Characters / Star Trek: Voyager - Seven of Nine

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Seven of Nine

Played By: Jeri Ryan

"I may no longer possess Borg perfection, but my experience as a drone has taught me to be efficient and precise."

Voyager's de facto Science Officer is a disconnected member of the Borg, the dominant species in the Delta Quadrant. Once a human girl named Annika Hansen, she and her family were the first Homo sapiens to be assimilated. Eighteen years later, she was assigned to Voyager as a liaison between Voyager and the Collective. After trying and failing to assimilate Voyager, she was liberated against her will and made an individual.

True to her name, Ryan was a lucky addition to the ensemble and is probably most responsible for VOY enduring seven years. Twenty years later, Ryan reprised the role on Star Trek: Picard.

Star Trek: Voyager

• The Assimilator: She still has her nanoprobes and, in her early appearances, would try to use them as any other Borg would.
• The Atoner: In "Memorial", she says her guilt reminds her of the terrible things she did in the service of the Collective. She doesn’t allow it to consume her but she keeps it there as a constant reminder.
• Badass Adorable: Seven is usually awed by science that could benefit her in some way and is almost endearing in her attempts to relearn her human nature, but the Borg also gave her a vast knowledge of the universe and super strength.
• Badass Pacifist: Seven is almost never violent. Her customary warning to people she does not trust ("State your intentions.") is usually enough.
• Blemished Beauty: At first, she came with all the many cybernetic appendages that typify Borg, but over time, these were removed and replaced with regenerated tissue or more natural-looking bionetic implants. Seven is mostly seen with a residual interface around her left eye, and little else. Seven is played by the pretty and shapely Jeri Ryan.
• Breakout Character: There is no question that Seven is one of the most popular characters in Star Trek history.
  Ian Grey: With her ice-blond hair frozen in a ‘50s up-do, her curves packed into a series of absurdly tight space-leotards, and a manner of often hilarious extreme hauteur, Seven of Nine was a sexually remote Hitchcockian fatale in SF drag, and one of the most richly imagined characters in TV history.
• Brutal Honesty: Seven has a tendency to be rather blunt with her opinions (often to the point of being rude) and usually doesn't soften them. In fact, she seems to revel in the indelicacy.
  Chakotay: Seven, I want good news and that's an order!
  Seven: Then I must disobey. I have no good news to report.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Just one glass of fake wine is enough to send her through a loop.
• Catchphrase: The Borg's motto "Resistance Is Futile", though surprisingly rarely. It is usually either a precursor to her Restraining Bolt having come loose and her Borg hardware thus re-asserting itself, or at least once (in an alternate universe scene where Janeway uses her and a group of Borg as a private army) as a bizarre expression of Patriotic Fervor.
  • Her personal catch verbal tic, however, is adding "(subject in question) is irrelevant" whenever she wants to assert her coldly logical worldview over more emotional speakers. She also sometimes tends to demand that people "comply" when she tells them to do something.
  • "State your intentions" also comes up frequently. She's not a "hi, how's it going" kind of lady.
• The Chanteuse: Seven of Nine plays one in a holoprogram set in German-occupied France. One benefit of her Borg implants is perfect pitch.
• Character Development: Seven's character development involves her rediscovering and learning to embrace her human side. Interestingly, a lot of this development involves Seven deciding what good traits about humanity are worth developing, and what (few) positive traits of the Borg are worth retaining. She outright states she has no interest in "merely" becoming "just" human.
• Character Tic: Particularly early on, whenever she was feeling uncertain about or analyzing some new facet of her burgeoning humanity, she would get a faraway look on her face, while at the same time her voice would get much softer and more hesitant.
• The Comically Serious: "Fun will now commence!" Most of her humor comes from how rigid and deadpan she is, regardless of how crazy her surroundings are.
• Consistent Clothing Style: Seven of Nine has several different catsuits.
• Continuity Snarl: Zigzagged, the Federation had some knowledge of their existence, based on encounters with surviving members of species that had been destroyed by them (such as the El-Aurians). However, empirical data on the Borg were extremely scarce: for example, there were descriptions of cube-shaped vessels, but no information on what Borg individuals looked like, other than rumors that they were cybernetically enhanced. It was explained as her family were studying the Borg and becoming the first assimilated humans. They had also broken Federation law in their obsessive pursuit of the Borg, even crossing the Romulan Neutral Zone. It was clear that by that point they were no longer in communication with Starfleet.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: To Kes after replacing her. Kes is an Ocampan who worked as a medical assistant to the Doctor while Seven is a former human turned Borg who becomes the science officer of the Voyager. While Kes leaves Voyager to explore her newfound telepathic powers after the events of "The Gift", Seven is reluctantly forced to join the Voyager and liberated against her will from the Collective, where she struggles to find her humanity at the start of her first appearance. Personality, Kes is The McCoy who is a Nice Girl and an Innocent Flower Girl, being The Heart who shows a caring personality towards her other crew members; by contrast, Seven is The Spock, who is notably emotionally detached from her crew members, preferring to use logic and analytical thinking over emotions, likely due to being from the Borg Collective for a long time where she had Lack of Empathy. Kes is mentally and physically older, but is actually younger than she looks. Seven is the opposite: she's physically in her 20s, but is mentally younger.
• Cutting the Knot: She tends to take the simplest, most straightforward steps to solving problems.
• Cyborg: She is a former Borg drone, and while her exoskeleton and the majority of her implants have been removed, she still possesses some cybernetic parts.
• Deadpan Snarker: Seven possesses a very dry sense of humor.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: From the cold Borg drone assimilating others to the idealistic Starfleet recruit caring for others.
• Dinner and a Show: Her first date leaves a lot to be desired. She and the hapless Lt. Chapman are both nervous, leading to a string of dinnertime disasters: Seven splitting a lobster with such ferocity that she splats Chapman in the face with it, and ballroom dancing with enough fervor to dislocate his shoulder. ("Someone to Watch Over Me")
  Chapman: ...Maybe we should order dessert.
  Seven: (deer in headlights expression) You wish to accelerate our social encounter.
• Distaff Counterpart: Seven combines the hard-headed pragmatism and social awkwardness of Spock, Data, and Odo without overtly aping any of them. She is also super-strong and possessed of extraordinary plot-solving cyborg skills.
  • In "Drone", a transporter accident mixed up some of Seven's nanoprobes with the Doctor's 29th-century emitter, spawning a Borg 500 years more advanced than the current crop. Sadly the Borg drone, nicknamed "One", is forced to commit suicide rather than allow itself to be assimilated by the Collective. This outcome is similar to what happened with Data's short-lived 'daughter', Lal, in "The Offspring."
• Do You Want to Copulate?: In one of her first episodes, she flat-out asks Harry Kim if he wants to copulate when she works out that he's trying to hit on her. A flustered Harry promptly backs out of the whole thing.
• Emotionless Girl: Averted; from her first episodes she's shown to have strong emotions beneath her Ice Queen hauteur — pride in her Borg nature, fear of being severed from the Hive Mind, disdain at being Surrounded by Idiots. Her apparent Lack of Empathy is actually due to Blue-and-Orange Morality; it takes her a long while to realise why the way the Borg Collective does things might be upsetting to others.
• Establishing Character Moment: From the moment she's unplugged from her alcove, Seven of Nine shows herself notably different from the childlike Hugh or the monotone Locutus. Her first words are, "I speak for the Borg" whereas past drones referred to themselves a "we". Unlike in "I, Borg" where this change signified a Borg drone becoming deprogrammed, it shows the extent to which Seven willingly identifies herself with the Collective. She's so proud of her Borg nature and aggressive towards Janeway that the Hive Mind can be seen silently pulling her back into line on one occasion.
• Eye Remember: Technobabble version. Her cadaver proves key to avertingVoyager's fate in 'Timeless'. Like the rest of the crew who weren't in the bottom decks when the ship crashed, Seven was perfectly preserved under the sheet of ice. The Doctor gerry-rigs a Borg temporal transmitter and Seven's cortical implant to make a miniature interplexing beacon to alert the crew in the past. All well and good, but this includes a rather startling shot of the EMH holding Seven's severed implant with the eyeball still attached(!).
• Fantastic Honorifics: Her full designation is "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01". Given that Unimatrix 01 is the Borg "capital", that places her right at the very core of the Collective.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: Enhanced by the Borg implant.
• Five Stages of Grief: Goes through all five in the Season 7 episode "Imperfection", when her cortical implant begins to degrade, threatening her life.
• Foil: To Captain Janeway, being that they are both science officers (since Janeway is a science officer in the past). The Captain is warm-hearted and looks out for the safety of others, in her crew or not, while Seven is a bit cold and mainly trying to find ways to adapt herself in order to get the mission completed first over the safety of others. However, both are noble people deep down underneath their cold shells.
• For Science!: The Hansens violated the Neutral Zone and a direct Federation order to stop researching the Borg. Magnus correctly guessed that a Borg cube would not take an interest in his science vessel or deem it a threat. However, once the Raven hitched a ride along one of the Borg's top-secret transwarp conduits to the Delta Quadrant, they became a liability to the Collective. The entire family was captured and assimilated when their cloaking technology fizzled out.
• Friend to All Children: She easily bonds with Naomi Wildman and gains hero worship from some Borg children.
• Full-Name Basis: Seven always refers to Naomi Wildman as "Naomi Wildman," or occasionally, "Naomi Wildman, subunit of Ensign Samantha Wildman."
  • Also considers being simply called "Seven" rather than "Seven of Nine" inaccurate but tolerable.
• Future Spandex: Where's the zipper? Oh right, there isn't one — it was GLUED ON. Jeri Ryan has stated that the wardrobe people who helped her into it knew her more intimately than her husband as a result, and she passed out twice due to how tight her first outfit was around the neck. Note: Michael Westmore said the Borg actors were glued into their suits, and had to be unglued if they needed to use the bathroom, so it's actually not without precedent. Apparently, it was the Doctor who was responsible for designing and replicating Seven's catsuits.
• Geeky Turn-On: Seven's succinct answers to the Doctor when he's busy pounding out a dating profile for her. What does she do in her spare time? "Regenerate." What about her likes and dislikes? "I dislike irrelevant conversation." What does she seek in life? "Perfection." When seeking out a mate Seven chooses several men that appeal to her. And the reasons? A flawless work record and efficacy!
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: Her Borg-enhanced eye can switch to X-ray vision.
• Hates Being Alone: Her transition towards being an individual is largely hung up by this. Within a few episodes, she is able to function on Voyager, insisting "Voyager is my collective", but being left truly on her own makes her very desperate. Seven nearly loses her sanity when she's tasked with watching over Voyager while the rest of the crew is in suspended animation in the episode "One". In another instance the aptly-named episode "Survival Instinct" shows that, when still a drone, Seven and three other drones were separated from the Collective. Seven, who was assimilated as a child, forcibly re-assimilated the other three, who were all assimilated as adults (including one Starfleet officer who was at Wolf 359), not out of any directive from the Borg, but because she was terrified of being abandoned.
• Hates Small Talk: If Seven doesn't like the way that a conversation is going, she'll declare that it's pointless and try to change the subject.
• Headbutting Heroes: Part of the reason she was brought onto the show was that the crew got along well and there was little opportunity for interpersonal drama.
• Head-Turning Beauty: The Borg Babe. Many a pelvis was thrust in her direction on Voyager, including the Doctor and Harry Kim's.
• Hidden Depths: "Someone To Watch Over Me" reveals that Seven has a beautiful singing voice with little training, explained in-universe as the result of one of her cyborg implants altering her vocal chords.
• Humanity Is Infectious: Seven gradually reclaims her humanity through her interactions with the crew. Q jokes that Janeway "housebroke" her by restoring her humanity.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: The Doctor was responsible for the design and creation of her form-fitting catsuits (Sorry... "dermaplastic garment") with the explanation that it mimics a Borg skinsuit — a balance of "functionality and aesthetics". He expresses hope that Seven will try on some casual wear in the future, though she fails to see the purpose in it.
• The Lancer: Often bluntly critical of Starfleet methods. Janeway tolerated this because of her Raised by Orcs nature, but had to pull her into line a few times.
• Ignored Epiphany: Seven was briefly disconnected from the Hive a few years before "Scorpion". Unlike the rest of her Unimatrix (Two of Nine, Three of Nine, and Four of Nine), Seven was raised by the Borg since childhood and had no prior memories to recollect. When the others agreed to make a break for it before the Borg came to collect them, Seven forcibly re-assimilated them. The embittered ex-drones turn up again in "Survival Instinct".
• Insufferable Genius: Although Seven is too collegial (just barely, anyway) to say it to their faces, she considers her own value to Voyager to be far above her crewmates'. Predictably, she approves of Seven of Nine groupie Naomi Wildman's attempts to emulate her, remarking dryly that "there are many on this crew that would benefit from your example." She most often butts heads with Chief Engineer Torres, due to Seven frequently telling the latter how to do her job or making modifications to the ship without clearing it with her first.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Naomi Wildman is the closest thing she has to a friend aboard Voyager, despite the fact that Seven is around the same age as Naomi's mother.
• Machine Monotone: Seven speaks in a stoic, largely emotionless tone.
• Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "X is irrelevant." The list of irrelevancies is abundant and could probably fill a phone book, but among them are: irreverent discourse, her favorite color (Red, natch), comfort, beauty, pleasure, food menus, foreign culture, gossip, life(!!), logic, collegiality, mythology, expertise, chance, and compassion.
• Mama Bear:
  • Not quite to Janeway's level, but she's definitely protective. Seven is shown to have grown a very strong bond with the Borg children she helped rescue and shows considerable concern for their well being. She even verbally attacks Icheb's birth parents on a few occasions in the episode "Child's Play". She extends this instinct to Naomi Wildman, especially noticeable in episodes like "Bliss".
  • She's also very protective of the crew as a whole. She's single-handedly saved all of them on a few occasions, almost killing herself in the process. And when everyone else wanted to make nice with (Evil Kes), she just pointed a phaser at her and said, "State your intentions!" In a way that sounded more like, you lay a hand on anybody here, and I will kick your ass! Everyone else there knew Kes and wanted to think well of her by default. All Seven saw, correctly, was a threat to her family.
• Ms. Exposition: The Astrometrics Lab grants her the power to map out this region of space, and she has accumulated vast knowledge of alien cultures from her time as a drone.
• Ms. Fanservice: A beautiful blonde with a stunning figure squeezed into a form-fitting catsuit.
• The Navigator: Seven of Nine uses Borg technology to create Voyager's Astrometrics lab, a 3D map of the space they're traveling through. It becomes her favorite haunt when not in the cargo bay she regenerates in.
• Nerves of Steel: She also seems to have a far more highly developed sense of personal dignity than you'd expect of an ex-drone — or perhaps she is simply accustomed to delivering ultimatums, rather than having to hear them. In any scene in which Seven is threatened, she throws the marauder aliens a side-eye before grading their evolutionary progress (usually poorly).
  Alpha Hirogen: Unusual relics are prized! Yours will make me envied by men and pursued by women!
  Seven: (barely fitting into the frame) You are a crude species. Only your size makes you formidable.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Her Borg implants and nanoprobes could do a great many things. Since the Borg are the most technologically powerful faction in the galaxy, and have an obsession with assimilation, it'd stand to reason their tech would have multiple functions.
• No Sense of Personal Space: A part of her No Social Skills behavior. Made even funnier in the beginning when the crew is still nervous around her.
• No Social Skills: Because she was a part of the Collective for several years, she has yet to figure how to properly interact with the crew. She gets progressively better later in the series.
• Not So Stoic:
  • Her icy demeanor first starts to crack when Seven realises she's severed from the Hive Mind. After the Doctor removes most of her Borg implants, she reacts with horror over how her body has been mutilated. When Janeway insists that she stay on Voyager and regain her humanity, Seven becomes agitated and frightened, at one point lashing out at Janeway in anger.
  • Faced with an ultimatum by a Hirogen Nazi — sing or die — she chooses death as the preferable alternative. When Tuvok tries to sway her with logic, she snaps, "Logic is irrelevant!" Even a Borg's patience has its limits, and crooning "Am I Blue" for an inferior species is a bridge too far.
  Seven: One day the Borg will assimilate your species—despite your arrogance. When that moment arrives, remember me.
  • When faced by her father as a Borg drone, even the proudly-Borg Seven can only whisper in horror, "Papa..."
  • During her month of enforced solitude in "One", she starts to crack as the stress of being truly alone for the first time in her life gets to her.
  • She visibly loses her temper several times during "Child's Play".
  • Her reaction to One being mortally injured. She was the only one visibly concerned and stayed close to him on his deathbed. Since he's practically her child, it makes sense that she develops a maternal bond with him.
  *near tears* "You are hurting me."
• Odd Friendship:
  • With the Doctor. Seven has to report for regular medical checkups because of her Borg implants, so she's forced to interact with him on a regular basis. The Doctor on the other hand thinks his own lessons in developing his personality to live among humans is relevant to Seven, so acts as her tutor. Something of a Pygmalion Plot evolves from this, but Seven firmly puts Doc in the Friend Zone when he tries to take it further.
  • Seven also becomes the Cool Big Sis to Naomi Wildman.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Far outpacing even the Vulcans among the crew. After her introduction, Seven's main role became supplying the Applied Phlebotinum required in any given episode. In this case, it was at least given justification by her having acquired an eidetic memory while a Borg drone, thus remembering vast amounts of information that the Borg had access to.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Justified Trope by dint of being assimilated at the age of 6 and consequently not being called "Annika Hansen" for decades. When Janeway asks if the crew can call her "Seven" instead of "Seven of Nine", she accepts this as "imprecise, but acceptable."
• Only Sane Man: She is by far the most pragmatic person on the crew, who tends to point out the idiocy or danger in actions that the crew is about to perform but is usually ignored.
• Parental Neglect: The Hansens were unconventional scientists studying the Borg. Instead of leaving their young daughter with a guardian of some kind, they brought her along to the Delta Quadrant and conducted their research in extremely close proximity. For context, the Borg were the most dangerous race known in the galaxy at that time. They apparently loved it (right up to the point they were assimilated) and even brought a Borg drone onto their ship and disregarded the danger to their daughter apart from briefly reassuring her that they would be fine. Seven later Lampshaded this, saying that people who put their own goals over the safety of their children don't deserve to be parents.
• Parental Substitute: She later became this to four creepy-ass Borg children they rescued. She wasn't always good at it but she wasn't terrible either. Their interaction was as much about Seven's continued Character Development as the kids', if not more. She also effectively became one for Naomi Wildman because the writers forgot that they hadn't killed off Samantha Wildman in her last appearance.
• Pragmatic Hero: Seven is completely direct and efficient, both in her social interactions and her work on the ship: she often disregards pre-established rules, and concepts such as honor or fairness, for the sake of efficiency, and more often than not, she doesn't see anything wrong with doing so.
  Seven: Cheating is often more efficient.
  • Played for laughs when she joins Tom in his Captain Proton holodeck program. As she's being menaced by Dr. Chaotica's evil robot, instead of playing the Damsel in Distress as she's supposed to, she takes a more direct approach.
    Seven: I am Borg. [rips out a fistful of wiring] The robot has been neutralized. May I leave now?
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: When she says "I am Borg!", prepare to get your ass handed to you.
• Properly Paranoid: Invoked during the events of "Child's Play". As it turns out, Icheb's parents weren't on the level, and it wasn't just her anxiety about losing him that was causing her to question their parental fitness and poke holes in their story.
  • It's averted in "The Voyager Conspiracy", when she essentially overdoses on raw data and starts concocting a series of absurd conspiracy theories to try and reconcile all the information that's flowing through her brain.
• Patriotic Fervour: While she did have PTSD from her assimilation and was angry with her parents for letting it happen, Seven frequently implied that she loved being a drone, to the point where, when the Queen invited her back to the Borg in 'Dark Frontier,' she was genuinely tempted. The concept of Borg patriotism is about as disturbing as you might expect, and her expression of it is one of the primary ways in which Seven intimidates people. If you ever hear her utter the Borg's Catchphrase, "Resistance is Futile," it is usually meant as an equivalent of "Victory or Death," from Warcraft's Orcs; which, given that both groups are VillainProtagonists, ultimately makes sense.
• Puny Earthlings:
  • Seven shilling transhumanism to anyone who’ll listen is a favorite gag of the show. She’s like the Ron Popeil of cybernetics.
  • She offers her Borg alcove to Tuvok as a substitution for Zen meditations ("A simple cortical implant will be required—" "Another time, perhaps."), and suggested to Naomi that she spend "several months of accelerated growth in a Borg maturation chamber" to reach adulthood faster.
• Raised by Orcs: Thanks to the actions of her parents she was raised by Borg. Deconstructed because while she retains several Borg enhancements (physical strength, eidetic memory, analytical mind, and a supply of nanoprobes), she has fully re-asserted her humanity within a couple episodes of being introduced. The character development comes from the fact that she was artifically aged after being assimilated as a child, and thus Never Grew Up, resuming her humanity with the emotional maturity and social skills of a 9-year-old in the body (and intellect) of a fully-grown adult. Seven's appearances in Star Trek: Picard shows a much more emotionally-developed Seven, but she is still a decade or so behind reasonable expectations for someone of her biological age in this regard, being headstrong and brash like an adolescent or a young adult despite being in her 50s.
• Relationship Upgrade: In the timeline where Voyager made it home without Admiral Janeway's meddling, she and Chakotay fell in love and married, with her death on an away mission leaving him a shell of himself. They're also mentioned to have begun a romance in the series finale; while both Robert Beltran and Jeri Ryan had been onboard with this subplot, they had approved only with the understanding that the relationship would be built up over several episodes. That didn't happen, something both actors remain miffed about decades later.
• Rogue Drone: Her basic character concept as an ex-Borg.
• Sanity Slippage: During her month of enforced solitude in "One", Seven starts to hallucinate and suffer from panic attacks as the stress of being truly alone for the first time in her life gets to her.
• Sore Loser: As losing means imperfection, the Borg make Nausicaans look staid by comparison. Janeway consoles Seven of Nine with a reminder than she won 4 of their 6 rounds of Velocity; Seven, still stomping around in a rage, seems to think that with her superior speed, strength and (ahem) age, she should have won every round!
• The Snark Knight: Even the Borg Queen remarks on her exemplary use of sarcasm.
• Some Call Me "Tim": "Seven Of Nine" is a bit cumbersome, and it wasn't long before most just stuck with "Seven."
• Space Clothes: Started off wearing an entirely silver 'dermaplastic garment', later replaced by more subtle Star-Spangled Spandex in different colors (perhaps her being in Astrometrics had something to do with the latter).
• Sour Supporter: Kate Mulgrew voiced concerns about Seven's tendency to overrule or question the Captain's decisions without reprimand (in other words, every Janeway/Seven scene from first to last).
• Spock Speak: Seven uses a somewhat custom version of this, which appropriately seems to have some elements of Robo Speak mixed in. As would be expected from a partial machine, Seven also tends to view the world in a very binary type of way for the most part, and has trouble with the concept of percentages.
• Split Personality: A techno-virus in one episode gives her at least seven alternate personalities of people she's helped assimilate. She's cured by the end of the episode, but not before to trying to mate with Torres (Klingon), lecturing Tuvok on security procedures (Vulcan), and offering to buy the ship's enormous Astrometrics viewscreen (Ferengi).
• The Spock: She can make the most rude and morbid comments without flinching a facial muscle, and insists on using "logic", except when it is irrelevant.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Her presence diverted a lot of attention away from the original cast. Later seasons can fairly be called "The Janeway and Seven Show, featuring The Doctor^note and the rest". The whole first half of Season 4 also very much comes off as the writers going nuts with their new toy, with Seven having a prominent focus in almost every episode.
• Statuesque Stunner: Jeri Ryan stands at 5'8 in a slim bodysuit that shows off her impressive figure.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: You can count the number of times Seven smiles (a genuine smile, that is, not practiced or forced) on one hand. Harry got her to blush by remarking that the Alpha Quadrant wouldn't be as fun without her.
• Surrounded by Idiots: She has to point out that "X is irrelevant" a lot.
• Token Evil Teammate: Or perhaps, Token Morally-Flexible teammate. Seven's fixation on efficacy and icy logic leaves little room for the kinder emotions. In fact, her early dismissal of the Voyager crew was due to their tendency to get bogged down in debate and indecision. Perhaps they could do with a little Borg uniformity...
• Token Heroic Orc: Although Seven was Human, she was assimilated by the Borg at the age of six and remained with them until she was rescued by the crew of Voyager. The Borg are, of course, one of Star Trek's most persistent villains. During her earlier episodes, her Restraining Bolt occasionally came loose, after which chaos predictably ensued.
• Toplessness from the Back: We see Seven naked in two different episodes, but only a top-half rear view is shown. This shot would be recycled on ENT, but with 22% more buttcrack.
• True Blue Femininity: Seven wore various silver or purple catsuits, but wore blue most in later seasons when Humanity Ensues.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Her full designation in the Borg Collective: "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One".
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In "Dark Frontier", the flashbacks to Seven's childhood before she was assimilated by the Borg show that she was a lot like Naomi Wildman at that age, which shows why the two got along so well.
• Wetware Body: This occurs in the Season 7 episode "Body & Soul". Hilarity Ensues when The Doctor is forced to download his program into Seven's consciousness.
• When She Smiles: As an Ice Queen Seven doesn't smile often, but when she does she puts her heart into it.
• You Are Number 6: Seven in this case. There are no individual Borg within the Collective, so there are no personal names.

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"Seven of Nine" / Annika Hansen

The ex-Borg Fenris Ranger from the Delta Quadrant.

Played By: Jeri Ryan

"You think of me as a vigilante, fine. Ranging is my job. It's not saving the galaxy, it's helping people who have no one else to help them. It's hopeless and pointless and exhausting, and the only thing worse... would be giving up."

Seen for the first time in years in Star Trek: Picard, Seven now works for the Fenris Rangers, a Vigilante Militia that tries to maintain order in the former Romulan Neutral Zone.

Star Trek: Picard

• Ace Pilot: Before they meet, Rios praises her as a magnificent pilot to his Emergency Tactical Hologram while she helps him fight off Kar Kantar.
• Action Girl: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", when she's engaged in an unarmed duel with Narissa, Seven proves to be tougher than a belligerent Zhat Vash operative.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: She plays the Vulcan game kal-toh with Raffi.
• Ambiguously Bi:
  • The exact nature of her relationship with Bjayzl is not spelled out; they were close enough to be on a First-Name Basis and there's clearly a deep level of personal bitterness in their confrontation. Seven in turn refers to herself as The One That Got Away (ostensibly referring to how she slipped out of Bjayzl's fingers despite her priceless Borg tech).
    Bjayzl: I take it you had no awareness of Annika and my close, personal relationsh—
    Seven: (shoving her down on the table) Shut up!
  • Along with Word of God, the final scene of "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" makes this a lot less ambiguous. Following a romantic kiss between Ríos and Jurati, Seven and Raffi interlace their fingers below deck, with romantic implications. In season 2 they end up making out.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", Narissa smashes Seven's face against a console. There's a little bit of blood on the side of the latter's mouth, but otherwise, Seven's gorgeousness hasn't been negatively affected.
• Big Damn Kiss: With Raffi in the season 2 finale.
• Big "NO!": As a Borg Queen, she gives one (with a Voice of the Legion no less) when Narissa spaces the entirety of the Artifact's drone complement in "Broken Pieces", just as Seven was about to take control of them.
• The Captain: of the Enterprise G. After all she had been through with Starfleet, she gets her own ship.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": After Bjayzl's betrayal, Seven refuses to go by her birth name Annika Hansen; instead, she prefers to be addressed by her former Borg designation. In season 3, this causes friction between her and Captain Shaw, who insists she go by her birth name.
• Drink-Based Characterization: When Picard offers her a drink, she requests, "Bourbon, straight up." It reflects her tough, blunt, no-nonsense personality, and it illustrates the Character Development she has gone through since Voyager, where she got tanked off one glass of champagne.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After all she's been through dealing with her attempts at making a career in Starfleet service, she is finally duly recognized by Command for her value and is given captaincy... of a Starship Enterprise.
• Electronic Eyes: In "Broken Pieces", her eyes light up with green Borg graphics when she becomes the Artifact's Queen.
• Fantastic Racism: Tried to apply to Starfleet shortly after the events of Voyager but was rejected due to being an ex-Borg. The fact that Janeway and likely most of her former crew went to bat for her made no difference.
• Field Promotion: Picard hands her a field commission in the last episode of Season 2, putting her in command of the Stargazer. She receives another one in the penultimate episode of Season 3, when Shaw is killed in a firefight with the Titan's assimilated crew and passes command to her with his last words. The field promotion is formalized when she is officially promoted to Captain and assigned command of the Titan, rechristened into the Enterprise NCC-1701-G.
• Firing One-Handed: Seven dual-wields a pair of phaser rifles. Possibly justified, as she has residual Borg-enhanced strength and dexterity to steadily heft and aim them both. (Plus, a phaser, as an energy weapon, would likely have little or no recoil anyway.)
• Foil: The cynical Seven of Nine and the idealistic Picard are former Borg drones who reacted very differently when the Federation reneged on its promise to aid the Romulan people. Seven became a vigilante who works for the Fenris Rangers in lawless regions that the Federation had abandoned, whereas Picard resigned from Starfleet and was inactive in interstellar affairs for the past fourteen years. They are human Parental Substitutes to non-human men, Icheb and Elnor, respectively. Seven maintained her close ties with Icheb because he helped her with the Fenris Rangers' reconnaissance while he was on leave from the USS Coleman, which contrasts Picard, who was a Disappeared Dad to Elnor since he quit Starfleet. Seven is too late to save Icheb's life on Vergessen, but Elnor arrives in time to save Picard's life on Vashti. Picard tries to convince Seven not to seek revenge for Icheb's death by killing Bjayzl and her gang of criminals, but Seven carries out the executions anyway.
• Functional Addict: On Voyager she got completely inebriated from a single glass of champagne. Now she is never seen drinking anything other than hard liquor, and it doesn’t seem to affect her. It would have taken years of dedicated boozing to develop that level of tolerance.
• Gunship Rescue: She makes her Star Trek: Picard debut by showing up in a small ship to help La Sirena battle an old Romulan Bird-of-Prey.
• Have We Met Yet?: She and Picard talk to each other in a familiar manner, yet Raffi is not sure if they've ever met before. It's implied this familiarity is from when they were both members of the Borg Collective.
• Heartbroken Badass: She is forced to kill Icheb after he is tortured beyond healing. As she considered him as practically her son, she spends the next thirteen years mourning him, but that doesn't stop her from being a badass member of the Fenris Rangers, or singlehandedly rescuing Picard and his crew from a Romulan warlord.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: The Fenris Rangers are a vigilante organization, and Picard doesn't approve of them appointing themselves judge and jury in violation of Federation law. Seven points out that there is no law where the Rangers operate, and she shows herself entirely willing to be the executioner.
• Knight in Sour Armor: She characterizes her work for the Fenris Rangers as being "hopeless and pointless and exhausting." She keeps working anyway. To her, "the only thing worse is giving up."
• Late Coming Out: Although Seven of Nine is implied to have had at least one lesbian relationship in the 2380s she's not publicly out until she begins a relationship with Raffi in 2401 at the age of 57.
• Letting Her Hair Down: She has Wild Hair in contrast to the French pleat she wore as the Borg Ice Queen on Voyager.
• Living Legend: Rios is in awe when he finds out from Raffi that Seven is the notorious ex-Borg Fenris Ranger from the Delta Quadrant.
• Mama Bear: She makes it clear that Icheb was the closest thing she would ever have to a son, and when presented with the opportunity to avenge his death, she takes it.
• Meaningful Appearance: The leather fingerless she wears as part of her ensemble in "Stardust City Rag" visually project that she's a steely Action Girl you don't want to mess with.
• My Greatest Failure: Bjayzl knew about Icheb from her relationship with Seven, and used the information to lure him into a trap.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: She's a Rogue Drone turned Ace Pilot Action Girl Vigilante Woman.
• Parental Substitute:
  • In continuation of her surrogate mother-son relationship with Icheb from Voyager, her final words to him are:
    Seven: (tearfully) I'm so sorry. My child.
  • According to Jeri Ryan in this interview, Seven is beginning to treat Elnor like a son figure in "Broken Pieces."
    Ryan: She, I think, feels so protective of Evan [Evagora]'s character, Elnor, who's sort of her young protégé, and I think she kind of views him as a surrogate son since she lost Icheb.
• Rank Up: As noted, she goes from a civilian Fenris Ranger to a commander in Starfleet thanks to Picard giving her a field commission at the end of Season 2. It sticks into Season 3 thanks to him and Admiral Janeway. At the end of Season 3, she is promoted to Captain by Tuvok and given command of the Titan-A, now rechristened the Enterprise-G.
• Revenge:
  • In "Stardust City Rag," when presented with the opportunity to kill Bjayzl, the crime lord who stripped Icheb for parts and left him to die, at first it seems like Picard talks her out of the murder. However, she teleports back and kills Bjayzl anyway.
  • In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", Seven states firmly just as she kicks Narissa to her death that she's doing this for Hugh.
• Same Character, But Different: She no longer speaks in a stilted robotic manner, or looks meticulously put together. On Voyager she advocated avoiding contact with aliens and giving up humanitarian efforts. Now she has dedicated her life to protecting people. She also shows more emotions, a stark contrast to her previous self who often speaks in an icy manner.
• Sixth Ranger: Her on-and-off appearances in Season 1 make her an ad hoc Sixth Ranger to La Sirena's crew. The final shot of "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" suggests that she has joined them permanently after their exploits on Coppelius.
• Super-Strength: When she fights Narissa in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", the former is stronger than the latter, so that means Seven is stronger than a Romulan woman (and Romulans are stronger than humans).
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Like everyone on Voyager, she knew how to wield a phaser when needed, but now she's an Ace Pilot vigilante Action Girl wielding Rifles Akimbo, the result of thirteen years as a Fenris Ranger in a region of space with no other form of law and order.
  • She takes another such leap in badass when she voluntarily becomes a temporary Borg Queen to unite the ex-drones aboard the Artifact and liberate them from the Romulan Free State. Even when she disconnects herself, she and the xBs still get the entire Cube out of it.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Her time with the Fenris Rangers, Bjayzl's betrayal and Icheb's death have made her a much more cynical person.
• Trust Password: This is what helps Seven locate the changeling disguised as Ensign Sydney LaForge aboard the Titan in Season 3 when it attempts to kill Shaw and sabotage the effort to escape the nebula. Seven foils it by elaborating "Commander what" to which the changeling replies "Hansen" - earning a shot to the chest. LaForge called her Commander Seven out of respect. Not to mention it doubles as a Take That! for Shaw who hated Seven and insisted on her going as Hansen. Shaw recognized it immediately.
• Voice of the Legion: When she temporarily assumes the Borg Queen mantle, she gains the reverberating, layered voice of other Borg, just with her voice dominant among the many.
• We Help the Helpless:
  • In a nutshell, her goal as a vigilante is to help those who have no one to help them in the lawless regions of the former Romulan Neutral Zone.
  • After Hugh's death, Seven has taken it upon herself to look after the xBs on the Artifact.
• Working with the Ex: As of the end of Picard, she's now the captain of the Enterprise-G with her ex-girlfriend Raffi as her first officer, though it doesn't appear to be causing any tension between the two of them.
• You Are in Command Now: After he's fatally wounded in a shootout with assimilated members of the crew, Captain Shaw gives her command of the Titan with his last words.

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