yeah though as I always say Chakotay is a nice, safe man, just one step up from holo-Chak and I think he will treat her well and be a good practice relationship for her.
She had a great relationship with the Doctor, very well developed and fleshed out. Shame they couldn't do a romance for her that developed but Trek does suck at romance most of the time.
teacake wrote: 
What I find odd is that people always say 7 was added to the show for sex appeal, to sex it up. But then they say she is too much of a child to have a relationship. If this was really true that would be incredibly creepy.
Yes, that is horribly creepy.
I should stress I think Seven
can get into a relationship - with someone more her equal in age/experience. Harry Kim. Or the Doc - he's only a few years old. Like Seven, he has the combined knowledge of many sentient beings, but he's still a kid in some ways. Just like her.
Seven is an unusual and special case, I know. But Janeway, as a character, is not keen on getting into sexual relationships with her crew, and
particularly not her younger charges. I couldn't see her with Tal Celes, either.
I disagree re: 7/EMH for a
variety of reasons. I don't care if he's sentient, or not... what I care about is the
compatibility of beings and the
disparity in power.
Remember when
Data was dating that woman on the Enterprise? She "tried" to get emotionally invested with him, but finally realized she gave up one cold distant lover for a mechanical man who was the ultimate in cold distant lovers. The fact that he was multitasking during their kiss was the straw that broke the camel's back with her. The EMH is just a holographic Data as far as I'm concerned. Seven may be more mechanical than the average human, but she's still not to the computer level that the EMH is from an
"evolutionary" viewpoint.
And, I'm sorry, but on a ship with 150 beings... there are several significant no-nos when it comes to Doctors and Patients. "Shipping" them is a
HUGE no-no!
Think about it.
For the last half of the last year, the Doctor was actively planning how to remove the block from her cortical implant that prevented her from feeling intense emotions without suffering a computer meltdown, DESPITE the fact she already told him she didn't want the surgery... AND as soon as she asked about removing that block he
not only offered her the remedy in "one simple procedure"... he also
offered himself as a suitor.
Now... does she
accept his offer because he's doing this
amazing surgery for her... or does she
reject his offer because "she's just not into him that way" and worry that perhaps he will not do his level best now that he's not going to reap the sexual benefits of her new found freedom?
The
EMH's job/mission is the health/benefit of his patients, just like
Janeway's job/mission is to do everything she can to get her crew home safely.
Neither can get into a relationship
with those who depend upon them doing their job. That's why Jaffen was the only viable choice for Janeway, and she couldn't choose him because once he was aboard he became one of those people she couldn't choose. (Crusher could get involved with Picard because she wasn't the only Doctor on Enterprise)
As for the rest of her options...
Seven would have lost her mother figure if she had a relationship with Janeway beyond the maintext one.
I don't think Chak is a "good practice" relationship simply because
HE doesn't need the practice. He's "too" mature and would be looking at the relationship from a vantagepoint Seven couldn't begin to understand.
There's always Mortimer Herren from the Good Shepard, but he's MORE mechanical than Seven!
I think the only one that could have been her potential choice was
Harry... but that wasn't going to happen unless and until TPTB let him grow up more than they did. He was smart, they worked well together, but unfortunately his track record with woman meant that ship was doomed to sink even before it sailed.
As for "Seven sexing up" the show, I think "what we see is what we get" from a sexing up the show theme. Breasts out to "here" and a shape that most would look at twice if she walked by was all TPTB wanted to do to grab the attention of Mr Nielson and his sons.
Making her
as smart,
as distant,
as complex,
as wounded as they did meant that for those of us who watched the show for its "serious themes" wouldn't run from our sets screaming everytime she was on screen.
I certainly didn't!
(I'll see your young Kate in a sack, in a field, with a bird and raise you a
more mature Kate on a holdeck with a quill pen and a fireplace !)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkFayt5sVos
)
Such wasted chemistry though . . . . . 
