It was never addressed in the series proper but it's something that has me curious. I know with the removal of many of her implants she lost many abilities. But with the naboprobes remaining in her body will that slow down her aging process or will she age like a normal human?
If they ever revisit Seven in future Trek, they'll have little choice but to have her age as human. If not... whatever you imagine.
Hadn't thought but wouldn't her organics age and her Borg bits just need upgrading? Borg children seem to age into adults following species 'norms'.
Barclay mentions that nanoprobes retard ageing. The problem is that Seven of nine (24 years old in Scorpion) was much Younger than 29 year old Jeri Ryan (in Scorpion). So does that mean that her nano probes were shit? Seven of Nine looked like was staring down the barrel of 30, while assuring everyone that yes she was barely old enough to drink alcohol.
Yes, Jeri looked 30, exactly, but the character was 24. Another possibility is that because they put her in maturation chamber shortly after assimilating the poor girl, that a year later, she stepped out of her chamber with a 29 year old's body, which never aged for the next 15 years because nanoprobes stop the ageing process.
Yeah.. I don't know. Are we to believe that a regular (Earth) child of six growing into a 24 year old is going to age differently than a child of 6 in a maturation chamber for eighteen years? My understanding of the maturation chamber is fuzzy. Don't they sort of grow in there? Isn't there a Borg baby on Voyager somewhere ready to hatch into an ensign?
A maturation chamber increases your rate of maturation. That's what it's for. Skipping the unproductive years in the humanoids life-cycle. Stick a child, or an adolescent in there for a year or two, to force ten plus years of growth, or until you have an ideal MATURE drone. Janeway said that Icheb's parents might have trouble recognising him because he had spent a while in a maturation chamber.
I think Seven would live a lot longer, and she wouldn't even need The Cellular Regeneration and Entertainment Chamber. It's sort of a thing in Hollywood that Characters appear older than than they are meant to. I don't think Tom and Be'lanna are supposed to be in their 30's, but the actors are. I think Roxanne Dawson was older than 35 when the show began. A rare exception to this was Picard. Picard was supposed to be in his mid 60's but played by an actor who looked to be in mid 40's.
Hard to say about the children since if a child is assimilated it goes into a maturation chamber and is quickly brought to adulthood.
Well, if Seven of Nine was able to go through childhood, adolescence to become a young lady of 24 years old, it is clear that she was able to age and some years as an adult
Do the books deal with this any? I'd assume her nanoprobes would probably check her aging process somewhat, though I imagine it continued when the Caeliar removed all Borg tech from everyone.
They kind of do and kin of don't spoiler in the books the borg are totally gone...Seven ends up loosing ALL of her Borg technology.
In Timeless we say that half her brain is a toaster. Did they reinflate Anika's brain, add filler, or is she a halfwit?
It hasn't addressed her aging. But since all of her Borg stuff is gone my assumption is that she will age "normally" going forward.
interesting question. In Timeless we only saw that her skull was metalic. The way the events were described in the book, durring the transformation that material would have been replaced with organic material.