With Voyager back in the Alpha Quadrant and the crew breaking up, Seven of Nine struggles with the new realities of her life.

Summary

With Voyager in spacedock after its return to the Alpha Quadrant, Seven is the only one making no effort to leave the ship so Janeway leaves her in charge. She says a brief farewell to Naomi before she beams down with her mother, giving her a hair ribbon as an early birthday present.

Seven is finally comforted first by a chat with Torres, who is still in sickbay after giving birth and to whom Seven admits feeling like she is losing her collective over again, and then by the discovery that Naomi left her Flotter doll by her regeneration chamber in order to stop her being lonely.

References

Characters

Kathryn Janeway • Tom Paris • Seven of Nine • Tal Celes • B'Elanna Torres • Naomi Wildman • Samantha Wildman

Referenced only

Chakotay • Icheb • Harry Kim • Neelix

Starships and vehicles

USS Voyager (Intrepid-class)

Locations

Alpha Quadrant

Referenced only

Deep Space 9 • Earth • San Francisco • Sausalito

Races and cultures

Bajoran • Borg • Human • Klingon • Ktarian

States and organizations

Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Other references

astrometrics • Flotter • spaceport • transwarp network

Appendices

Related media

• VOY episode & novelization: Endgame

Background

• "Fragment" takes place soon after Voyager returns to Earth in "Endgame".

Connections

Star Trek: Voyager collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Amazing Stories	"A Night at Sandrine's" • "When Push Comes to Shove" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Distant Shores	"Da Capo al Fine" • "Command Code" • "Winds of Change" • "Talent Night" • "Letting Go" • "Closure" • "The Secret Heart of Zolaluz" • "Isabo's Shirt" • "Brief Candle" • "Eighteen Minutes" • "Or the Tiger" • "Bottomless"
Strange New Worlds	I ("Good Night, Voyager" • "Ambassador at Large" • "Fiction" • "I, Voyager" • "Monthuglu") • II ("A Ribbon for Rosie" • "Touched" • "Almost... But Not Quite" • "The Healing Arts" • "Seventh Heaven") • III ("The Ones Left Behind" • "The Second Star" • "The Monster Hunters" • "Gift of the Mourners") • IV ("Iridium-7-Tetrahydroxate Crystals Are a Girl's Best Friend" • "Uninvited Admirals" • "Return" • "Black Hats" • "Personal Log" • "Welcome Home" • "Shadows, in the Dark") • V ("Final Entry" • "The Difficulties of Being Evil" • "Restoration" • "On the Rocks" • "Witness" • "Fragment" • "Who Cries for Prometheus?") • VI ("Homemade" • "Seven and Seven" • "The End of Night" • "Hidden" • "Widow's Walk") • VII ("Redux" • "The Little Captain" • "I Have Broken the Prime Directive" • "Don't Cry") • 8 ("Transfiguration" • "This Drone" • "Once Upon a Tribble" • "You May Kiss the Bride" • "Coffee with a Friend") • 9 ("Choices" • "Unconventional Cures" • "Maturation") • 10 ("The Fate of Captain Ransom" • "A Taste of Spam" • "Adjustments" • "The Day the Borg Came") • 2016 ("The Last Refuge" • "Life Among the Post-Industrial Barbarians" • "Upon the Brink of Remembrance")
Star Trek: Explorer	"Seven ﹥ Seven" • "Retribution" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "See and Seen" • "In Two Minds"
Misc. short stories	"Seduced" • "Bitter Fruit"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"In the Queue" • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent" • "Places of Exile"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Witness	Strange New Worlds V	Next story: Who Cries for Prometheus?
Previous story: Witness Strange New Worlds V	Voyager short stories	Next story: Who Cries for Prometheus? Strange New Worlds V
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: Catherine E. Pike	Next story: The Little Captain Strange New Worlds VII
chronological order
Previous adventure: Widow's Walk 1st entry Strange New Worlds VI	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Homemade Strange New Worlds VI
Previous adventure: Watching the Clock chapter 16 Department of Temporal Investigations	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Homemade Strange New Worlds VI
Previous story: Retribution Star Trek: Explorer	journey of the USS Voyager	Next story: Homemade Strange New Worlds VI