I don’t like Captain Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager. Her character actually took me back to Dawn. Janeway represents westernization and America’s tendency to convert others and to change those foreign to us in order to make them less alien. The Oankali in Dawn similarly are attempting to change Lillith by giving her powers and by using her body as a breeding machine.
Janeway is firm in wanting to take 7 of 9 out of the collective and make her an individual. Individualism is a major theme in the U.S., as is succeeding for one’s self, not for a group of people.
7 of 9’s predicament is contrasted by Tess’s ability to leave the ship. She has “correctly” left the collective and wishes to move on and pursue herself as an individual. Clearly Janeway sees this as socially correct, thus allowing her to leave.
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