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In the show's fourth season, Kes is replaced on the ship by Seven of Nine, a Borg drone ( known colloquially as Seven ), who was assimilated as a six-year-old Human girl but liberated from the collective by the Voyager crew.

Seven begins to regain her humanity as the series progresses, thanks to ongoing efforts by Captain Janeway to show her that the perfection the Borg seek is not compatible with the imperfection of humanity ; however emotions such as love and care are more important to happiness.

The Doctor also becomes more human-like, thanks in part to a mobile holo-emitter the crew obtains in the third season, which allows the Doctor to roam freely whereas he was previously confined to the sickbay.

He starts to discover his love for music and art, which he demonstrates in the episode Virtuoso.

In the sixth season, the crew discovers a group of adolescent aliens assimilated by the Borg, but prematurely released from their maturation chambers due to a malfunction on their Borg cube.

As he did with Seven of Nine, The Doctor re-humanized the children ; three of them eventually find a new adoptive home while the fourth, Icheb, chooses to stay aboard Voyager.