Yeah, I know he’s was compromised by Ferengi, but c’mon, Reg, the guy you were templated on literally served under Picard when he was assimilated.

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    Picard was Borg for what, a day? Seven was assimilated as a child and was rescued after a decade and a half? Two?? Hardly even comparable.

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      Took the words out of my mouth. I can understand him having PTSD but regaining his humanity shouldn’t have been particularly challenging for him.

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      Still, you’d expect someone who saw it happen to Picard to phrase it better. That’s assuming it’s a direct quote.

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        That’s the thing. Picard has a trauma. She lost her identity, childhood, sense of belonging. It’s entirely different.

        Like Bane said, “you merely adopted the borg. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t anything of humanity until I was already a (wo)man.”

        Edit: Also, isn’t it addressed at some point that, for 7o9, her trauma was actually to leave the borg and not being in it?

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          Picard spent his childhood on an old timey vineyard in France, playing and laughing and picking grapes. Seven spent hers in a maturation tank until she was big enough to be a soldier.