“Red. The child you spoke of, the girl. Her favorite color was red.” ~Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
accessing i want to be a Borg. i sometimes wonder at it myself, why would someone who is so decidedly an individual wish to have that stolen? but think for a moment on what it means to be a Borg. once assimilated into the collective you feel nothing, no pain, no anger, nothing…you no longer feel happiness, but when all is said and done losing all that is bad in the world may be worth losing all that is good. of course the magic of assimilation is you no longer care. you are no longer you. you are small, insignificant, irrelevant…the Borg are great; the Borg are strong; the Borg are never alone. and there is of course the pursuit of perfection. as an individual in search of significance i am often disappointed, discouraged…the Borg do not feel these things. the Borg do not fear failure. the Borg are bold. that is what i wish to be a part of. i wish to have the confidence, the strength, the boldness of the Borg and i wish to lose the frailty, the indecision, the loneliness of life as a single being, an individual. i do not know the truth of it, if in fact my individuality is worth my loneliness. perhaps, like Seven, i would come to realize being nobody but myself is worth the loss of the collective. maybe somewhere inside i know that imperfection is in fact beautiful. maybe we know the girl is not irrelevant. red is my favorite color, too.
I remember Annika. Does she remember us? She wasn’t afraid. Why are you?
This was really hard but ultimately I went with my gut and chose a Borg-centric Seven of Nine story. This one is about family, found family, loneliness as the human condition, identity, arrogance and resilience — it’s about a lot of things I look for and react to in stories. And at its heart it’s a story about a little girl named Annika.
Always, always. I grew up with TNG, but Voyager is my crew. It is peopled with the kinds of characters I love the most — the flawed, the angry, the lonely, the people with something to prove. And the plot of the show is building a community. It’s like a show made for me AND it’s Star Trek. <3!!
