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I am finally writing about my favorite Borg. You can't blame me. Resistance was futile.
Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One is a Borg that bumps into the crew of the Voyager and its captain, Kathryn Janeway. Borgs are a cybernetic alien species that function as a hive mind known as the Collective. They are Borg. They are bad. They are the furthest things from a human or other sentient beings.
When this particular Borg comes in contact with Captain Janeway and her crew of the Voyager it begins its journey back to being a she again. From a cybernetic organism to a human being. The story of Seven from human to Borg as a kid and then from Borg to human is a long story that is beyond the scope of one article but I will try to focus on this particular moment in time when Seven finally embraces her humanity and chooses her Voyager crew over her Borg Collective.
It took a lot of effort not only on the part of Seven but on the part of Captain Janeway and the Voyager crew to bring Seven back in touch with her human reality and who she was before the Borg assimilated her and her family when she was a little girl known as Annika Hansen.
Star Trek writers use Seven's journey back to humanity as the perfect foil to talk about hive minds (groupthink) and the importance of an individual's identity (individualism). The Borg species function more like a collection of drones and share each other's thoughts. They do not possess the ability to think on their own. Humans, on the other hand, can think for themselves and value things like liberty, freedom of expression, and identity.
This is why today's quote is so relevant in the Star Trek universe. After going through years of struggles and setbacks and battling her past and the hive mind that had become part of her growing up, Seven finally chooses, on her own and without instructions (an indication that she was now thinking as an individual and making independent decisions), to be with her new Collective - the crew of the Voyager - instead of going back to being a Borg.
Perhaps the reason this moment resonates so much with so many Star Trek fans is that we all remember taking matters into our own hands and making life changing or life defining decisions. And we realize that the ability to think for ourselves is an incredible gift and we must value it more than we sometimes seem to do.
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