#seven of nine & hugh third of five

[isagrimorie]

It's probably better that it was Hugh the Enterprise Crew met in I, Borg because Hugh is more amenable to becoming an individual. Meanwhile, Seven of Nine would have been angrier and haughtier, Seven was proud of being Borg. (I guess those with a strong personality and who grew up within the Collective can still have a flavor of their personality). But also, comes with my theory that despite the Borg claiming to not have a hierarchy they still do — the standard worker drones, those who organize the drones. How the Collective determines which becomes which is unknown, but there is the central Queen that organizes all principles and orders.

Anyway, Guinan would not have responded well to Seven of Nine. Guinan and Picard didn’t have a need for keeping a Borg alive, especially with someone like Seven of Nine who was all the way bought into being a Borg. For Seven, being part of the Collective makes Seven bigger. It’s only, after Seven’s been disconnected from the Collective from months that she’s grown to appreciate her own individuality.

It took Hugh only a day or two to have his own individuality.

In a way, Hugh is even more of a fresh slate, an easier and more open and innocent one to accept the concepts of personhood.

But returning Hugh to the Borg after learning all that, even when he volunteered to do it to protect the Enterprise also felt wrong.

Considering Guinan’s issues with the Borg, I wonder how she first took to Seven. Especially since, unlike Hugh, Seven insisted on her Borg name.

Hugh asking and using “Hugh” instead of Third of Five was a factor for Guinan softening towards him.

Seven has no instincts for that, Seven is the name/designation she grew up on. It will remain to be so.

Annika is used rarely and only as a Shibboleth to call Seven back to her individuality.

But Seven of Nine is her True Name, to use Fairy Tale languages.

Anyway, I feel, especially after Bjayzl’s betrayal Seven has distanced herself from using Annika in everyday life.

Seven is her chosen and true name.

Hugh’s experience is different.

Seven’s severing was more of a baptism of fire, in the middle of a war between Borg and Species 8472. While Hugh was taken for the sole reason to be used as a weapon his interactions with the Enterprise crew was not as embattled.

Hugh and Seven were the first Borg to be completely severed from the Collective without other Borgs unlike in Unity (Voyager).

Also, from what we saw in Unity the Collective there were adults who had a life before becoming Borg unlike Hugh and Seven who grew up Borg.

[remholder]

newly divorced single dad picard and his xb gremlin adoptees

[curator-on-ao3]

The latest issue of Star Trek Quarterly is out and includes a Seven and Hugh friendship ficlet of mine with absolutely gorgeous art by the gloriously talented @regionalpancake!

If you’re interested, the pdf is at https://startrekquarterly.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/spring-2023-1.pdf and the Facebook link is https://www.facebook.com/startrekquarterly. If you want to contribute to a future STQ, the editor, Sarah, is super nice and the submission form is here: https://startrekquarterly.wordpress.com/submissions/

[djrenard]

20 Favorite Star Trek Characters:

Data

Saru

Reginald Barclay

Dorian Collins

Rom

Elim Garak

Gul Dukat

Seven of Nine, Annika Hansen

Worf, son of Mogh; Worf Rozhenko; Worf of the House of Martok

Kira Nerys

Christopher Pike

Thy'lek Shran

Keyla Detmer

Phlox-tunnai-oortan

Icheb

Jett Reno

Montgomery Scott

Hugh, Third of Five

Lon Suder

Peanut Hamper

[procrastinatorproject]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Star Trek: La Sirena, Star Trek: Picard Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Motley Crew - Relationship, Raffi Musiker & Cristóbal Rios, Laris & Zhaban & The Motley Crew Characters: Laris (Star Trek), Zhaban (Star Trek), Cristóbal Rios, Raffi Musiker, Elnor (Star Trek), Hugh | Third of Five, Soji Asha, Seven of Nine, Jean-Luc Picard, Number One | Jean-Luc Picard's Dog, Emil | La Sirena's Emergency Medical Hologram, Mister Hospitality | La Sirena's Emergency Hospitality Hologram, Ian | La Sirena's Emergency Engineering Hologram, Enoch | La Sirena's Emergency Navigational Hologram, Emmet | La Sirena's Emergency Tactical Hologram Additional Tags: Crew as Family, Family Dinner, Cooking and Baking, Friendship, Fluff, Humor, Some angst, Canon-typical swearing, Season/Series 1.5, Hugh | Third of Five Lives Summary:

On the way from Château Picard to Vulcan, the crew of La Sirena and their guests prepare a mighty feast. If only these things ever went according to plan...

Illustration by the inimitable @horizonproblems!

This is our contribution to the @startrekpotluck 2024. I'll post the rest of the chapters over the next few days, so if you want to find out what could possibly lead to Laris telling off Enoch over a basket of bread, you'll have to stay tuned 😁🥖🥐

Thank you to @regionalpancake for being the best co-host anyone could wish for! 💗✨

[in-flagrante]

Downton Abbey ‘makes shock return’ as secret revival series ‘begins filming’

Report claims that the hit period drama is returning for a seventh series, nine years after coming to a close

Louis Chilton

1 hour ago

Hit ITV period drama Downton Abbey is reportedly filming a new series, nearly a decade after coming to an end.

The series, which originally aired on ITV from 2010 to 2015, followed the lives of an aristocratic Yorkshire family in the years between 1912 and 1926.

A new report in the Daily Mail claims that a revival series began filming a few weeks ago, and is expected to arrive on screens “by the end of the year”.

The outlet quotes a source close to the production as saying: “Filming has been going on for a few weeks now, it is all very, very secret. There are people working on it who have never seen secrecy like it.

“Those working on the set have been made to sign non-disclosure agreements so that they don’t give the game away but there is a lot of excitement at the return of Downton.”

The Independent understands that the series has not been commissioned for ITV.

The original series featured an ensemble cast that included Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Joanne Froggatt, Dan Stevens and Maggie Smith.

It was reportedly Smith’s reluctance to continue that prompted Downton to come to an end after six series in 2015, though the thespian returned for two feature film sequels, 2019’s Downton Abbey and 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Era.

Rumours of a series comeback started surfacing back in May 2023.

In December, series creator Julian Fellowes didn’t brush off the possibility of a comeback, telling Radio Times: “I have said goodbye to Downton so many times, and I have written the last scene about six or seven times. Now I’ve got out of the habit of making permanent statements about whether it’s gone.

“It just gives me a lot of pleasure that so many people enjoyed it, so to feel that you created a show that cheers people up and they had a good time with it, I love that.”

The Independent has contacted production company Carnival Films and Fellowes for comment.

During its peak, Downton was one of the most popular series on UK TV, with its third series pulling in an average weekly audience of 11.5 million people.

In a two-star review of the latest film adaptation, The Independent’s critic Clarisse Loughrey wrote: “Downton Abbey: A New Era is whatever the opposite of a French Exit might look like. Rather than a party guest slipping out quietly, it’s the bumptious visitor making their final, sluggish turn around the room. Their pottering seems to extend for another hour or two – or another cocktail.

“The first film, released in 2019, was designed to pay a final farewell to Downton’s 47 TV episodes and five Christmas specials – an opportunity to tie up a few loose ends and resolve things with a hearty slap on its own back. A New Era manages to uncover even more threads, and makes neat little bows in the most languid way possible. It’s as much of a film as an encore to the encore can be.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/downton-abbey-new-series-return-itv-b2495921.html

[thegeminisage]

oh boy IT'S tng update time. last night* we watched "imaginary friend" and "i, borg."

*tonight. it's 1am. whatever. it's posting tomorrow when i'll be awake but busy. anyway im gonna have to start splitting these up so tumblr will stop FUCKING me re my character count

imaginary friend:

what i like about this episode and indeed tng as a whole is that the little girl was fucking adorable. tng fans, your show has at least one point of validity. whenever there was a child on tos i wanted to throw them out of the airlock because they acted possessed. all the children on tng inspire within me motherly concern.

HOWEVER. THERE SHOULD NOT BE. CHILDREN ON A STARSHIP.

we've gone over this at length. we don't need to do it again. i am sick to death of hearing myself talk about it. i want to stop. and yet. every. and i mean EVERY. SINGLE. PROBLEM. in this episode. happened because there were children on a starship.

problem #1: child is making up a fake imaginary friend instead of making real ones = it's because her dad hops from starship to starship

problem #2 her imaginary friend is real now and wants to drown her in the pool like in that one episode of s*pernatural = this is because an alien, from space, read her mind, which it could not have done if she wasn't in space on a starship

problem #3: the alien HATES the grownups and thinks they should die = because she is seeing the ship from a child's pov, because there are children on this starship

and on and on and on.

aside from this huge and ongoing point of contention it was solidly watchable. i liked the little girl. i like guinan. i like worf being a big old softie when he found them out of bounds. i like people not undermining deanna's counseling work. i liked the horrifically unsettling imaginary friend with laser eyes who definitely absolutely inspired 2.11 playthings.

can anyone tell me if the other star trek shows just let them have kids on the ships? ds9 i get because that's a space station but are there kids on the ship in enterprise? voyager? discovery? genuinely please write in i can't take living like this

i, borg:

ooooooh. ooh i am twirling my hair and kicking my feet and giggling about it. OHHH finally we get a good tng episode. and not just a good episode a GREAT episode. the liz community has forgiven tng. oh baby where do i even begin

okay, firstly, beverly. she so instantly sees someone injured and HAS to help, i mean HAS to, it's so good. it's very bonescore in a way that doesn't feel like they're trying to make her a cheap bones knockoff but rather a spiritual successor. he would have also helped his enemy rather than watching him die. hell, he DID do that and got quite literally mind-raped for his trouble, and he'd probably do it again. i was really really lukewarm on poor bev at first but she's come into her own so well and i'm proud of her

the borg himself - third of five, aw, just like seven of nine - but no, hugh - the name is dumb but whatever i'm glad he has one - was well-cast. it would have been easy to make him uncanny and an unpleasant presence onscreen (this was my biggest issue with data's daughter even though the ep DID make me cry, deeply sorry to data whomst i love the most). his "you will be assimilated resistance is futile" song and dance was actually really funny when played off of geordi's wry indifference. "ok, but before we get assimilated, can we please finish x test?" so true king

geordi's a natural choice to pair with this guy because when he's not being the creepiest person on earth to holodeck girls he's sociable, outgoing, and patient. PLUS he has experience befriending machines because of data. hugh actually reminded me of data in some ways because of his general lack of understanding re: humanity but - and this is critical to me - HE IS HUMAN

like, i feel like the episode didn't quite nail the point home hard enough possibly because they were afraid of the implications but the cold hard truth of the matter is that each and every person on the borg cube IS A PERSON. they have been assimilated, but we've twice now seen that it's possible to unassimilate them with only a few days of effort. picard (and guinan!) consider the entire collective their enemy but the collective is comprised of brainwashed prisoners. those fucked up little borg babies they found in the cube were assimilated as INFANTS - i assume they weren't born on the cube bc if the borg could reproduce on its own it wouldn't need to assimilate - but even if they were born on the cube, they had no choice but to be this. you know.

which is whyyyy it's so fucked picard was like yeah give hugh some digital poison let him carry it back to his cube and we'll kill them like ants <3 like, oh my god his lingering borg trauma or whatever. MWAH. when he told deanna he didn't wanna talk. when he and guinan had to trauma-bond while fencing. when he told geordi that he needed to unattach himself because it was nothing more than animal experimentation. STONE FUCKING COLD BY THE WAY. he is fighting in the war on animal experimentation on the side of animal experimentation. he was going to let his cre heal and feed that kid and then send him back laced with poison. diabolical <3

and, of course, when he didn't want to speak or associate that borg kid at all because that's who he used to be AND WHO HE STILL IS in some corner of his brain (!!!)

LIKE. WHEN HE WAS FINALLY CONVINCED TO INTERROGATE THIS KID. and IMMEDIATELY broke out the locutus voice. he still remembered all the protocol! the way of speaking! everything! i was so shocked and thrilled.

i love also how everyone who spoke to hugh came away extremely unsettled but also totally convinced of his humanity. even guinan, which was so fun, because she was even more anti-borg than picard at first and they were bonding over trauma and fantasy racism. that bit where hugh, who had only known about the concept of loneliness for like an hour, immediately pegged her as lonely after like three lines of dialogue. oh my GOD???

i was decently satisfied with the ending - obviously they couldn't send him back with poison nor could they protect him from the borg, but i wish they had informed him of the inevitable memory wipe before he made his choice. (a selfless choice! he loves geordi!!) still i think he mostly walked into it with eyes open. very sad but very proud of him.

my one tiny nitpick with this episode is that for all beverly's genuine and justified concern about hugh, i don't think theyre ever gonna address the fact that she shot and possibly killed some of the borg in the episode where picard got assimilated. i feel like after realizing they are all people, like hugh, she should also realize she's broken the hippocratic oath, and have a little crisis about it. i have no idea why we had the DOCTOR shooting and killing anybody but let alone if we aren't gonna get into that. i don't think anyone cares/cared except me though.

but tbh, for me this is one of the main draws of the borg. they're ALL brainwashed cyber-assassins and they're ALL prisoners and in theory ALL of them could be saved if only they would stop attacking first. sure, yeah, in fights you gotta do what you gotta do because your own life has gotta come first, but the unique scifi horror aspect of all of those guys being perfectly innocent people fucks and they should utilize it a little more!!!

NEXT TIME: "the next phase" and "the inner light."

[adastrafanfic]

Ad Astra News - 8/13 - 8/19

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Add it to the Weekly Challenge collection and tag it: Weekly Challenge: Heat.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

by LordRobertBruceScott Star Trek Enterprise: The Avatar - G - Porthos, T'Pol, Phlox, Jonathan Archer

Star Trek: Discovery

by lah_mrh Together - G - Hugh Culber/Paul Stamets Paint the Night Red - T - Ash Tyler| Voq/Christopher Pike Don't Move - E - Ash Tyler | Voq/Christopher Pike Christmas in Sickbay - G - Ash Tyler| Voq/Christopher Pike by squireofgeekdom Fungus Not-Amongus - G - Christopher Pike & Sylvia Tilly

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

by LadyEmma ★ Outside the Box - G - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott/Nyota Uhura by squireofgeekdom Not Alone - G - Christopher Pike & Joseph M'Benga Being the Captain - G - Christopher Pike & Spock when you're gone we won't say a world ... - T - Christopher Pike & Spock, Christopher Pike & Tenavik You're Just a Little Boy - G - La'an Noonien-Singh reparative (write another story, we're fine) - T - Christopher Pike & Multiple

Star Trek: The Original Series

by LordRobertBruceScott The Transplant - G - James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard "Bones" McCoy by SLWalker ★ Expected or Not - G - Andrew "Corry" Corrigan/Montgomery "Scotty" Scott Contrast - T - Andrew "Corry" Corrigan, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Star Trek: Alternate Original Series

by daraoakwise ★ Unexpected - M - Andrew "Corry" Corrigan (AOS)/Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (AOS) by lah_mrh Welcome Home - E - Gaila (AOS)/Nyota Uhura (AOS)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

by jamaharon Scar Tissue - E - Elim Garak/Julian Bashir Where the Orchids Bloom - G - Elim Garak/Julian Bashir by Sharpest_Asp ★ A Guest in the Night - G - Faysha Ry'Tor, Leonard "Bones" McCoy

Star Trek: Picard

by Kennel_Boy Human Experience - NR - Hugh | Third of Five & Seven of Nine

Alternate Universes

by LordRobertBruceScott Star Beagle Adventures Episode 2: Astral Traveler - T - Ensemble by SLWalker Nance's Fashion Review - G - Arnold J. Rimmer, Nan-Cy DeVant Smith, xover The Last ShadowKnight - T - Arnold J. Rimmer, xover

Expanded Universes

by Hawku The Hangover - M - Ensemble Cast

[spectraspecs-writes]

I think they made Hugh Third of Five because they hadn’t quite figured out ranks among the Borg yet. Seven is Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One, she held a very high rank in the Collective. But because three is in the middle of five, they didn’t have to figure out whether Hugh was highly ranked or not. And the world may never know

[jrpneblog]

Time Gentleman please!

The torture goes on for North End fans with the third defeat in seven days , this time 0-2 at home to lowly QPR. It wasnt the fact that we lost this particular encounter it was the manner in which it was lost. Following on from a horror show on Tees-side on Tuesday evening North End produced another, sideways, backwards, punchless, toothless, couldn't care less and possession without impact shit show. It left those who were inside Deepdale at the final whistle, and there weren't many, pondering at just where we go next with a manager clearly not up to the task of getting the best from his charges. QPR were timid in the first half to be honest but we never looked like scoring and after the break the visitors just stepped up their game and won quite comfortably in the end. North End were appalling once again and after a freezing night at Middlesbrough on Tuesday watching the dross Lowe is serving up it was one step too far to see an almost repeat performance at home in front of the watching nation. It was embarrassing.

Lowe made three changes from the eleven who allegedly played at the Riverside in midweek with Browne, Holmes and Ramsay coming in for Ledson, Best and Potts. In an instantly forgettable first half it took us fifteen minutes to get near goal with Evans effort easily dealt with. Dykes was lucky to stay on the field half way through the first half when an elbow went right into Andrew Hughes mouth but the referee deemed it a yellow when on another day it could have been very different. The visitors had a couple of half chances towards the end of the first period but in all honesty it was one of the biggest forty five minute non-events we have seen at Deepdale for some time. We had plenty of possession in the first stanza but did absolutely nothing with as we looked very much like a side who didn`t believe in the brand of football they had been instructed to play. It was a woeful opening half.

North End introduced Liam Millar after the break but the significant change was the visitors bringing on Ilias Chair who went on to dominate things for the Hoops. Within ten minutes of the restart Chair had set up the opening goal for Rangers as his ball across the goal found Smyth at the back post and he bundled to the ball into the net to give the visitors the lead. Woodman had a couple more good saves to make as Chair and Dozzell tried their luck against a North End side clearly bereft of any ideas on what to do to break the visitors down. With three minutes of normal time remaining QPR closed out the game as Chair sent a ball across again to the back post and Willock made no mistake from close range. It was the cue for a mass exodus from the stands at Deepdale and I would wager there were less than two thousand inside the stadium when the final whistle went. There were not that many boos as, I believe, a majority of people have just given up on the current regime regarding the manager and his ability to get the best from his players and some consistency in their performance.

People who know me and read this blog will know I am not one who calls for the head of the manager after a couple of defeats. Ryan Lowe has given the fans some good days especially on the road but the general manner of the performances and of the managers complete inability to take full personal responsibility leads me, unfortunately, to say I think it is time for a change in the managers office at Deepdale. Not all will agree with that statement and I understand and respect peoples opinions. However, having seen every one of Ryan Lowe`s ninety six competitive games and taking into account we have taken just nine points from the last thirty three on offer, sadly he no longer has my support. Time, Gentlemen please!

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PRESTON 0-2 QPR

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WOODMAN 6

STOREY 5 LINDSAY 6 HUGHES 5

RAMSAY 5 WHITEMAN 4 BROWNE 5 HOLMES 6

FROKJEAR 5 KEANE 5

EVANS 6

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Subs:

MILLAR 6

McCANN 5

STEWART 5

WOODBURN 5

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MOTM: Duane Holmes

Attendance 14,280

Preston Fans 13,738 (96.2%).

[meeedeee]

There's No Stopping Time

Fandoms: Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager

No Archive Warnings Apply

Beverly Crusher

Jean-Luc Picard

Jack Crusher (Star Trek: Picard)

Wesley Crusher

Will Riker

Data (Star Trek)

Lal (Star Trek)

Soji Asha

Deanna Troi

René Picard

Kestra Troi-Riker

Elnor (Star Trek)

Laris (Star Trek)

Guinan (Star Trek)

Tasha Yar

Worf

Raffi Musiker

Q (Star Trek)

Ro Laren

Agnes Jurati

Sidney La Forge

Dahj Asha

Hugh | Third of Five

Yvette Picard

Cristóbal Rios

Seven of Nine

Geordi La Forge

Kore Soong

Alandra La Forge

Robert Picard

Lore (Star Trek)

Narek (Star Trek)

Gabriel Hwang

Pel (Star Trek)

(Feed generated with FetchRSS) source https://archiveofourown.org/works/47541616

[isagrimorie]

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again— if they were hesitant to put Seven of Nine in a Starfleet uniform in Voyager, then they should have at least let Seven keep the black outfit during the Killing Game:

Seven looked good in it, it flattered her better. It also doesn't look Starfleet, and in a way it does kind of look like the Borg jumpsuit Hugh wore on Picard season 1:

Anyway, as much as possible, in my head, the black Maquis black ops outfit is what Seven wears.

(Still Sad and Mad Hugh and Seven never met onscreen. I'm SMad.)

[remholder]

its not like it was his choice

[isagrimorie]

I'm curious how people can distinguish between Seven's Borg implants and a standard-issue cybernetic implant enough to discriminate against Seven.

Visually, and if I didn't know and met Detmar and Seven, I won't know who was Borg and who is an ordinary Human with cybernetic implants.

Also if I saw Airiam and based on what people say, I would think she's a Borg.

Even the mismatched eye is consistent with a recovered xB like Hugh.

Airiam is more cyborg than the Borg. Also, I don't get why Captain Pike doesn't use this solution when he gets burned?

And then of course Seven of Nine

Superficially it looks like her Borg implants are like Detmer's but go under the skin and more than half of Seven's head is more like Airiam's. Seven's cranial implants are a lot more extensive.

Imagine if Seven had Detmer's undercut. Seven's implant on the left side of the head was far more extensive than Detmer's.

So, I think, in the crossfire of xB hate people with non-Borg cybernetic implants.

[isagrimorie]

I really find it interesting how different Seven and Hugh are post-severance.

Seven was proud to be Borg. Hugh seemed just like a regular Drone as opposed to Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01.

Unimatrix 01 is the closest to the Borg Queen and by how the Borg Queen acts with Seven, it feels like Seven is one of the few chosen to replace her.

Some personality seems to have been retained, especially for those who 'grew up' in the Collective.

Hugh was more amenable and open to change, more confused by what was happening to him.

Seven was fully aware of her function, she was the chosen Borg representative to speak for the Borg collective when Janeway requested one.

Seven was very resistant and has several occasions tried to return to the Borg.

It is also interesting to me that for a long time in Voyager, she identified as Borg.

Hugh coined the term xBs as a way to name themselves and take back the name.

It's interesting to me that Seven used the term once when speaking to Elnor in season 1 but mostly, I think Seven thinks of herself as Borg.

Her feelings towards being a Borg and Human are still complicated and it got only more complicated the moment Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant.

It seemed like she tried out the more Human side of herself and used 'Annika' as a name but that moment of experimenting on that name usage died the day Icheb died and realized how much she was used and betrayed.

For Seven she is both Human and Borg but she knows she can't comfortably identify herself as Borg because of how much harm the Borg has done to... well, everyone. She's been part of the Collective that's assimilated worlds, she knows this well.

It's a terrible thing to identify as for everyone, it's a complicated premise at best but it's the identity that for better or worse, Seven felt more comfortable with.

In season 2 of Picard, we learn that Seven hasn't been at peace with herself for 20 years because she has been trying to deny her Borg identity.

In Hope and Fear in season 4 and even up to season 6 (as far as I'm up to in the rewatch) Seven's been ambivalent about returning with the Voyager crew back to the Alpha Quadrant.

(And as we know now Seven's fears are founded).

"If we do return to Sector 001 will I adapt to Human civilization a single Borg among billions of individuals?"

Seven did adapt, she trained herself to adapt more Human mannerisms and speech patterns. Trained herself to be an individual the way people of Alpha Quadrant would find more acceptable but in her heart of hearts she is both Human and Brog.

Meanwhile, Hugh seems more comfortable with being identified as an xB. A reclamation and a new term for himself and his other fellow Borg cube members.

Also, I realized rewatching the scene where Seven rescues Elnor, she fell back to her old speech patterns:

"What is happening on this Cube?"

It's interesting for Seven the Artificat is still the Borg Cube. I like that characters who were former Borg drones have complicated and diverse opinions and thoughts about their former identity. I like that Hugh is all but ready to move on from being an xB.

And Seven struggles with it more. I wish Hugh had lived because I wanted more interactions and discussions between Seven and Hugh.

Sure Picard and Seven have a shared experience but in the degrees of shared experience, Hugh and Seven's experience are more aligned. Picard and Janeway would have similar experiences in being Borg.

In a screwed-up sort of way, most of Starfleet now knows how Seven feels as a Borg and as an individual.

[remholder]

my own au is holding me hostage