# So, about Seven of Nine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [June 14, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468 "2023-06-14T03:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/41 "2023-06-15T20:09:23Z")
After assimilating Earth culture, would she be VII of IX? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/42 "2023-06-15T20:15:16Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Most egregious of all is that most (all?) of the humanoid races in star trek can produce fertile young, meaning that we’re all actually the same _species_. That was kind of my take and lead to an, “Aha!” moment for me when “The Chase” aired. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/43 "2023-06-15T20:18:06Z")
That episode featured Norman Lloyd, who was alive when it happened. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/44 "2023-06-15T20:49:55Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You can call me Seven of Nine. For my son’s eighth birthday party, I did a Star Trek theme. It was pretty cool, actually (the “wormholes” in the photo are Bugles). His dad and I wore our scuba diving wetsuits with tin-foil badges that looked like ST communicators, offering [a passable imitation of some kind of Star Fleet uniform.](https://imgur.com/a/J4KTTA1) Our son was thrilled, and gushed, “MOM!!! You look EXACTLY like Seven of Nine!” If only. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/45 "2023-06-15T21:09:13Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > (the “wormholes” in the photo are Bugles). You represeted something from Trek with Bugles and you went with wormholes? > **[Doomsday machine](https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Doomsday_machine)** > > For the comic, see Planet Killer (comic). Doomsday machines or planet killers were incredibly powerful, ancient robotic weapons, which were encountered by the Federation on a number of occasions. It was believed the doomsday machines were created by... ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/46 "2023-06-15T21:23:43Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > you went with wormholes? We were watching Deep Space Nine. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/47 "2023-06-16T02:24:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your money and safe deposit box distinctiveness to our own.” So, banking as usual, eh? This was good for three full minutes of belly laffs, and I thank you, **Robot\_Arm**. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/48 "2023-06-16T12:35:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > In fact, everything on Earth is clearly related, because we all have the same genetic code, and the odds against that would be combinatorically high, if we weren’t related. Yep, _ **60% of our DNA** _ is identical to bananas and fruit flies. All life on the planet clearly evolved from the same single-celled organisms that first formed out of young Earth’s primordial soup. > **[How Genetically Related Are We to Bananas? | Pfizer](https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/how_genetically_related_are_we_to_bananas)** > > We’ve long known that we’re closely related to chimpanzees and other primates, but did you know that humans also share more than half of our genetic material with chickens, fruit flies, and bananas? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/49 "2023-06-16T12:42:40Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Yep, _ **60% of our DNA** _ is identical to bananas and fruit flies. All life on the planet clearly evolved from the same single-celled organisms that first formed out of young Earth’s primordial soup. Adds extra oomph to that line in Larry Niven’s short piece _Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex_ where he says that it would be “easier for Superman to mate with an ear of corn” than with an Earth woman ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/50 "2023-06-16T17:15:26Z")
Easier for Lois Lane to mate with an ear of corn. Superman would presumably be about equally genetically incompatible with either. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/51 "2023-06-16T17:35:52Z")
As long as they used lots of butter . . . ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468/52 "2023-06-17T15:35:32Z")
My mother was Eighth of Fourteen. Grandpa liked flying his kite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-seven-of-nine/985468.md?page=2)