I like that the show never tried to make it just one thing or the other, that it remained prickly and intense, supportive and argumentative, throughout the time I was watching.

This was one of my favorite things, too, about Janeway/Seven. They had a mentor/mentee relationship in which they butted heads, disagreed, and argued, and I liked that more often than not, neither of them was completely in the wrong (or in the right). Especially in the mid-1990s, it was pretty rare to see a relationship like this between two women - in any form of media.