A theory on why Naomi spent so much time with Seven.

[Dale Sams]

@Dale: Eh? Not sure where you're getting with that. Samantha is married to Naomi's dad.

Ah, I didn't know they were married. Also, of course, I meant in a hypothetical situation like Samantha was declared dead and Naomi's dad remarried.

 

[Guy Gardener]

JANEWAY 2: I'm afraid not. We've been studying that theory. B'Elanna tells me that any attempt to disrupt the antimatter supply will destroy us all. What about evacuating your crew to my ship? It might get a little crowded, but we could manage.
JANEWAY: We've been studying that theory. And my B'Elanna tells me that sending any more than five to ten people through the rift would radically alter the atomic balance of the two Voyagers. We'd both be destroyed. Captain, I think you should return to your ship and run a metallurgical analysis. Find out the precise phase modulation of your hull. I'll do the same here. Maybe we can find a way to realign the phase displacement.
JANEWAY 2: You're going to self-destruct your ship.
JANEWAY: What makes you say that?
JANEWAY 2: Because that's what I would do if your Voyager were intact, and my Voyager were crippled, my crew wounded or dead. I'd sacrifice my ship so that yours could survive.

Transport one of the the crews over to the other vessel, but leave them in transporter suspension.

It's the ships that can't handle too much crew, not the universe, which is stupid, if there was a near by planet, to leave the less desirable crewmen, all would be good.

According to wikipedia "atomic balance" is not a thing, but they may have meant atom balancing...

In this course we're assuming

. Since the moles of atoms of any element are conserved,

. So we have the following balance on a given element A:

Which is about how atomic compounds are formed as atoms randomly bind... Hydrogen + Oxygen = Water.

 

[USS Triumphant]

According to wikipedia "atomic balance" is not a thing.

Ah, but did you check it in the 24th century?

 

[Guy Gardener]

My wiki only goes up to the 23rd.

 

[Lt. Uhura-Brown]

Naomi's mother never got over that fact that the child she gave birth to was dead and this was a replacement. Thus she kept Naomi at arm's length.

I've been rewatching Voyager with my son, and I like it more than I remember. But this is a perfect example of one of the most maddening things the series does: something like Harry and Naomi returning from the dead happens, and the show just never follows up on it again. The next episode is just business as usual.

Like that Baby of Borg?

 

[exodus]

If figured Niomi spent allot of time with Seven because mentally Seven and Niomi are the same age. When Seven debates Janeway she's usually right but there are times from Seven's lack of certain adult understandings, she's still about 7 or 8 years old mentally. Niomi and Seven relate to each other on that level.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I tend to think Sam Wildman wasn't an absentee mother but the actress was just rarely on screen so we don't see them together.

I agree about Seven being emotionally the same age as Naomi. Plot device-wise, it also gave her an opportunity to engage somebody on a non-Starfleet level where she didn't have to be guarded or held to anyone's standard but her own.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I tend to think Sam Wildman wasn't an absentee mother but the actress was just rarely on screen so we don't see them together.

Exactly. Like I said, Nancy Hower wasn't a regular (more's the pity... ), but Jeri Ryan was, so therefore we'll always see Seven more often than Sam.

And in those episodes where we DID see Sam, her relationship with Naomi seemed secure, so no one can accuse her of being unfit or absent.

 

[Gov Kodos]

I figure she did it to annoy mom like many rebellious kids. Instead of swearing and slang. She learned Borg designations and acting like Seven just to honk off mom.

 

[desfem79]

Of course, children don't like or respect other people. In honesty, I don't get this question.

though not to be crude, I can see why Naomi's birth was via a transporter. The lacerations would have been fatal.

 

[exodus]

I tend to think Sam Wildman wasn't an absentee mother but the actress was just rarely on screen so we don't see them together.

Exactly. Like I said, Nancy Hower wasn't a regular (more's the pity... ), but Jeri Ryan was, so therefore we'll always see Seven more often than Sam.

And in those episodes where we DID see Sam, her relationship with Naomi seemed secure, so no one can accuse her of being unfit or absent.

Yeah, I think Nancy Hower was probably in the process of creating and trying to sell her show "My Boys", which was picked up by TBS.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I got 3 episodes into that and wandered off.

Thought about trying 10 items or less again because I really really liked her cowboy comedy last year.

 

[Timewalker]

As for Naomi, I think she had a lot of spare time with there not being a real school on board, no other kids to play with, and her mom had duty shifts. I think at first she was afraid, yet intrigued, by Seven. As Seven developed her humanity she sought out people who were non-judgmental and outsiders, such as herself. I believe that is also why she became close to the Doctor. A child would have the same effect. A child is usually non-judgmental and in this case the child is somewhat an outsider on the ship with her being the only child for a long while. I think Naomi became more intrigued by Seven as time went on and they just ended up feeling close to one another. Then when Seven was put in charge of the Borg kids...Naomi finally had other children to interact with. So it's no surprise that she spent more and more time around the cargo bay. Not only to visit Seven, but also the other kids.

Except we hardly ever saw Naomi with the other kids. She and they were all in the episode with the science fair, but I can't remember any other episodes. Was Naomi part of the group Neelix told ghost stories to?

Considering that Mezoti preferred to hang around with Harry, maybe Naomi wasn't that much fun to be with!

And also, in-universe, Sam is a Starfleet officer who has a regular duty shift. Seven isn't. Seven is basically off-duty all the time, so she has more time to hang around with people, Naomi included.

Seven certainly did have duty shifts.

Edit: also, I don't know if they ever did a Nitpicker's Guide for Voyager but,....Janeway's solution in that episode is baffling. Harry and Naomi get to escape because they're dead on the other Voyager, but what about everyone else?? Everyone is just as alive and real as the other. Yes, you'll need a skeleton crew but SOME others could have been saved.

Given the hassle of two Will Rikers running around, would you want identical people constantly underfoot on the same ship?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Like the Delaney sisters, or like two of the Borg Kids?

Or like the script cockups that ascribed alternating genders to at least three of the same off-camera stock characters?

 

[USS Triumphant]

Given the hassle of two Will Rikers running around, would you want identical people constantly underfoot on the same ship?

Still, they're crewmen,
Identical crewmen and you'll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike --

You can lose your mind,
When your crewmen... are two of a kind.

And now... I feel ancient. But if Patty Duke could handle playing both parts, I think the Voyager cast could have handled it.

 

[exodus]

I got 3 episodes into that and wandered off.

Me too.

 

[Ro_Laren]

Naomi's mother never got over that fact that the child she gave birth to was dead and this was a replacement. Thus she kept Naomi at arm's length.

Interesting theory. I wonder if the duplication process also attributed to her growing up so quickly. on the shwo Maybe it did something to her newborn cells thus causing her to age rapidly. Or, you could argue the typical theory: Katarians just age and mature quickly (like they say that Klingons age quickly and that is why Alexander grows up so quickly between TNG and DS9).

 

[Timewalker]

I'm currently reading a fanfic that has Naomi go through a "growth spurt" and start Starfleet Academy before age 12 (biological equivalent of mid-late human teens).

Or you could just say that both Naomi and Alexander contracted a condition known as SORAS - Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome.

 

[Lynx]

Maybe Naomi was tired of Neelix and his amorous ambitions to hook up with Samantha and therefore turned to Seven who became her friend and "replacement mother"?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Neelix and his amorous ambitions to hook up with Samantha

Eh? I didn't see any of that. In fact they had very few scenes together at all.

Besides, Neelix isn't a homewrecker. He (and everyone else) knows Samantha's married.

As for Naomi: It's pretty well accepted that Ktarians age a lot quicker than humans and since Naomi is 1/2 Ktarian, she will too. She's probably Academy-age by the time they get home.