Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Dark Frontier (1999)

Jeri Ryan: Seven of Nine

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• Harry Kim : [after destroying a Borg vessel]  I wish that boom had been a bit smaller; we were only trying to disable them.

  Tom Paris : They were drones, Harry, mindless automatons. We did them a favor.

  [Seven of Nine appears behind Paris, obviously aware of his comment] 

  Harry Kim : Seven!

  Tom Paris : [embarrassed]  Um... look, I, I didn't mean anything by that.

  Seven of Nine : Your apology is irrelevant. It's impossible to offend a mindless drone.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : [after several training sessions on a "Borg vessel"]  I don't know about you, but I'm glad to be back on Voyager. Borg vessels make my skin crawl.

  Seven of Nine : It was a holodeck recreation.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Close enough.

• Seven of Nine : Over the past two years, I have become familiar with the individuals on this vessel. Voyager is my Collective now. Your survival is important to me. I am willing to risk my own well-being if it increases our chances of success. Assign me to the away team. Please.

• The Doctor : [on the Borg research of Seven's parents]  This is an important stage of your social development, Seven. Try not to think of it as simply a research project but as an exploration of how you were raised.

  Seven of Nine : My parents underestimated the Collective. They were destroyed. Because of their arrogance, I was raised by Borg.

• Borg Queen : We've come to make you an offer: rejoin the Collective and we'll spare Voyager.

  Seven of Nine : Why me?

  Borg Queen : Because... you are unique.

• Borg Queen : Congratulations.

  Seven of Nine : Regarding?

  Borg Queen : Assimilation is complete.

  Seven of Nine : 300,000 individuals have been transformed into drones. Should they be congratulated as well?

  Borg Queen : They should be. They've left behind their trivial, selfish lives, and they've been reborn with a greater purpose. We've delivered them from chaos into order.

  Seven of Nine : Comforting words. Use them next time instead of "Resistance is futile." You may elicit a few volunteers.

• Borg Queen : We are Borg.

  Seven of Nine : [angrily]  I am an individual.

  Borg Queen : You're only repeating their words. You sound like a mindless automaton.

• Borg Queen : You've changed. Your exo-plating, your ocular implant. They've taken you apart... and they've recreated you in their own image - hair, garments - but at the core, you are still mine.

  Seven of Nine : The Borg have changed as well. I expected re-assimilation, not conversation.

  Borg Queen : I see they've also given you a sense of humor.

  Seven of Nine : My humor is my own.

  Borg Queen : Spoken like a true individual.

• Borg Queen : We don't want another drone. We want you.

  Seven of Nine : I will resist.

  Borg Queen : I know.

• Seven of Nine : The Borg believed I was unique, that I understood humanity. They were obviously mistaken.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : How so?

  Seven of Nine : I've betrayed the crew of Voyager, threatened you with assimilation. I did not expect you to return for me.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Looks like you still have a few things to learn.

• Seven of Nine : I am Annika Hansen, Human.

  Borg Queen : I remember Annika. Does she remember us? She wasn't afraid. Why are you?

• Borg Queen : Stop resisting. Take pleasure in this.

  Seven of Nine : I will not take pleasure in the destruction of a race!

  Borg Queen : Human sentiment. Compassion, guilt, empathy - they're irrelevant.

  Seven of Nine : Not to me.

  Borg Queen : "Me?" There is no 'me.' There is only 'us.' One mind.

  Seven of Nine : My thoughts are my own.

• Borg Queen , Seven of Nine : [respectively]  Our thoughts are one.

• Seven of Nine : You attacked us. You murdered my family!

  Borg Queen : We did no such thing. We gave them perfection.

  [one Borg steps forward into the light] 

  Seven of Nine : [aghast]  Papa?