It was also now common knowledge that Seven had spent months boffing a Chuckles hologram.
Boys like to call that "a sure thing" which helps with the nerves when approaching a woman who is more likely to say "remember the time you tried to vent me into space?" than "Yes, my girly bits do tingle when you approach, I would love to have dinner with you."
Seven's emotional state is fine. Maybe she's been through more than most people, but really it was just one thing. Regular humans have to over come hundreds of different small tragedies, she just had to figure out how to be okay with her life being stolen for 2 decades, and really, I think mostly that she loved being Borg. Kinda like Heroin, you know it's bad for you, you know you shouldn't do it, or remember how good the High felt, because that high felt awesome, worth killing for, and you regret admitting how intensely satisfying it had been to be a junkie, because it's just not a cool life, or a very long life. Seven was more traumatized by her recovery and rehabilitation than Done life.
She was 30 something, he was 40 something. The age difference is fine.
B'Elanna and Chak joined a terrorist orgnization for almost possibly no reason. In modern terms. They read an email in their spam folder asking them to join Isis, and obeyed. That really makes them emotionally malleable twits more so than well rounded persons.
Boys like to call that "a sure thing" which helps with the nerves when approaching a woman who is more likely to say "remember the time you tried to vent me into space?" than "Yes, my girly bits do tingle when you approach, I would love to have dinner with you."
Seven's emotional state is fine. Maybe she's been through more than most people, but really it was just one thing. Regular humans have to over come hundreds of different small tragedies, she just had to figure out how to be okay with her life being stolen for 2 decades, and really, I think mostly that she loved being Borg. Kinda like Heroin, you know it's bad for you, you know you shouldn't do it, or remember how good the High felt, because that high felt awesome, worth killing for, and you regret admitting how intensely satisfying it had been to be a junkie, because it's just not a cool life, or a very long life. Seven was more traumatized by her recovery and rehabilitation than Done life.
She was 30 something, he was 40 something. The age difference is fine.
B'Elanna and Chak joined a terrorist orgnization for almost possibly no reason. In modern terms. They read an email in their spam folder asking them to join Isis, and obeyed. That really makes them emotionally malleable twits more so than well rounded persons.
) . He understood her opinion and even appreciated it to the extent of seriously referring to it in the ensuing conversation with Janeway. From what Seven came to understand about Chakotay, was that he was a man of strong opinions, who didn't hesitate to voice them, although it was probably fortunate that she wasn't present in Janeway's office or elsewhere, when he was servilely brought to heel by the Big Cheese. Regardless, the admiration for him that I think grew over time, and that the Doctor's tutelage probably helped to inform her sense of physical attraction to be directed towards someone of Chakotay's strong presence and compelling good looks. For him, there was obviously great respect for her intellect and how it came to be utilized time and again for the mission's benefit. His options of romantic involvement were limited, just as, and in accordance with, Janeway's commitment to the mission and refusal to allow the suasion of a personal relationship with anyone on board, to compromise that focus on duty.
