Seven of Nine's journey back to being a human sure is bumpy. Also, how can she encrypt a function of Voyager by just pressing a few buttons. If she had, say, injected the panel with the probes on her hands I would have maybe bought it, but wow. Also, if she has a personal shield that is invulnerable to all damage and can walk through just about all forcefields why isn't she the number one attack soldier on the ship? I guess they didn't know she had the shield still, but isn't it worth looking into that and maybe make it so she can use it when not tracking in on a Borg homing signal.
The episode opens with Janeway trying to teach Seven how to sculpt with clay but it isn't going well. It gets even worse when Seven seeds one of Leonardo's flying machines and it gives her flashbacks of being chased and assimilated by Borg and then suddenly a raven flying at her. The Doctor can't find anything wrong with her so she gets an even bigger challenge, trying to survive Neelix's food. It goes badly because of course Neelix is a terrible cook. Next Janeway is negotiating with the B'omar for passage through their space, but they make demands that make going along with them totally unreasonable. They are interrupted by Seven attacking Neelix and going full Borg trying to escape the ship. Despite all their efforts she escapes the ship and flies a shuttle straight into B'omar space where their leader insists Voyager can't go.
The Doctor figures out that the nanites inside her somehow turned back on and unless he stops them will continue turning her back into a Borg. He does create an antidote though, but it must be administered via hypo. Paris comes up with a plan to sneak a shuttle into B'omar space and he gets to do it along with Tuvok. Tuvok beams over to her shuttle but she defeats him in hand to hand combat and restricts him to the back of the shuttle with a forcefield. Janeway meanwhile gives Harry the job of digging through Seven's personal logs and while he can't make anything of it she recognizes the Raven motif and gets things rolling. Seven agrees to let Tuvok beam to the planet she has flown them to along with her. They find a wrecked Federation ship with clear signs of Borg attack.
Inside the ship Seven starts having flashbacks again and realizes this is the ship that she was assimilated on. She turns off the homing signal that activated her nanites and drew her back there. But just then the B'omar start bombarding from orbit. The two flee as Paris flies in to pick them up. Voyager opens fire on several B'omar vessels to stop the bombardment and Janeway just turns off comms when their leaders call to complain. Paris and Tuvok are rescued and Seven has a nice talk with Janeway about her parents.
Review: Despite having combat and stuff this episode felt a little dull. The entire scene with Seven trying to eat Neelix's food was terrible and boring. Overall pretty average.
5 out of 10
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