Seven of Nine
Seven of Nine is a female television character who features in Star Trek.
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Biography
Origin
Annika Hansen was a female human who lived in the 24th century as a citizen of the United Federation of Planets where she was born on Tendara Colony on Stardate 25479 with her being the daughter of scientists Magnus Hansen and his wife Erin Hansen. (VOY: Dark Frontier) During her childhood, she never visited Earth. (VOY: Hunters) Annika once stayed with her Aunt Irene. Her favorite treats were strawberry tarts, which Irene used to coax Annika out of a guest room in which she had locked herself. She was very strong-willed and did not hesitate to point out if the strawberries used in baking the tarts were not perfectly ripe. (VOY: Author, Author)
Annika's parents were exobiologists investigating the existence of the Borg. After a great deal of persuasion, the Federation granted the Hansens the use of the USS Raven, a small long-range craft, to aid them in their investigation. During the late 2340s, they took Annika who was 4 years old at the time along with them. They spent a good deal of time aboard the Raven in search of the Borg. (VOY: Dark Frontier) One memorable event Annika shared aboard the vessel during their three year trek was the celebration of her sixth birthday: her birthday cake, at the time, had six candles, with one to grow on. (VOY: The Raven) At some point, the Hansens encountered a Borg cube and followed it through its transwarp conduit into the Delta Quadrant, the Borg's region of origin. They gathered a great deal of scientific data on the biology of Borg drones and the nature of the Collective by moving undetected through Borg space due to multi-adaptive shielding, invented by Magnus Hansen. They even went aboard Borg vessels, using bio-dampeners to remain undetected. Their research came to an abrupt end in 2350 when an ion storm struck the Raven. The ship sustained damage, including, most importantly, damage to the multi-adaptive shielding, which went off-line for 13.2 seconds. This left them exposed long enough for the Borg to detect them and perceive them as a target for assimilation. The Hansens tried to evade pursuit by masking the Raven's warp trail, but the Borg still managed to pursue and find them. (VOY: Dark Frontier)
In late 2373, the Borg were involved in a war with Species 8472 when the USS Voyager was caught between the two belligerents. Seeking to protect her crew, and being made aware of the extreme threat to the galaxy posed by Species 8472, Captain Kathryn Janeway forged an alliance with the Borg, offering them the technology behind modified Borg nanoprobes which could be used as biological photon torpedo warheads against their common enemy, in exchange for safe passage through Borg space and non-assimilation. The Collective assigned Seven of Nine to work with Voyager to develop the weapon. When her cube sacrificed itself to save Voyager from an attacking 8472 bio-ship, she and a small number of drones beamed onto Voyager to continue the work. Janeway was severely injured, leaving her first officer, Commander Chakotay, in command. Seven of Nine wanted Voyager to go to another cube, but Chakotay refused. The drones attempted to commandeer Voyager's navigation systems to take it to the nearest cube, but Chakotay decompressed the deck the drones were on, blowing them into space. Seven of Nine, however, managed to remain aboard. Instructed to do so by the Collective, she took Voyager into Species 8472's realm, forcing deployment of the modified nanoprobe torpedoes to protect the ship. A recovered Janeway resumed command and reinstated the alliance. The torpedoes proved effective. Now vulnerable, Species 8472 retreated. However, the Collective broke the alliance and Seven of Nine attempted to take Voyager to be assimilated. But this was anticipated and a contingency plan was successfully enacted which permanently severed her link to the Collective. Janeway decided to keep Seven of Nine aboard. (VOY: Scorpion)
Voyager
The transition back to Humanity was difficult for Seven of Nine. She appeared to accept her severance from the Collective, but tried to contact it at the first opportunity. She was stopped, however. (VOY: The Gift) The Doctor, Voyager's holographic chief medical officer, was able to remove most of her implants and restore most of her Human appearance, but her long-term assimilation meant that some parts were vital to her survival and could not be removed. She also refused to be called by her name of Annika Hansen as Seven of Nine was the designation she had always known. She would, however, accepte a shortened version of he designation and go under the name 'Seven' at the suggestion of Captain Janeway. (VOY: Day of Honor) Shortly after Seven was freed from the collective, Voyager neared a moon in B'omar space, the location of the crashed wreck of the Raven, which had been partially assimilated by the Borg when they caught it. A Borg homing beacon aboard was still active. Seven began experiencing visions of a raven and flashbacks to the time she was assimilated. The beacon reactivated several of Seven's nanoprobes, giving her an irresistible drive to find the source of the beacon. She escaped Voyager in a shuttlecraft and flew to the moon, discovered the ship and recovered the entire memory of her assimilation. (VOY: The Raven) Seven of Nine found herself as the sole line of defense when the Voyager crew began suffering from an array of increasingly severe, unexplained medical anomalies. While collaborating with the ship's Doctor to run a diagnostic, she discovered that the ship was being covertly occupied by an invisible, out-of-phase alien species called the Srivani, who were using the crew as non-consensual test subjects for agonizing medical experiments. Because her unique Borg ocular implants could be modified to see through their cloaking frequency, she had to navigate the ship alone to gather data while avoiding the foreign researchers' detection. After the aliens threatened to destroy the ship to protect their data, Seven of Nine assisted Captain Janeway in a high-stakes standoff, successfully forcing the invaders to flee the vessel and saving her crewmates from further anatomical torture. (VOY: Scientific Method)
Picard
In time, she came to be part of the Fenris Rangers who operated in that region of space as a band of vigilantes that looked to maintain some semblance of order. (PIC: Stardust City Rag)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Seven of Nine appeared as a human female of Caucasian descent with a tall, highly toned, and physically striking stature. She possessed long, blonde hair that she kept styled in a severe, tightly wound bun, which complemented her rigid and emotionless facial expressions. Her body was a stark hybrid of human anatomy and industrial technology, featuring a highly distinct mechanical Borg eyepiece implant over her left brow and a metallic, segmented cybernetic plating that entirely covered her left hand and forearm. Following the medical emergency that severed her hive link, the ship's doctor surgically removed 82 percent of her external hardware. Because her remaining, internal bionic infrastructure could not support standard Starfleet fabrics, she was clothed in a skin-tight, form-fitting silver bodysuit designed to compress and stabilize her internal biomechanical implants. (VOY: Scorpion, Part II)
Her favorite color growing up was red. (VOY: The Gift)
She wanted to grow up to be a ballerina. (VOY: One Small Step)
She had stated that Icheb was like a son to her. (PIC: Stardust City Rag)
Skills and abilities
Due to the age she was when she was assimilated, much more of her body contained Borg implants compared to other specimens thus making her a valuable specimen for people collecting these cybernetic parts. (PIC: Stardust City Rag)
Seven of Nine possessed extraordinary physical attributes and unique technological traits resulting from her extensive cybernetic assimilation by the Borg. Her internal physical structure was reinforced by a complex framework of artificial components, granting her superhuman physical strength and a level of durability far exceeding that of an ordinary human. Her bloodstream was entirely infused with millions of microscopic, self-replicating robotic devices called nanoprobes, which could automatically repair cellular damage, fight off biological infections, or be injected into external machinery to rewrite foreign computer code. Furthermore, her neural architecture retained an active cortical node and a specialized interplexing transceiver, allowing her to process data at computational speeds, access vast archival knowledge databases of assimilated alien species, and interface directly with complex cybernetic networks. (VOY: Scorpion, Part II)
Notes
- Seven of Nine was portrayed by actor Jeri Ryan where she featured in the setting of the Star Trek universe.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Star Trek: Voyager:
- Star Trek: Picard: (2020)
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