I really do appreciate that Marika doesn't forgive her but understands, even if it's a bitter concession, why Seven linked together the surviving members of her unimatrix. I like this even more because she's Bajoran, and clearly born during the Occupation. We don't know much of Marika's story beyond the fact that she served on the USS Excalibur together with her spouse and was assimilated at Wolf 359, and yet by just knowing these few facts it's clear that she's a survivor of so many terrible circumstances. I think she understands more than most people the fear of being disconnected from everything you've ever known, of having to survive on your own in a hostile universe. But it's still not enough for forgiveness. And I wouldn't want it otherwise; I love how consistently the presence of Bajoran women asks the audience of 90s Trek to reflect on questions of responsibility and justice in ways that aren't always easily digestible.
the disease is a bad episode but unfortunately i’m required to like it if only for the fact that it really cinches harry and janeway’s dynamic as completely insane. she becomes the first starfleet captain ever to invoke the “don’t fuck random aliens” rule towards one of her crewmen because her sweet baby boy (a 27 year old man who is NOT her son in any official capacity despite the evidence to the contrary) is going through a spat of alien hormone induced teenage rebellion. it’s a plotline ripped straight from any heartwarming family sitcom about growing up and parenthood except it’s a guy and his boss. at least harry has the alien hormones as an excuse for being melodramatic all janeway has is the fact that she saw the only guy without parental issues in all of starfleet and felt the immediate and instinctual need to fix that
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