Retrospect (Star Trek: Voyager)

"Retrospect"
	Star Trek: Voyager episode
Episode no.	Season 4; Episode 17
Directed by	Jesús Salvador Treviño
Teleplay by	Bryan Fuller; Lisa Klink
Story by	Andrew Shepard Price; Mark Gaberman
Featured music	Jay Chattaway
Production code	185
Original air date	February 25, 1998
Guest stars
	Michael Horton - Kovin; Adrian Sparks - Magistrate; Michelle Agnew - Scharn; Tarik Ergin - Lt. Ayala;
Episode chronology
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"Retrospect" is the 85th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 17th episode of the fourth season. The episode has an average rating of 2.4/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of May 15, 2007).^[1]

[edit] Plot

Seven of Nine is overcome by distress and under hypnosis recalls a traumatic repressed memory. In her mind she sees a trader, Kovin, with whom Voyager made a transaction recently. She remembers him forcefully removing Borg technology from her body. In essence, Seven was saying that she was violated by said trader. Seven then recounts to the Doctor the events in her mind of how she remembers her violation. It begins with a weapons test where Lt. Paris was using a new energy assult rifle for Voyager defenses, then Seven went with Kovin to do some remodulating. At Kovin's workshop, she cans the device, and he turns the weapon on her which incapacitates her. Seven then remembers an lab assistant, and the extraction of her Borg parts. Then she goes on to detail her assimilation tubules being removed of nanoprobes, tested the probes on another person in the lab which assimilated him, and other internal components. Afterwords, she can only recall Kovin telling her the weapon overloaded and burned her hand- which Seven states was a lie.

The Doctor informs Capt. Janeway, who wants to first corraborate the story. As they review the events, everything appears to coincide with what Seven said. The Doctor defends the memories as facts as they are very recent, but Tuvok argues that memories are often unreliable keeping in mind her hullucinations from previous events. Voyager heads back to confront Kovin, who denies ever having assaulted Seven and believes this is either Seven's payback for disagreeing on component procedures or a negotiating tactic. When Janeway requests to see the lab for more investigating, Kovin reluctantly allows it. Evidence mounts against him and Kovin's own people put out a warrant for his arrest. He flees, while still proclaiming his innocence.

Capt. Janeway and Tuvok continue investigating the alleged assault, and find that it is likely the evidence has been misinterpreted and Seven is reliving a memory from her time with the Borg, in which parts were applied to and removed from her routinely. Seven realizes they are correct and she has experienced a false memory. When the Voyager crew follows the trader to explain that they know he is innocent, he panics and in his urge to destroy Voyager, his weapons overload and he is destroyed. Seven learns a bit more about being human by experiencing remorse, and the Doctor also agonizes over the result of his hypnosis of Seven.