In chapter 1 of I Can’t Miss the Encore (Encore), Becoming One with the Forest, on page 15, I wrote about how I relate to Seven of Nine. The Borg, a terrifying robotic species, was introduced in the Star Trek: Voyager series, the year-long Borg season. The Borg individuals “assimilated” other species into the “hive mind,” called The Collective. The hive mind had a constant connection to every other drone and the Borg Queen telepathically. The drones robotically obeyed the queen’s orders acting like bees in a beehive. They worked together flying through space looking for all species to assimilate into the Borg hive. Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One, her full Borg designation, for all you non-Trekkies, became one of these bees, called drones.
The Voyager season, the encounter with the Borg was my favorite season. The striking actress, Jeri Ryan plays Seven of Nine. Seven, of the human species had a liminal event when she was “assimilated” as a child by the Borg while on a scientific space voyage with her parents. Injected with nanoprobes, she turned into a Borg drone, thus, controlled by the queen. She had another liminal event as an adult when later rescued by the Voyager crew during an encounter with her Borg spaceship cube. After being rescued, some of her Borg robotic implants were removed which cut her completely off from all communication with the Borg, the “hive mind.” The crew thought they were doing Seven a favor. But she was terrified and confused because she was used to constant communication with millions of other Borgs in the collective mind. Though she joins the crew of the Federation starship Voyager, she suffered after being cut off from her hive. She felt no one. She heard no one. She was now very much alone.
I write about how I too feel cut off from my “hive mind” and feeling very much alone. Like Seven, I also miss connections to my collective mind, my heavenly home. Communication in that divine way with those I loved stopped when the vail was drawn after my birth, leaving me stranded and alone. It’s hard to explain those heavenly longings. Being cut off as Seven was, is my way, in Encore, of trying to explain my feelings of loneliness and longings here on earth, even sometimes feeling terrified and confused. It seemed I was forever searching for home and searching for that ever-elusive person who once knew me and loved me just because I am—me.
Click here to find info about the Star Treck: Voyager Borg Seasons and epsodes. https://tinyurl.com/2p8kxmmw
(Image is my assemblage art Borg I created. I call her First of One.)
In chapter 1 of I Can’t Miss the Encore (Encore), Becoming One with the Forest, on page 15, I wrote about how I relate to Seven of Nine. The Borg, a terrifying robotic species, was introduced in the Star Trek: Voyager series, the year-long Borg season. The Borg individuals “assimilated” other species into the “hive mind,” called The Collective. The hive mind had a constant connection to every other drone and the Borg Queen telepathically. The drones robotically obeyed the queen’s orders acting like bees in a beehive. They worked together flying through space looking for all species to assimilate into the Borg hive. Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One, her full Borg designation, for all you non-Trekkies, became one of these bees, called drones.
The Voyager season, the encounter with the Borg was my favorite season. The striking actress, Jeri Ryan plays Seven of Nine. Seven, of the human species had a liminal event when she was “assimilated” as a child by the Borg while on a scientific space voyage with her parents. Injected with nanoprobes, she turned into a Borg drone, thus, controlled by the queen. She had another liminal event as an adult when later rescued by the Voyager crew during an encounter with her Borg spaceship cube. After being rescued, some of her Borg robotic implants were removed which cut her completely off from all communication with the Borg, the “hive mind.” The crew thought they were doing Seven a favor. But she was terrified and confused because she was used to constant communication with millions of other Borgs in the collective mind. Though she joins the crew of the Federation starship Voyager, she suffered after being cut off from her hive. She felt no one. She heard no one. She was now very much alone.
I write about how I too feel cut off from my “hive mind” and feeling very much alone. Like Seven, I also miss connections to my collective mind, my heavenly home. Communication in that divine way with those I loved stopped when the vail was drawn after my birth, leaving me stranded and alone. It’s hard to explain those heavenly longings. Being cut off as Seven was, is my way, in Encore, of trying to explain my feelings of loneliness and longings here on earth, even sometimes feeling terrified and confused. It seemed I was forever searching for home and searching for that ever-elusive person who once knew me and loved me just because I am—me.
Click here to find info about the Star Treck: Voyager Borg Seasons and epsodes. https://tinyurl.com/2p8kxmmw
(Image is my assemblage art Borg I created. I call her First of One.)