The Raven ( episode ) Seven of Nine experiences flashbacks , and believes that she is being called back to the Borg Collective . Summary . Teaser . On " Voyager " s holodeck , Captain Janeway is trying to teach Seven of Nine about the benefits of relaxation and having a hobby . She is doing so using her simulation , showing her how to sculpt with clay . Seven finds the whole idea of relaxation inefficient ; as a drone , she was assigned a task ; when she was done , she was given another ; that was efficient . But Janeway tries to get her to see that relaxation is important to life as a Human , which , like it or not , she is now returning to . In the process , she talks about da Vinci ' s prolific career as a scientist , and shows her one of his prototype gliders , hanging from the ceiling . The sight of it causes Seven to suddenly stand stock still , as if she were a statue herself . She has a vision of herself , running in terror aboard her parent ' s vessel . Drones relentlessly stride after her in pursuit , as the cold voice of the Borg Collective informs her of her fate : assimilation . She also sees a large , black , screeching bird flying through the corridors . And she hears a high - pitched voice , desperately calling her by her Human name : Annika . She snaps back to reality after being shaken by a very concerned Janeway , who asks her what is wrong . She does not know , she responds , voice tremulous . Act One . The Doctor examines Seven in the sickbay . Janeway is present . Seven describes her hallucinations . They have now occurred three times . Each time is the same : a terrifying pursuit by the Borg . But this confuses her : why would she fear the Borg ? Janeway and The Doctor suggest that she is reliving the trauma of her assimilation . But she rejects this ; they did not traumatize her , she insists ; they raised her . Having only been recently freed from them , after being one of them from since childhood , she has not yet realized just what they took from her and still sees them as her " people " . Janeway and The Doctor do not press the issue . Instead , The Doctor turns his attention to another part of her returning Humanity : her need to eat . Seven , as expected , finds " oral consumption " inefficient . But , like it or not , she has to do it ; her digestive system has recovered enough to make it necessary . He gives her a PADD containing recommended nutrition for her , and instructs her to take it to Neelix in the mess hall , for her first meal since being de - assimilated . Commander Chakotay calls Janeway from the bridge ; USS " Voyager " is approaching a region of space that is controlled by a species known as the B ' omar . Janeway wants " Voyager " to be allowed to cross it ; going around would take far too long . But they need the B ' omars ' permission , and the B ' omar are being difficult , to say the least . After assuring Seven that they will get her through whatever is happening to her , Janeway heads for the bridge . In the briefing room , Janeway , Chakotay , and Tom Paris meet with two members of the B ' omar government , called the B ' omar Sovereignty . The two representatives , Councilor Dumah and Gaumen , insist with an air of arrogant superiority on a very long , round - about path that " Voyager " will have to follow , which avoids any " " populated areas , industrial centers and military complexes " " . The path appears even longer than the detour . Further , they insist that " " While in our space , your vessel will not exceed warp three , and your weapons systems will remain off - line . You will avoid unnecessary scans and you will not conduct surveys of any kind . You will make no attempt to explore our space and you will avoid all communications with nonmilitary craft . " " Janeway will also have to submit " Voyager " to seventeen inspection points along the way . The captain puts her most diplomatic face on to cover her stunned feelings , and asks politely if they will consider a more direct route . Their response is merely a look of palpable disdain . In the mess hall , Neelix greets Seven happily and takes the PADD from her . He reads The Doctor ' s recommendations . But it is merely a list of nutrients in the prescribed amounts ; hardly appetizing , he opines . He figures a meal of chadre ' kab would meet the requirements and taste good too , but Seven could not care less . Nor does she care about how he prepares it ; when he asks her , she responds that preparation is " " irrelevant " " . So he makes the decision , deciding that steamed would be easiest for her still - fragile digestive system to handle . He prepares the meal in his kitchen . During this , Seven recognizes Neelix ' species ; Talaxian , or species 218 to the Borg . She notes that a freighter with a crew of 39 Talaxians was assimilated in the Dalmine sector – their dense musculature made them excellent Borg drones . Neelix , unnerved by this but hiding it with humor , guides Seven to a table . This is another act she is uncomfortable with but has to get accustomed to ; Borg do not sit . Ever . He places the plate before her , then trains her in the act of eating : dip spoon in , lift to mouth , put food in mouth , close mouth , chew and swallow . It seems amusing , but it is necessary ; she has no idea whatsoever how to do it . But as she takes a second mouthful , she encounters she stops . Seven experiences a vision of a Borg drone screaming . The sound is identical to the black bird from her earlier visions . She stares , seemingly to Neelix at nothing . Then , as he watches in shock , a star - shaped Borg implant emerges from the skin on her right hand and spreads out on it . She drops the fork and groans in pain but as she stares at her new implant , she says " " You will be assimilated , " " . She looks up at Neelix . Her manner becomes cold , drone - like . " " Resistance is futile , " " she intones , then rises and shoves Neelix backward so hard he lands on the floor , dazed . She exits the room , striding in the implacable , relentless manner of a drone with a task to perform , as shocked crewmembers rush to the Talaxian ' s aid . Act Two . Janeway , and Chakotay try their best to negotiate a shorter route with the B ' omar . Lieutenant Paris has joined the meeting since his responsibilities as flight controller make his input valuable . But the B ' omar do not budge , arrogantly rejecting every suggestion they make . Then Lieutenant Commander Tuvok calls from the bridge and informs them that Seven has gone on a rampage and has attacked three crewmen after leaving the mess hall . Janeway tries to call her , but gets no answer . Chakotay orders Tuvok to get a security team to her location to stop her . Seven strides through the corridors , heading toward the armory . Security officers attempt to stop her with phaser stun blasts . But they fail utterly ; her Borg shielding is again online . Since she is fully aware of the phasers ' power and frequencies , the officers do not get the usual delay before the adaptive shielding nullifies their weapons . On the bridge , the B ' omar are shocked and angry , confronting Janeway : " " You have Borg on your ship ? ! " " Janeway assures them that Seven is not Borg anymore , but is at a loss to explain why , then , she has Borg shielding . Meanwhile , Seven gets a phaser rifle from the armory and continues on , this time heading for the shuttle bay . She boards a turbolift . When she exits the lift , a team led by Tuvok greets her . Tuvok warns her to stand down , but she ignores him . They fire , but , as with with the security officers before , they hit nothing but shield . She fires back , downing Ayala and another security officer . Tuvok reports the failure to Janeway , as Seven heads for the door to the bay . At Janeway ' s order , Ensign Kim puts up a force field to prevent her from getting to the door . But she uses a computer wall console to initiate a site - to - site transport through the force field , beaming aboard a shuttlecraft . Janeway orders the bay ' s outer door sealed . But this does not stop her ; she actually crashes the shuttle through the doors , using its shields , which she has enhanced , to prevent damage to it . She flies off . Act Three . In the captain ' s ready room , Janeway asks the B ' omar for permission to pursue her into their space , but they sneeringly refuse , questioning her competence . Janeway keeps her cool , requesting that they work together . The B ' omar make it clear : there will be no cooperation . " Voyager " will remain at least 5 light year s from B ' omar space . The B ' omar will track Seven ' s shuttle and destroy it and her on catching it . Janeway coldly orders Chakotay to take them to the transporter room . Later , Janeway is in Cargo Bay 2 , essentially Seven ' s quarters , supervising crewmembers as they check Seven ' s regeneration alcove and all other Borg equipment there for any clue as to the cause of her behavior . Chief engineer B ' Elanna Torres has discovered a Borg data link in an alcove , containing log entries written in Borg alphanumeric code . Kim plans to translate it as he has become adept in Borg language . Chakotay arrives and informs her that the B ' omar have doubled their border patrol and increased the sensitivity of their border ' s perimeter security grid . He then muses that perhaps attempts to rehabilitate Seven into Humanity were doomed to failure ; even if she wanted to stay on " Voyager " , it may be that her Borg nature simply won out . But Janeway stoutly refuses to accept this . " " She was responding to us ; interacting with people outside of the Collective for the first time . She was adapting to this environment and to this crew , " " she insists . But the bigger question now is : where is she going ? It cannot be Borg space ; that is ten thousand light years away ; it would take thousands of temporal years in a shuttle . Long range scans show no Borg vessels anywhere . Janeway and Chakotay then go to the Sickbay . The Doctor has something to show them . He has looked at the matter conversion data from Seven ' s site - to - site transport . The data shows that previously dormant nanoprobe s in her cells have become active ; they have , as is usual with nanoprobes assimilating tissue , taken over blood cell production and are creating new implants , including the ones that he took out when he de - assimilated her . Though he cannot guess as to why the nanoprobes activated , he does have a way to stop them . He shows them a hypospray with a genetic resequencer to shut them down again . But someone , then , will have to get close enough to use it . This will not be easy , not to mention dangerous . Janeway takes the hypospray to the bridge , where Tuvok and Paris are working on a plan to get into B ' omar space and retrieve Seven . The plan involves using a shuttle whose shields have been suitably modified to mask the craft from the B ' omar security grid . But it will not be able to communicate with " Voyager " once inside . Janeway approves and gives Tuvok the hypospray . She also orders Tuvok to use " " any force necessary " " to stop Seven , should the hypo ' s contents not work . No matter what , the Borg are " not " getting her back . In B ' omar space , Seven ' s shuttle heads toward an unrevealed destination . Seven suffers another vision , this time cowering under a desk as she sees two drones reach for her . Then the sound of an alarm on the shuttle ' s control console snaps her out of it . B ' omar patrol ships surround her . Act Four . The B ' omar warn her to proceed no further . Her face merely registers cold contempt as she effortlessly uses her phasers to disarm and incapacitate every one of the patrol ships . That done , she continues on . Tuvok and Paris , pursuing her in a Class 2 shuttle , detect the battle and the results : no B ' omar casualties , but their ships are no longer capable of doing a thing . Paris locates the shuttle and Tuvok orders an intercept . They catch up to it , but Seven ' s re - emerged Borg implants prevent her from being beamed off . Tuvok decides that he will beam to her and administer the hypo ' s contents . Paris reminds him of how dangerous that is : strong as Tuvok is , Vulcan strength is not a match for Borg strength . Tuvok responds that this is the only chance they have ; he will try to use the element of surprise on her . Paris beams him to the back of Seven ' s shuttle . She is waiting for him . She engages him as soon as he fully materializes . Tuvok goes for a Vulcan nerve pinch . She deflects and , to Tuvok ' s great surprise , succeeds in applying the very same move on him , knocking him out . She then disables Paris ' s shuttle . On waking , Tuvok finds that Seven , at the pilot ' s controls , has put up a level - 5 force field between him and her . He asks her why she left " Voyager " . " " I am Borg , " " she replies . No , Tuvok insists . She " was " Borg , but is now Human again , and is part of " Voyager " s crew . Seven insists not , with sadness in her voice : she will always be Borg . Tuvok asks her what prompted her to realize this . She responds that she is following a Borg resonance frequency from a Borg ship that is waiting for her . Then , before she can stop herself , she rises , advances on him and coldly states the Borg species designation for Vulcans and the abilities of the species that make Vulcans " worthy " of assimilation . But before she can do what a drone faced with such a target would do , she catches hold of herself and returns to her seat . She tells Tuvok to return to " Voyager " and thank Janeway for the kindness she has shown her . Tuvok notes her demonstrated affection and sentiment . This proves , he presses , that she is not Borg . He then asks her if hallucinations are normal for a drone responding to a Borg resonance signal . Her answer : no . But , she continues , frightened , she can hear them . Tuvok , in a calm , reassuring tone , suggest that she drop the force field ; they can return to " Voyager " together and find out what is happening to her . For a moment , she is on the verge of agreeing . But then she hears the Collective again and bluntly insists that she must rejoin it , and returns to piloting . Aboard " Voyager " , Janeway and Kim are reviewing Seven ' s personal log entries . But they show no clue as to the cause of what has happened to her . It seems like another dead end . That is , until they come to the parts where she describes her hallucinations . Janeway reads one of the entries . In it Seven speaks of a large , black bird . In her precise , Borg - like manner , she describes its features : black feathers , wingspan approximately one and a half meter s , yellow eyes , powerful beak . She then describes her feelings of fear on seeing it as it watches her . Janeway , a scientist herself by training , recalls that the ornithological description matches that of a crow or a raven . Epiphany hits her . She now knows exactly where Seven is going and what has triggered her behavior . She and Kim rush to the bridge , where she orders scans for Starfleet vessels other than the two shuttlecraft , and then has the officer at the helm set a course for B ' omar space . Act Five . Seven ' s shuttle approaches a small moon of a a B ' omar planet . She informs Tuvok that the signal is coming from the surface ; the Borg await her there . But her fear of meeting them troubles her , as it did before . Tuvok offers to go with her . This puzzles and concerns her ; he would be assimilated . But Tuvok does not think so ; the situation is not what it seems . Seven considers , agrees , drops the force field , and he joins her . Meanwhile , " Voyager " contacts Paris ' shuttle . He informs Janeway of the situation : he lost contact with Tuvok when he beamed over to Seven ' s shuttle , but he tracked her shuttle to the moon it was seen going to . He has also detected the Borg signal , but , of course , cannot identify it . Janeway orders him to try to locate Seven and Tuvok on the moon . But he must act quickly ; B ' omar ships are closing in on him . The moon ' s terrain is rugged , full of mountain ranges and deep canyons . Seven and Tuvok beam down and follow the signal . They round a corner and find , perched precariously on the edge of a cliff , the long - abandoned remains of a vessel . Tuvok scans it ; it is of the Federation , partially assimilated by the Borg . No life signs . Tritanium decay places it as being there for almost the last 20 years . It is the , Starfleet registry NAR - 32450 . They enter through an opening in the hull and make their way carefully to the bridge , where Seven finds a device emitting a pulsing green light . This is the source of the Borg resonance frequency . She turns it off . Then she experiences a hallucination more terrifying than any of the previous ones . She is a child . She sees a man and a woman , her parents , being dragged away by Borg drones . They scream at her to run and hide . She tries to do so , hiding behind a console . But she is found . She cringes and cries out in terror as two drones reach for her . A look of terror suffuses Seven ' s face . She quickly hides under a console , cowering and crying . Tuvok goes to her , reassures her and brings her back out . She looks around . And in the manner of a child , she tells Tuvok about that day 18 years ago when she and her parents were assimilated . For the first time , she is beginning to see just what the Borg did to her and her life . Tuvok surmises that the signal must have been active all that time , and " Voyager " passed within range of it , causing her behavior . Then the ship shakes violently . The B ' omar have found them . They make their way quickly to the opening through which they entered . " Voyager " arrives at the moon . Three B ' omar vessels are seen firing at the surface . On the bridge , Kim informs Janeway that their hail s are being ignored . Janeway orders Chakotay to target their weapons . She orders a status report from Paris ; he informs her that he has found Seven and Tuvok , but interference is making beaming them out difficult . Chakotay reports to Janeway that two of the B ' omar ships are disabled . The third one hails . It is Gaumen . He angrily warns Janeway that she is committing an act of war . Reinforcements are coming . Janeway responds that he left her no choice , and has Kim cut the communication . Seven and Tuvok find the opening they entered through is now blocked . Fortunately , they clear it and manage to get out of the remains of the " Raven " . They get far enough in time to turn and watch as the remains shear away and crash into the gorge below . Then Paris ' transporter beam takes them . Paris informs Janeway that he has them . Kim informs her a fleet of 68 B ' omar ships is approaching . Janeway orders the officer at the helm to remove " Voyager " from B ' omar space at warp eight as soon as the shuttle is aboard . Later , Janeway finds Seven on the holodeck , running the Da Vinci simulation . She informs her that The Doctor has found a way to adjust her implants so that she no longer receives any Borg homing signals . Seven thanks her , then goes quiet . She then recalls to Janeway that Janeway had told her that this was a place to encourage imagination . She wonders aloud that she now find herself imagining what her life would had been like had she and her parents never been assimilated . They , not the Borg , would have influenced what she would have become . Janeway suggests that , if she would like to know more about her parents , she can read about them in the ship ' s database . Although they were unconventional , " they were fairly well known . . . for some unique scientific theories . " Seven thanks her , bids her goodnight , and leaves . Memorable quotes . " " You are . . . Talaxian . " " " " Guilty as charged . " " " " Species Two One Eight . " " " " I suppose so . " " " " Your biological and technological distinctiveness was added to our own . " " " " I hadn ' t realized that . " " " " A small freighter . . . containing a crew of thirty - nine . Taken in the Dalmine Sector . They were easily assimilated . Their dense musculature made them excellent Drones . " " " " Lucky for you , I guess . Your nutrients . " " " " It happened here . This is where it began . This is where I was assimilated . This was our ship . We lived here . We lived here for a long time . My father did experiments . They were very important and we had to travel a long way . I had my birthday here . My cake had six candles on it and . . . and one more to grow on . And then the men came . Papa tried to fight them , but they were too strong . I tried to hide . Maybe they wouldn ' t find me because I was little . But they did . And then Papa said we were going to crash and the big man picked me up and then suddenly , we weren ' t on this ship anymore . We were somewhere else . And then I became Borg . " " " " The first rule is : don ' t be afraid of the clay . " " " " I fear nothing . " " " " I mean you can ' t concern yourself with making a mistake . " " " " Curious sensation . " " " " You ' ll get used to it . Have some more . " " Links and references . 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