"Nice to meet you Seven of Nine! Tuvok has told me all about your situation and I think that Ponyville is the perfect place to find help for you."
Twilight Sparkle extended a hoof toward Seven in greeting and Seven shook it with little enthusiasm. The former drone was still have issues processing the world she had entered. Tuvok couldn't seriously expect this to be a suitable simulation to teach her a lesson.
Twilight greeted Tuvok in a similar fashion. The Vulcan then turned to Seven.
"I will not be with you on your journey here. Should I be needed, I will be meditating with a pegasus named Fluttershy."
He gave a short nod and then headed out leaving Seven of Nine and Twilight Sparkle behind to study each other. Twilight broke the somewhat awkward silence.
"Well Seven, if you are ready, we can walk over to Ponyville and begin the tour!"
"I believe I am adequately prepared. I am eager to move this along."
Twilight smiled, "Oh, I get it, I find learning lots of fun too. Don't worry, you will get to see all sorts of cool and exciting stuff once we get into town."
She turned and began trotting towards Ponyville. Seven walked stiffly behind her. While she put on a brave attitude, she was slightly intimidated by the alien nature of this environment.
After following the road to the top of a hill, Seven could finally look upon their destination. This looked to be a rather primitive culture. There were very few obvious signs of technology, and yet some of the construction seemed more advanced than Seven would have thought them capable of. How could quadrupeds manage to build such tall homes?
Some of her answer came when a group of pegasi flew overhead. They appeared to be moving the clouds around in the sky using only their hooves. Another set of questions formed in Seven's mind.
Moving through town, Seven carefully watched the creatures around her. The Borg would normally have found little use for these ponies, but there was something about the way they interacted with their environment that hinted at a difference in the way they handled the laws of physics.
She deduced, from some quick observations, that there were at least three subsets of these ponies, and that each subset was likely equipped to handle certain tasks. It seemed an efficient division of labor but she could not discern if there were any traits that separated the "normal" ponies from the unicorns, aside from the obvious.
Seven managed to be so distracted by her analysis, she did not notice Twilight speaking to her until she had missed the context of the story being told.
"...and that was how I gained both a baby dragon and my apprenticeship to Princess Celestia! Just in time too. Welcome to my home Seven of Nine."
Before the pair stood a giant tree that was hollowed out and used as a dwelling as evidenced by the door and windows. Twilight opened the door and invited Seven to come in. There was just one problem though. Seven was just over a foot taller than the average pony and everything in town was proportioned with that in mind.
"Twilight Sparkle, I believe that your home is too small for me to enter without damaging it."
Twilight looked confused for a moment, but then brightened.
"Oops, sorry about that. I got so wrapped up in mentally triple checking my itinerary for today that I forgot something important. Silly me! Here you go."
Twilight closed her eyes and her horn glowed with purple light. The light then enveloped Seven and she felt a bit...different. Her Borg implants were certainly confused by what had happened but she could not identify the change. Twilight then waved her hoof for Seven to come inside.
"Just come on in. The spell I used will take a little getting used to, but it should let you travel through the town with no problems."
Warily, Seven stepped toward the open doorway. As she moved closer, the doorway seemed to get taller and taller. By the time she reached it, she easily cleared the entryway. Moving into the room, the room shrank slightly around her. Turning to look at the door, it had returned to a size that would not have accommodated her.
"Fascinating, the doorway appears to have modified itself to fit me. That level of dimensional transformation has been theorized, but I have never witnessed it."
"It wasn't the doorway, it was you! It's a spell I made after first contact with the Federation. It was too difficult to shrink or grow things to fit appropriately so I made a compromise spell. There is a bubble around you that just slightly shrinks you and also slightly grows things in a certain radius. The change is slight enough on both ends that it's easy to sustain and doesn't have the nasty side effects from too much one way or the other."
Seven was now thoroughly overwhelmed. It took a moment for her voice to find a place to start.
"You...you said spell. Are you implying that you used magic?"
"Of course, all unicorns can use magic. It's actually a extra special part of my own life both as Celestia's apprentice and as the holder of one of the Elements of Harmony."
Seven of Nine began to become very intrigued with the science of this world. Perhaps she could learn more about this alleged "magic". However, before she could inquire further, Twilight began to speak again.
"But anyway, we need to get back to the schedule. The first lesson starts here. It was in this library that I had my first party with my new Ponyville friends."
Her horn shimmered again and the room lit up with with phantom decorations and party guests.
"I was still fresh out of Canterlot and was so caught up in my work that I ignored the ponies who wanted to be my friends. It took a dangerous quest, fraught with traps and deceit, for me to understand how magical and important friendship could be. I knew that these ponies would stand with me in any crisis and I could always trust them to lend me a hoof when I needed it. Do you have anyone on Voyager like that?"
The illusory party faded away and Seven thought about being liberated from the Collective, the constant dangers that she had faced with the crew, and Captain Janeway and the Doctor's attempts to help integrate her with the crew.
"No, friendship is irrelevant. I function efficiently on the ship despite their eccentricities."
Twilight was slightly disappointed but was still resolute.
"I totally understand how you feel in this Seven. I was much like you at first. Hopefully the next stop on your visit will give you a new appreciation for your shipmates."
Twilight summoned a pack with her magic and moved to the exit.
"Next stop, Sweet Apple Acres!"