In fact, Shaw has an excellent purpose to hate somebody who was previously a Borg. Shaw, as he explains in a single episode, was current on the Battle of Wolf-359, the Borg assault from the well-known “Subsequent Era” episode “The Better of Each Worlds” (September 24, 1990). He defined that, on the time, he was solely a younger engineer, keen to begin his profession on a Federation starship. The Borg assault, led by an assimilated Picard, worn out his ship’s total senior employees and 40 or so different officers that outranked him. Shaw needed to take command. Being a captain, it appears, was a profession monitor he by no means wished to be on, however was caught on nonetheless.
Shaw, then, checked out each Picard and Seven of 9 with a less-than-diplomatic eye. Traumatized and caught with a job he type of hates, Shaw resented that Seven and Picard demanded respect. All he noticed have been the soulless cyborgs they as soon as have been. Finally, Shaw’s suspicions could be confirmed true; Picard’s mind by no means absolutely shed its Borg affect and allowed his progeny to infiltrate a complete fleet of starships. #ShawWasRight
Terry Matalas chalked up Shaw’s refusal to handle Seven by her chosen identify as stemming from that trauma. He will not use a Borg identify. Shaw grows to respect Seven, but it surely’s conditional. He nonetheless has points. Matalas defined:
“I do not understand how acutely aware he’s of it generally. As a result of he exhibits her an incredible quantity of respect on the finish of this episode, which is, ‘Hansen, you’re taking this one.’ He lets her blow up the Shrike. So, there is a mentorship there as a result of they simply had that disagreement about penalties and whatnot. He desires her to be nice. In that second, permitting her to have that satisfaction.”