Does Seven still need to regenerate?

[Lord Garth]

I was watching this video about rejected Voyager pitches. And in one of them, pitched by the Star Trek community's own Jammer in 2000, involved an episode where Seven would lose 75% of the remaining Borg Implants she'd had left. To the point where she'd be more Human than she was before and wouldn't need to regenerate anymore. Seven wouldn't like the idea of becoming more Human, while Janeway would have the opposite stance.

But what I'm wondering about isn't that rejected pitch. What I'm wondering about is this: In 2399, does Seven still need a Borg Regeneration Chamber? Would they need to install one on La Sirena? A year-and-a-half in, and I can't believe I never thought of this.

What do you think?

And here's the original video that sparked this wonderance of mine.

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[NCC-73515]

It would be awesome to see a VOY-style regeneration chamber still being used!
They said she's quite valuable on Freecloud because she still has many implants. I think if she'd been able to get rid of a lot of them, she'd removed the ones in her face and hand as well. So she probably still has all or most of the ones she had when she got to Earth, and I'd say she still needs to regenerate.

Spoiler

Which makes waking up in a bed in the new teaser even stranger to her.

 

[DEWLine]

There was a holo-graphic showing an internal scan in "Stardust City Rag"...

 

[ThreeEdgedSword]

I suspect the season 1 writers didn't consider whether or not she still needs to regenerate.

Spoiler

But maybe they'll mention it in season 2, considering she's going to end up sans implants.

 

[The Wormhole]

I was recently thinking about whether Icheb had to continue to regenerate, and if so did that mean he had an alcove installed on the Starfleet ship he had been serving on?

 

[Oddish]

It's possible that new technologies regarding reclaimed Borg have ameliorated or eliminated this need. It will, in the end, depend on what the writing team finds most convenient.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Probably not. Maybe she has a little portable battery pack or something now.

 

[MFB]

In the VOY episode "Child's Play" they mentioned a "portable regenerator" that Icheb took with him when he went back to his parents on the planet. We don't see the device just the "neural transceiver" which was a bit bulky:

https://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/6x19/Childs_Play_226.JPG

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'm reading No Time like the Present by Greg Cox.

Trapped in 2270, on Kirk's Enterprise I'm not sure if Seven can't build a regeneration Alcove, or she won't build a regeneration alcove because it's too much Borg tech to leave idle in the past.

Furthermore.

Religion and food.

Halal and Kosher, if you ignore God, did two things.

1. It controlled where you could live, and where you could emigrate to.
2. Before refrigeration, it stopped people eating food that spoiled quickly or was difficult to cook.

Is non portable regeneration a leash?

 

[Shat Happens]

7 can watch a movie and regenerate at my place any time she wants

 

[Boris Skrbic]

I don’t think so, or it would’ve been used as a dramatic device. (Seven can’t regenerate with her ship destroyed, so she needs to do so on the Artifact or build a chamber on La Sirena, etc.) Rather than speculate too much, I’m happy to wait for Season 2 so as to minimize advance hype, though.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Seven regenerated into Paul McGann all the way back in 1996.

What?

 

[brayman1701]

Seven regenerated into Paul McGann all the way back in 1996.

What?

lmao

 

[Dar70]

I thought the Doctor said, that eventually seven would not need to regenerate.

 

[Paul755]

I think she was close to not having to regenerate in S7.

The whole Chakotay romance thing started when she got addicted to the Holodeck while imagining life without it. So it’s not a stretch to think that once they got back, with better facilities that she would be “normal”

 

[STEPhon IT]

I was watching this video about rejected Voyager pitches. And in one of them, pitched by the Star Trek community's own Jammer in 2000, involved an episode where Seven would lose 75% of the remaining Borg Implants she'd had left. To the point where she'd be more Human than she was before and wouldn't need to regenerate anymore. Seven wouldn't like the idea of becoming more Human, while Janeway would have the opposite stance.

But what I'm wondering about isn't that rejected pitch. What I'm wondering about is this: In 2399, does Seven still need a Borg Regeneration Chamber? Would they need to install one on La Sirena? A year-and-a-half in, and I can't believe I never thought of this.

What do you think?

And here's the original video that sparked this wonderance of mine.

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The PICARD showrunners don't know about this angle and they don't care. The show is their own thing and they're make up their own rules for the character even if it doesn't fit what was developed before.

 

[fireproof78]

Writers took a page from TMP and TWOK.

 

[Lord Garth]

The PICARD showrunners don't know about this angle and they don't care. The show is their own thing and they're make up their own rules for the character even if it doesn't fit what was developed before.

Writers took a page from TMP and TWOK.

* smacks my forehead *

First of all, the writers were very clearly familiar with a seventh season of VOY episode, "Imperfection", when Icheb gave Seven a particular node to save her life. In "Stardust City Rag", Bjeyzel can't find the node that Icheb had donated to Seven because it's no longer there. That alone demonstrably shows that the showrunners of PIC are indeed aware of what happened on VOY. "Imperfection" is a deep-cut.

Second of all, Harve Bennett watched every single episode of TOS before starting work on TWOK so, no, Harve Bennett did his homework too before diving into Star Trek. And while Nick Meyer didn't take the crash-course Harve Bennett did, he did watch a handful of episodes and was re-writing the drafts of other writers who presumably were more familiar with TOS than he.

So what both of you are saying is false.

7 can watch a movie and regenerate at my place any time she wants

And then there's this...

 

[Guy Gardener]

* smacks my forehead *

First of all, the writers were very clearly familiar with a seventh season of VOY, "Imperfection", when Icheb gave Seven a particular node to save her life. In "Stardust City Rag", Bjeyzel can't find the node that Icheb had donated to Seven because it's no longer there. That alone demonstrably shows that the showrunners of PIC are indeed aware of what happened on VOY. "Imperfection" is a deep-cut.

Second of all, Harve Bennett watched every single episode of TOS before starting work on TWOK so, no, Harve Bennett did his homework too before diving into Star Trek. And while Nick Meyer didn't take the crash-course Harve Bennett did, he did watch a handful of episodes was was re-writing the drafts of other writers who presumably were more familiar with TOS than he.

So what both of you are saying is false.


And then there's this...

Because of the power output from a star ship, Economizing the regeneration process is probably not so streamlined... So if Seven was to show up to one of our houses to regenerate, any of us could wind up with a power bill that might bankrupt us.

 

[jackoverfull]

I was recently thinking about whether Icheb had to continue to regenerate, and if so did that mean he had an alcove installed on the Starfleet ship he had been serving on?

I seem to remember that Icheb stopped regenerating once his cortical node was removed.

As for seven, no idea, we don’t have enough information at the moment. I would imagine they’ve found a more practical solution by now, though.