Marika Wilkarah Marika Wilkarah was a female Bajoran Starfleet engineering officer in the 24th century . She was married , and both officers served aboard the . Wilkarah was one of the many individuals to be assimilated by the Borg , but was eventually freed . The " Excalibur " survived an attack by the Borg during a night shift sometime prior to late 2368 . Several members of the crew , including Wilkarah , were assimilate d in the encounter . As a Borg drone , she was a member of Seven of Nine ' s unimatrix , where she was assigned the designation of Three of Nine , Auxiliary Processor of Unimatrix Zero One . In 2368 , a Borg sphere crashed on Planet 1865 - Alpha , an uninhabited planet in the Delta Quadrant . The drones Two of Nine , real name Lansor , Three of Nine , Four of Nine , real name P ' Chan , and Seven of Nine , were the only survivors . Their link to the Borg Collective was temporarily severed , allowing them to regain their individualities . P ' Chan , Lansor , and Marika intended to hide so that they would not be found when the Borg came to retrieve them . They went their separate ways . However Seven of Nine , terrified of her new - found individuality , hunted each of them down and forcibly interfaced with each of them using her assimilation tubule s . She caused the left parietal lobe s of their brain s to be transformed into interlink node s that linked them together in an " ad hoc " collective , then erased the act from their memories . She then led them back to the crash site , where the Borg retrieved them . Eventually , P ' Chan , Lansor , and Marika escaped the Collective , but could not break their " ad hoc " link , and thus were denied true individuality . In 2376 they sought out Seven of Nine on the in the hopes that she could help them , and discovered her responsibility for the link . While retrieving their memories , P ' Chan , Lansor , and Marika fell into a coma . The Doctor , " Voyager " s holographic chief medical officer , found that to wake P ' Chan , Lansor , and Marika from their coma they needed to be reintegrated into the Borg Collective . The only way to wake them up was to break the link by removing their interlink nodes . However , this would kill them within a month . Seven and The Doctor decided to perform the procedure , knowing that they would prefer a short life as individuals to rejoining the Borg Collective as drones . Marika , glad to be aboard a Federation vessel again , decided to spend her remaining time aboard " Voyager " . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Marika Wilkarah was played by Bertila Damas . The spelling of her name comes from the script , which is also spelled as " Willkarah " in the " " . In an earlier draft of the episode ' s script , this character was originally a Human by the name of " Marie Wilkerson " . Apocrypha . Marika is the main character of the story " Brief Candle " By Christopher L . Bennett , in the 10th Anniversary short story anthology , " Distant Shores " . Her capture by the Borg is seen in the short story " Making a Difference " in the " New Frontier " anthology " No Limits " , but does not explain her survival of the destruction of the Borg cube . " Making a Difference " erroneously places Marika ' s assimilation in 2369 , the year after she was seen as a drone in " Survival Instinct " .