Seven probably doesn't look very good underneath, otherwise Harry wouldn't have declined her offer to copulate.
I'm glad you've changed the subject, teacake, and tabled that other mess. It was getting way too silly, but I chalk that up to the holidays.
I have a disgusting argument that it could have had something to do with the odour. Ask Teacake to repeat it, I'm sure she has the nerves. It's like those prize scratcher games, but instead of revealing 4 cow bells to win you 50 dollars, Tom was using the Dermal regenerator to scratch off twenty years of mutilation and vivisection to unveal something extremely very dateable.
I don't think Seven put inside the criteria: "Is he into me?" Either becuase attraction is irrelevant at such an early stage in the proccess that friends can date without subtext, or she's worked out mathematically that all men want her... Which is not a handsome quality in anyone. But this is what I figured out... A man has to ask a woman out on a date, even a stranger, quickly, before he sees him leering. If she sees him leering before he can confirm dinner (or be rejected.), then he is a perve and put on a stranger-danger list, but only a sociopath approaches a stranger and asks her for her phone number and then to meet her someone at night to get drunk and see what happens. This is what men forget. Smart women can get a free dinner without having sex at the end of the date or during the date. Meanwhile really smart women can buy their own damn dinner and don't like being patronized or manipulated. Food on Voyager is free. Although, if Seven is as excellent a cook as she thinks she is, and hostess, you would think that she would become a hard target for everyone sick of Tallaxian Cousine? Her spice rack is her best rack by a country mile.
I don't think 7 sees asking someone on a date as any more fraught than asking someone to play parrises squares. They will either say yes or they will say no. If they say no she will ask someone else. She is like those simplistic people on the internet who say "just ask her out" and "just leave him" and "just.." I doubt she has thought that the recipient of her date request may have lots of other ideas about this potential evening. Including fear
Kim leered at her when he reminded Seven that he played the Clarinet. He leered at her a lot. Which is why he is on the stranger danger list. It's the whole spectrum problem. If she can't get skeeved out from the wrong guy looking at her, then she can't get giddy from the right guy looking at her. (Because she's dead on the inside.)
He's in the shed untangling cables. Meanwhile, under the hood a dashing Captain Janeway presses pips together and..!
Chakotay is that lefty guy at school who talks up women out of his league and acts surprised they won't sleep with him.