Janeway försöker hjälpa Seven of Nine. Nu när 7 är skild från kollektivet börjarn hennes kropp att förkasta Borg inplantaten, så Doc
tvingas operera bort så mycket Borg av henne som möjligt. Tyvärr sitter Borg spåren mycket djupare än så och Janeway tvingar henne att
stanna på Voyager och bestämmer sig för att jobba med hennes mänskliga sida. Samtidigt håller Kes på att utvecklas till nästa nivå i Ocampa livscykeln. Och det verkar göra Voyager väldigt instabil och för att rädda skeppet tvingas dom säga hejdå till Kes, som lämnar i en skyttel och försvinner i tomma intet. Men inte innan hon ger Voyager en avskedsgåva - 10 000 ljusår. Men hon kommer tebax....

Joe Menosky:
[om Sevens bakgrund]
"We tossed around a lot of different things, and we had to think about where she came from, because she came from the Borg. Was she, for example, a drug addict, and is that what that is when you seperate yourself from the collective mind? Is it like a junkie going through
cold turkey? Or is she an ex-cult member? Are the scenes between her and Janeway in 'The Gift' equivalent to a de-programmer trying to
re-program someone who has been a mamber of an all encompassing cult-like family? That stood in for the Borg and the Borg Collective.
Both of those images are negative. You'd have a main character, who in the back of your mind you're thinking 'she's an ex-drug addict, she's an ex-cult member'. We were really thinking about that, and we came up with the idea of the wild child, the wolf child, the little girl who was raised by wolves in a forest and is finally reclaimed by humanity.
She always was human, but for a formative period of her life she was also a wolf. Wolves can be seen as being very frightening, very
vicious creatures. There is also something dignified or awesome about the wolf pack. Seven of Nine, who came from the Borg, always was
human, she's human now. She grew up somewhere else, and even though the people she grew up with are the bad guy, there's something
awe-inspiring about the greatness of the Collective. That gave us something that was a little ambiguous and it didn't make her a victim
so much. It gave her also an edge of arrogance and haughtiness. That was the image that we settled on, and in some ways dictated how we wrote her character from then."
[om att Kes slutade]
"It was unfortunate that Kes had to be kissed off in the same episode. There was a parallel with Janeway. having to keep things together,
going from the new person on board, Seven, to the person who was entering this strange transformation of her own and leaving. Janeway
was dead in the center of those two relationships, the coming and the parting. But for my own taste, the scenes between Seven and Janeway are OK. I just did not like the story of what becomes of Kes."
[om Sevens uniform hon har på sig i slutet av detta avsnitt]
"Originally, I just thought it was over the top. It is such a jarring difference, the look, from the rest of our show. But I think it worked itself out eventually, and the almost visual shock of seeing what in some ways if you squint a little bit seems like a character from another series, or even another genre, in our show, seemed to have worked in a strange way. Sometimes the aesthetic can work for women that have a different view of how women should be presented. Look at Madonna or any other woman who uses her eroticism and sexuality in a
certain way. It doesn't have to be something that is forced upon them, it can be something that is empowering and that they are using. I
think that is what I was hearing from women who just thought Seven was cool."

Brannon Braga :
[om dialogerna och meningsskildaktigheterna mellan Janeway och Seven]
"We didn't really even know what (Seven's) character was going to be at first. We struggled, until we just started writing. Janeway was
going to be her mentor, and that dynamic stuck."
[om Sevens sexiga kläder och Jeri Ryans sexappeal]
"A lot of people were angry when they saw images of Jeri Ryan [som finns på min hemsida btw, stoffs anm]. They thought we were turning the show into Baywatch. But I hope that once they saw the character delivered and the actress' ability, they got over it real quick,
because it is a very interesting addition to the cre. I found the reactions, many of them [from] women, to be sexist. 'Look, she's got
big breasts. How could they?' The irony of that situation is, those same people were juding her by her tits. That's not fair. Jeri Ryan is
a very intelligent, well-educated, insightful woman, and she also happens to be a very talented actress. How dare you just take one look
at her, and make that judgement? She's probably lived with that her whole life. So I found the initial reaction to her character to be sexist. It was fascinating to watch."
[tilläggas bör att dom två är nu ihop, stoffs anm]

Diverse kommentarer om att Jennifer Lien/Kes drog:
Jeri Taylor:
"[Jennifer Lien] just felt her character wasn't going anywhere, so it was a very amicable and mutual decision. Jennifer did come back to do two episodes for us, to finish up the season finale and to give her a spectaculor story to send her off, which does not preclude the
possibility of her coming back. We have a lot of characters, we were adding a character, and the feeling was that we were not servicing
that one well, and it was best not to try to keep doing it."
Robert Beltran:
"I was sorry that Jenny left, because we were a family. We were very close. [But] they weren't doing very much with her anyway. Except for the Kes-driven episodes she was pretty much a glorified extra, as we all become when we're not intrinsically involved in the episode."
Roxann Dawson:
"I would be lying if I said it was easy. We're a very close cast. We love Jennifer, and she's very talented. I think that it was easy to see, just looking at her role and the scripts, that they had written her into a corner that they couldn't get out of. It's hard when something like that happens. We all feel awkward about it, and we miss her terribly. But I also think that the character that Jeri us playing is unique and exciting, and I think it's added a lot of spice to the show."

Sen när kallar Tuvok Chakotay för "Mister Chakotay"?

Detta är första gången i hela serien som Ayala, den f.d Maquis killen som setts i nästan varje avsnitt, verkligen får säga något! Killen spelas av Tarik Ergin, som även var med i spelet ST Borg.

[om jag kunde beskriva blickar med ord skulle jag försöka beskriva
Janeways "häll käften"-blick... men det kan jag inte]

Tuvok: "Perhaps you're experiencing after effects of some kind?"
Doc: "A reasonable diagnosis... for a security officer."
[..]
Doc: "If you think there is a risk Mr. Tuvok, maybe you'd like to throw one of your little forcefields around the chamber?"
Tuvok: "A prudent securite meassure... for a doctor."

"This drone is small. Alone. One voice. One mind. This is unacceptable!"
- 7 of 9

7: "We fully recall the engineering specifications of this vessel."
Torres: "Good. Do you also remember what it looked like before you turned it into a Borg circus?!"

"I guess the Borg meet alot of people, don't they?"
- Kim

"An Ocampan who wants to become something more and a Borg afraid of becoming something less... here's to Vulcan stability."
- Janeway

"I don't know what it is to be human!?"
- 7 [does any of us?]

"We just dropped out of... whatever it was we were in!"
- Paris