Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

The Omega Directive (1998)

Jeri Ryan: Seven of Nine

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• [last lines] 

  Seven of Nine : For 3.2 seconds, I saw perfection. When Omega stabilized, I felt a curious sensation. As I was watching it, it seemed to be watching me. - The Borg have assimilated many species, with mythologies to explain such moments of clarity. I've always dismissed them as trivial. Perhaps I was wrong.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : If I didn't know you better... I'd say you just had your first spiritual experience.

• [Seven has given each member of her work team Borg designations] 

  Seven of Nine : Six of Ten, this is not your assignment.

  Harry Kim : Please, stop calling me that.

  Seven of Nine : You're compromising our productivity... I'm reassigning you to chamber maintenance. Your new designation is Two of Ten.

  Harry Kim : [laughs]  Wait a minute. You're demoting me? Since when do the Borg pull rank?

  Seven of Nine : A Starfleet protocol I adapted. I find it most useful.

  Harry Kim : I'm glad you're not the Captain.

• [first lines] 

  Voyager Computer : 0600 hours. Regeneration cycle complete.

  Seven of Nine : Daily log, Seven of Nine, Stardate 15781.2 - Today, Ensign Kim and I will conduct a comprehensive diagnostic of the aft sensor array. I have allocated three hours twenty minutes for the task, and an additional seventeen minutes for Ensign Kim's usual conversational digressions. I am scheduled to take a nutritional supplement at 1500 hours, engage in one hour of cardiovascular activity, then I intend to review a text the Doctor recommended, entitled 'A Christmas Carol.' He believes it will have educational value. End log.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : If someone out there is experimenting with Omega, I'm under orders to stop them. Otherwise this entire quadrant would be at risk.

  Seven of Nine : Those orders were the result of Starfleet's ignorance and fear. I can alleviate your ignorance. As for your fear...

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Sometimes fear should be respected, Seven.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : What is it the Borg say? That Omega is perfect?

  Seven of Nine : Yes.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Is that a theory or a belief?

• Seven of Nine : Your Starfleet Directive is no longer relevant. I have found a way to control Omega.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I don't care if you can make it sing and dance. We're getting rid of it.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I didn't realize you had such a strong scientific curiosity.

  Seven of Nine : Not curiosity. Desire.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Desire?

  Seven of Nine : Omega is infinitely complex, yet harmonious. To the Borg, it represents perfection. I wish to understand that perfection.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : The Borg's Holy Grail.

  Seven of Nine : Captain?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Never mind.

• Seven of Nine : Particle 010 - the Borg designation for what you call Omega. Every drone is aware of its existence. We were instructed to assimilate it at all costs. It is... perfection. The molecules exist in a flawless state. Infinite parts functioning as one.

  Chakotay : Like the Borg.

  Seven of Nine : Precisely. I am no longer Borg; but I still need to understand that perfection. Without it, my existence will never be complete.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm curious. When did the Borg discover Omega?

  Seven of Nine : 229 years ago.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Assimilation?

  Seven of Nine : Yes. Of thirteen different species.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Thirteen?

  Seven of Nine : It began with Species 262. They were primitive, but their oral history referred to a powerful substance which could burn the sky. The Borg were intrigued. Which led them to Species 263. They, too, were primitive and believed it was a drop of blood from their creator.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Fascinating!

  Seven of Nine : Yes, but irrelevant.

• Harry Kim : Is there anything you don't know?

  Seven of Nine : I was Borg.

  Harry Kim : "I was Borg!" That's what you always say, but what does it mean? You have the knowledge of 10,000 species in your head?

  Seven of Nine : Not exactly. Each drone's experiences are processed by the Collective. Only useful information is retained.

  Harry Kim : Still, that probably makes you the most intelligent human being alive.

  Seven of Nine : Probably.

  Harry Kim : So what do you need the rest of us for?

  [Seven gives him a peculiar look] 

  Harry Kim : Forget I asked.

• [Seven has told Janeway about the Borg's first attempt to create an Omega molecule] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Tell me... how many Borg were sacrificed during this experiment?

  Seven of Nine : 29 vessels, 600,000 drones, but that is irrelevant.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : I wondered who was running my program. Master da Vinci doesn't like visitors after midnight.

  Seven of Nine : He protested. I deactivated him.

• Seven of Nine : Which of them is the senior researcher?

  The Doctor : This gentleman. Why do you ask?

  Seven of Nine : He has knowledge I require.

  The Doctor : He also happens to be barely conscious. Come back in an hour.

  Seven of Nine : Unacceptable.

  The Doctor : Unavoidable. This is my sickbay. The man needs to recover.