What generally gets my goat is that, had certain protocols been established, these things wouldn't happen - but then we wouldn't have a story and we would never think about these scenarios.
That aside, Janeway, not later than the episode before! chastises Seven and forbids her access to key systems and confines her to the cargo bay. Then this episode follows on and Seven's now being given latitude, I guess we're meant to believe that a not insubstantial amount of time has passed in between?
Regardless, Seven is a VERY traumatized individual, on the outside she looks fine, other than implants, but inside she's a completely different story, she has nanites in her bloodstream, she has trauma from decades of emotional abuse where she effectively "raped" those she assimilated, of course it wasn't her, it was her borg controlled personality, which makes it even worse, to be a witness to horrific acts you are comitting to others against your will - but, knowing some of this, Janeway should not put her in positions, with access to technology, unsupervised, she certainly shouldn't have gone off unsupervised with the guy to his lab, she probably even shouldn't have been testing weapons on the surface where her valuable technology could even be a consideration. Again, you wouldn't have much of a story if you limited Seven to the cargo bay only.
The other issue here is the Janeway has repeatedly chastised the Doctor for fiddling with his own program and now he's a counselor and a therapist, having fiddled with his own program? Just, no. That's not what he was designed for and the profession is far more than just assimilating all the collected works of famous psychologists, just as changing his personality subroutines to those from literature was a good idea, look how that turned out!
I sympathize with Janeway, her job is like herding cats! Of course, if the protocol she put in place before, that only Bellana could alter his program, stood then we wouldn't have the problem, or the story, so I understand.
I'm glad they left it ambiguous in the end vs the usual neatly tied bow story endings, it made me think, which is a good thing. Loved the scene where Seven says to Schmullus, you said his punishment would make me feel better, Janeway gave Schmullus her death stare as if to say, why did you tell her that?? Why did you think it was a good idea for him to play psychotherapist, Janeway this is your fault!
Really, his choice to flee was because of how his own people would treat him regardless of the outcome, not because of what was found in evidence, which could actually cast doubt on the accusation (had he waited for Tuvok to prove that the nanites did regenerate).
Everyone, including the magistrate, with the exception of Tuvok, bears responsibility for the events that transpired.
Moral of the story: Supervise Seven at all times for her own good, don't let the Doc fiddle with his own program and leave investigations to Tuvok. Again, that would result in a pretty boring show so forget all that :joy:
Review by Neil TroutVIP 4BlockedParent2023-09-10T16:28:00Z
What generally gets my goat is that, had certain protocols been established, these things wouldn't happen - but then we wouldn't have a story and we would never think about these scenarios.
That aside, Janeway, not later than the episode before! chastises Seven and forbids her access to key systems and confines her to the cargo bay. Then this episode follows on and Seven's now being given latitude, I guess we're meant to believe that a not insubstantial amount of time has passed in between?
Regardless, Seven is a VERY traumatized individual, on the outside she looks fine, other than implants, but inside she's a completely different story, she has nanites in her bloodstream, she has trauma from decades of emotional abuse where she effectively "raped" those she assimilated, of course it wasn't her, it was her borg controlled personality, which makes it even worse, to be a witness to horrific acts you are comitting to others against your will - but, knowing some of this, Janeway should not put her in positions, with access to technology, unsupervised, she certainly shouldn't have gone off unsupervised with the guy to his lab, she probably even shouldn't have been testing weapons on the surface where her valuable technology could even be a consideration. Again, you wouldn't have much of a story if you limited Seven to the cargo bay only.
The other issue here is the Janeway has repeatedly chastised the Doctor for fiddling with his own program and now he's a counselor and a therapist, having fiddled with his own program? Just, no. That's not what he was designed for and the profession is far more than just assimilating all the collected works of famous psychologists, just as changing his personality subroutines to those from literature was a good idea, look how that turned out!
I sympathize with Janeway, her job is like herding cats! Of course, if the protocol she put in place before, that only Bellana could alter his program, stood then we wouldn't have the problem, or the story, so I understand.
I'm glad they left it ambiguous in the end vs the usual neatly tied bow story endings, it made me think, which is a good thing. Loved the scene where Seven says to Schmullus, you said his punishment would make me feel better, Janeway gave Schmullus her death stare as if to say, why did you tell her that?? Why did you think it was a good idea for him to play psychotherapist, Janeway this is your fault!
Really, his choice to flee was because of how his own people would treat him regardless of the outcome, not because of what was found in evidence, which could actually cast doubt on the accusation (had he waited for Tuvok to prove that the nanites did regenerate).
Everyone, including the magistrate, with the exception of Tuvok, bears responsibility for the events that transpired.
Moral of the story: Supervise Seven at all times for her own good, don't let the Doc fiddle with his own program and leave investigations to Tuvok. Again, that would result in a pretty boring show so forget all that :joy: