"Everyone was against it," she finds herself saying, perhaps because it needed to be said to an actual, living and breathing person instead of the stale air of her ready room as she recorded her logs in the best neutral, professional tone she could muster at the time. "Everyone. Not even my first officer had my back in that decision, and he went against the alliance I forged first chance he got."

That still stung. They may have set that disagreement over his supposed insubordination (supposed, because Chakotay had technically been in command at the time while she was injured and out of commission) in order to turn things back around and sever Seven's ties to the Hive Mind, but he still went against her. Still went and did the exact opposite of what she told — no, asked him to do.

It stung as both a captain and a friend, but she couldn't allow the latter to get to her. So like many things, from Mark's engagement ring to whatever now lost connection she and Chakotay had, it was set aside. To be touched upon later, perhaps never to be touched upon at all.

"I've had to make a lot of tough decisions since we found ourselves in the Delta Quadrant, but I always had Chakotay's support. Not in that instance."

Not when she had needed his support the most.