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Now, I’ve seen some fans on the internet react negatively to Seven saying how she’s alone and has no one. I’ll admit at first I was the same way thinking she has the Voyager crew, they’re her family. Then a theory came to my head as to why Seven would say she is alone.

Now take what I’m about to say as just mere conjecture as it’s not confirmed in any way by either the showwriters, Jeri Ryan, or Alex Kurtzman. I think it does explain a few things regarding Seven of Nine’s story. Particularly let’s first focus on the Voyager crew. As we know Captain Janeway was promoted to Admiral after the series ended. We see this in 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis. With that she is probably still continuing her career in Starfleet. Tuvok most likely retired from Starfleet after the events of Voyager. Tom Paris and B’Elanna are raising their daughter and any other kids they have also had together, Harry Kim is also probably continuing his Starfleet career as well. As for Chakotay, considering where Seven is in her life, I think they might have had a bad breakup.

There is one other character that I haven’t discussed yet I believe is the start of Seven’s change, that character being Voyager’s Emergency Medical Hologram, The Doctor. In the series, we see that Starfleet and the Federation have issued a ban on synthetic life as they believed they might pose a danger. “But Biscuit, Captain Rios has working Holograms on his ship so The Doctor is still safe right?” Actually, no, I think The Doctor is dead. 

Consider this, The Doctor is a Hologram that evolved beyond his programming, he has a passion for music, learned numerous new biological threats, treatments, and was able to take command of Voyager during an emergency situation by initiating his Emergency Command Hologram subroutine, one that Voyager programmed into him. Also, I know the Doctor is a hologram and I’m using male pronouns, but that’s because that is the Doctor’s preferred pronouns, so that’s why you’re seeing he/him.

Anyways, I think after the Mars incident, The Doctor became one of the first victims in Starfleet’s new anti-synthetic agenda. There was an episode in Voyager where The Doctor wrote a holonovel that he then sent to be published on Earth. At the end of that episode we see other Holograms talking about the holonovel. It’s possible that this event also sparked a hologram revolution that occured off-screen and hasn’t been discussed. Because The Doctor was the one that started it, Starfleet saw these holograms as a possible new form of synthetic life that was close to Data as he went through very similar trials during Next Gen’s tenure. 

These events are what caused Starfleet to reprogram these holograms before it was too late, and with The Doctor a hologram, he too became reprogramed or in his case, decommissioned as he was an EMH mark 1. The Doctor, as Seven of Nine knew him no longer exists. Therefore killing the version of The Doctor that taught Seven many lessons on being human.

I’m sure Admiral Janeway attempted to stop it, but with Starfleet’s direction, she couldn’t stop it. Seven blames Janeway for not protecting a member of the Voyager family, thus feeling betrayed by another mentor on human living. With one dead and one being of no help in Seven’s point of view, it would stand to believe why Seven feels alone, except for her adoptive son Icheb. That is, until we see him die in the events of Picard, completing Seven of Nine’s transformation into who we see today.