The Raven (Star Trek: Voyager)

"The Raven" is the 74th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the sixth episode of the fourth season.

"The Raven"
Star Trek: Voyager episode
Episode no.Season 4
Episode 6
Directed byLeVar Burton
Story byBryan Fuller
Harry 'Doc' Kloor
Teleplay byBryan Fuller
Featured musicDennis McCarthy
Production code174
Original air dateOctober 8, 1997 (1997-10-08)
Guest appearance(s)
  • Richard J. Zobel, Jr. as Gauman
  • Mickey Cottrell as Dumah
  • David Anthony Marshall as Magnus Hansen
  • Nikki Tyler as Erin Hansen
  • Erica Lynne Bryan as Annika Hansen

This Star Trek episode, broadcast on UPN in October 1997, focused on the new for Season 4 regular character Seven of Nine. It was directed by TNG's Geordi actor Levar Burton and introduces several Seven of Nine family members, and a young Seven of Nine is played by Erica Bryan.[1][2]

Plot

Seven of Nine, having recently been liberated from the Borg collective, is starting the process of learning to be a human again. She begins having hallucinations involving Borg and a large black bird. The Doctor diagnoses her with post-traumatic stress disorder. He decides to help her move forward by starting her on a diet of real food; now that she has been relieved of her Borg implants she'll need to take in nutrients. Neelix prepares a first meal for her to start on, and coaches her on the basics of chewing and swallowing. Suddenly she is struck by another vision, and a Borg implant grows from her skin. She jumps up and threatens to assimilate Neelix.

Captain Janeway is in the middle of negotiating passage through space governed by the B'omar. Her duty is made harder when Seven steals a shuttle and leaves Voyager, trespassing into B'omar space. Tuvok and Tom Paris covertly cross B'omar security lines in a shuttle to try to retrieve Seven. Tuvok transports to her shuttle, but Seven is able to subdue him. She explains that she is following a Borg homing beacon to a nearby moon, although Tuvok tells her there are no Borg ships anywhere in the vicinity.

Onboard Voyager, Janeway is trying to figure out what caused Seven to leave. Reading Seven's logs, she finds a reference to her hallucinations of a raven. She orders Voyager to scan for any Federation ship other than their shuttles and to set course for B'omar space.

On the moon's surface Seven and Tuvok find no Borg, only the wreckage of an old Federation ship. It shows signs of Borg invasion and partial assimilation. Seven feels that the ship is familiar to her: This is her parents' ship, the Raven. She and her parents were assimilated by the Borg on this very spot. The B'omar attack, but Seven and Tuvok are able to escape the Raven and are beamed back to Voyager, which flees B'omar space.

Later, Janeway mentions the existence of records on Seven's parents, and Seven decides that one day she will read them.

Reception

In 2014, io9 rated "The Raven" as the 75th best episode of Star Trek, and stated it was one of the best episodes about the character Seven of Nine recovering from her Borg assimilation.[3] The fictional Raven spacecraft in the episode is a Federation vessel of the 2350s in the Star Trek franchise, and its design has been made in miniature model.[4]

SyFy recommend "The Raven" for their Seven of Nine binge-watching guide.[5]

In 2020, Bustle recommended "The Raven" as one of seven episodes to watch as background for Star Trek: Picard.[6] They said this was a good background for the character Seven of Nine, who was captured by the Borg aliens; the episode shows some of her family life before assimilation aboard the spaceship Raven.[6]

See also

References
  1. "[VOY] Jammer's Review: "The Raven"". www.jammersreviews.com.
  2. TV.com. "Star Trek: Voyager: The Raven". TV.com.
  3. Anders, Charlie Jane (2 October 2014). "The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes of All Time!". io9. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  4. "U.S.S. Raven NAR-32450". Eaglemoss Collections. Retrieved 28 January 2019. |access-date=28 January 2019}}
  5. Fleenor, S. E. (2019-04-16). "The Seven of Nine binge guide". SYFY WIRE. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  6. "The 7 'Star Trek' Episodes You Need To Watch Before Starting 'Star Trek: Picard'". Bustle. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
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