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Character Name: Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix One/Annika Hanson
Series: Star Trek: Voyager
Age: 30
From When?: 2380, after Captain’s Janeway’s death and before the death of her aunt, Irene.
Inmate/Warden: Warden
Item: Tricorder
Abilities/Powers:
Personality: Seven of Nine is what the Borg made her, utterly honest, tactless and a perfectionist. But inside her hardened exterior is that six year old girl, the only guide to her inner self, often scared and very much alone.
The knowledge the Collective has given her, particularly given that she has more knowledge than most if not all humans, tends to make her believe that this means that she does, in fact, know more than everyone. She doesn’t hesitate to challenge those whose reasoning she believes are flawed whatever their social standing, or indeed superior firepower.
The Borg have taught her that she is superior, so she tends to act this way, even when it’s quite clearly not in her best interests to do so. Whenever she’s threatened by a superior force, she always has some kind of cutting remark, rarely to positive effect.
Even as she holds great pride in what gifts the Borg have given her, she also holds a great deal of guilt about what she has done under their control as a drone. When confronted with people who have committed murder or done questionable things, her reaction would be to compare what she has done in comparison and depending on her mood, she can condemn it all the stronger or she would wonder how she deserved to get a second chance, where others didn’t get it. To her, ‘guilt is a difficult but useful emotion’ and she will encourage her inmate to accept their own guilt as such. This will make her very determined to accomplish her end of the deal regardless of the Admiral and his motives, of which she will be very distrusting.
This may lead her to be open to manipulation under certain circumstances, though she will likely lash out anyone who tries and will hold grudges against anyone who would harm her or indeed anyone she has formed a ‘collective’ with, who may be her inmate or anyone with whom she has managed to form a friendship.
She’s a tendency to appear to be unapproachable, although the influence of her aunt did have a softening effect on her. However, given the serious, fatal condition her aunt is in, Seven will likely be her prickly self while on the barge.
She will find herself utterly frustrated by the complete lack of direction, efficiency and illogic of the day to day working of the barge. Her experience of individuality is largely in a hierarchical environment, Voyager, though her experience in a think tank will prepare her somewhat. Super-brains rarely get along efficiently.
She’ll cope by working efficiently on her own and making acquaintances with those who are efficient. She will be scornful of those who are though and consider them less than capable and be unsettled if they turn out to be otherwise.
Seven has a independent strike a mile wide and would adapt to the Barge relatively quickly. Since she was a child, she had been forcibly removed from any stable home she has had. First her parents took her on board their ship, with their presence being the only human interaction she had. Then the Borg boarded and assimilated them. It wasn’t until eighteen years later that encountered Captain Janeway who pulled her out of the Borg but by then, even without the pressure of the unified voice of the collective, Seven had been fully indoctrinated and resisted her humanity.
Eventually, she found a place on board Voyager and felt comfortable enough to begin exploring her romantic side. Ironically, it was Admiral Janeway’s determination to allow her survive and get her crew home that caused yet another upheaval in Seven’s life.
With the Borg threat looming and present, Seven’s place in the Alpha Quadrant was uncertain. Although this was resolved through fighting off the Borg invasion of the time, Seven discovered that the Voyager crew, her family, started to drift away from each other, worrying over their own concerns, even though Admiral Janeway worked hard to keep her crew happy, she usually took upon herself to do it alone.
And Seven modelled this behaviour even when Irene’s illness became clear. Aside from consulting the Doctor on it, with no new results, she isolated herself and focused on work and the care of her aunt.
Then the Caeliar defeated the Borg. In doing so, they joined the Borg Collective into their Gestalt, Seven included, allowing them to experience the Borg’s answer to perfection. Then, as far as Seven knows, the Gestalt abandoned her, leaving behind a ‘voice’ in the form of a Caeliar six year old Annika Hansen, insisting that Seven leave behind her Borg heritage and become human. Seven, recognising how her Borg ‘upbringing’ forged the woman she was, absolutely rejected the voice and refused to give it any lee-way.
Seven, at the time of coming to the barge, is under a lot of stress, but will feel empowered by the knowledge that she is finally able to do something about her situation, instead of being forced to watch her life continue to deteriorate.
History:
Annika Hansen was born to Magnus and Erin in June of 2350 on the Tendara Colony. When she was five years old, her parents, both exobiologists, decided to undertake a highly risky expedition, to track down the dangerous species that apparently escaped from Earth, a hundred years previously, in order to study them. They did this over the objections of their colleagues and Starfleet, violating Federation law in doing so.
At first it appeared all for nought, they were running low on supplies and Erin was keen to call off the search. Magnus convinced her to keep with it for a little while longer and their perseverance paid off. They found a vessel and decided to follow its course through a transwarp tunnel into Borg territory.
They spent almost two years successfully studying the Borg before, around the time of Annika’s seventh birthday, their luck finally ran out and they were detected. After a cat and mouse chase0, the Borg boarded the Raven and assimilated the family, the ship itself eventually crashing onto a planet.
Annika was assimilated into the collective and put into a maturation chamber in order to speed up her aging and complete her assimilation, which, as she would recount later, was very painful. When she emerged, she was given the designation of Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix One, where the Queen herself resided.
Over the next couple of decades, Seven functioned as part of the collective, including assimilation, and if their victims should resist attempts, killing them. She did this on a massive scale.
Seven’s first real life taste of individuality came when she and her unimatrix, of which only she and three others survived, crashed onto a small planet. Their original personalities started to remerge, but unlike the others, Seven’s personality was that of a small, scared child, so her response was to make sure that they did as they were told, in this instance what Borg protocol told them to do, and she reassimilated them. This had the unfortunate side effect of creating a smaller link of three which eventually allowed the other three drones to escape but also wasn’t reversible.
When the Borg forged an alliance with the starship Voyager, Captain Janeway requested that someone serve as a one-to-one voice. Together they would find ways to prevent species 8472 destroying the galaxy.
In the course of this alliance, the Borg ship sacrificed itself to defend Voyager, beaming several drones, with Captain Janeway’s permission, into the cargo bay, including their representative, Seven of Nine. Janeway was critically injured and her first officer Chakotay didn’t want to continue the alliance under Seven’s terms. He broke it off.
Seven’s reaction was to send them into Fluidic Space, which was the domain of Species 8472. Chakotay tried to blow them out into space, and he largely succeeded, excepting Seven, who survived by hanging on to the Jefferies tubes.
Janeway recovered and together with Chakotay formed a plan to get Seven to get them out of Fluidic Space, knocking her out after the eventual betrayal. They disconnected her from the Collective.
At first, Seven reacted violently against being cut off, demanding that she be returned. Janeway refused and worked to make her accept her humanity.
She was encouraged to become part of the crew, and after a few false starts, started to prefer Voyager more than the prospect of re-entering the Collective.
She came to rely especially on both Janeway, who encouraged her to explore her humanity and the Doctor, who she bonded with due to his experience of being nothing more than a tool and growing beyond that, as well as being her main provider of medical care, which she needed at least once a week and Tuvok, whose logical mind was something she respected.
However, when Voyager was trading with a race called the Entharans, they had to deal with a man named Kovin. He was an abrupt man to the point where Seven hit him. Feeling this was behaviour out of character for Seven, the Doctor used his technique to recover memories.
Seven then remembered that Kovin shot her, after which she recalled him and another person performing experiments and assimilating someone else.
Convinced of the accuracy of the memories, the Doctor started to accuse Kovin and Tuvok started to investigate. An accusation such as this would kill Kovin’s career, so at first he resisted but realised that he had no choice and was reassured by Tuvok that his investigation would be a fair one.
However, the evidence seemed to turn against him, so he fled. Eventually, Tuvok unearthed evidence that Kovin was as innocent as he claimed. Seven initially refused to believe this, as the Doctor had worked her up to a righteous anger.
Eventually, they tracked down Kovin, but he didn’t believe them when they told him of his evidence, and the ensuing fight killed him. Seven was left without her righteous anger and an empty feeling of guilt. She discovered that being righteous could mean that mistakes would be made and learned a hard lesson about witch hunts.
She learned about spirituality when Voyager came across the Omega Molecule. It, due to the Borg’s desire to create perfection by disparate parts operating as a cohesive whole, not to mention some cultural memory that even the Borg were not wholly aware of, became the symbol of perfection that Seven aspired to.
She was absolutely determined to save the molecules, which were highly lethal and could destroy subspace and strand ships but was overruled time and again. Rather than resign from the project in protest, Seven took what she could get.
Even while she was ensuring their destruction, to her immense surprise, they coalesced themselves, giving her a vision of that perfection before they were lost. She was immensely moved by the experience and grew to understand the spiritual individuals, such as Commander Chakotay, a little more.
Seven gets over most of her lingering desires to return to the collective through several trials, through having a ‘son’ through the EMH’s holo-emitter and an unwilling genetic sample from Ensign Mulcaihy, who sacrificed himself to defend Voyager; a conspiracy undergone by a lone surviving member of a race that almost got herself and Captain Janeway assimilated; and an attempt by the Borg Queen to use her unique perspective on humanity to assimilate the species.
She resisted each time the call of the Borg and followed the lead of Katherine Janeway instead. It was due to her struggles that she was granted guardianship to five Borg children, rescued from a badly disabled Borg cube until Voyager was able to find their homes and return them. This was achieved with one exeption, Icheb. Icheb, in fact, was the source of the genetic virus that disabled the cube and instead of welcoming Icheb home and raising him, keeping him safe for the rest of his life, his parents sent him back on board a ship that was advanced enough to attract the attention of the Borg and get him reassimilated.
Seven suspected something was off by the start and when Voyager investigated, she was vindicated and Icheb became a permanent member of the crew. She continued to mentor him as he grew and wanted to join Starfleet.
She began to form a romantic engagement with Chakotay and had begun to officially date him when Admiral Janeway, Captain Janeway’s future self, arrived on board Voyager with a plan to use the Borg to get home. Seven was a big part of this plan, though not because of her extensive experience, but because in Admiral Janeway’s time line she was killed. Seven, understandably, did not take this well, tried to break up with Chakotay and insist that Captain Janeway not go through with the Admiral’s plan.
Eventually, the Captain did go through with her plan, though with a few alterations. Bringing the Borg down became part of their plan. And it succeeded and after seven years, Voyager was home.
But while Seven was happy for her crew, she found her return marred by suspicion. Borg weren’t exactly welcome and the subsequent attempt via an airborne virus to assimilate Earth didn’t exactly help matters despite Seven working against the Borg.
Eventually she, and the Voyager crew fought off the invasion and they were accepted. Seven went on to join a think tank with the Doctor, an experience she found challenging in many ways.
Then the Borg tried again. But instead of assimilating they were destroying people completely, consuming ships, even Pluto. Admiral Janeway stopped them, but only at the cost of her life.
Janeway’s death was a huge blow to Seven. But the Borg continued their invasion until the Caeliar, an ancient race, who was discovered, along with the crew of the long lost Starfleet vessel, Columbia, to have created the Borg long ago. Thus they sought to rectify the damage done by welcoming the Borg into their gestalt: perfection.
Seven was effected by this, back on Earth, but unknown to her, she refused, and now feels abandoned by them. This, along with Janeway’s death as well as the onset of her aunt’s terminal Irumodic Syndrome drives her to seek a deal with the Admiral to cure her aunt.
Sample Journal Entry:
[Here you see a blonde looking determinedly at the camera. She’s slightly pale. You are Annika Hansen.] I am Seven of Nine. [No, that wasn’t a denial, you’re imagining it!] I am designated as a ‘warden’ here.
My function is to mentor an inmate until they meet the requirements set forth by the entity known as ‘Admiral’ which will cause them to ‘graduate’. It is my understanding that the prerequisites for those designated ‘inmate’ are those who have been taken at the moment of death, [Seven does not buy this ‘afterlife’ nonsense] against their will, because they are deemed harmful by the Admiral to their native times and places.
[Yes, you all probably know this. She does have a point though.] Further information regarding the procedures and nature of this vessel is re[quired]quested.
[Big pause. Still not the best at this sociable business.] Thank you. [She sounds like she almost resents it but there’s just uncertainty in her face.]
Sample RP:
Seven sat, alone, in her room. It was a Federation-standard room, typically soothing colours. It wasn’t without personality though. When one takes advice about interior design from a Talaxian, that’s only natural.
There’s a picture of Voyager’s senior staff looking up at the camera and there’s a dreamcatcher over the bed. Her aunt had put flowery bedclothes on the bed. The windows have curtains that are a pale rose colour.
Despite the fact that this was her aunt’s house, there was no sign of her presence here. Her room was just a door that couldn’t be opened and her perfume had gone completely.
Seven wasn’t sure if she found this a relief or reminder of how alone she was. She had told no one of her aunt’s illness, felt like she had no choice but to watch her decline. The other crew had their own lives, own difficulties. She couldn’t bring herself to ask for their help and what would they do anyway? Not save her, that was impossible. Seven, despite herself, wouldn’t be receptive to sympathy, less out of pride and more out of simply being unused to the basic social mores that humans of her time are often used to.
So, despite having full knowledge of the capriciousness of apparently omnipotent beings, when the Admiral came and offered her a deal, she accepted. She didn’t like the fact that she couldn’t remember how he appeared or what precisely he said. She didn’t like the fact that people were apparently kidnapped to come here. And she certainly didn’t like the fact that the hierarchy on board was non-existent and chaotic. It struck at the core of her sense of safety and didn’t do her already uncertain feelings any favours.
She stood, forming objectives in her mind. She would have to create her own collective. She would focus on her inmate. Ignore the voice, always, always insisting that she was Annika Hanson. It was not true. She was Seven of Nine.
She reached for her communicator. “Personal Log. Stardate: Unknown. My purpose here on the barge is clear. I should not indulge in fruitless speculation of the dangers. It would be illogical to do so in these conditions and more, will damage my morale.
Special Notes: The ‘Annika Hanson’ voice is simply a command from the Caeliar to accept that she was human after she decided not to join them and it sort of backfired because Seven is stubborn that way.
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diabolicalfiendAIM/IM: Si Barone OW
E-mail: biffingprincess@yahoo.ie
Other Characters: Omega, Chang, Roy Slater
Character Name: Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix One/Annika Hanson
Series: Star Trek: Voyager
Age: 30
From When?: 2380, after Captain’s Janeway’s death and before the death of her aunt, Irene.
Inmate/Warden: Warden
Item: Tricorder
Abilities/Powers:
- Seven’s strength and intelligence were enhanced by the Borg nanoprobes that had been part of her system and then by ‘catoms’ after her transformation by the Caeliar. Catoms also have other abilities but Seven has no idea how to use them. She has an eidetic memory and absorbs raw information quickly, though it does take some time for her to process it.
- She’ll have the knowledge of the Borg in her mind but there would be no true context for it, she’d be able to reel off basic facts but without substance and only from the perspective of the Borg encounters with species before she was liberated from the Collective.
- She has fighting skill, having fought in a Tsunkatse fight to the death and having had proficiency in technological weaponry.
- She can connect to other minds using the catoms. However, given the fact that the catoms work on the energy of an Omega Particle and Seven only has food to give her energy, any telepathic contact, whether initiated by her or not wears her down to the point of exhaustion.
Personality: Seven of Nine is what the Borg made her, utterly honest, tactless and a perfectionist. But inside her hardened exterior is that six year old girl, the only guide to her inner self, often scared and very much alone.
The knowledge the Collective has given her, particularly given that she has more knowledge than most if not all humans, tends to make her believe that this means that she does, in fact, know more than everyone. She doesn’t hesitate to challenge those whose reasoning she believes are flawed whatever their social standing, or indeed superior firepower.
The Borg have taught her that she is superior, so she tends to act this way, even when it’s quite clearly not in her best interests to do so. Whenever she’s threatened by a superior force, she always has some kind of cutting remark, rarely to positive effect.
Even as she holds great pride in what gifts the Borg have given her, she also holds a great deal of guilt about what she has done under their control as a drone. When confronted with people who have committed murder or done questionable things, her reaction would be to compare what she has done in comparison and depending on her mood, she can condemn it all the stronger or she would wonder how she deserved to get a second chance, where others didn’t get it. To her, ‘guilt is a difficult but useful emotion’ and she will encourage her inmate to accept their own guilt as such. This will make her very determined to accomplish her end of the deal regardless of the Admiral and his motives, of which she will be very distrusting.
This may lead her to be open to manipulation under certain circumstances, though she will likely lash out anyone who tries and will hold grudges against anyone who would harm her or indeed anyone she has formed a ‘collective’ with, who may be her inmate or anyone with whom she has managed to form a friendship.
She’s a tendency to appear to be unapproachable, although the influence of her aunt did have a softening effect on her. However, given the serious, fatal condition her aunt is in, Seven will likely be her prickly self while on the barge.
She will find herself utterly frustrated by the complete lack of direction, efficiency and illogic of the day to day working of the barge. Her experience of individuality is largely in a hierarchical environment, Voyager, though her experience in a think tank will prepare her somewhat. Super-brains rarely get along efficiently.
She’ll cope by working efficiently on her own and making acquaintances with those who are efficient. She will be scornful of those who are though and consider them less than capable and be unsettled if they turn out to be otherwise.
Seven has a independent strike a mile wide and would adapt to the Barge relatively quickly. Since she was a child, she had been forcibly removed from any stable home she has had. First her parents took her on board their ship, with their presence being the only human interaction she had. Then the Borg boarded and assimilated them. It wasn’t until eighteen years later that encountered Captain Janeway who pulled her out of the Borg but by then, even without the pressure of the unified voice of the collective, Seven had been fully indoctrinated and resisted her humanity.
Eventually, she found a place on board Voyager and felt comfortable enough to begin exploring her romantic side. Ironically, it was Admiral Janeway’s determination to allow her survive and get her crew home that caused yet another upheaval in Seven’s life.
With the Borg threat looming and present, Seven’s place in the Alpha Quadrant was uncertain. Although this was resolved through fighting off the Borg invasion of the time, Seven discovered that the Voyager crew, her family, started to drift away from each other, worrying over their own concerns, even though Admiral Janeway worked hard to keep her crew happy, she usually took upon herself to do it alone.
And Seven modelled this behaviour even when Irene’s illness became clear. Aside from consulting the Doctor on it, with no new results, she isolated herself and focused on work and the care of her aunt.
Then the Caeliar defeated the Borg. In doing so, they joined the Borg Collective into their Gestalt, Seven included, allowing them to experience the Borg’s answer to perfection. Then, as far as Seven knows, the Gestalt abandoned her, leaving behind a ‘voice’ in the form of a Caeliar six year old Annika Hansen, insisting that Seven leave behind her Borg heritage and become human. Seven, recognising how her Borg ‘upbringing’ forged the woman she was, absolutely rejected the voice and refused to give it any lee-way.
Seven, at the time of coming to the barge, is under a lot of stress, but will feel empowered by the knowledge that she is finally able to do something about her situation, instead of being forced to watch her life continue to deteriorate.
History:
Annika Hansen was born to Magnus and Erin in June of 2350 on the Tendara Colony. When she was five years old, her parents, both exobiologists, decided to undertake a highly risky expedition, to track down the dangerous species that apparently escaped from Earth, a hundred years previously, in order to study them. They did this over the objections of their colleagues and Starfleet, violating Federation law in doing so.
At first it appeared all for nought, they were running low on supplies and Erin was keen to call off the search. Magnus convinced her to keep with it for a little while longer and their perseverance paid off. They found a vessel and decided to follow its course through a transwarp tunnel into Borg territory.
They spent almost two years successfully studying the Borg before, around the time of Annika’s seventh birthday, their luck finally ran out and they were detected. After a cat and mouse chase0, the Borg boarded the Raven and assimilated the family, the ship itself eventually crashing onto a planet.
Annika was assimilated into the collective and put into a maturation chamber in order to speed up her aging and complete her assimilation, which, as she would recount later, was very painful. When she emerged, she was given the designation of Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix One, where the Queen herself resided.
Over the next couple of decades, Seven functioned as part of the collective, including assimilation, and if their victims should resist attempts, killing them. She did this on a massive scale.
Seven’s first real life taste of individuality came when she and her unimatrix, of which only she and three others survived, crashed onto a small planet. Their original personalities started to remerge, but unlike the others, Seven’s personality was that of a small, scared child, so her response was to make sure that they did as they were told, in this instance what Borg protocol told them to do, and she reassimilated them. This had the unfortunate side effect of creating a smaller link of three which eventually allowed the other three drones to escape but also wasn’t reversible.
When the Borg forged an alliance with the starship Voyager, Captain Janeway requested that someone serve as a one-to-one voice. Together they would find ways to prevent species 8472 destroying the galaxy.
In the course of this alliance, the Borg ship sacrificed itself to defend Voyager, beaming several drones, with Captain Janeway’s permission, into the cargo bay, including their representative, Seven of Nine. Janeway was critically injured and her first officer Chakotay didn’t want to continue the alliance under Seven’s terms. He broke it off.
Seven’s reaction was to send them into Fluidic Space, which was the domain of Species 8472. Chakotay tried to blow them out into space, and he largely succeeded, excepting Seven, who survived by hanging on to the Jefferies tubes.
Janeway recovered and together with Chakotay formed a plan to get Seven to get them out of Fluidic Space, knocking her out after the eventual betrayal. They disconnected her from the Collective.
At first, Seven reacted violently against being cut off, demanding that she be returned. Janeway refused and worked to make her accept her humanity.
She was encouraged to become part of the crew, and after a few false starts, started to prefer Voyager more than the prospect of re-entering the Collective.
She came to rely especially on both Janeway, who encouraged her to explore her humanity and the Doctor, who she bonded with due to his experience of being nothing more than a tool and growing beyond that, as well as being her main provider of medical care, which she needed at least once a week and Tuvok, whose logical mind was something she respected.
However, when Voyager was trading with a race called the Entharans, they had to deal with a man named Kovin. He was an abrupt man to the point where Seven hit him. Feeling this was behaviour out of character for Seven, the Doctor used his technique to recover memories.
Seven then remembered that Kovin shot her, after which she recalled him and another person performing experiments and assimilating someone else.
Convinced of the accuracy of the memories, the Doctor started to accuse Kovin and Tuvok started to investigate. An accusation such as this would kill Kovin’s career, so at first he resisted but realised that he had no choice and was reassured by Tuvok that his investigation would be a fair one.
However, the evidence seemed to turn against him, so he fled. Eventually, Tuvok unearthed evidence that Kovin was as innocent as he claimed. Seven initially refused to believe this, as the Doctor had worked her up to a righteous anger.
Eventually, they tracked down Kovin, but he didn’t believe them when they told him of his evidence, and the ensuing fight killed him. Seven was left without her righteous anger and an empty feeling of guilt. She discovered that being righteous could mean that mistakes would be made and learned a hard lesson about witch hunts.
She learned about spirituality when Voyager came across the Omega Molecule. It, due to the Borg’s desire to create perfection by disparate parts operating as a cohesive whole, not to mention some cultural memory that even the Borg were not wholly aware of, became the symbol of perfection that Seven aspired to.
She was absolutely determined to save the molecules, which were highly lethal and could destroy subspace and strand ships but was overruled time and again. Rather than resign from the project in protest, Seven took what she could get.
Even while she was ensuring their destruction, to her immense surprise, they coalesced themselves, giving her a vision of that perfection before they were lost. She was immensely moved by the experience and grew to understand the spiritual individuals, such as Commander Chakotay, a little more.
Seven gets over most of her lingering desires to return to the collective through several trials, through having a ‘son’ through the EMH’s holo-emitter and an unwilling genetic sample from Ensign Mulcaihy, who sacrificed himself to defend Voyager; a conspiracy undergone by a lone surviving member of a race that almost got herself and Captain Janeway assimilated; and an attempt by the Borg Queen to use her unique perspective on humanity to assimilate the species.
She resisted each time the call of the Borg and followed the lead of Katherine Janeway instead. It was due to her struggles that she was granted guardianship to five Borg children, rescued from a badly disabled Borg cube until Voyager was able to find their homes and return them. This was achieved with one exeption, Icheb. Icheb, in fact, was the source of the genetic virus that disabled the cube and instead of welcoming Icheb home and raising him, keeping him safe for the rest of his life, his parents sent him back on board a ship that was advanced enough to attract the attention of the Borg and get him reassimilated.
Seven suspected something was off by the start and when Voyager investigated, she was vindicated and Icheb became a permanent member of the crew. She continued to mentor him as he grew and wanted to join Starfleet.
She began to form a romantic engagement with Chakotay and had begun to officially date him when Admiral Janeway, Captain Janeway’s future self, arrived on board Voyager with a plan to use the Borg to get home. Seven was a big part of this plan, though not because of her extensive experience, but because in Admiral Janeway’s time line she was killed. Seven, understandably, did not take this well, tried to break up with Chakotay and insist that Captain Janeway not go through with the Admiral’s plan.
Eventually, the Captain did go through with her plan, though with a few alterations. Bringing the Borg down became part of their plan. And it succeeded and after seven years, Voyager was home.
But while Seven was happy for her crew, she found her return marred by suspicion. Borg weren’t exactly welcome and the subsequent attempt via an airborne virus to assimilate Earth didn’t exactly help matters despite Seven working against the Borg.
Eventually she, and the Voyager crew fought off the invasion and they were accepted. Seven went on to join a think tank with the Doctor, an experience she found challenging in many ways.
Then the Borg tried again. But instead of assimilating they were destroying people completely, consuming ships, even Pluto. Admiral Janeway stopped them, but only at the cost of her life.
Janeway’s death was a huge blow to Seven. But the Borg continued their invasion until the Caeliar, an ancient race, who was discovered, along with the crew of the long lost Starfleet vessel, Columbia, to have created the Borg long ago. Thus they sought to rectify the damage done by welcoming the Borg into their gestalt: perfection.
Seven was effected by this, back on Earth, but unknown to her, she refused, and now feels abandoned by them. This, along with Janeway’s death as well as the onset of her aunt’s terminal Irumodic Syndrome drives her to seek a deal with the Admiral to cure her aunt.
Sample Journal Entry:
[Here you see a blonde looking determinedly at the camera. She’s slightly pale. You are Annika Hansen.] I am Seven of Nine. [No, that wasn’t a denial, you’re imagining it!] I am designated as a ‘warden’ here.
My function is to mentor an inmate until they meet the requirements set forth by the entity known as ‘Admiral’ which will cause them to ‘graduate’. It is my understanding that the prerequisites for those designated ‘inmate’ are those who have been taken at the moment of death, [Seven does not buy this ‘afterlife’ nonsense] against their will, because they are deemed harmful by the Admiral to their native times and places.
[Yes, you all probably know this. She does have a point though.] Further information regarding the procedures and nature of this vessel is re[quired]quested.
[Big pause. Still not the best at this sociable business.] Thank you. [She sounds like she almost resents it but there’s just uncertainty in her face.]
Sample RP:
Seven sat, alone, in her room. It was a Federation-standard room, typically soothing colours. It wasn’t without personality though. When one takes advice about interior design from a Talaxian, that’s only natural.
There’s a picture of Voyager’s senior staff looking up at the camera and there’s a dreamcatcher over the bed. Her aunt had put flowery bedclothes on the bed. The windows have curtains that are a pale rose colour.
Despite the fact that this was her aunt’s house, there was no sign of her presence here. Her room was just a door that couldn’t be opened and her perfume had gone completely.
Seven wasn’t sure if she found this a relief or reminder of how alone she was. She had told no one of her aunt’s illness, felt like she had no choice but to watch her decline. The other crew had their own lives, own difficulties. She couldn’t bring herself to ask for their help and what would they do anyway? Not save her, that was impossible. Seven, despite herself, wouldn’t be receptive to sympathy, less out of pride and more out of simply being unused to the basic social mores that humans of her time are often used to.
So, despite having full knowledge of the capriciousness of apparently omnipotent beings, when the Admiral came and offered her a deal, she accepted. She didn’t like the fact that she couldn’t remember how he appeared or what precisely he said. She didn’t like the fact that people were apparently kidnapped to come here. And she certainly didn’t like the fact that the hierarchy on board was non-existent and chaotic. It struck at the core of her sense of safety and didn’t do her already uncertain feelings any favours.
She stood, forming objectives in her mind. She would have to create her own collective. She would focus on her inmate. Ignore the voice, always, always insisting that she was Annika Hanson. It was not true. She was Seven of Nine.
She reached for her communicator. “Personal Log. Stardate: Unknown. My purpose here on the barge is clear. I should not indulge in fruitless speculation of the dangers. It would be illogical to do so in these conditions and more, will damage my morale.
Special Notes: The ‘Annika Hanson’ voice is simply a command from the Caeliar to accept that she was human after she decided not to join them and it sort of backfired because Seven is stubborn that way.
