Mezoti Mezoti was a Norcadian girl born in 2368 . She was assimilated by the Borg and spent several years as a Borg drone before being rescued by the crew in 2376 . History . Assimilation and Rescue . In 2376 , at the age of eight , the Borg cube she was aboard was disabled by a pathogen that killed all the adult drones . She and four other young drones ( Icheb , Azan , Rebi , and a prenatal drone ) were disconnected from the Collective . They captured the " Delta Flyer " with Chakotay , Tom Paris , Harry Kim , and Neelix on board . The five Borg children demanded ' s deflector array in exchange for the hostages . The deflector array would have allowed them to contact the Borg , but would have left " Voyager " unable to go to warp . Seven of Nine discovered that the Borg had received a distress call from the cube , but had determined the children to be irrelevant and had not dispatched any other ships to reconnect them to the hive mind . After the children realized this , they decided to leave the cube . ( ) She would later recall feeling afraid and alone upon her disconnection . ( ) Aboard " Voyager " . After her implants were removed , Mezoti slowly regained her individuality with the help of Seven of Nine and fellow former drone children Icheb , Azan and Rebi . Freed from Borg influence , her creative , fun side came out ; she enjoyed sculpting . She once offered to show Naomi Wildman how to braid her hair like hers , a conversation Seven initially considered irrelevant while engaging in an hour of " recreational activity " . ( ) Mezoti also had an interest in insect s . ( ) In 2376 , Mezoti disobeyed instructions to wait in the cargo bay until Seven of Nine returned , choosing instead to go to the astrometrics lab . There , she received a call from Lyndsay Ballard , a former " Voyager " crew member who had died and was later revived by the Kobali . In an attempt to reroute the call to Kathryn Janeway , she ended the transmission instead . When discovered by Tuvok and Seven , she tried to re - establish contact with Ballard , which temporarily distracted them from disciplining her . Later , upon Ballard ' s departure , Harry Kim gave her the woman ' s hairbrush after she admired it . He also offered to tweak the Vulcan holoprogram " Temple of T ' Panit " for them to make it less boring . ( ) Later , she completed a science project involving a Teirenian ant colony . Several days later , Mezoti was unable to regenerate as she missed Icheb , who had returned to his parents Leucon and Yifay . She then helped Seven to realize that Icheb ' s parents were lying about the circumstances of his assimilation and that they had ulterior motives in welcoming him home . ( ) That same year , she was among the children who listened to Neelix ' s ghost story . ( ) A New Home . " Voyager " was unable to contact the Norcadians , but were successful in locating Azan and Rebi ' s people , the Wysanti , in 2377 . The Wysanti agreed to give Mezoti a home with the twins . Prior to her leaving , she studied information on their culture . Upon leaving " Voyager " , she hug ged Seven , saying she preferred the Human way of saying goodbye to Wysanti tradition , in which it was not customary to say goodbye . ( )