Seven is playing the piano, has no visible Borg implants, and has her hair down. She is attending Tom and B’Elanna’s baby shower, making jokes, and looking fine. But it’s all a fantasy program she is using to train herself in social skills. Part of her training is intimate relationships, and for this she chooses holo-Chakotay – and they hit it off. But when her fantasy life conflicts with her duties, she chooses to give it up – or is forced to because of a Borg implant that shuts down her brain if her emotional level gets too high.
Another interesting episode, if only because it is a change of pace, content to build character and build something for the future.
Jammer’s review of this episode points out that the writers took the easy way out by inventing a technological reason for Seven to revert to her original reset-button character. Perhaps the episode works for me better because I know it is a building block – as the very subtle ending showed.
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