Well if you've been keeping up with my posts you'll know I gave myself a fast from star trek... Well for my birthday I watched it again, and since then I've decided my fast is over... I only watched 2 episodes last week, and it actually felt Really good to not have withdrawal symptoms everytime I turned it off.
But now that it's backbin my life as a secondary source of entertainment and not my primary, I've come to find a real appreciation for Seven of Nine... Our rehabilitated Borg from the series Voyager. She's learning to integrate herself into the human collective... Not quite as easy as the Borg assimilation...
The Borg were a pseudo-species of cybernetic beings, or cyborgs, from the Delta Quadrant. (Wikicollectivem the time Q introduces Captain Picard to this race in Star Trek The Next Generation, to the time Janeway meets them in their own part of space the Borg seem to have one goal in mind... Assimilation of every race in the universe. They seem to be a dominant species who exist to conquer...
When Janeway removes Seven of Nine from the collective we begin to understand Seven as an individual, and as the series progressed we get a deeper understanding of the Borg collective.
At first Seven seems very rude and arrogant... With the collective memories of races from all over the known universe can we really blame her for thinking she knows more then the crew on Voyager??? Interacting with illogical and temperamental individuals all over the ship comes as quite the challenge as well... She's been raced since a child as a member of the Borg collective... With all minds linked directly everyone's thoughts were immediately shared, the sentiment clearly understood. Everything running quickly and efficiently... It takes alot of adjustment for Seven to get used to the proper etiquette of the Federation star ship...
What we begin to realize though is Seven of Nine strives for perfection... She longs for it... In one episode we learn of a particle that the Borg consider to be "god" because they believe it to be absolute perfection.
Eventually she finds her niche on Voyager, she creates a routine, and she begins to appreciate those on the ship.
What I find intriguing is that she is constantly learning, growing, striving to become a better version of who she is. Striving for perfection. She explores what this word means in many different settings... Social, emotional, mental, physical.... When each new aspect is learned there is often much nashing of teeth... But upon understanding why each aspect is important she begins to put every effort into improving her skills as to be more efficient...
As I wrote this I'm pretty sure I deviated from my initial point... As I typically do... But let me wrap up with a conclusion anyways...
How many of us strive for perfection... When our God shows up do we put all rational thought behind us and do whatever we can to study and understand what He is? Do we make an effort to improve our efficiency as people? As Christians??? Or do we instead fight off change and growth as being irrelevant??? What have you done lately to improve yourself??? To make yourself more efficient??? Physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, spiritually... God is the very perfection we should all strive to understand... Don't get me wrong we need to understand first and foremost that we will never understand the full character of God... There just isn't enough time in the day... But if by beholding we become changed... Wouldn't it make sense to make the pursuit of perfection our goal??? If we can even see glimpses of what perfection really means... Maybe someday we can see enough glimpses to achieve maximum efficiency, as close to perfection as humanity can ever be.
