Retrospect ( episode ) Seven believes that a visiting weapons merchant assaulted her . Summary . Teaser . Captain Janeway is bargaining with Kovin , a self - interested Entharan trader , about the purchase of an isokinetic cannon . After a demonstration , Janeway is convinced and trades isolinear chip s and astrometric database maps . He agrees , and , additionally , offers to help install it for a fee . Despite misgivings about her attitude , Janeway agrees to have Seven of Nine work on the installation as well since she has been " behaving herself " lately . Chakotay orders her to engineering , and she reluctantly agrees , still sore about her confinement . There , she clashes with Kovin as he contradicts several suggests and conclusions from Lieutenant B ' Elanna Torres and herself . He looks over her shoulder while working on it , then impatiently pushes Seven out of the way . This is all she will tolerate and deliberately punches him in the jaw . Kovin falls to the ground as Torres and Ensign Ashmore hold her . Act One . The Doctor easily treats Kovin ' s injury , but he ' s clearly shocked . Janeway tries to understand why Seven attacked , though he believes he ' s innocent and Torres was far away . Janeway later talks to Seven alone , already knowing how the conversation will go , and is now unsure how to proceed since traditional disciplinary actions won ' t work . She tries to ask her to know the difference between having an impulse to attack and acting on it . Seven is unapologetic , but says she ' ll think about it . While The Doctor is examining her , Seven gets oddly anxious with instruments coming near her , so he starts to calm her by relating to her problem interacting with others that rarely meet her high standards . However , The Doctor sees higher adrenaline levels and engrammatic activity , and asks her to lie down for more scans . Seven agrees , but then has an acute anxiety attack and moves away . Unfortunately , she can ' t explain why , but gets flashes of memories of being examined elsewhere . He sedates her and , later , explains to Janeway that he found biogenic amines in her hippocampus , suggesting a memory suppression . Always eager to try out new programming , he proudly recommends a psychiatric treatment which he has recently been developing . Janeway agrees . Later , The Doctor brings Seven to her cargo bay to use a directed imaging technique to guide her through a regression in order to reconstruct the memories . Slowly , she realizes her fear of being restrained draws her to a memory of Kovin performing a surgery on her , violating her . Act Two . After some prodding , Seven recalls her away mission which took place on the Entharan planet . While she and Tom Paris were trying out some of Kovin ' s disruptor s , Seven and Kovin went back to his lab to make modifications . When they got there , Kovin fired the disruptor on her . She awoke , restrained , on an examination table . Kovin and a female assistant examined her , extracted nanoprobe s , injected them to another subject , and removed her memory of the incident . The Doctor believes Seven ' s story completely , and briefs the crew in the briefing room . The rest of the crew is more hesitant ( especially Tuvok ) , as memories can be unreliable , but The Doctor says he does have some evidence . However , he doesn ' t have biological evidence of the procedures , suspecting Kovin used her own nanoprobes to fix any damage . Janeway orders The Doctor to find more evidence while she talks to Kovin . He responds somewhat haughtily to questioning , indignantly repeating his cover story . Janeway insists on examining the laboratory , and , when she threatens to involve the authorities , Kovin agrees . Act Three . Tuvok questions Kovin on the rifle ' s overload . Kovin is very angry , and challenges him with the only evidence being Seven ' s recollection . He then pleads with Tuvok not to make a formal accusation , as even being accused can hurt his reputation . Tuvok says he has no choice but to involve an Entharan magistrate assist in the examination , but Kovin takes Tuvok ' s word that he will be treated fairly . Meanwhile , The Doctor wishes to continue treating Seven ' s psychological injuries . Despite Seven ' s insistence that she does not want any part of her Human feelings of resentment and violation , The Doctor says she needs to accept that they exist , and she must deal with them . He reminds her that he violated her individuality , acting like a coward to obtain weapons . She then feels anger , which The Doctor sees as progress . The Doctor , Tuvok and the Entharan magistrate examine Kovin ' s laboratory in his presence . His guilt seems confirmed when they find regenerating nanoprobes . The magistrate has seen enough , and intends to hold Kovin , but he picks up a weapon and transports away , back to his ship . When " Voyager " tries to keep him from fleeing , Kovin disables their sensor s with a photon ic blast . Harry Kim is forced to reinitialize the sensors before they can continue . Act Four . They find that Kovin ' s ship entered warp . " Voyager " gives chase while Janeway and Tuvok examine the evidence again and discuss the situation . Tuvok believes that their investigation has been impartial , and Janeway admits that her misgivings about Kovin perhaps influenced her judgment . When experiments with nanoprobes show that the probes regenerate when fired on by Kovin ' s disruptor , the group realizes that now all the evidence backs up Kovin ' s story . Janeway , Tuvok , and The Doctor realize that Kovin may be innocent , and are forced to report what they ' ve found . Seven believes Kovin is guilty and refuses to listen . When she asks The Doctor to tell them that she was attacked , he admits that her neurology is still a mystery to him , and she could ' ve misinterpreted what really happened with her experiences with the Borg . Seven wants Kovin to be punished , and she will not settle for anything less . Act Five . When " Voyager " catches up with Kovin , they try to convince him that they ' ve found evidence of his innocence . He is convinced that it is a trap , and attacks " Voyager " . Even though he does damage , eventually his weapons destabilize , and his ship is destroyed . Seven tries to come to terms with a new emotion : remorse . Meanwhile , The Doctor feels extremely guilty over the part he played in Kovin ' s death , and asks Captain Janeway to delete the additional subroutines that he ' s programmed himself with over the years , believing that his desire to expand his programming has caused him to overstep his boundaries and step in where he wasn ' t required . However the Captain refuses , saying that everyone involved is responsible to some degree . " Voyager " continues its journey home , with two of its crew sadder but wiser for their experiences . Memorable quotes . " " I do not feel perfect . " " " " What do you mean ? " " " " I am preoccupied by Kovin ' s death . " " " " Join the club . It ' s all I can think about . " " " " As a Borg , I was responsible for the destruction of countless millions and I felt nothing , but now I regret the destruction of this single being . " " " " It ' s called remorse , Seven . It comes into play when you make a mistake , and you feel guilt about what you ' ve done . Another new emotion for you to experience . " " " " I do not enjoy this remorse any more than I enjoyed anger . Will the feeling subside ? " " " " Yes . But not quickly . " " " " I would rather not have to wait . " " " " I ' m afraid you don ' t have much choice . " " [ Pauses as he watches Seven leave ] " " But maybe I do . " " " " You ' ve made your point , Mr . Kovin . I want the cannon . " " " " That guy is worse than a Ferengi ! " " " " Seven , stop ! " " " " When I started helping you improve your social skills , I ' m fairly certain I didn ' t include a boxing lesson . " " Links and references . 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