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Nice analysis of Sevens character development.

I always get confused between this episode and 'Drone.' I don't think I've actually seen this one all the way through.

You know, I heard it said that this episode is about the triumph of Seven's newfound individuality over her Borg nature, choosing to sacrifice herself instead of several crew members but... self-sacrifice for the good of the Collective seems an awfully Borg-ish thing to do.

That actually impresses me. That Seven rarely denies being a Borg but is able to keep some of the best qualities of her, for lack of a better word, "culture" while denying the need to assimilate everything. It reminds me of everything they wanted to acheive with Worf, showing that today's enemies can be tomorrow's friends.

It totally detracted from the Borg as villains though, it made them more human and less unstoppable forces of nature, but Voyager destroyed the Borg's credibility as villains anyway and it had nothing to do with Seven. That much, this tiny bit of the show at least, I can approve of.

Ahriman238 wrote: It totally detracted from the Borg as villains though, it made them more human and less unstoppable forces of nature, but Voyager destroyed the Borg's credibility as villains anyway and it had nothing to do with Seven. That much, this tiny bit of the show at least, I can approve of.

Not really. It reminded me of much of First Contact, and the post BoBW TNG, where Picard had to deal with the aftermath of his time as Locutus. It's not mutually exclusive to have the Borg as an inhuman force of nature, but at the same time showing people like Picard and Seven, who were enslaved of and part of that culture, having to come to terms with it and their newfound humanity. It's the sort of storyline where Star Trek tends to really shine it's best, really (In the Pale Moonlight, BoBW, I Borg, The Thaw, Tuvix, etc.)