Seven of Nine

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heartsalonelyhunter:

As long as the character is smart and is well written- That’s why I didn’t have a problem with Seven of Nine’s skin tight suit on Voyager that a lot of people had a hard time with, because the character was not that. The character was the antithesis of what that physical appearance was. So for me if she was a ditz and she was portrayed like that then yea, that is incredibly gratuitous to me. But I don’t want half nudity, that to me no, that is gratuitous no matter what. There are very few reasons that I could see in a story that make nudity a necessity. But, skimpy costumes or tight costumes or showing your body and being sexy in that way as long as the character is smart and strong and a good portrayal of a woman, then I don’t necessarily have a problem with it.

Jeri Ryan

 

frontier001:

You know, I was a teenage boy in 1997 (barely) and I began watching “Voyager” because of the introduction of Seven of Nine.

But it was not because of boobs or an outfit.

No, because when they first added her, it was the concept of a Borg on board Voyager.

A freaking Borg drone! On the ship! All the time!

This was 8 months after “First Contact” had come out and totally enthralled me and swept me full well into being a fan of 24th century Trek. I was barely just dipping my big toe into things and I hear Voyager’s adding a Borg drone crewmember. Woah.

I remember talking with the only geeky friend in school I had about it. I remember taking in the issue of TVGuide to school to show him, with the first photos of the Borgified (no catsuit in sight) Jeri Ryan. The whole concept was just so brilliant and daring, in our 12-year-old opinions.

I remember being disappointed when I saw “The Gift” and how she was being de-Borged.

And while yes, I have to admit there was obviously some sexual appeal once all was said and done, I to this day still wish they had left her fully Borg for at least that first year. Gradually reducing the Borg tech maybe? But not just wham-bam, one episode and she’s a human with one or two remaining vestiges of drone left.

– frontier001

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[What Janeway did with Seven of Nine was unacceptable for a starfleet officer. She made decisions for someone of another species without their consent and knowing full well they would object to what she was doing.]

#WHO WROTE THIS#ARE YOU ME?#i agree with this so fucking hard this has bothered me since the 90s#seven of nine’s origin story is some the face on the milk carton shit#except she’s an ADULT#it’s completely reasonable tho to want to repatriate her#she was kidnapped and assimilated against her will and against the will of her parents#but seven has so little agency in all of her early arc it makes me sad#she doesn’t even get to pick how she does her hair (via mylittleredgirl)

Agree, I don’t think there’s an easy answer here. Like, it’s not as though Janeway deliberately stole Seven from the Borg, her ending up on Voyager was a side-effect of the conflict, but once she was there Janeway (and to a lesser extent the rest of the crew) seemed to have very specific ideas about what sort of individual Seven should become.

It reminds me a little of what really annoys me about Data’s stories – people constantly being like “this is the correct way to human” as if there’s only one.

If she’d been older when she was assimilated, I don’t think there would have been any question that removing her from the Collective was the right thing for her, but being Borg was basically all she knew, regardless of the fact that she became Borg involuntarily.

In a lot of ways I’m really glad Seven got to have Naomi as a friend – ok, maybe Naomi being so fascinated by Borg stuff is a bit creepy, but she’s the only person who actually showed an interest in Seven’s culture and didn’t try to make her disown it entirely.

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Anonymous asked: Can you write about seven finding a kitten on voyager and then naomi helping her hide it and look after it?

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mylittleredgirl:

“Ouch!” Naomi tucked her feet under herself and glared at the kitten, who looked rather put out that the toes he had been attacking were no longer in reach. 

“The animal requires rest now,” Seven said. “It should be sleeping.”

“Well tell him, not me,” Naomi said. “I was just sitting here.”

Seven looked at the wriggling beast with growing unease on her face. “The biological library information provided by the Antelorians clearly stated the amount of active play time required for a feline of this age, and this kitten has now exceeded that amount by seventeen minutes.” 

“It’s not a computer. I don’t think you can predict those things down to the minute.” A few years ago, Naomi might have hesitated before correcting Seven of Nine, tertiary adjunct of unimatrix zero-one, possessor of encyclopedic knowledge and an attitude that was… well, a little scary, before Naomi got to know her.

Seven glared at the kitten. The kitten apparently didn’t find her scary at all, because he ignored her and started pouncing on the edge of Naomi’s shadow. “I am not prepared to indulge the unscheduled whims of this life form,” she said. 

Naomi extended one foot again toward the kitten to give it something real to wrestle. It didn’t hurt that much. Then she got an idea: “If you don’t want it,” she said, turning her face up to Seven with the pleading look that had won her a spot on three recent Delta Flyer adventures, “you can tell the captain to take it away. It’s okay that I’ve never had a pet. I’m sure it’s not critical to my emotional development.”

“My research into early childhood development suggests that it is… beneficial to have a dependent lower life form present.”

Naomi grinned. She knew that someday she’d be able turn Seven of Nine’s library computer obsession to her advantage. “Okay. Can we name him Three of Three?” She indicated with her finger that the three of them were a complete unit. Having a pet was one thing, but having a pet with Seven of Nine was even better.

Seven looked like she was going to object, so Naomi made the face again.

Seven reached out one silver-tipped finger to stroke the kitten’s head. “I do not believe the captain will approve of our giving this creature a Borg designation, but… the captain does not need to know.”

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