - Seven is recruited by an alien group of deep thinkers, for her brain skills.

★ '' - The Doctor coaches Seven in the ways of human dating.

★ '' - Seven is recruited by Captain Braxton of the Timeship Relativity, to seek out and capture a temporal terrorist.

★ ''Survival Instinct'' - Three Borg from Seven's past appear, who ask to be completely separated from the collective.

★ ''The Voyager Conspiracy'' - Seven suspects that there is a conspiracy going on aboard Voyager, and Janeway and Chakotay begin to investigate one another.

★ ''Tsunkatse'' - Seven is forced to fight in a brutal martial arts contest for entertainment.

★ '' - Voyager encounters a Borg cube populated only by four children; Seven takes them under her wing and severs their link to the Borg Collective.

★ ''Unimatrix Zero'' - Seven dreams about her former respite when she was a Borg.

★ ''Imperfection'' - After her cortical node begins to malfunction, Seven faces her own death.

★ '' - The Doctor is forced to inhabit Seven's body.

★ '' - Seven practices her social skills on the holodeck.

References

1. http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/tv/moore_voyager_001207.html ''Space.com''
2. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,289484,00.html ''Ew.com''

External links

★ Official Star Trek bio