Seven Of Nine’s Borg “Children” On Star Trek: Voyager Explained

Former Borg drone Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) was a mother figure and mentor to a group of ex-Borg children in Star Trek: Voyager. Voyager's Borg kids had been assimilated as children, just like Seven, who was only six years old when her parents' ship, the USS Raven, was caught after years of evading capture. Young Annika Hansen was the daughter of Erin and Mangus Hansen, Federation scientists whose study of the Borg brought them to the Delta Quadrant. Annika was too young to become a drone, so she was placed in a maturation chamber until she was older.

Recently liberated from the Borg Collective, Seven was still figuring out how to reclaim her own humanity when the USS Voyager encountered a Borg Cube that had been struck by a virus in Star Trek: Voyager season 6, episode 16, "Collective". The virus rendered the Cube all but inert, killing all the drones aboard except a few children who were protected by their maturation chambers. Severed from the rest of the Borg, the kids formed their own version of a Collective. Instead of destroying the neonatal drones, Seven of Nine took responsibility for the children on board Voyager.

Who Were Seven Of Nine’s Borg “Children” On Star Trek: Voyager

Seven Of Nine Unofficially Adopted Icheb, Mezoti, Azan, and Rebi

Seven of Nine became the adoptive guardian to Star Trek: Voyager's Borg children, after convincing the neonatal Collective to rediscover their individuality, like she had. The self-appointed leader, First (Ryan Spahn), died while refusing to leave the Cube. Azan (Kurt Wetherill) and Rebi (Cody Wetherill) were Wysanti twins, and Mezoti (Marley S. McClean) was a Norcadian girl. The oldest was Icheb (Manu Intiraymi), a teenage Brunali boy whose initial assimilation had been a ploy to infect the Borg with a genetically engineered virus. After the younger children reunited with their families, Seven of Nine took personal responsibility for Icheb's future.