Seven of 9 (Jeri Ryan) being a reclaimed Borg drone in Star Trek: Voyager could not have occurred with out Dr. Beverly Crusher’s (Gates McFadden) work in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Borg, beforehand solely curious about know-how, reveal their curiosity in assimilating particular person individuals in TNG season 3’s cliffhanger, “The Better of Each Worlds, Half 1.” Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is captured and assimilated by the Borg, changing into their speaker, Locutus. Whereas Picard might have been misplaced perpetually, Stewart returned to TNG for season 4, so “The Better of Each Worlds, Half 2” contains Picard’s de-assimilation.
After Picard’s ordeal as Locutus, prospects opened up for extra in-depth tales about the Borg in Star Trek: Voyager. The USS Voyager, misplaced within the Delta Quadrant, encounters the Borg of their dwelling area. To barter with the Borg, Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) asks the Collective for a speaker akin to Locutus, so Seven of 9 is singled out. After fulfilling that goal — and failing to assimilate Voyager — Seven of 9 was severed from the Borg Collective, and marked for loss of life. However, like Picard, Seven could possibly be saved.
With out Dr. Beverly Crusher On Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology, Saving Seven Of 9 Would not Be Potential
Dr. Crusher Figured Out How To Reverse Borg Assimilation
With out Beverly Crusher’s work to revive Picard after being assimilated by the Borg in TNG, saving Seven of 9 in Voyager would not have been doable. As a result of USS Voyager’s Emergency Medical Hologram (Robert Picardo) had entry to Starfleet Medical’s total database, Voyager‘s Physician might use the identical microsurgery strategies on Seven of 9 that Dr. Crusher pioneered to remodel Locutus again into Jean-Luc Picard. Most of Seven’s Borg implants are eliminated utilizing Crusher’s strategies, whereas others are telekinetically dissolved by Kes (Jennifer Lien), or left intact as a result of they’re important to Seven’s survival.
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Voyager additionally proved that Dr. Crusher’s idea concerning the risks of de-assimilating Picard was proper. Within the TNG episode, Crusher theorizes that working on Picard whereas Locutus’ Borg implants are nonetheless related to the Collective would kill him, so Lt. Commander Information (Brent Spiner) rigorously overrides the subspace sign between Locutus and the Borg. The EMH would not have to try this for Seven of 9, as a result of Seven of 9’s connection to the Borg is forcibly severed. With out both that connection or speedy medical intervention, Seven would have died as her human physiology reasserted itself and rejected her Borg implants.
Dr. Beverly Crusher Saved All Of Starfleet From The Borg in Star Trek: Picard Season 3
Each Reclaimed Borg Drone Is Potential As a result of Of Dr. Beverly Crusher
Dr. Beverly Crusher takes her work reclaiming Borg drones a step additional in Star Trek: Picard season 3, when she saves all of Starfleet from new Borg assimilation know-how. The Borg work with Changelings to infiltrate Starfleet’s transporters, which covertly assimilate Starfleet officers with a DNA override. The consequence os a quiet assimilation of Starfleet’s youthful officers, who did not even know that they had been assimilated till they have been activated en masse. Crusher develops a treatment for the bothered drones that restores all of Starfleet through the use of the transporter to take away the brand new Borg DNA.
On the finish of Star Trek: Picard season 3, Dr. Beverly Crusher’s experience as Starfleet’s most achieved doctor results in her being reinstated because the Head of Starfleet Medical — a place she beforehand held in Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology season 2.
The Borg Reclamation Mission in Picard season 1 additionally would not have occurred with out Dr. Crusher. On the time, Beverly is making an attempt to maintain her son Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) protected with a low profile, however Crusher’s work nonetheless varieties the premise for the mass de-assimilation of numerous xBs, together with TNG‘s Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco). Because of Dr. Crusher’s groundwork restoring Captain Picard after changing into Locutus in Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology, and the EMH perfecting Crusher’s strategies to reclaim Seven of 9 in Star Trek: Voyager, Borg assimilation is not a direct loss of life sentence.
