Line #35 Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E6TheRaven


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[Literature/TheRaven "...Nevermore."]]]]
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4	While Seven begins to re-learn how to be a human, she suddenly experiences a flashback to her assimilation. This prompts her to begin exploring her former life, with her parents. Meanwhile, Janeway attempts to negotiate passage through a section of space 'owned' by the B'omar, a territorial species...
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6	!!This episode provides examples of:
7	* TwoDSpace: The circuitous route through B'omar space is mapped on a 2D plane, with the ship forced to navigate obstacles like a 2D maze.
8	* AssInAmbassador: The two B'omar officials are condescending and rude to the crew, seemingly just because they can.
9	* CatchPhrase: When Seven suddenly says, "You will be assimilated. [[ResistanceIsFutile Resistance is futile]]" you know it's not good.
10	* ComfortFood: Seven is told that her human physiology has developed enough that it's time to start the inefficient process of eating. This is just after her first nightmare, so this subtext is implied also. Neelix tries in vain to explain the joys of eating.
11	* CuttingTheKnot:
12	** When faced with a stronger-than-usual force field, Seven just beams directly into a shuttle.
13	** Janeway and Tuvok try in vain to convince the B'omar to let them take a shorter route. In the end ''Voyager'' just barges through at Warp 8, pursued by an armada of B'omar warships.
14	* DarkAndTroubledPast: THE darkest and most troubled of any main cast member of Star Trek, we begin to explore Seven's past here.
15	* EurekaMoment: When Janeway discovers the nature of the bird from Seven's hallucinations, she knows what to look for: the ''U.S.S. Raven'', the Hansens' ship...
16	* FaceHeelTurn: Seven's flashbacks make her perform one, apparently. But Janeway refuses to accept this.
17	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
18	** Janeway suggests that Seven create her own holodeck program to explore aspects of her life that wouldn't fit into her life as a Borg. She might not have given that advice if she knew it would [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E16HumanError inflict the horrors of C/7]].
19	** Janeway encourages Seven to read her parents logs. However she avoids the task until [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E15DarkFrontier "Dark Frontier"]], in which the BackStory of the Hansens plays an important part.
20	* HeroicBSOD: The strongest of Seven's flashbacks, involving her parents being taken away by the Borg and her hiding from them but being pulled out, induces this when she and Tuvok find the ''Raven''.
21	* HereWeGoAgain: A flashback to her father in great pain from being assimilated begins to regenerate Seven's implants, including her adaptive shields and what we initially think is her HiveMind link...
22	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: ''Seven'' manages to nerve pinch ''Tuvok''.
23	* HyperspeedEscape: Having already pissed off the B'omar by flying into their space and firing on their vessels to rescue Seven, Janeway just has them haul ass to the other side at Warp 8.
24	* InformedAttribute: Seven says that the dense musculature of Talaxians makes them highly suited to manual labor. None of the Talaxians we've seen have ever demonstrated significant strength.
25	* JerkassHasAPoint:
26	-->'''Gauman:''' Let's [[ListOfTransgressions tally the events]], shall we? First, you arrive uninvited and unwelcome, requesting a shortcut through our space. Then you proceed to unleash some sort of rogue Borg and now you want us to help you get it back.
27	-->'''Janeway:''' I apologise for what's happened here, but we certainly didn't unleash anyone. We can resolve this situation quickly, gentlemen, if we work together.
28	-->'''Gauman:''' Captain Janeway, after what I've seen here, I question your competence.
29	* LaymansTerms: Hypnogogic regressions = flashbacks.
30	* LethalChef: The crew has become so accustomed to taking shots as Neelix's culinary skills that even the Doctor joins in despite having never tasted it.
31	* NightmareSequence
32	* NotHelpingYourCase: Janeway is trying to negotiate with the paranoid B'omar when Seven sprouts Borg implants, steals a shuttle, and flies directly into their space.
33	* NoSell: Before her shields adapt to the phasers, a stun blast has no effect on Seven. And she walks right through a force field, shorting it out.
34	* NoSocialSkills: Seven instinctively rattles off facts about the Talaxians' usefulness to the Collective as drones, while Neelix is preparing her first actual meal in a while. Neelix, to his credit, doesn't let it rattle him.
35	* NotSoStoic: Seven's first flashback evokes her very first fearful reaction. Her tone is significantly lighter when she is in this mindset.
36	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The B'omar apply heavy restrictions to ''Voyager'''s presence in their sector, including a ridiculously circuitous course and frequent checkpoints.
37	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Seven loses her Borg stoicism when she boards the derelict ''Raven'', speaking in an almost childlike tone as she relives memories of her childhood and the day her family was assimilated.
38	* PuppyDogEyes: Seven looks particularly wide-eyed and vulnerable in this episode.
39	* RightBehindMe: Seven apparently anticipated Tuvok's move to beam into her shuttle, and was ready for him. HoistByHisOwnPetard!
40	* ShortCutsMakeLongDelays: The B'omar try to invoke this, giving ''Voyager'' a bunch of regulations that would make cutting through their space take longer than just going around.
41	* ShoutOut: As Seven's first meal since being freed from the Borg, Neelix prepares a Talaxian dish, Chadre'kab, named partly after the Chandra-Fan alien species from ''Franchise/StarWars''.
42	* SpaceClothes: The B'omar have the bizarre alien version.
43	* SwissCheeseSecurity: Despite losing most of her Borg implants in "The Gift", Seven is still able to leave ''Voyager'' by [[ImmuneToBullets generating a personal forcefield]] (though it's implied her implants have started replicating again), take a compression phaser rifle from the armoury, break through several {{Forcefield Door}}s and Tuvok's security team, and steal a shuttle.
44	* ThereWasADoor: Seven blasts out of the shuttle bay doors after Janeway orders them sealed.
45	* ThisMeansWar
46	-->'''Gauman:''' You're committing an act of war, Captain.
47	-->'''Janeway:''' You've left me no choice, Chancellor.
48	* TrueCompanions: Tuvok is very brave in potentially facing down several Borg drones with Seven, but he is suspicious of the whole situation...
49	* VoiceOfTheLegion: Subverted when it turns out the Borg Collective's voice is just from Seven's memories.

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