How old is seven of nine

The Federation is first exposed to the Borg in Q Who? This puts Seven and her parents being assimilated 9 years before the Borg and the Federation were introduced. But if this was the case, then the Borg would have "been aware" of the Federation prior to Q Who? Reflecting upon events in Ten Forward with Picard, Guinan says that the encounter with the Borg happened before it should have, and for the moment, the Borg are only capable of seeing the Federation as "raw material to them".

And because they are now, Guinan begins, "aware of our existence," "they will be coming," Picard continues. Guinan ominously says, "You can bet on it.

The only explanation that keeps these details from countering each other is that the Borg had been attacking the Federation prior to Q Who? Therefore, the only remaining explanation is that Seven lied about her age for some reason. If this is the case, then how old is Seven of Nine really? I can find no instance in which the Federation or the Hansens knew what they would be investigating.

After a great deal of persuasion, the Federation granted the Hansens the use of the USS Raven, a small long range craft, to aid them in their investigation. As exobiologists one could presume they would be interested in all alien life forms.

They happen to stumble upon the Borg and chase it down via the transwarp conduit. I don't see anywhere where they sent data back to the Federation. One could also speculate that someone as brilliant as Magnus who invented the multi-adaptive shielding could have wiped all records of the Federation from the databank thus leaving no where for the Borg to go looking for the Federation.

Regardless, there's no way to know if Guinan was aware of that the Borg were aware of the Federation, just that Q had messed with the timeline which she can tell with her ' powers '. If she knew that the Borg should encounter the Federation after the date that Q intervened, all she can say is "Now they know we exist", not "Now they know we exist, and I'm certain they didn't before".

If the Raven being assimilated is in check with the timeline, she won't be aware of it. There's an episode of Enterprise "Regeneration" that makes the Borg's attacks on the Federation part of a chronological paradox; Borg from First Contact are reactivated after being found in Antarctic wreckage, assimilate a transport ship, and make a beeline for the Delta quadrant. The Enterprise manages to destroy them while never getting much information on them, but the Borg get a signal out before they're destroyed, which should reach the Delta quadrant in a couple of centuries.

That signal is why the Borg were headed so far out of their way toward Federation space in the first place -- though the disappearing bases along the Neutral Zone meant to be foreshadowing of the Borg early in TNG have always been an inconsistency -- presumably since the signal said that the Federation is both a desirable target and should be assimilated before they become too strong.

The brief encounter the 22nd century Enterprise had with the Borg, as well as contact with Borg survivors like El-Aurians Guinan's race, whose firsthand knowledge of the Borg was also limited according to Guinan's description: they were not present for their homeworld's assimilation, they were probably offworld and got reports of what happened and fled as far as they could in the 23rd century segment of Star Trek Generations, clearly indicate SOME Federation awareness of the Borg, just not the details.

The Hansens were curious and went to research them based on this information. Once assimilated, the Borg probably noted humans as a technologically significant species but not a priority one, presumably focusing on more advanced or biologically interesting races, or ones closer to their own space, until the signal arrived and made humanity a higher priority. What's confusing about Seven's age is that she was 6 when assimilated, then placed in a Borg maturation chamber to make her into an adult, and she says in several episodes that she was part of the collective for 20 years.

Even if she was in the chamber for 5 years and you count that as part of the time, physical maturity plus 15 years makes her definitely older than 24 and presumably older than the actress, Jeri Ryan, who was 29 when the character was introduced.

Of course it all just boils down to sloppy writing. Writers concerned with the needs of an episode or film over franchise continuity kept changing everything about the Borg only assimilating technology to assimilating people as well, being a collective entity with no figurehead to having a queen , taking a year to travel 7, light years to traveling almost instantly all over the galaxy via transwarp conduits, etc.

Sign up to join this community. She plugs herself into the cube becoming the Borg Queen and destroying the Romulan forces aboard the cube.

She and the Borg, like Data, Soji, and the synthetics, interrogate what it means to be human — and the limits of that humanity. And as history has shown time and again, who gets to be seen as human is determined by those in power; currently, the sitting U. As a child, Seven was taken to the Delta Quadrant by her parents who were exobiologists studying the Borg. For three years, her parents trailed, observed, and tagged the Borg aboard one cube, all in the name of science.

One day, they got too close, their cloaking failed, and all three were assimilated. Seven was around six years old at the time and her family might have been the first humans assimilated into the Borg. As part of her five-year dual maturation and assimilation, she had parts of herself stripped away and replaced with cybernetic enhancements.

One of her eyes was replaced and her body was filled with technology including in her hands, hips, and brain. It seems that most assimilated people experience extreme pain and fear in the moments when they wait to become Borg and it seems the same was true for Seven. Once a drone out of the maturation chamber, though, we know that Seven, like other Borg, became compliant and connected to the hive mind.

The queerness and transness of it all is staggering. Transgender, nonbinary, and queer people have our bodies claimed and labeled when we are young — like the Borg assimilating Seven.

The surgeries forced on intersex infants are one example of how the gender binary is enforced, and refusing trans teens access to binders, hormone blockers, and other means of harnessing and manifesting our gender identities is another.

Adults who jokingly ask children if they have any crushes of only one gender is one example of enforced heteronormativity, while disallowing queer kids to bring their dates to prom would be another. But for 18 years, Seven of Nine lives as a Borg, humming with the connectivity and unity of the hive mind while she enacts the same violence done to her onto others who are assimilated. Captain Janeway, acting as the long reach of the Federation, authorizes the Doctor to remove the cybernetic implants that they both know Seven would not elect to have removed.

As someone with two names, two ways of being addressed and perceived in the world, I get it. In the same way that trans and nonbinary folks are never the same — and in reality, no person nor their relationship to their gender identity is the same — after having a fixed heterocentric gender binary forced onto our bodies and consciousness, so, too, is Seven never the same after she leaves the Borg.

Who we become after living through the hyper-enforcement of the gender binary, even if we can find ways to live in our true genders and sexualities, is never the same person who could have existed before. We can never be the child who was not assimilated into heteronormativity and neither can Seven. As she adjusts to her new self and her new identity, Seven is tutored on aka pressured into romance and relationships. Both the Doctor and Janeway want her to have normal human connections, to date, maybe one day to marry.

And, she tries. She pursues romances, even ones that make literally no sense. Janeway and the rest of the crew just want to give Seven back what she lost. These turned out to be personalities of individuals assimilated by Seven, and it was soon made clear the malfunctions in her implants were precisely what Species wished to inflict on the rest of the Collective. The personalities began to take over Seven, and her own individuality was lost.

Tuvok was able to use a mind meld to retrieve Seven's consciousness and the vinculum was deactivated. VOY : " Infinite Regress ". In , Voyager 's crew was forced to abandon ship after hitting a subspace mine. They were rescued by rogue elements of the Quarren , and had their identities reassigned in order to supply labor and fill a shortage on the Quarren homeworld.

The entire crew, except Chakotay, Kim, and Neelix, who were away on the Delta Flyer , had their memories of Voyager erased and false memories of terrible conditions on their homeworlds implanted. Seven started to use her real name, Annika Hansen, and was given a job as an efficiency monitor in a power distribution plant, working with several other Voyager crew members including Captain Janeway, Tuvok, and B'Elanna Torres.

Her Borg desire for perfection made her perfectly suited for the job, and she was often overzealous in chastising workers. The identity reassignment did not completely work on Tuvok, though, and he began to remember his former life, including Seven of Nine. He mind-melded with her, causing memories of her life on Voyager and as a drone to resurface.

She believed there was a connection to the disappearance of Torres, who had been rescued by the remaining Voyager crew, and Annika later learned that Tuvok had accessed files of most of the Voyager crew, including Janeway, Torres, and herself.

This led her to realize the inconsistency that many new workers from the same species began work on the same day, which was unusual during a labor shortage. Additionally, they were all brought through the neuropathology division, although none of the workers remembered this. Her suspicions were dismissed and explained as an outbreak of Dysphoria Syndrome.

Annika was undaunted, and later visited the neuropathology division complaining of the flashbacks in order to access their computer system. While there, she discovered the Dysphoria Syndrome outbreak was actually a cover-up masterminded by a Quarren doctor called Kadan , to hide the fact that Voyager 's crew and many others had been abducted. This confirmed the story Chakotay had told to Captain Janeway, and Annika and a Quarren official, Yerid , went to the hospital to prevent Kadan from using the reassignment technique on Chakotay and Tuvok.

They succeeded, and the entire Voyager crew was transported back to the ship. The Doctor was successful in restoring the identities of the entire crew. Sometime after Voyager returned from the Delta Quadrant, Seven joined the Fenris Rangers , a peacekeeping force that operated along the Romulan Neutral Zone , where she worked closely with a woman named Bjayzl. Unbeknownst to Seven, however, Bjayzl was a black market dealer in Borg parts taken from former drones, also known as " xBs ", and had infiltrated the Rangers to get close to Seven.

In , Bjayzl lured Icheb into an ambush while he was on a reconnaissance mission for the Rangers near Daimanta. She arranged for him to be taken to the Seven Domes facility on Vergessen , where his implants were brutally removed from him without any anesthetic, or even the small mercy of death. In anguish, Seven, who considered Icheb as a son since their time on Voyager , arrived to rescue him; but she was too late.

In unbearable pain, he entreated Seven to end his life. Cradling him in her arms, she tearfully bid "her child" farewell before she complied by fatally shooting him with her phaser.

Her ship was destroyed, but she was beamed over to La Sirena and was surprised to see Admiral Jean-Luc Picard on board. She quipped that he owed her a ship before she collapsed. PIC : " Absolute Candor ". Picard explained that he was on his way to Freecloud to find Dr. Bruce Maddox. Upon learning that he had been captured by Bjayzl, who intended to turn him over to the Tal Shiar , Seven helped plan his rescue by offering herself to Bjayzl in exchange for Maddox.

Picard was seemingly able to talk her out of murdering Bjayzl and returning with him and his crew to La Sirena. After Maddox was rescued, Seven declined Picard's offer of a ride, saying the Rangers were sending a corsair to Freecloud to pick her up, but did take two type 3 phasers from La Sirena 's armory. Before beaming back to Freecloud, Seven asked Picard about whether he had rediscovered his humanity after he was rescued from the Borg, and admitted she was still working to find hers "every damn day" of her life.

Picard understood this, as he was wrestling with the same. The two amicably parted ways. However, far from the impression she had given Picard, Seven still intended to kill Bjayzl. Bjayzl tried to stall until her security arrived, but Seven knew what she was trying to do, and sardonically told her so.

Bjayzl then began trying to talk Seven out of killing her, but Seven coldly cut her off with raised rifles and a bitter retort that Icheb had been a son to her.

She then vaporized Bjayzl with shots from both rifles. After Freecloud, Seven was summoned by a communications chip she had given to fellow xB Hugh , the director of the Borg Reclamation Project aboard the " Artifact " in Romulan space. After Hugh was killed by the Romulans, Elnor - who had remained behind while Picard and Soji Asha had used the spatial trajector in the cube's queencell to escape - used the communicator to call Seven to the cube in order to take control of it.

Seven accessed the queencell to begin regenerating the damage done to the cube. When the Romulans began venting the stasis-contained drones into space and killing the xBs, Seven decided to link the transceivers of the disconnected Borg on the cube into a "mini-collective", with herself acting as a sort of Borg Queen, despite her reluctance to essentially assimilate them all over again. The Romulans left the Artifact with their fleet to invade the Synthetic homeworld Coppelius , leaving the cube in the control of Seven and the xBs.

When Elnor asked if Seven intended to assimilate him now, the cube's collective said only that "Annika still has work to do" before Seven was disconnected from the queencell.

While connected to the Queencell, however, Seven witnessed La Sirena being pursued by Narek , prompting her to open a transwarp conduit to follow them to Coppelius. The Artifact crashed on the surface, where she reunited with Picard and La Sirena 's crew. Here, Elnor decided to stay with Seven as part of her effort to reactivate the Artifact's defenses and aid the xBs. Seven told Picard to "keep saving the galaxy", but Picard replied that it was all on her now.

Although she began to accept her Humanity, Seven was still not completely eager to return to the Alpha Quadrant, and became apprehensive when opportunities presented themselves. VOY : " Hope and Fear " Her reluctance actually proved lifesaving for the Voyager crew in when the ship was nearly ingested by a bioplasmic organism known as the telepathic pitcher plant. She was one of only three crew members the others being Naomi Wildman — who, like Seven, had no emotional links to Earth and the Alpha Quadrant — and The Doctor, who was unaffected due to his inorganic nature not affected by its illusion of a wormhole back to the Alpha Quadrant.

Despite the crew's attempts to place her into stasis , she was able to join forces with The Doctor and an alien named Qatai to free Voyager.

VOY : " Bliss " Like many Borg drones separated from the Collective, Seven suffered a degree of eremophobia a fear of being alone , which she was forced to face when piloting Voyager through an area of space riddled with subnucleonic radiation while the crew was placed in stasis for the duration. At first, Seven found holodecks a pointless endeavor, fulfilling a Human desire to fantasize which she did not share. She still saw the program as frivolous, and quickly disabled Satan's Robot instead of playing along with the storyline of the program.

By this time, she engaged the holographic characters in conversation and participated in the fantasy. VOY : " Repression " By , Seven created a holographic simulation of Voyager in order to improve her social abilities. In the program, her Borg implants had been permanently removed, and she was given a Starfleet science uniform and crew quarters.

She also explored a romantic relationship with Chakotay while running the program. She began to use the program excessively, interfering with her duties. VOY : " Human Error ". Initially, after her release from the Collective, Seven retained much of her former drone personality.

She was harsh towards the rest of the crew and often disobeyed Captain Janeway's orders when she felt they were incorrect. However, as time went on she gradually formed a close bond with the others, especially with The Doctor, Tuvok, and Janeway herself. During her time with the Borg, Seven became used to the billions of voices that made up the Collective. After she was separated from them, she found solitude distressing. It became more apparent when Seven was left with The Doctor to watch over Voyager as it went through a radioactive Mutara class nebula.

When The Doctor's program went off-line, she was alone in command of Voyager. Her implants began malfunctioning, and she saw convincing hallucinations of an alien named Trajis Lo-Tarik and the Voyager crew, seriously injured by the effects of the nebula.

She was able to ignore the illusions and eventually save the Voyager crew after the ship's systems began to malfunction as a result of the nebula's radiation. After this experience, Seven joined a group in the mess hall for the first time.

Seven began to read her parents' journals from their mission aboard the Raven , as these were her only link to her parents. She encountered the drone which was originally her father while held captive by the Borg in He most likely was destroyed along with the Borg Queen's vessel. She had an ancestor, Sven "Buttercup" Hansen , who was a 22nd century prize boxer. VOY : " ". Seven was present for some of the conversations the Voyager crew had with families after two-way communication was established in She was reluctant to contact her aunt, Irene Hansen , but the experiences of the crew convinced her it would be worthwhile.

Irene was overjoyed to speak with her, but Seven was slightly uncomfortable when Irene used her real name, Annika. VOY : " Author, Author ".

Seven also had a "son". A transporter accident involving The Doctor's mobile emitter and Seven's nanoprobes resulted in the creation of a Borg drone, One. At first she was reluctant to teach the drone about individuality and life on Voyager , but she eventually became attached to him, almost maternally.

When One decided to allow himself to die for the benefit of the crew, Seven was deeply upset. While under the influence of synthehol , Seven told The Doctor and several other Voyager crew that she considered them all "very good friends.

Captain Janeway made the decision to sever Seven of Nine from the Collective. She helped her through the difficult transition to Humanity in , trying to force memories of her life as Annika Hansen to surface. She thought Janeway placed the crew in unnecessary danger by exploring the Delta Quadrant and contacting civilizations such as the Mari , rather than setting a course for home.

VOY : " Random Thoughts ". When Voyager believed that Starfleet had sent the USS Dauntless to bring the crew home in late , Seven did not want to return with the crew. She requested to remain in the Delta Quadrant, possibly returning to the Borg Collective. Janeway was dismayed that Seven had not found an appreciation for her new life in the year she spent aboard Voyager.

Later, the ship was found to be a fake created by Arturis in order to deliver the Voyager crew to the Borg. While trapped aboard the ship, Seven confessed to Captain Janeway that she was thankful for her individuality and was not eager to return to the Collective. She also confessed that it was fear of the unknown, that is, what will happen after she returns to Earth, that discouraged her from going back.

VOY : " Hope and Fear ". In , Seven inadvertently helped The Doctor recover memories of Ensign Ahni Jetal , erased from his database when they caused problems with his ethical subroutines. Captain Janeway intended to erase the memories once again, but Seven voiced concern.

She felt that erasing The Doctor's memories would essentially mean turning a blind eye to his development as an individual. Seven admitted that she saw Janeway as a role model, but began to question that image after her treatment of The Doctor. This gave Janeway more to think about, and she decided to restore the memories to The Doctor. VOY : " Latent Image ". Seven of Nine often had the ear of the captain, coming to her whenever she needed moral guidance, or wanted to express something she had learned about Humanity.

One such occasion occurred in , when Seven dropped a barrier protecting the Ventu from cultural contamination. Before making any command decisions, Janeway asked Seven what she thought of the Ventu; Seven found them antiquated, but resourceful. She believed that if the Ledosians were allowed to contaminate them more, "something unique would be lost. In an alternate timeline , Seven of Nine was fatally wounded on an away mission and died upon her return to Voyager.

Her death deeply affected the Janeway of that time. VOY : " Endgame ". Voyager engineer B'Elanna Torres was distrustful of Seven, and the two almost came to blows several times during Seven's early days on Voyager.

Torres was stunned that Seven experienced no remorse over the fate of civilizations such as the Caatati , devastated by the Borg. She told Chakotay that she did not want to be held responsible if she and Seven got into a physical altercation. Chakotay, in turn, put Torres' own attitude in check when he made it clear that she needed to find a way to work with Seven and that she would be held responsible if a fight occurred.

Seven earned some of Torres' respect when she used a feedback pulse to disable a Hirogen who threatened the ship's use of the communications network in although she made sure the disapproving Janeway was out of earshot first. VOY : " Message in a Bottle " Seven studied Torres and future husband Tom Paris during their courtship, even noting the times when the two had sexual relations.

Upon discovering this in , Torres was quite incensed. While the two women would never become close friends, they did develop a good working relationship as time passed. By , the two had grown more comfortable with each other. Torres comforted Seven when she was faced with death after her cortical node malfunctioned, telling her that she made valuable contributions to the crew of Voyager. Seven suggested that Torres try to participate in some of Paris' interests in order to improve their relationship, which led to Torres' participation in the Antarian Trans-stellar Rally.

VOY : " Drive " To Torres' shock, Seven presented her with a baby shower present and complimented her on her hair the following year. Naomi Wildman was the first child born aboard Voyager. She was initially scared of Seven and afraid that she could assimilate her. Soon, she became fascinated with Seven, and began following her in early Seven was initially annoyed with her, and disapproved of Naomi's study of Borg species designations. While Seven was experiencing problems due to contact with the infected vinculum, one of the personalities to emerge was that of a small child.

She played kadis-kot with Naomi, to Naomi's delight. After the crisis was resolved, Seven decided to instruct Naomi in astrometrics, giving her several star charts and species information to study. Seven also requested a game of kadis-kot with Naomi.

They had in common that they often couldn't understand the crew's determination to return to Earth. This fact proved helpful when Voyager was confronted by the telepathic pitcher plant , which made the rest of the crew see it as a wormhole to Earth.

Seven and Naomi were unaffected due to their indifference about returning home and, aided by Qatai , who had hunted the creature for years, and The Doctor, they were able to trick the creature into expelling Voyager. Tuvok became friends with Seven of Nine, when he witnessed her ordeal as she gradually had to remember her assimilation by the Borg. He helped her manage it and Seven opened up to him. VOY : " The Raven " After that, she began having conversations with Tuvok and it became apparent she enjoyed talking with him because of his logic and distant way of seeing things, which was similar to her own.

Tuvok also had a similar attitude towards Seven. Tuvok was quick to compliment Seven when she quickly learned and won a game of Kal-toh. Both Tuvok and Seven of Nine often preferred completing away missions in silence. After working together and Seven saving Tuvok's life, he was able to help her cope with the difficult mission they shared.

VOY : " Tsunkatse " In time they also started appreciating each other, because of them being outsiders on the ship. In , Seven became a temporary mother figure to a group of children whom Voyager had discovered aboard a derelict Borg vessel.

She cared for the children, named Icheb , Mezoti , Rebi , and Azan , until the latter three were returned to their own people in She designed a rigid schedule for their activities, enacting serious punishment when they failed to adhere to the schedule. They rebelled against the restrictions, and an exasperated Seven told Chakotay she no longer wished to supervise them. He made her realize that while consistency is important, children also need spontaneity.

Her efforts were much more successful once she made allowances for that. VOY : " Ashes to Ashes ". After discovering that he had been genetically engineered as a weapon against the Borg, the eldest of the children, Icheb, remained with Voyager and he and Seven formed a close relationship. VOY : " Child's Play " Icheb expressed a desire to apply for Starfleet Academy admission, and hoped Seven would speak to the captain about having Commander Tuvok teach him preliminary courses.

Around this time, Icheb donated his own cortical node when the failure of Seven's jeopardized her life. She initially refused to accept his help, placing his safety above her own despite his research showing that he was far more likely to survive the loss of the node than she was. VOY : " Imperfection ". Eight years after Voyager returned to Earth, Icheb was captured by Bjayzl , who had hired surgeons to brutally and painfully extract his Borg implants for her to sell on the black market.

Seven attempted to rescue Icheb, whom she considered to be like a son to her, but arrived too late to save his life. Mortally wounded and in excruciating pain, Icheb begged Seven to quickly kill him, which she did by shooting him with a phaser at point-blank range. Thirteen years later , Seven caught up with Bjayzl and executed her in retribution for Icheb's death. Harry Kim became physically attracted to Seven shortly after she joined Voyager. Noticing this, she addressed the situation with him, asking him if he desired to "copulate", thereby embarrassing him.

However, she did tell Kim late at night in the mess hall that she was willing to explore her sexuality and told him to take his clothes off. VOY : " Waking Moments ". Under The Doctor's tutelage, Seven first explored true romance in She chose engineering crew member William Chapman after determining that their interests were compatible. However, Seven's directness was too overbearing for Chapman, and the date ended up in disaster when Seven accidentally tore a ligament in his shoulder while dancing.

In , Seven was distressed to discover that the Borg had deliberately programmed the cortical implant of their drones to shut down in the event that the drone began to experience strong emotion, thus killing the drone. The Doctor believed he could reprogram the affected implant, but Seven refused treatment.

Later that year, she changed her mind, and she underwent the surgery. While Seven was assisting the drones of Unimatrix Zero, she mainly dealt with a man named Axum , with whom she had had a romantic relationship within Unimatrix Zero while she was still a drone.

The relationship sparked again, strengthening her resolve to help those within the Unimatrix. However, Axum was physically aboard a scout vessel at the border of fluidic space in a remote sector of the Beta Quadrant , making it impossible to contact him again once Unimatrix Zero was destroyed. The Doctor was responsible for the removal of Seven's implants, and also conducted her weekly maintenance sessions.

He also took it upon himself to teach Seven social behavior, using the same interpersonal relationship exercises Kes once practiced with him.

VOY : " Prey " Later, he created a holodeck simulation of Voyager for her to become more comfortable with large social gatherings. The Doctor encouraged Seven to explore romantic relationships in , coaching her in the basics of dating and grooming.

He also discovered her singing voice, and the two sang a duet of " You Are My Sunshine ". He was partially motivated by a wager made with Ensign Paris, who believed that Seven would not be able to bring a date to a reception planned aboard Voyager without making a scene. Although Seven's date with Lieutenant Chapman ended up in disaster, she attended the reception with The Doctor, and charmed the guests with a toast to individuality. However, she was hurt to discover that The Doctor's help was due to the bet.

At this point, The Doctor found that he himself was falling in love with Seven, but refused to admit it to her. He tried to apologize to her, but she came to him first and said she no longer needed the lessons in romance because there were no suitable mates aboard. The Doctor was very disappointed that Seven did not reciprocate his feelings.

In , The Doctor was stranded aboard the USS Equinox along with Seven, and the crew disengaged his morality subroutines to extract activation codes for their warp drive from Seven's cranial implants, which would leave her mentally disabled.

The Doctor almost went through with the procedure, but Captain Rudolph Ransom stopped him. He apologized to Seven for the incident, and she held no ill will towards him.