Why Seven of Nine Actually Deserved Better

Star Trek Picard should have been about Picard and his dog solving cozy mysteries in the french countryside. That could have been lovely. Murder She Wrote, but with Bolians and stuff.

When it came to Star Trek: Picard we ALL deserved better.

I never understood why they insisted on killing off or separating every single one of Seven's children from her. The killing of Icheb, her last remaining, felt so pointlessly cruel.

Imagine if, in Picard season 3, Seven was the object the villains were after rather than Jack Crusher Jr. Nobody I know grew to care much about the character of Picard's son, but we all knew and liked Seven and would have felt something much more dramatically valid if she were the one placed in that jeopardy.

That scene with Icheb was like something out of a slasher movie, Star Trek's no stranger to dark material but that moment felt like the show saying "Hey, think Star Trek is lame? Well how bout' this, this is dark and cool!".

Your sarcastic rage fan fiction has always been better than 100% of actual fan fiction. Never change Steve.

I’d be on board with a Star Trek show with her as captain. As long as her first line is, “Computer, lights! Isn’t so much brighter in here? We’re on the flagship of the federation not a Borg cube!”

I'd be much more interested in a Seven: Fenris Ranger series than whatever the hell "Legacy" would be.

I stand firm in believing that a Seven of Rangers with warrior nun Romulan manboy would of been a way better series.

I kind of agree, Seven was the first time I saw a character like me represented on screen, someone who was frustrated at the lack of consistency, feeling outside of a system they were trapped within and desperately wanting to be heard without always being misunderstood. Sevens character meant a lot to me and I felt like the Picard show took some of that away by turning her into someone that gave in to the system, which sadly is what people like me have to do to limit our frustration with it. I guess the biggest sin the show made was by taking away the will and self determination of a character people like me desperately wanted to see flourish as they are not what the narrative needed from them. I love the new Seven, but in a different way, almost like an entirely new character with different things to like about them. But I will always miss the Seven I saw and related to, but for me she is still there, I still have my "Seven moments" in life where I push back at a system that frustrates me, at least enough to not feel so disenfranchised by it.

Steve, Steve, Steve… Molly O’Brien would have to be chief engineer, while Naomi Wildman would be science officer. Put Icheb at operations and stick Molly’s brother Kirayoshi at tactical (“gong gong gong!”). Sydney LaForge stays at helm. Make Sara Yates (aka Sara Sisko, serving under her mother Kassidy’s maiden name to hide her identity) as the first officer. Make Nog the captain (RIP Aron), and put them all on the Defiant. Now, you got a great show.

"Star Trek: Oops! All Klingons", could be the type of idea that turns out to be fantastic. A total surprise. Something that you might not think you really want, and then BANG! You're watching a Klingon Downton Abbey.

Now I want Knight Rider in space. Seven is captain of La Sirena with all those different holographic versions of Rios. Going to space farms and flipping space vans full of space bad guys. That'd be brilliant.

“The Enterprise WTF” nearly spewed my coffee everywhere at that laughing. Really good take I think.

The way Picard started with a cast that was entirely outside Starfleet and progressively slotted them back in (Picard, Raffi and Rios in Season 2, Seven, Ro Laren and Jack in Season 3) really reminds me of what Robert Hewitt Wolfe (I think?) said about how the writers on TNG felt trapped and bored by the convention that everyone is Star Trek is in Starfleet, everyone wants to be in Starfleet, everyone has to be in Starfleet, so they decided that Wesley would go to the academy and hate it. You've got characters who actively reject Starfleet (see Jack emphasising that he isn't one to take orders) and then eventually sign up anyway. Not only is it a crushingly unimaginative thing to do with your characters, it just feels... really hard to imagine everyone wanting to do. You live in a post-scarcity utopia where you apparently don't need a job to live an ideal life, and you'd like to give that up to go back to taking orders all the time? Jack's whole life has been acting outside the laws of the Federation to help those in need, but he learns his absent father was a famous captain and now it's The Legacy all of a sudden?

I wasn't really a fan of "Picard" as a whole, but I must admit, Jeri Ryan as Seven was a highlight, regardless of the script issues. Her presence on screen always brought a spark. I also appreciated seeing the legacy characters' children grown up, offering a sense of continuity and connection within the universe. It's a neat way to pass the torch—old, yet new. That said, I really think they missed an opportunity by not including Worf’s son, Alexander. Considering the sexism and patriarchal nature of the Klingon Empire, Alexander’s character holds so much potential for a modern storyline. He’s not your typical Klingon, but he is Worf’s son, and Worf is a legendary figure, akin to a new Kahless. They should definitely revisit this angle in the future. Imagine Alexander, dealing with his own issues and experiences in Starfleet, navigating his path on whatever new ship features in the series, all while grappling with his resentment towards his father’s absence during his upbringing.

Jeri Ryan was, and still is, a very attractive woman. But she definitely became one of the most compelling characters, along with the Doctor, in Voyager.

Seven of Nine was one of my favorite characters on Voyager. There was something about her that was very tragic. Her struggle to find her humanity and relate to the other characters who were never Borg was very interesting to me.

Seven didn’t live in a Borg commune teaching exborg to regain their individuality. They had Hugh for that…

4:37 I will forever regret sitting down to eat a pasta dinner while I watched the Seven/Icheb scene from PIC S1.