Jeri Ryan credited as playing...
Seven of Nine
- Harry Kim: [after destroying a Borg vessel] I wish that boom had been a bit smaller; we were only trying to disable them.
- Tom Paris: They were drones, Harry, mindless automatons. We did them a favor.
- [Seven of Nine appears behind Paris, obviously aware of his comment]
- Harry Kim: Seven!
- Tom Paris: [embarrassed] Um... look, I, I didn't mean anything by that.
- Seven of Nine: Your apology is irrelevant. It's impossible to offend a mindless drone.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [after several training sessions on a "Borg vessel"] I don't know about you, but I'm glad to be back on Voyager. Borg vessels make my skin crawl.
- Seven of Nine: It was a holodeck recreation.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Close enough.
- Seven of Nine: Over the past two years, I have become familiar with the individuals on this vessel. Voyager is my Collective now. Your survival is important to me. I am willing to risk my own well-being if it increases our chances of success. Assign me to the away team. Please.
- The Doctor: [on the Borg research of Seven's parents] This is an important stage of your social development, Seven. Try not to think of it as simply a research project but as an exploration of how you were raised.
- Seven of Nine: My parents underestimated the Collective. They were destroyed. Because of their arrogance, I was raised by Borg.
- Borg Queen: We've come to make you an offer: rejoin the Collective and we'll spare Voyager.
- Seven of Nine: Why me?
- Borg Queen: Because... you are unique.
- Borg Queen: Congratulations.
- Seven of Nine: Regarding?
- Borg Queen: Assimilation is complete.
- Seven of Nine: 300,000 individuals have been transformed into drones. Should they be congratulated as well?
- Borg Queen: They should be. They've left behind their trivial, selfish lives, and they've been reborn with a greater purpose. We've delivered them from chaos into order.
- Seven of Nine: Comforting words. Use them next time instead of "Resistance is futile." You may elicit a few volunteers.
- Borg Queen: We are Borg.
- Seven of Nine: [angrily] I am an individual.
- Borg Queen: You're only repeating their words. You sound like a mindless automaton.
- Borg Queen: You've changed. Your exo-plating, your ocular implant. They've taken you apart... and they've recreated you in their own image - hair, garments - but at the core, you are still mine.
- Seven of Nine: The Borg have changed as well. I expected re-assimilation, not conversation.
- Borg Queen: I see they've also given you a sense of humor.
- Seven of Nine: My humor is my own.
- Borg Queen: Spoken like a true individual.
- Borg Queen: We don't want another drone. We want you.
- Seven of Nine: I will resist.
- Borg Queen: I know.
- Seven of Nine: The Borg believed I was unique, that I understood humanity. They were obviously mistaken.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: How so?
- Seven of Nine: I've betrayed the crew of Voyager, threatened you with assimilation. I did not expect you to return for me.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Looks like you still have a few things to learn.
- Seven of Nine: I am Annika Hansen, Human.
- Borg Queen: I remember Annika. Does she remember us? She wasn't afraid. Why are you?
- Borg Queen: Stop resisting. Take pleasure in this.
- Seven of Nine: I will not take pleasure in the destruction of a race!
- Borg Queen: Human sentiment. Compassion, guilt, empathy - they're irrelevant.
- Seven of Nine: Not to me.
- Borg Queen: "Me?" There is no 'me.' There is only 'us.' One mind.
- Seven of Nine: My thoughts are my own.
- Seven of Nine: You attacked us. You murdered my family!
- Borg Queen: We did no such thing. We gave them perfection.
- [one Borg steps forward into the light]
- Seven of Nine: [aghast] Papa?