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Interview: Jeri Ryan On Taking Seven From Borg To Bi Captain Of The Enterprise To ‘Star Trek: Legacy’

| February 15, 2024 | By: Anthony Pascale 108 comments so far

This year, Jeri Ryan received her fifth Saturn Award nomination for playing Seven of Nine in two different Star Trek series. She won in 2001 for Voyager and then again this year for the third and final season of Picard , which ended by setting her up as captain of the newly christened USS Enterprise-G. TrekMovie spoke to Ryan before and after her Saturn win about the character’s arc and asked if she is ready to lead the much-discussed Star Trek: Legacy spin-off.

Along with yours, Star Trek has 15 total nominations tonight. Do you feel that Picard and Star Trek are having a moment and getting some of the recognition that the franchise deserved back in the ‘90s?

I think it’s definitely getting a little more mainstream notice, which is cool. I think I think genre TV and films as a whole, I think are more mainstream now than I think they used to be.

Your fellow nominee Jonathan Frakes has said he did his best Star Trek work in season 3 of Picard . Do you feel you did your best work as Seven in season 3 or in all 3 seasons of Picard ?

I think it was some of my best work as this character because we had some of the best writing as this character. I’ve been so lucky. She’s had such an arc over the years, starting out not even human 20-something years ago, and to end up as the captain of the Enterprise was pretty big character growth.

Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine in “The Next Generation”(Paramount+)

Speaking of being captain of the Enterprise, I did s peak to Terry [Matalas] and I know Legacy isn’t real yet, but if it happens, are you ready to lead a show as captain of the ship?

You know, I have learned one thing with this franchise, which is: never say never. So we’ll see.

If it were to happen, what would you like to see for the character?

I am not a writer, I have no illusions about being a writer. There are people like Terry and our amazing writing staff who do that very, very well. I trust this character to be in good hands with them. So I don’t have any story ideas to pitch. This is not a route that I would have ever imagined for her and I think it’s amazing.

But if Legacy happened, are you ready to go?

Jeri Ryan accepting the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress (Saturn Awards)

QUICK CHAT WITH JERI IN THE PRESS ROOM AFTER SHE WON THE SATURN AWARD

You also won a Saturn for playing Seven on Voyager , how does it feel to do it again over two decades later?

It’s a huge honor. It was such a rare gift to have this much growth and character arc. It’s pretty cool. I feel lucky. And congratulations to all the other nominees. I am in huge awe of their work.

Looking back to Voyager, how do you think [co-creator/executive producer] Jeri Taylor would feel about where Seven has gone and the rejuvenation of the character in Picard ?

I think Jeri especially would be thrilled with Seven’s development. I know that she was a big champion for Seven from the beginning. I think that she would be thrilled that Seven is a bi captain and character. It is my understanding that is something she championed from the beginning as well. I think at the time the network felt that they weren’t ready for that yet. But I think she would be thrilled. I hope she would be.

Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine in “The Last Generation” (Paramount+)

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I know this isn’t the popular opinion, but I don’t feel PICARD did right by Seven, and I’m not entirely sure why people keep praising her use on that show. In season one, she was great, but in season two she had a meandering plot with Rafi that went nowhere, and in season three she was far less interesting and important than the TNG crew. For me, Seven was a side character on PICARD after season one, not the Second Coming of Star Trek everyone makes her out to be. I actually think she was a much better character on VOYAGER. It’s a shame, too, because season one showed so much promise for her arc.

After season one? She wasn’t in the first half of season one. She was a supporting character throughout all three seasons. I agree with you about season 2 but I liked her in season 3, especially her interactions with the real and fake Tuvoks.

I liked her arc, having to serve under a Captain who didn’t give her the proper respect she deserved.

I agree, rooted in bigotry really based on his prejudices toward ex-Borg. Gutsy story for Captain and first officer.

Gutsy and brilliant IMO. I’ve never seen Seven bow down to anyone like that before. Not even Janeway.

I loved her S3 arc with a Captain that doesn’t trust her, but she rises to the occasion anyway. S2, well, no one had a great story arc, so that season is a complete throwaway for the entire cast in my book. S1 she was just a guest star in a couple eps, so I don’t think that really counts.

I love her as Captain of the Enterprise. I just don’t like the actual ship at all.

Yeah the ship blows. Agreed my friend.

Right? I get that Matalas likes the TOS movie ships and he wanted a return to that. And in a way I agree that ships like the Enterprise E were a bit too sleek looking for me. But this was such an over exaggerated design IMHO

Agreed, that ship does not live up that the name Enterprise whatsoever. There was word they almost named it the ‘Picard.’ Admittedly that may have been a bit cheesy, but I would have liked it better.

Actually that may have been a better idea and name it after Picard as a thank you for saving the galaxy once again and a nice way for the show to go out.

And we seen other ships named after Starfleet officers.

Just 2 thoughts. I may be wrong on this cause I am not military but I think IRL ships are christened after famous officers only after the die. But could be totally wrong. The other thing I was thinking like just now is that although a USS Picard would be Epic, they might have felt it would demean Seven’s character in a way if her first command is still under the shadows of Picard. Even if he isn’t there.

I’d wager if they didn’t have the idea in the back of their heads for Legacy they would have done just that. After all Discovery has a USS Janeway and a Space Station Archer. but those are not the hero ships/stations of the series so its easier to get away with

She’s a bit meh in Picard, kinda just ‘there’. Lost all charisma.

I think it might have felt that way at first because Seven was totally bowing down to Shaw’s authority, even when it comes to her own name! But when she got a whiff Picard and Riker were up to something and confronted them I was like, there’s Seven!!!

In season 1 she was difficult to recognize as even being Seven of Nine apart from her makeup and being played by Jeri Ryan. The character’s voice is so radically different from what it was on Voyager, and Ryan has said she had a full on panic attack over not being able to reconcile how much she had changed. What I do like about season 3 (and the season 2 premiere) is how the freer and more raw Seven has been melded with the unique and tightly controlled character from Voyager. They found a balance I could live with, but I still think it’s a shame to have lost so much of what made the character so memorable.

Interestingly I read about something similar happening to Gillian Anderson when she returned to X-files after so long. Sometimes it becomes really difficult to get back those original character beats.

And in both Ryan’s and Anderson’s case, they went on to play completely different characters in their careers. Jeri Ryan was playing a defense attorney on law and order and I don’t remember what in Boston Legal but prob something similar.

Absolutely, but with Ryan she’d come back to voice the character occasionally for video games. The main issue was that Seven in Picard was a radical departure from what she was like in Voyager. So she and Jonathan Frakes had to create the idea that she’s just pretending to fit in. Otherwise it was too hard for her to reconcile the change, which is totally understandable to me. It was so odd to take away that much of a character’s unique voice and replace it with something we’ve all seen before – cocky, damaged, vengeful soldier.

To me, the best writing for her character was in season 3. It was interesting for the first half of season 1, as others have said, but then it and the rest of the story crashed and burned. Season 2 was so bad, I didn’t even bother watching the last two episodes, and what I did watch was a tedious mess. Season 3 was her shining moment, imo.

Oh I agree I still think she was more amazing on Voyager without a doubt. But loves her on Picard as well although season 2 they did NOTHING with her…sigh.

And I think a lot of people want to see Seven be a leader. It is amazing where her arc has gone and I definitely want to see that continue personally.

Seven was such an interesting character on VOY. One minute she is every bit as logical and forthright as Tuvok. The next she could flip out as hard as B’lanna. It was played so well that her human and borg sides were at war.

shame she was stuck in that darn catsuit…

I don’t think a Saturn award is enough to push a Legacy series forward, but it’s certainly nice to see people recognized for a job well done.

I don’t think it is so much whether a Saturn could push them forward as much as it is the days of a Trek show all year around are over and P+ already has a full slate of upcoming projects.

Yes, that’s very true as well. Just nice to see Jeri get recognized, spin off or no spin off.

Totally agreed.

The fact that Picard ended production almost two years ago is a major obstacle.

Ya but due to the strikes that’s kind of a problem for everyone right now. I mean I know Picard ended way before that and maybe they took down the sets and stuff for S31 but who knows..

Seven in S3 of PIC IMO felt like the Seven from Voyager vs whatever we got in S1 and S2 i have done my best to try and forget exists. i’d love to see Janeway show up from time to time in Legacy if that ever gets greenlit, as a mentor

Especially that scene between Seven and Tuvok in PS3. THAT was the 7 of 9 we knew from Voyager.

I love Seven’s arc this season. She definitely earned that chair.

Absolutely agree on all points! 👍

“I think it was some of my best work as this character because we had some of the best writing as this character.” I agree. The writing was much improved this season.

Right, she basically said it herself. Glad she feels the same way about it I do.

Absolutely loved Seven in Picard, especially the last season where it was amazing to see her in command. Our girl did great!

NOW GIVE US THE LEGACY SHOW PARAMOUNT!!!

Legacy characters. Gotta have legacy characters.

Honestly as a regular 7 is the only legacy character I care about returning. The others can guest star here and there.

Exactly. There is one Legacy character.

Yep. And that’s all we (or I should say I) need :)

I told you to stop talking to me because you’re past annoying. 🙄

Emily you’re happy to have Kirk on SNW which shouldn’t even be in the show and last time I checked was a legacy character. So stop being a hypocrite about it.

And as stated Seven is the only official legacy character we know will be on the show. Not sure why people think the cast of TNG/DS9/VOY would all have main roles. Matalas gave 20 interviews saying the show is about the next NEXT generation. He used those words specifically so get a grip please.

SNW is well made though, with good story-telling and good crew dynamics, so it gets somewhat of a pass.

Discovery is just a terrible show with a terrible cast of characters more interested in being diverse than being compelling, interesting or likeable.

And Picard S3 is literally just fan service, with nothing else to it.

So you admit to being a hypocrite? 🙄

A legacy character gets a pass because you happen to like the show they are on but want to chastise others for doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over again?

I try to be as fair minded to everyone but people like you is why message boards sucks.

But you also lump LDS into the same fan service nostalgia critiques despite it being aggressively new and different to any other Trek show. Your criteria is always shifting even though you keep saying the same refrain, so it’s hard to take you seriously.

I am confident we will get Legacy in some fashion … my hope is a series … but I don’t think any future show/movie/miniseries announcements are coming until the S31 film is “in the can,” meaning all post-production is finished and they’re waiting to drop it. That way they can reevaluate costs/budgets. Kurtzman isn’t stupid … he knows fans want this. I’m sure if he were pulling the purse strings Mr. Matalas would already have an office, a writing staff, etc.

I am confident too my friend. They have to wait to see what happens with this other stuff first. Many believe we probably won’t hear anything until SFA gets on the air but I would love it to be after S31 airs. So I hope you’re right.

Kurtzman sees what an easy lay up this would be.

Yep me too but TBH given all the financial trouble at Paramount his might not be in his pay grade right now.

Sadly agree. And you know anytime I root for Kurtzman proves the Apocalypse is almost here. 😂😐

HAHAHAHAHA I remember all too well my friend!

To be honest I think it’s probably a bit too soon to expect to hear anything about ANY new project after S31 unless it’s another TV movie (which also could be possible). I think that really only exists because of Yeoh and kind of a special project.

I think I’d we hear anything about Legacy it will be after SFA starts or maybe the next show that gets cancelled.

But sure I would love for your theory to be right as well.

And I agree about Kurtzman I’m pretty sure if it was up to him it would be the next project going forward. But things are more iffy right now.

Why they are wasting time with the useless Academy show when so many people want the Legacy show is beyond me?

They seem to be a clueless lot over there.

To be fair about it we have to remember they been trying to get the Academy show off the ground since 2018. I read they had multiple pitches on it and it sounds like the idea evolved in time.

That’s the main issue, Paramount already decided this was a go before Picard season 3 even finished. People act like it’s a competition. No, they been working on one idea for a long time and there was never a plan for a Picard spin off. Everyone has made that clear.

And I think both the reception of Picard and the demand for a spin off just caught them off guard. I think they just thought people accepted Picard ended and just went on to the next thing. But Matalas planted a spin off idea in people’s heads and here we are lol.

And these shows probably cost $80-100 million a season. There is only so much money they have for Star Trek these days.

But that doesn’t mean that will always be the case either. Fans should keep pushing for it then anything is possible.

I didn’t know they been trying to make this show for that long.. I understand better now. Still a bad idea though haha.

I will always keep pushing for Legacy since it’s the only show I even care about.

All probably true, but they did go another way when people wanted the Pike show over S31. I was hoping that would happen again with SFA. Guess not. 😥

Yeah I actually thought that might happen but looks like SFA is coming regardless!

And of course we don’t know exactly what happened with S31 and we probably never will. But my speculation ONLY, but I think there was a much bigger divide over Section 31 than there is for the Academy show. And Section 31 may have been the more expensive show to produce. Again no proof of anything or that I even believe it, just throwing it out there.

But I think the biggest difference is besides SFA gestating so much longer that’s probably Kurtzmans baby. Remember he’s going to be a show runner on this one too. The only other show he’s been a show runner on was Discovery and that was out of circumstance.

And yeah it’s probably just cheaper as well.

So I don’t think it was ever going to be the Legacy show over SFA because that show has been on the books for so long.

But what comes AFTER that is the main question and why I have confidence Legacy could be next. Could I be wrong? Since I’m rarely right, sure. 😆

But I’m really hoping not to be this time lol.

In fact the concept of a Star Trek Academy goes back all the way to Star Trek 6. I believe one of the first pitches to that movie was to make it a Kirk and Spock in the Academy movie.

Yeah also true. They been trying with this idea for decades now.

But honestly never really liked it, but suspected one day it may happen and here we are.

Now I do like the idea they came up with and why it interests me more today. But maybe more people would like it if it was back in the 23rd or 25th century. Not for me personally but it would probably go over bigger for some of the doubters.

She was one of the great performers in Picard S3. The cast’s performances saved the space-opera mishmash, nonsensical story and gave us a great sendoff for TNG cast.

NOW GIVE US THE ACADMEY SERIES AND SECTION 31 MOVIE PARAMOUNT!!!

I liked the story plot of season 3 but it there was way to much fan service moments and pointless easter eggs for the sake of fan service especially on daystrom station they did not need to bring back all the tng main characters or they could have killed off a couple like Worf and beverly and troi and maybe even riker leaving only data and picard and la forge at the end also card game at the end was again pointless and fan service

while I would love a series set on the ent-g with captain seven and her crew I don’t want it loaded with pointless fan service and Easter eggs each episode that really do not add to the plot and I can’t wait for the section 31 movie still wish it could have been a 10 episode mini series but at least we get a movie and I can’t wait for the discovery seasons 4/5 spin off starfleet academy hopefully we get guest appearances of the burn ham and the other discovery crew maybe being a guest lecturer on a particular subject at the academy hear and there

Michelle, I don’t say this very often to people here (lol), but I agree 100% with every single thing you bring up here!

Hopefully that SFA show isn’t full of Spock/Chapel awful teenage like romances as I don’t think I can take anymore. Not much interested in that one at all really as it is probably aimed a a younger audience. At least it is not set in another friggin prequel timeline though so small positive. I am looking forward to the S31 movie though and am glad it’s a movie and not a sequel. There are way too many Discovery spin off to be honest.

Seven has always been one of my favorite characters, in my top 10. Jeri Ryan has made her iconic and a well deserved win.

I truly hope the Legacy show happens and have faith it will. It’s the show most fans seem excited about and for good reason.

Everyone who wants it should continue to push for it. I certainly will.

Lol you don’t have to worry about that. Many fans constantly are, especially in places like Twitter.

Legacy is really the only thing I care about. I’ll watch S31 and SFA and stay open minded but most people definitely want Legacy over those two.

Obviously agree. And I’m looking forward to both of those. And I get it they were obviously the next things up and they could be great. I didn’t think anyone thought Picard season 3 would get the reception it did, certainly not after season 2 lol.

But I think if Legacy is the thing they announce next it would excite the fan base the same way when the Picard show was announced.

But we have to see where the franchise will be another year given everything. They may cut back on more shows in the future. But it doesn’t stop them from licensing the show for other streamers like Netflix or Amazon to make either.

But let’s hope we’re not still talking about it 8 years from now like the next Kelvin movie…or any movie for that matter. 🙄

LOL talk about something that will never happen. They turned these movie announcements into a complete joke. They announced the prequel movie a month ago already and still not a peep since. Unless they are making it for $80 million or something that will probably be DOA too like JJ verse currently is.

I am hoping Legacy will be the next show announced obviously, especially if something like SFA falls flat on its face since hardly anyone seems excited about it. I do hope it will be good though, but it’s currently just a big shrug to me right now.

I stopped caring about the films long ago. Been saying this for literally 5 years now and that Paramount has no idea what they want to do with them and probably because they are clearly afraid the next one will flop and just keep throwing mud at the walls. And 5 years later this still seems to be the case.

As far as SFA I think it will do fine as long as it’s good. If it gets the goodwill as shows like SNW, LDS and PRO have all gotten it will probably be a hit even if people don’t love the premise or setting. But yes if it’s good. If it’s not I don’t know but we’ll all be watching lol.

And that’s the thing if we want the Legacy show then people have to watch that show! I don’t believe if one fails then Paramount will just replace it with another one, not anymore. It’s obvious Star Trek is no longer the priority like it was in 2020 or we would have the Legacy show now or at least it being discussed.

Star Trek has to really produce and keep people excited. Now I am very sure the Legacy show has a much better chance of doing that than SFA since that already has a built in audience and a hungrier one obviously but here we are. But yeah if people truly want that show then we have to prove we are just hungry for more Trek in general because I think it’s easier to just give it less attention to the franchise now that they have bigger hits that probably drives up more subs then Star Trek ever did.

I don’t want to sound overly cynical but Legacy show or not I don’t want the shows to fall to the dreary wayside the movies are in now.

Agreed on all counts! 😀👍

Prodigy proved how quickly they are willing to shove anything to the side if it’s not performing well enough out of the gate.

If Academy sucks I don’t know how many people will care given everything. But you’re right everyone here will be watching anyway. I’m still watching Discovery and I don’t know why? 😂

I’ll give Academy about 3 or 4 episodes, then make my decision about sticking with it. I trudged through the first two seasons of DSC and that was a huge waste of time for me, I hate watching bad scripted television when there’s so much better out there. It’s a shame, because before that I would have never considered giving a Trek show an episode limit, but here we are. PRO and SNW were happy surprises, hopefully the Academy show will be, too.

Yep not really feeling Academy show at all. It just doesn’t appeal to me for so many reasons. Maybe if it at least took place in 25th century I can care a little more.

But I’ll definitely give it a real chance. I didn’t think I was going to love Prodigy and that ended up being awesome. So who knows? But Kurtzman himself is running it so that is already some serious red flags for me.

I was hoping maybe they do what they did with S31 when that show got killed off for SNW and SFA would be killed off for Legacy but didn’t happen.

the section 31 movie is not a theatrical movie but a made for streaming movie akin to a made for TV movie or a direct to video movie so it will not have to worry about a box-office take and things a normal trek movie does in the theaters

A lone voice of reason in between all the “Legacy is going to be big” over the top, wishful thinking posts. Lol – thank you!

It’s kind of sad that even when people involved with Trek at Paramount specifically tell us that Legacy is not in the cards, that so many fans still keep promoting it when we’ve got these other great offerings like the Academy series and Section 31 to look forward to. It’s doing a disservice to all the great people in the Kurtzman franchise who are working on those projects — fans need to be getting behind them and showing them the love they deserve.

Star Trek fans need to stop chasing windmills here. Time to grow up, accept things as they really are, and move on.

Sure and exactly why it’s happening at light speed because it’s probably just a basic TV movie budget and they can really market it for P+ which can always use more content.

To be honest that’s probably more ideal in the long term instead of trying to finance $100+ million movies that may earn just a little profit at the end of the day. Just make event TV movies with scales down budgets.

And they still could do something similar like what they did with Picard and Lower Decks and put it in a few theaters for a day and have the hardcore fans check it out that way. I would certainly go. But it would just be a promotion thing obviously.

I would definitely be down for a Legacy TV movie as well! 😎🖖

Lots of ideas out there.

So would I. I think that would be a great idea and do a TV movie. AND that could be a back door pilot type of thing and see how well that does without ordering a full season first. And if that goes over big then make it a show if its viable.

There are lots of ideas out there if P+ can’t make a lot of shows but still want to capitalize on the demand. That beats doing another over bloated theatrical movie half the base doesn’t even seem to care about anymore.

So something smaller and fan oriented they know will watch it would be a great middle ground.

Best of both worlds to me. 🙂

Agreed, at this point I could care less if we ever see a Trek film again, Especially if it’s going to feature the TOS crew again, in any incarnation. Let’s move on. Sec. 31, even though I wouldn’t have picked it and though not a theatrical film, will at least be a step in ‘some’ direction, forward.

Never cared much about the movies and been over JJ verse since Star Trek Into Dreckness came out 11 years ago.

And you can tell fans are over these movies because they just announced a NEW movie a month ago and no one cares. 😂😴

No one is talking about it at all. Probably because we been D.I.C.K.E.D around so much most just think it’s more trolling. And because it’s a PREQUEL! Get a clue Paramount most fans are sick of prequels already. At least make something going forward again.

Maybe the Legacy show won’t happen but the difference between that and another tired movie is fans are excited about the prospect of the show. That’s why it’s a no brainier to do. There is real momentum behind it. Especially on social media.

At least do a TV movie and see how that goes over. That would be much more smarter than making a $150 million movie that will probably just bomb just like the last one did.

I have no idea why they keep pushing more prequels either? Just more proof how out of touch Paramount is and why no one should hold their breath for another film.

It’s just amazing how inept these people have been.

Me and you both bro. You’re just telling a lot of the fanbase to stay home and wait for it to arrive on streaming. It’s hard to get fans excited for something they been saying they are sick of seeing for 20 years now. We don’t anymore origin stories. Been there done that.

I think you are well aware of my thoughts on this right now. I really wouldn’t mind seeing another Kelvin movie, but stop wasting everyone’s fcking time.

At this point it’s clear they don’t have the money, ideas, motivation, faith or all the above in making another one so move on. The director for that movie dropped out in 2022. It’s now 2024 for Kahless sake and still just as dead as ever. And yes no more TOS reboots. No more reboots of anything. Go forward with new ideas please.

And if that also means no Legacy show in order to do something TOTALLY NEW AND POST NEMESIS also fine. But I think something in the 25th century would be more ideal for most than the 32nd century which probably feels too disconnected for some people.

I’ll remain optimistic about Section 31 but it’s obvious for most fans it’s just a side thing for now.

Dunno if this is gonna happen IF we get a 25th century show, but moving forward is not the only reason I want one. I want them to somehow bring the Federation and StarFleet back to their former 24th century glory before the destruction of Romulus screwed everything up.

Yeah same. But that’s why the 25th century is so appealing and can do things the Picard show just touched upon.

Same. I think the Legacy show could really reenergize the Federation after everything that’s happened since the Romulan explosion and make the 25th century the new golden age of space exploration.

There is no more movies because fans voted with their wallets last time and stayed home. They stopped caring about them. Why they want to still make more is beyond me?

I don’t care about the Section 31 movie but they were smart enough to keep it low budget and on streaming. I don’t expect it to be good but I’ll watch it since I don’t pay for Paramount Plus but use my brother’s account.

I grew up with TOS, I don’t need anymore more of it either. Especially since the people making Star Trek today don’t seem to have a clue what made it special in the first place.

They turned those characters either into silly action stars or into a bad melodrama and comedic farce.

Very well put, Legacy. My thoughts exactly. They have absolutely NO clue about what made it special in the first place.

For me SNW is enough TOS. I really want to go forward again when it’s over and I really like that show. But we know what happens to everyone else in TOS. Just doesn’t excite me enough but I know it would for some old TOS who wants more nostalgia.

Agreed. Jeri Ryan deserves all the accolades. I’m hoping for a Legacy show primarily because of her and because other than SNW and S31 I want Trek to start moving forward again in the timeline.

Agreed with all of this. And while I think there is a huge part of the fanbase who what this specific project with Seven, I do think most would be just as happy with a general 25th century show as well, new characters as well.

I just want a 25th century show and open to any form it takes.

In the back of my head I was hoping for the 31 movie to be 25th century as well. But that was if we could get Bashir and Sloan back and neither were announced. Oh well.

Me too. Being in the 25th century would be more interesting to me. Oh and having Bashir back would be a great idea.

Sloan is already dead so don’t see him back unfortunately.

Oh, that’s too bad about William Sadler. I didn’t know :(.

But like imagine having Georgeou in the 25th century and she goes back to the Mirror Universe on a mission for *reasons*. There she finds that the Emire collapsed long ago and humanity is enslaved by the alliance. That alone might make the movie for me lol

No I just mean the character. Didn’t he die in his last appearance on the show? I’m sure he did.

I don’t care about the Space Nazis but that would be delicious.

Ohh… Ummm IIRC Sloan died near the very end when Bashir and O’Brien were in his mind trying to get the changeling cure. While they were in there, Sloan did one of those spy things where he released a deadly toxin into his system. Bashir and O’Brien made it out in time but when they woke up Sisko informed them that Sloan died a few minutes or seconds or whatever ago.

But here is the rub LOL. That happens in spy novels all the time. Faking one’s death. I don’t think it would be a canon retcon to get him back given the nature of S31!!!

Didn’t like where they took her character in Picard. The less said about that first season the better. I liked her in S3 well enough, but 🤷 she was better in Voyager

When we look at the big picture of the Trek universe I think Spock, Seven and Worf had the best developments and character arcs throughout. From where they started to where they ended up. Congrats to Jeri Ryan for the much deserved win and for taking this character so far.

Absolutely adores Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine. Such a great actress and hope she continues in Legacy one day.

The headline says she’s bi, I thought she was a lesbian

Well in Voyager she was with Chakotay. I suppose you could make the argument that she hadn’t fully realized her own individualism yet back then and she later came to the realization?

Seven had a few male relationships on Voyager including Chakotay as Amirami mentioned. We also saw her trying to go on a date with a man (although it didn’t go well lol).

So Bi sounds right to me.

the one in ‘unimatrix 0’ was the longest lasting.

…and the blandest. Seven had more chemistry with her alcove than that guy.

The Chakotay romance was absolutely terrible in Endgame (Worf/Deanna and Ezri/Julia also get outsized finale attention but it’s nowhere nearly as forced and awkward as this), but mildly interesting in Human Error only because it was an insight into her private thinking.

The disastrous date in Someone to Watch Over Me and the Doctor’s unrequited love for her remain the best-realized explorations to do with her love life. The relationship with Raffi could have been so good, but it too comes out of nowhere and then is fumbled constantly in season 2.

It is quoting her response about Jeri Taylor…

I think Jeri especially would be thrilled with Seven’s development. I know that she was a big champion for Seven from the beginning. I think that she would be thrilled that Seven is a bi captain and character . It is my understanding that is something she championed from the beginning as well. I think at the time the network felt that they weren’t ready for that yet. But I think she would be thrilled. I hope she would be.

‘it’s been a long road…..’

PIC S3 wasn’t exactly my cup of chai, but if Jeri Ryan’s happy, I’m happy.

It was a fun ride for Picard! Now, #startreklegacy, please. Ready for Capt. Seven and Rafi’s continuing adventures. PLEASE!!!

I honestly want to see the reaction of the young Starfleet officers to the situation. You just had a compromised Picard and his son hand them over the Borg, then have the Borg force them to blow up their commanding officers and friends, forced to take out other ships and the Earth spacedock only to find out Picard son gets a promotion, a compromised Picard gets a pass and Seven who is attached to a name honoring her time where she was forced to commit genocide promoted all on the fast track. Oh and Shaw’s and Riker’s legacy mysteriously replaced. Crazy set up, I see morale on the low and maybe explaining some of the upcoming burn and why the UFP just disintegrates. Unlike most I love the Ent-G!! That’s the next gen Ent-A we should have got under Captain Saavik in the 90s!!! Love that ship, just lose the horrid horrid bridge.

Having a non-gay actor playing gay, a bit iffy these days. Sorry.

Born February 22 , 1968 · Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Birth name Jeri Lynn Zimmerman
Height 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Jeri Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmerman on February 22, 1968 in Munich, West Germany, to Gerhard Florian Zimmerman, a Master Sergeant in the United States Army, and his wife Sharon, a social worker. She and her older brother Mark grew up on several military bases, including Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia and Texas. Finally, at age 11, her father retired from the Army and her family settled down in Paducah, Kentucky. After graduating from Lone Oak High School in 1986, she attended Northwestern University Chicago as a National Merit Scholar. While studying there, she won a number of beauty contests (a.o.- sixth annual Miss Northwestern Alpha Delta Phi Pageant in 1989). With a B.S. degree in Theatre, she came to Los Angeles, California and since then she has been on several television series and films - including popular series like Matlock (1986) , Melrose Place (1992) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995) as well as Dark Skies (1996) . Her television experience also includes roles in a variety of telefilms including Nightmare in Columbia County (1991) , NBC's In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993) , Co-ed Call Girl (1996) , The Sentinel (1996) , Men Cry Bullets (1998) , Dracula 2000 (2000) , The Last Man (2000) and Down with Love (2003) . Jeri Ryan resides in an area of Los Angeles, California with her husband chef Christophe Eme, her son Alex and daughter Gisele. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Mia
Spouses Christophe Eme (June 16, 2007 - present) (1 child) John Clemens "Jack" Ryan (June 15, 1991 - August 27, 1999) (divorced, 1 child)
Children Alex Ryan Gisele Lynn Eme
Parents Gerhard Florian Zimmerman Sharon Zimmerman
Relatives Mark Zimmerman (Sibling)
Often plays powerful, authoritative women
Blonde hair and blue eyes
Seductive deep voice
Turned down the role of Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) four times. She only accepted the role after repeated lobbying by executive producer Jeri Taylor .
Turned down a cameo in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) because of her busy schedule on Boston Public (2000) . The cameo was subsequently given to her Star Trek: Voyager (1995) castmate Kate Mulgrew .
She was in the running for the role of Mystique (Raven Darkholme) in the sci-fi action film X-Men (2000) , which went to Rebecca Romijn .
Miss Illinois 1989. Was fourth in the 1990 Miss America Pageant and won the swimsuit competition.
Has appeared on Jeopardy! Celebrity Invitational on April 29, 1998. Jeri played for St. Jude Medical Center.
[on her ex-husband Jack Ryan who is running for United States Senator in Illinois] He's a good man and good father.
There are three things pageant women do. There's the Vaseline thing, which I didn't do. There's duct taping your boobs, which I never did because I'm not into pain. The third thing is using athletic spray adhesive on your butt to keep your swimsuit in place. I did do that. So one out of three ain't bad.
[on her Seven of Nine costume] Initially, I would stay in the costume much longer than I ended up staying in it, because it takes about twenty minutes to get into. Someone has to dress me and undress me. It's a production break if I have to get out of the costume to use the rest room or something. It grinds to a halt unless they can shoot something without me, which typically they can't, if it's a scene that I'm in. So in the interest of being a team player, the first season, I would not take rest room breaks, I just didn't drink anything on set, which is not the healthiest thing to do.
When I started out on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) , they had to tell me everything about Star Trek, because I knew nothing about it. I had never seen the original series, I had never seen Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) . I think I'd seen a couple of episodes here and there - of the original series, probably. Never seen Voyager. Didn't know what a Borg was. They gave me a copy of Star Trek: First Contact (1996) , the movie, so I could at least see what a Borg was. They also gave me a copy of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, whatever it is, so that I could bone up on my Star Trek knowledge. Fortunately, it sort of worked for the character that I wouldn't know any of the backstories of the people on Voyager, because she was coming in cold, like I was. That was actually helpful as opposed to detrimental.
I grew up as an Army brat, so I moved around a lot as a child. Always being the new kid was tough, but it taught me to be very adaptable and it certainly got me ready for the nomadic life of an actor!
Boston Public (2000) - $45,000 per episode.

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Star Trek: Picard's Jeri Ryan Breaks Down Seven Of Nine's Major Scene In Latest Episode, Shares Thoughts On Her Character's Journey Throughout The Show

The actress had a lot to say.

Warning! The following contains spoilers for the Star Trek: Picard Season 3 episode "Vox." Read at your own risk!

Star Trek: Picard set the stage for what should be an epic finale that rivals even the most celebrated of TNG movies , but it came at a cost. Fans were finally given the long-awaited moment of Seven of Nine getting her flowers as a top member of Starfleet... unfortunately, in the most tragic way possible. With his dying breath, Captain Liam Shaw declared that Commander Seven was now Captain of the USS Titan .

Despite the satisfaction that I felt seeing Seven of Nine finally becoming a captain of Starfleet – albeit unofficially for the time being – I couldn't help but mourn the loss of Todd Stashwick 's beloved Shaw . I asked Jeri Ryan in an interview if the moment was just as bittersweet for her, especially after sharing so many scenes with Stashwick in Star Trek: Picard Season 3, and got her thoughts on the matter:

Of course it was. I loved working with Todd as an actor and as a friend and from day one, I said [Shaw] was my favorite character. I loved him. I loved the way he played him. I loved the way he was written. I just thought he was brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. So, yeah. That was a very emotional scene for all of us to shoot for a lot of reasons.

By a chain of command and by Captain Shaw's final words, Seven of Nine is now interim Captain of the USS Titan . Of course, due to the recently uncovered Borg plot that compromised the younger crew of the Titan and many other ships in the fleet, Seven will have her work cut out for her trying to regain control of the ship. She and Raffi stayed behind while Picard and his crew reunited with the Enterprise D .

And while her promotion might not be officially approved by Starfleet command, Jeri Ryan confirmed she's just as thrilled as fans for it to happen. The actress added that she had to sit with that knowledge for quite a while, even long before the season officially started filming:

Terry [Matalas] told me that before we started shooting when we all had our individual meetings and heard what the plan was for all of our characters. Yeah, that's something I've been sitting on for a long time.

Assuming Seven of Nine survives the end of Star Trek: Picard , the stage is set for her to have many adventures in the future as Captain of her own Starfleet ship. Of course, fans and the cast of Picard are still pushing for a follow-up to the series, but there are no guarantees of any future adventures for Seven happening just yet.

As it stands, viewers have seen Seven of Nine change quite a bit from when she was last seen on Star Trek: Voyager . I asked Jeri Ryan how she feels about the totality of Seven's story now that she's done with Picard , and if she could've predicted where it ends in Season 3. She shared her honest thoughts on it all:

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I'm thrilled. I don't think I would have predicted this season's story. So that was sort of a surprise for me. I love it. I think it's phenomenal and it's perfectly fitting for the character and all of it is great, but that was sort of surprising to me. ...I say that I sound like a broken record when I say this, but this character has been such a gift from the beginning as an actor. Dating back to, you know, 20 whatever years ago on Voyager when she was created. And the last three years of carrying her development through and her and her story it's been such a treat. It really truly has.

Jeri Ryan has come a long way since needing several glasses of champagne to be convinced to return as Seven of Nine in the first place. Now, that decision has led to a tremendous arc for former Borg that has taken the character from the Fenris Rangers all the way to her current position in Starfleet. It's even sweeter to know that Ryan has enjoyed the journey just as much as fans and her time on Star Trek: Picard .

If you have a Paramount+ subscription , be sure to be ready for the series finale of Star Trek: Picard on Thursday, April 20. It feels like we're in for a truly epic finale, though based on what we heard from Michael Dorn , perhaps not the end of the line for these beloved characters.

Mick Joest is a Content Producer for CinemaBlend with his hand in an eclectic mix of television goodness. Star Trek is his main jam, but he also regularly reports on happenings in the world of Star Trek, WWE, Doctor Who, 90 Day Fiancé, Quantum Leap, and Big Brother. He graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Radio and Television. He's great at hosting panels and appearing on podcasts if given the chance as well.

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Catching Up with Voyager's Jeri Ryan - Part 1

Jeri Ryan made a most indelible mark on Star Trek: Voyager when she joined the cast as Seven of Nine during the show’s fourth season. Some fans assumed that Seven of Nine was created only to add some va-va-voom to Voyager following the departure of Kes ( Jennifer Lien ) and, while the character surely turned heads, what with her form-fitting cat suit, Ryan and the writers made certain that Seven of Nine evolved into far more than eye candy. The character was tough, argumentative, opinionated, thoroughly capable of kicking butt and a great foil for several crewmates, notably the Doctor ( Robert Picardo ) and Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ). Plus, at times, a degree of vulnerability and/or warmth reminded everyone that Seven of Nine was, despite her cybernetic Borg implants, still human.

Since Voyager ended its run in 2001, Ryan has maintained a hectic pace – personally and professionally. On the personal front, Ryan is married and lives with her second husband, French chef Christophe Eme, and her children (Alex, by her first husband) and Gisele (with Eme), in Los Angeles. On the professional front, she’s appeared – as a guest star, recurring character or regular – on Boston Public , Two and Half Men, Boston Legal, Shark, Leverage and her current projects, Body of Proof, Mortal Kombat and Warehouse 13 . StarTrek.com recently met up with Ryan in Rhode Island, on the set of her new series, Body of Proof, which co-stars Dana Delany and will premiere tonight on ABC. Over the course of a half-hour conversation, with three-year-old Gisele playing on her lap, Ryan happily recounted her days on Voyager and filled us in on her life today. Below is part one of our exclusive interview, and be on the lookout tomorrow for part two.

Let’s start with Voyager. What are the first things that run through your mind when you think back to your four seasons on Star Trek ?

Ryan: The costume! Also, how much fun I had working with all the men on the show. They were all psychotic, all lunatics, and I loved them. I loved every single one of them and they were all so much fun to work with. It’s hard to stay in touch because we’re each all over the place, but we see each other once in a while at conventions, and they’re as crazy as ever.

The big question everyone seems to have about the Voyager finale, “ Endgame ,” is this: Did you buy relationship between Seven and Chakotay ( Robert Beltran )?

Ryan: It’s not that I didn’t buy it... My problem with that relationship was that it came out of the blue. They had started the set-up of the relationship a few episodes earlier, in the episode (“ Human Error ”) where Seven was experimenting with her humanity on the holodeck. And so she sort of fell in love with Chakotay there. They said something like her could never have these sorts of relationships because she would die, or whatever. The next episode that we shot after that (“ Natural Law ”), Seven and Chakotay were stranded on some planet together. We specifically asked the producers – Robert and I – “Now, are we going to play this? Is this going to go somewhere? Because, obviously, we’d need to carry something over from…” And they said, “No, no, no, no! Absolutely not. Don’t play any of that. Nothing’s going to happen.”

So, after that one episode we never played any sort of attraction or anything between the two characters. And then, out of the blue, all of a sudden, they’re dating (in “Endgame”). That was a little annoying, especially when you’ve specifically asked about it and they said, “No, absolutely not.” Then, suddenly they’re in love. That was a little… It’s one of the frustrations of network television. And it’s how you learn, also. You have to try to be the babysitter and the protector of your character.

Did you keep your Seven of Nine cat suit or burn the damn thing?

Ryan: They didn’t let me keep the cat suit. I would have loved to have burned it; not so much the cat suit as the corset that was under it. But, no, they didn’t let me have that. I do, however, have an alcove. I figured, “That’s the least you can give me! Give me my alcove.” (Laughs). So I have it in my game room.

A lot of Star Trek actors, as their respective shows ended, worried about what might – or might not – come next. How concerned were you about life after Voyager, if audiences and/or casting directors would accept you as anything but Seven of Nine?

Ryan: Oh, God, that was the single biggest worry that I had when I took the job to begin with. Star Trek is notorious for pigeonholing its actors and them not being able to break out of that and go on to other work. So I was incredibly lucky that I went on to a David Kelley show immediately after Voyager ended. I was incredibly lucky and incredibly grateful, and I said to myself, “This is going to be OK. I’m going to work.”

You’d done a lot of film work before and during Voyager, but since you finished the show you seem to have concentrated on television. Is that by choice? Is it where the work has been?

Ryan: It’s in large part because of family. That stability of a TV series is really nice when you’ve got a family. Also, film and TV are two very different paces, at least for me. Here, on Body of Proof, we’re doing six to sometimes seven or eight pages a day. On Star Trek , we did eight pages a day, plus. And on a movie, you’re doing like two pages a day. So you can be doing the same scene all day. That, to me, after doing a TV pace for so long, is mind-numbing. It’s hard. It’s a tough adjustment. I have infinite respect for the people who can bounce back and forth between film and TV, but it’s not that easy for me.

You’ve got a toddler, your son, husband, a restaurant and a home in L.A. What the heck are you doing in… Providence, Rhode Island?

Ryan: You know what? Since I ended my maternity leave, which was a little more than a year ago now, I haven’t had a single job in Los Angeles. Everything has been on location. I was a month in Detroit. I was two months in Portland. I was in Vancouver. I was in New Jersey. I was everywhere but home. You go where the jobs are. Providence happens to be beautiful. It’s a beautiful place to be. But, yeah, it’s not the most convenient for commuting from L.A. because there are not that many flights, you have to fly into Boston, change planes and fly into Providence. There’s a three-hour time difference. It’s tough. So my little one is here with me half the time and she’s home half the time, and I make the commute.

Gisele is almost three. Your son Alex was about the same age when you started Voyager. How déjà vu all over again is it for you to have another young child on the set of another show?

Ryan: It totally is. Alex is 16 now. It’s not as easy at 40 as it was when you were 26, physically. But it’s a lot of fun, and she is amazing – (Ryan runs her fingers through Gisele’s hair and coos directly to her daughter) – right? I am dreading puberty, though. I’m terrified.

Tomorrow, in part two of our interview with Jeri Ryan, the actress talks more about Voyager, discusses Body of Proof and previews other upcoming projects, including Mortal Kombat and Warehouse 13.

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Jeri Ryan kicked off a new chapter of Star Trek: Voyager when Seven of Nine, an ex-Borg drone on the long road back to her humanity, was transported onto the wayward Intrepid class ship 25 years ago.

To celebrate this milestone and the indelible mark the character left on Gene Roddenberry’s universe, ET is looking back at Ryan’s groundbreaking introduction and Seven’s journey to becoming one of the franchise’s most important stories.

In VOY ’s season three finale ("Scorpion" Part I"), a game-changing cliffhanger teased a brand new era for Captain Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) and crew. As part of a peace agreement, the Borg offered a liaison to Voyager as the ship continued traversing the Delta quadrant. While expanding a core Star Trek ensemble had been done before -- Worf (Michael Dorn) hopped off the Enterprise to join the cast of Deep Space Nine just a couple years earlier -- introducing an original character mid-run was a brand new move.

“I think after our first three years, the feeling was we wanted to add a bit of pizzazz to the show,” Star Trek executive producer Rick Berman explained to ET in 1997. “We all agreed that we needed something to bring something fresh to the fourth season.”

As Berman told it, VOY was lacking one of Star Trek ’s most successful archetypes. The Next Generation had Data (Brent Spiner), an android embedded with the pursuit of what it means to be mortal. The original series had Mr. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), whose inherent half-Vulcan, half-human dichotomy highlighted both the grace, as well as the faults, of the former and latter.

In search of what next iteration of this tradition could be, VOY producers flipped the script. “When we looked at what was possible, we realized the Borg were a group who had never failed to excite both the fans and the non-fans alike,” Berman said.

In June 1997, Ryan’s casting as Seven of Nine was officially announced.

“I don't think there's anybody in my generation who is not at least familiar with Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry and his vision,” Ryan told ET that summer. While Star Trek auditions are legendary for being quite the ordeal, she said her consideration was “not that arduous of a process,” which involved just a few readings for producers and the network (UPN, which later combined with The WB to become The CW) before landing the role.

For Ryan, a lot of the TV landscape at the time was “dark” and “really pessimistic,” which made her excited to expand the franchise’s sincere, optimistic view of the future. “It should open up some interesting possibilities with the storylines, because [Seven] was raised, basically, as a machine… It should be really interesting,” Ryan said.

IT GETS INTERESTING

Shortly after filming began on the season 4 premiere, “Scorpion Part II,” Ryan ended up in the hospital.

While Seven’s mainstay wardrobe throughout the series had its own brand of infamy, Ryan’s full-body Borg costume and makeup prosthetics for her character’s introduction proved to be the most dangerous.

“The costume is very snug. And it's rubber and it's very thick,” Ryan explained to ET weeks later. As she recalled, the Borg costume was especially constrictive around the neck and the on-set emergency stemmed from moving her head in one direction just a little too long. “It apparently cut off my carotid artery and brought on a blackout,” she said.

There were other issues with Seven’s costume in that first week, but, thankfully, they were simply the result of Ryan having fun with her new castmates.

”It's their fourth year together, so it could have been very awkward,” Ryan said. “[But] they couldn't be any nicer. Any more welcoming. And every single one of them is a comedian, so it's a lot of fun. A lot of laughing. They kept making my eye piece pop off when I was in the Borg costume, because I kept laughing.”

As for Seven’s captain, her integration was a welcome change of pace on-screen and behind the scenes.

“It's impossible not to be nice to her. She's a kick. She's my kind of gal, frankly,” Mulgrew told ET in 1997. “I think the idea behind it was that Janeway would finally have somebody, as Picard had Data, to relate to in terms of developing relationship. And Seven of Nine is half-Borg, half-human. It's wonderful. It's filled with conflict and tension to begin with."

Mulgrew also revealed her words of wisdom to Ryan upon joining the ensemble. “I think what I said to her originally was, first of all, laughter is the only balm. It's the only way to get through this,” she recalled. “And I said take a deep breath, because this will end soon. And then you can relax and fly with it.”

THE DELTA CHRONICLES

When it came to Seven fostering a relationship with Janeway, as well as her attempts to be more human, VOY opted for a slow and steady approach. As Ryan’s finished out her first season, she said the character is picking up where her six-year-old, pre-Borg self left off.

“This is Seven experiencing a lot of growing pains, because emotionally she's a child,” Ryan told to ET in 1998. “This is her sort of hitting her preteen years and not really knowing where she belongs. She's not really a Borg. She's not really a human. How does she feel about potentially going back to Earth? And she lashes out at the authority figure -- Janeway. “

She added, “It has been a wild ride. That's for sure. It's been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed myself, but it has been crazy.”

The next few years wouldn’t get any less intense for Ryan or her on-screen counterpart. In the seasons that followed, Seven found herself wrestling with one existential crisis after another. Whether it was fending off the Borg Queen’s temptations to rejoin the collective or preparing to go on her first date, she always came out the other end a little less broken or, at least, a little less Borg.

There was also that time she wrestled The Rock .

“[I’ve] beaten Stone Cold Steve Austin on numerous occasions. The Undertaker. Mankind. The list goes on and on and on,” Dwayne Johnson told ET on the set of "Tsunkatse" in 1999. “But [Ryan,] she's probably one of the toughest, if not, dare I say, the toughest The Rock has ever faced.”

Alongside the character’s many breakthroughs, Ryan noted that what made Seven’s journey unique was her passive attitude toward recapturing her humanity.

“I don't think it's so much that Seven really, really wants to be human. It's the fact that she is and she doesn't really have a choice now that she's not a Borg anymore,” she told ET in 1999. “She realizes that the Borg wasn't such a great thing in hindsight. She's just sort of taking what she sees as an inevitable course.”

THAT’S A WRAP

In 2001, the Voyager crew was set to finally return to the Alpha Quadrant. And like TNG and DS9 before them, VOY prepared to say goodbye to fans after seven seasons on the air.

“We've had a couple days that were a little bittersweet,” Ryan told ET on the set of “Endgame,” VOY ’s series finale. “I've been with these people for four years and they've been together for seven. And you really do become like a family, because you see them more than your family.”

Ryan added with a laugh, “I won't miss the corset.”

At VOY ’s wrap party, Ryan reflected on the end of her four-year journey, which also corresponded with the beginning of the end for Star Trek ’s television renaissance at the time.

“This has been a wonderful, wonderful ride and I will miss these people so much, because I've made such dear friends,” Ryan said. “But I think it's time to move on. “

HELLO, CHATEAU

Nearly 20 years after VOY ended, Ryan was called back into service. Following the debut of Star Trek: Discovery in 2017, Sir Patrick Stewart returned to help shepherd another pivotal moment for the franchise. To everyone’s complete surprise, the first trailer for Star Trek: Picard in 2019 revealed Seven of Nine was part of the new series. But as Ryan tells it, no one was more shocked than her to see the character on TV again.

"I did four years on Voyager and I really thought that was it," Ryan explained to ET in March . "And when I said goodbye to the character, then I really thought that was it. I was saying goodbye to that character."

Bringing the two characters together made sense to fans on many levels, but no more so than their shared history as victims of the Borg. As one moment in season 1 of STP conveyed (“Stardust City Rag”), both characters live with PTSD from their experiences.

Seven: After they brought you back from your time in the Collective, do you honestly feel that you've regained your humanity?

Picard: Yes.

Seven: All of it?

Picard: No. But we're both working on it, aren't we?

Seven: Every damn day of my life.

"[Stewart]'s a legend, obviously, and these two characters, it was exciting to get these two characters, especially, together in this world," she shared.

On STP , Ryan’s been able to perform several full-circle moments for the ex-Borg-formerly-known-as-Annika, as well as portraying some of her most evolutionary and unbeknownst insights. Some of these are tragic, such as the death of her ex-Borg protege, Ichab, while others are well-deserved new horizons. Even amid the chaotic events of season 2, which saw Q (John de Lancie) throwing nearly every trademark Star Trek crisis at the La Sirena crew, Seven cultivated her romance with Raffi (Michelle Hurd) and re-upped her commitment to Picard’s latest band of interstellar explorers.

"It's crazy. That's a really rare gift as an actor," Ryan said. "It was a rare gift to begin with to have a character that was so beautifully written and had so much growth, since she didn't even start out human. But then to be able to revisit her this many years later and continue her journey, It's been pretty astonishing."

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Why 'Star Trek' Star Jeri Ryan Had a Tough Time Returning for

[This story contains spoilers for Star Trek : Picard , season one, episode four.]

After four episodes of Star Trek: Picard , Seven of Nine is finally back.

Jeri Ryan , one of Picard ’s most talked-about castmembers (thanks to several trailers teasing her role on the CBS All Access show), reprised her role of Star Trek: Voyager ’s former Borg drone in the final moments of this week’s episode, “Absolute Candor.”

When The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Ryan ahead of the season, the actor was unable to reveal what her character has been up to since audiences last saw her on the small screen in 2001, or even what episode she appears in. “Candor” teased some of the former: Seven has spent some time near and around the Romulan relocation settlement on the planet Vashti on her fast, unidentified, fighter-like starship. In the episode’s climatic battle, Seven used (and lost) her ship while saving Picard and crew from an attack by an unseen space pirate of sorts and his Original Series -era Romulan bird of prey. Like Picard and Patrick Stewart, Seven and Jeri Ryan are also re-entering the world of Star Trek at a time when both the franchise and the real world are much different than when fans last saw them. So what was the biggest change for Ryan’s newest Trek experience?

“The scale of the show. The scale of these sets, the costumes, it’s crazy. It’s like you’re doing a feature film every week.” Ryan says with a big smile. What impressed her most was the advances in set design and tech from her days on Voyager .

“In one of my scenes, where I had to go in and work a console, we go in for the first rehearsal and I had to touch buttons and the screen actually does something! And I totally flipped out, like: ‘Oh my god, actually having buttons that work!”

There was another change from working on Voyager that surprised her.

“What’s funny is that they actually added time to my ready time. They made [Seven’s] prosthetics more complicated to put on. So now I actually do have prosthetic makeup to add, outside of the full Borg suit and makeup, that I didn’t have on the old show.” (And yes, fans, she still has Seven’s original facial appliances somewhere in her house. “Though it’s pretty crunchy at this point,” she says. She also got to keep her first new set of appliances from Picard .)

What Ryan didn’t have was previous experience working opposite Patrick Stewart, as Picard marks the first time the popular characters have shared the screen together. And according to Ryan, her first day paired with him was a memorable and somewhat challenging one.

“My first scene, the big scene, was the one you see in the trailer, when we’re in his office/ready room. That was my first day on set. It was daunting — not just because it was Patrick — but because I was still petrified — or ‘Patrick-fied’ — of if I could find the character again. I was still trying to figure out who she was.”

What helped Ryan rediscover Seven 19 years after Voyager went off the air was being supported by both Stewart and another Star Trek: The Next Generation veteran.

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Whatever Happened To Jeri Ryan, ‘Seven of Nine’ From Star Trek: Voyager?

By Courtney Dercqu | August 3, 2023

Jeri Ryan captivated Star Trek fans in the late 1990s with her standout portrayal of former Borg drone Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager. With her signature skintight catsuit and icy blunt delivery, Seven of Nine became one of the most popular characters in the Star Trek universe. Ryan’s nuanced performance humanized the character and showed her gradual rediscovery of her own humanity after being disconnected from the Borg collective. Here’s what she’s been up to.

She was born Jeri Lynn Zimmerman, into a military family on February 22, 1968. Her father, Gerhard Florian Zimmerman, was in the Army, so Ryan lived in many parts of the U.S. including Maryland, Georgia, Kansas, Hawaii, and Texas. When her father retired in 1979, they relocated permanently to Paducah, Kentucky.

After graduating from Northwestern University Chicago with a degree in theater in 1990, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career – and did start landing roles relatively soon.

Early Career

In 1990 Jeri Ryan competed in the Miss America pageant where she would represent Illinois and place third runner-up. For the talent portion of the contest, she would perform the song “On My Own” from Les Misérables.

Her first acting credit occurred in 1991 when she guest starred as Pam on Who’s the Boss and later Felicia Kane in the Flash and she would also make an appearance on Matlock.

Her first big break wouldn’t be until 1997 when she landed the role of Juliet Stewart in the TV series, Dark Skies.

One of her first regular roles was on the short-lived TV show Dark Skies where she played the role of Juliet Stuart. The show was created to capitalize on the popularity of sci-fi shows like The X-Files.

Unfortunately, it was canceled after one season due to low ratings. It would be the cancellation of this show that would eventually lead to Ryan’s biggest role yet: Star Trek: Voyager!

Star Trek Voyager

Jeri Ryan would join the cast of Star Trek: Voyager in 1997 during its fourth season. She would take on the role of Seven of Nine, a former member of the Borg who struggles with her humanity. The character would become popular with fans and would remain a part of the show until its cancellation in 2001, appearing in 100 episodes altogether.

Jeri says she declined the role several times before eventually accepting the role from the producers, because she feared she would be pigeonholed in the Star Trek universe for the rest of her career.

The character was introduced to the show as a contrast to Kate Mulgrew’s character of Captain Janeway, much like Spock was to Captain Kirk in the original series. However, once Jeri Ryan tried on her costume for the role, it was apparent that this wasn’t the only reason for adding her to the cast.

Seven of Nine’s Catsuit

The show’s reason for Seven of Nine’s catsuit was that the suit helped her regenerate skin.

In an interview in 1999, Jeri Ryan said she there was no question as to why her character was added to the show. She said it was clearly for the sex appeal.

Fans praised her performance as Seven of Nine, notably how she was able to balance the cold, emotionless Borg side of her character with the flashes of emotion that would humanize her from time to time, making her character much more than just sex appeal to draw in viewers.

On-Set Feud With Kate Mulgrew

Not everything on the set of Star Trek: Voyager was great for Jeri Ryan. Her addition to the show in its fourth season led to on-set issues between her and co-star Kate Mulgrew.

Garrett Wang, who played Operations Officer Harry Kim, said the feud was fueled by jealousy. Kate Mulgrew was the star and face of the show at the time. She appeared on covers of magazines and was on talk shows, but as soon as Jeri Ryan appeared on the show, all the attention was redirected. All the press and the media shifted toward Jeri Ryan.

Kate felt the show was no longer about the first female captain anymore and was relegated to the sex appeal of Seven of Nine.

Jeri commented at a Star Trek convention that the Paramount publicity department went into overdrive promoting Seven of Nine, because they felt it was their chance at pushing Star Trek: Voyager into the mainstream.

She also went on to say that Seven of Nine became the focal point of the show and was the a-storyline and b-storyline of almost every episode of the show.

Although Kate complained that Jeri should be written off the show, the writers and producers refused. Kate then openly became hostile toward Jeri and even suggested that Jeri should not be able to use the bathroom during filming, because of how much time it takes for her to get in and out of her costume.

Jeri Ryan commented that the situation with Kate Mulgrew was very difficult and working on the set was not fun, specifically the first season. She went on to say that she would get nauseous before getting on set because the situation was so stressful.

Mulgrew was silent about the issue for years, refusing to address the rumors. However at a convention in 2018 she addressed a fan’s question and said that although she was disappointed with the direction of the show, where producers and writers dropped the first female captain narrative and instead focused on Jeri Ryan’s beauty and sexuality, she still commended Jeri for putting in a ‘very solid performance’ that drew in viewers.

What did Jeri Ryan do after Star Trek Voyager?

After leaving Star Trek: Voyager, Ryan joined the cast of Boston Public from 2001-2004, however, that was one of her longer-lasting gigs for a while.

Once she left Boston Public, she mainly had bit parts here and there, including roles on The O.C. and Boston Legal.

She was a recurring cast member as Jessica Devlin on Shark from 2006-2008, and as Kate Murphy on Body of Proof from 2011-2013.

Before filming Body of Proof, Jeri was able to watch two real life autopsies. She said, although it was morbid and she was sad for the deceased, it was absolutely fascinating.

She also played Veronica Allen on the TV series Bosch for three years, ending in 2019, and since reprise her role as Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Picard, which is still set to air its next season in 2023.

What is Jeri Ryan doing now?

In 2020, Jeri Ryan reprise the role of Seven Of Nine in Star Trek: Picard, starring alongside Patrick Stewart and several other notable Star Trek alumni. In the first season she was a recurring character and in the second season she became a main cast member.

Star Trek writer, James Duff, approached Jeri about the idea and she eventually warmed up to it.

She had initially planned to stay away from Star Trek forever after the series ended in 2001. The decision was influenced by the tension that existed between her and Kate Mulgrew during the filming of “Voyager.” Ryan even mentioned in a 2019 interview that scenes with Mulgrew made her nauseous.

Despite her determination not to return, the fan base’s love for her character and a different version of Seven of Nine offered in “Star Trek: Picard” changed her mind. Ryan expressed immense satisfaction with the opportunities and character development she received in “Picard,” describing it as a “delightful surprise.” The way her character’s storyline concluded in the third and final season of “Picard” has left Ryan open to playing Captain Seven of Nine in a potential spin-off named “Star Trek: Legacy.” Though not yet in production, the series has generated excitement among fans.

Ryan’s initial rocky start with Star Trek has transformed into a fulfilling experience, and she acknowledges that returning to the role was the best decision she made for her character. Her journey illustrates how a character can evolve and how an actor’s relationship with a role can change over time, leading to new and unexpected opportunities.

Conventions

You can often find Jeri at Star Trek conventions . In 2022, she attended the 56-Year Mission Las Vegas convention, the London Film and Comic Con and the The Sci-Fi Summit in New Jersey and she will be attending the Destination Star Trek convention in Germany in September.

Jeri mentioned on a podcast that she didn’t attend conventions for a while because of issues with stalkers. She said she started attending again after convention organizers beefed up security for her. She revealed that at one convention, the security was on top of it and located a stalker immediately and removed him from the convention.

Her Marriage to Jack Ryan

Around the time she graduated college, Jeri met Jack Ryan, who at the time was an investment banker, at a local charity event. About a year later, they were married and went on to have a son, Alex, who was born on August 15, 1994.

Jeri’s marriage to Jack Ryan wasn’t without its controversy, as they both agreed to have their divorce records shared with the public since Ryan was pursuing a political career in the U.S. Senate.

However, a Los Angeles judge would also reveal the couple’s child custody files, which revealed accusations Jeri levied against Jack about him requesting her to perform sexual acts on him in public.

Though Jack Ryan publicly denied the allegations made against him, it put an end to his political career and gave the edge to his main opponent, Barack Obama.

Jeri Ryan’s Marriage to Christophe Émé

Like with her first marriage, Jeri met her current husband at another charity event. While attending a chef charity event in 2003, Jeri met French chef, Christophe Émé.

After four years of dating, the couple got married in June 2007 in a small, intimate ceremony at the Logis-de-Poelier in France.

Émé is a Michelin rated chef who is most known for appearing on the television show, Iron Chef America: The Series.

Both he and Ryan co-owned Ortolan, a popular French restaurant in Los Angeles.

Ortolan is named after the French bird that is controversially prepared in French cuisine by being drowned in brandy and eaten whole.

Before being consumed, diners cover their head and face with a towel to retain the aroma of the bird.

The French government banned the use of the Ortolan in cuisine in 1999 to preserve the species, as it numbers in the wild was getting dangerously low.

Jeri recalls in an interview that during her time on Star Trek Voyager, fans of the show would often send her art and one of the most memorable pieces of art she received was of an Ortolan bird, drawn in the style of a Borg.

Alexander Ryan

Jeri Ryan has two children: a son, Alexander Ryan, from her first marriage to Jack Ryan.

Alex was born on August 15, 1994. When he was 17 years old, Alexander was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, which is on the autism spectrum and makes it hard for someone to communicate.

When he was 21 years old, he participated in the College Internship Program , which helps young adults with disabilities learn how to be self sufficient. In the program he lived in an apartment building with other young adults and they learned how to manage a household, build effective social skills and secure steady employment.

Gisele Lynn Eme

She also has a daughter, Gisele Lynn Eme with her current husband, who was born on March 2, 2008. At the time of her birth, Ryan was 40 years old.

Gisele is currently in middle school and enjoys riding horses in her free time.

About Courtney Dercqu

Courtney Dercqu is a freelance writer from New Jersey. When she’s not writing about pop culture, she can be found making homemade Minnie Ears, thrifting, watching daily re-runs of the Office and Portlandia, and scheduling awkward J.C.Penney photo shoots with her friends. Her work has been published in Thought Catalog, Elite Daily, Collective World, WDW Vacation Tips, and many others. Follow her on Instagram @kort_nay More from Courtney

The Entire Seven Of Nine Timeline Explained

For a character who joined the main cast in the fourth season of Star Trek: Voyager , Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) has since become a major icon in the Star Trek franchise. The former Borg drone has been compared to a "Spock"-type character for her outsider's perspective on human events or even a former cultist struggling to regain her individuality. Her form-fitting catsuit has also drawn criticism from some fans, who feel she was over-sexualized in her initial appearances.

While all of these perspectives offer insights into Seven's character, none of them paint a whole picture of a woman who first appears in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Scorpion, Part II," regains her humanity with the Voyager crew, and later evolves into a very different character on Star Trek: Picard. Seven has been a frightening cybernetic monster, a mother-figure, and even a vigilante action hero. She has striven to rediscover her humanity while helping others discover theirs, and has become the object of affection for many people (while struggling with relationships herself).

Clearly such a complex character has a rich history full of trauma and triumph. If you'd like to learn more about the woman who became so much more than just another Borg drone, here is Seven of Nine's entire timeline explained.

The exobiologists' daughter

While most people know her as Seven of Nine, Seven was born Annika Hansen in the year 2350 to exobiologists Magnus and Erin Hansen. In the Star Trek: Voyager season 5 episode "Dark Frontier," we learn that in 2356, Annika's parents took their young daughter on a deep space mission to study the cybernetic race of creatures known as the Borg.

Using the U.S.S. Raven , a small Starfleet vessel, the Hansens illegally cross the Romulan Neutral Zone in search of the Borg. They even follow a Borg cube through a transwarp corridor that takes them into the Delta Quadrant. By modifying their ship with special multi-adaptive shielding, the Hansens manage to remain undetected by the Borg and continue their studies. Annika's parents are also able to secretly beam aboard Borg cubes and even study unconscious drones up close and personal by transporting them onto their own vessel.

Unfortunately, the Hansens' recklessness finally catches up with them. A subspace particle storm disables their multi-adaptive shielding, allowing the Borg to detect them. In the season 4 episode "The Raven" we see the Borg eventually capture Annika and her parents, assimilating them into the Borg Collective. The U.S.S. Raven itself is damaged and left on a moon for eighteen years.

Growing up in Unimatrix Zero

While being assimilated by the Borg seemingly robs Annika of her childhood, we later learn that she receives a form of reprieve. In the Star Trek: Voyager season 6 episode "Unimatrix Zero," it's revealed that Annika is one of the rare people with a recessive genetic mutation that allows her to access the virtual Borg construct known as Unimatrix Zero. In contrast to the grim, mechanical world of the Borg, Unimatrix Zero is a very pleasant environment that resembles an idyllic garden.

Drones with the one-in-a-million mutation can enter this virtual reality whenever they regenerate or are kept in maturation chambers. Even better, the drones regain their lost memories and stolen individuality, allowing them to continue with some form of their lives. Annika gets to grow up in Unimatrix Zero over the next eighteen years during her regeneration cycles. She forms many friendships and even falls in love with a man named Axum.

Mercifully, the Borg drones forget everything they do in the real world whenever they come to Unimatrix Zero. This allows Annika to have a somewhat normal childhood and young adulthood without the emotional scars of her Borg activities.

Life as a Borg drone

In the real world, Annika's life as a Borg drone is anything but pleasant. After spending time in a Borg maturation chamber, Annika emerges rebuilt as a half-organic, half-mechanical being meant to assimilate other life forms into the Borg Collective. She is given the designation Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One and obeys the orders of the Borg Queen without question.

Over the next several years, Seven of Nine assists in the capture and assimilation of many alien species. As a member of the Borg Collective, she gains access to the knowledge of thousands of civilizations, making her smarter and more efficient. Unfortunately, she only uses this knowledge to continue assimilating other species.

In the Star Trek: Voyager season 6 episode "Survival Instinct," we learn that Seven of Nine had a chance to escape the Borg in the year 2368 when she and three other drones crash landed on a planet. This caused their link to the Collective to be severed and the drones to begin recovering their individuality.

However, this also caused Seven of Nine to revert back to the frightened child she was when she was first assimilated. Unwilling to become an individual after spending so much time in the Collective (and unable to access the personality she developed in Unimatrix Zero), Seven fused the drones into a miniature hive mind and let them be recaptured by the Borg.

Seven of Nine assists Voyager

In 2374, the Starfleet vessel U.S.S. Voyager attempts to make it through a section of Borg space in their efforts to return to the Alpha Quadrant after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Remarkably, they discover the Borg are battling an alien race known as Species 8472 which poses both a threat to the Borg Collective and the rest of the galaxy. Seeing an opportunity to protect her crew, Voyager's captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) forges an alliance with the Borg by offering them the technology to create weapons against Species 8472. In exchange, the Borg seemingly give Voyager safe passage through their space.

The Borg attempt to temporarily link Janeway and her second officer Tuvok (Tim Russ) to their hive mind, but Janeway refuses to allow the procedure. Instead, she suggests the Borg provide Voyager with a representative to speak for the Collective. The Borg agree and assign the role to Seven of Nine. Seven assists in the creation of some new photon torpedoes modified with Borg nanoprobes. However, once the Borg win their battle, Seven attempts to assimilate the Voyager crew into the Collective.

In response, Janeway's first officer Chakotay (Robert Beltran) uses a neuro-transmitter to link with Seven, unlocking some of her human memories. This distracts Seven long enough for the crew to knock her unconscious. In the aftermath, Seven of Nine's link to the Collective is permanently severed and her human biology begins reasserting itself.

Seven of Nine joins Voyager

No longer a Borg drone but now a traumatized woman unable to reassert her individuality, Seven of Nine demands that Voyager return her to the Borg to be reassimilated. In the season 4 episode "The Gift," Janeway refuses and points out that Seven's reawakening human organics are rejecting many of her Borg implants. While Voyager 's holographic Doctor (Robert Picardo) is able to save her by removing most of her cybernetic components, Seven feels violated. She misses the voice of the Collective and attempts, unsuccessfully, to contact the Borg.

Although Seven of Nine considers Voyager 's crew hypocritical for claiming they want to give Seven back her freedom but denying her the choice to return to the Borg, she realizes she can't exist as an individual without help. Deciding that interacting with Captain Janeway and the Voyager crew may be the only way she can adapt to her new status, she agrees to work with Voyager .

Unknown to the Voyager crew, severing Seven of Nine's link to the Collective also eliminates her ability to return to Unimatrix Zero. As a result, the Annika Hansen who got to grow up in the virtual construct is essentially erased, although aspects of her memory and personality still exist in Seven of Nine.

Regaining her humanity

To help Seven of Nine adjust to her new individuality, the Doctor further modifies her appearance. Although he cannot remove all of her cybernetic components, he reveals in "The Gift” that he has extracted 82% of the implants, granting her an almost complete human appearance. He also stimulates her hair follicles and designs a silver catsuit to help her skin regenerate. As a result, Seven of Nine is now a very beautiful woman, although her personality remains cold and robotic.

Seven also retains vast knowledge from her time in the Borg Collective, making her an invaluable resource. However, her interpersonal skills are poor and after a short stint in Engineering in the season 4 episode "Day of Honor," she asks to be assigned to Astrometrics, a lab for stellar cartography where she maps and catalogues interstellar bodies. This means Seven works largely in solitude. She also needs to regenerate in an alcove located in one of Voyager 's cargo bays, further emphasizing her isolation.

However, Seven also makes attempts to look out for her crewmates and grow as an individual. When Voyager 's guide Neelix (Ethan Phillips) is fatally injured in the season 4 episode "Mortal Coil," Seven shows the Doctor how to use nanoprobes from her blood to revive him. And where she once considered the Borg a superior form of life, she begins realizing how traumatizing their actions are to others — including herself — as she experiences flashbacks of her own assimilation in "The Raven."

Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway

As the person who chose to have Seven of Nine remain on Voyager , Janeway feels responsible for encouraging Seven to embrace her individuality. As Seven's captain, however, Janeway often has to set limits when Seven's willful choices go against Starfleet regulations. This causes Seven to frequently call out Janeway on her contradictory stance, setting up a unique dynamic between the two women .

In the season 4 episode "Prey," Captain Janeway orders Seven to help a wounded member of Species 8472 escape a deadly Hirogen hunter. Instead, Seven beams both the hunter and his prey — an enemy of the Borg — onto the Hirogen ship. While Seven claims her actions helped save Voyager, Janeway revokes many of Seven's privileges on the starship for the ex-Borg's insubordination. In response, Seven points out that although Janeway claims she wants Seven to be an individual, she also punishes her when Seven doesn't comply with Janeway's point of view.

Despite this tension, Seven develops a great deal of respect for Captain Janeway, who in turn learns to place more trust in Seven. She even gives Seven command of Voyager in the season 4 episode "One" when the rest of the crew must go into stasis. They may not always see eye-to-eye, but both are willing to see the other's point of view and support each other.

Seven of Nine and the Doctor

From the beginning, Voyager 's holographic Doctor functions as a Pygmalion to Seven's Galatea . Just as the mythical sculptor Pygmalion crafted Galatea, his ideal woman, from clay, the Doctor is responsible for physically restructuring Seven from a Borg drone into a functioning human woman. He also assists in Seven's emotional development, even encouraging her to date people in the season 5 episode "Someone to Watch Over Me." And like Pygmalion, the Doctor develops romantic feelings for Seven of Nine but is crushed when she doesn't reciprocate.

Seven remains the Doctor's greatest flame and appears in many of his daydreams in the season 6 episode "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy." He also bases a character after her for his holo novel in "Author, Author." And while Seven never falls in love with the Doctor, she does consider him a close friend and regularly accepts his guidance and support.

Despite their lack of a romantic relationship, the Doctor and Seven technically become closer than most couples when the Doctor temporarily takes over Seven's body in the season 7 episode "Body and Soul." Being able to eat and feel like an organic being proves intoxicating for the Doctor, although Seven isn't thrilled when he becomes sexually aroused while in her form. Nevertheless, she understands his longing for physical sensation and later describes a meal for him so he can enjoy it vicariously.

Seven of Nine and Tuvok

While Seven develops relationships with almost all of the bridge crew, her friendship with Lieutenant Commander Tuvok is particularly striking. As one of the few Vulcans aboard Voyager, Tuvok possesses an outsider's perspective similar to Seven's. Seven also respects Tuvok's logic and honesty, leading the two to have many conversations about human customs and interpersonal relationships.

Although Vulcans are known to suppress their emotions, Tuvok and Seven become friends after Tuvok helps Seven deal with her emotional trauma when she experiences flashbacks to her assimilation in "The Raven." Later episodes show them exchanging views on attitudes toward death and participating in research missions together.

In the two-part season 4 storyline "Year of Hell," Tuvok is blinded while attempting to protect Seven from a torpedo explosion. In response, Seven devotes herself to helping Tuvok with his daily tasks, even offering to help him shave. While these events are erased when Voyager resets the timeline, they show how Seven can form very powerful connections with people she respects.

Seven the den mother

Despite her aloof reputation, Seven forms several attachments with children aboard Voyager and finds herself falling into the role of surrogate mother more than once. Naomi Wildman (Scarlett Pomers), the first child born on Voyager , is initially scared of Seven but later bonds with her in the season 5 episode "Infinite Regress" when Seven manifests personalities from past Borg victims, including a girl Naomi's age. Seven ends up mentoring Naomi and lets her know she thinks of Naomi as family.

Seven actually has a "son" with the Doctor in the season 5 episode "Drone," when her nanoprobes interact with the Doctor's mobile emitter and a hapless ensign's DNA. The combination results in a benevolent drone who calls himself "One" and sees Seven as a mother figure. Seven develops an attachment to One and is greatly distressed when he chooses to sacrifice himself to save Voyager .

However, Seven's closest relationship is with Icheb (Manu Intiraymi), a young man genetically engineered by his parents to possess a virus capable of killing the Borg. Intentionally given to the Borg to be assimilated, Icheb and five other young drones are found and adopted by Voyager . Seven assists all of them with readjusting to life as individuals and develops a particularly strong bond with Icheb, who donates his cortical node to save her life in the season 7 episode "Imperfection." By the Star Trek: Picard episode "Stardust City Rag," Seven openly states she sees Icheb as her son .

Return to the Borg

If any episode truly emphasizes how far Seven has come from her time as a Borg drone, it's the season 5 two-part story "Dark Frontier." Taking place in 2375, a year after being separated from the Borg Collective, the story has Seven come face-to-face with the Borg Queen herself. In a chilling revelation, Seven learns she was deliberately granted freedom by the Collective to develop a perspective that would help the Borg create a virus for assimilating humanity. The Queen actually tries to force Seven to help build the weapon along with other drones.

In contrast to how she was presented originally, Seven refuses to re-assimilate into the Borg, preferring to retain her individuality. She also shows compassion for the species the Borg attempts to assimilate and begs for their freedom. She even identifies herself by her human name — Annika Hansen — and is horrified when she sees her father, still alive, as a Borg drone.

Return to Unimatrix Zero

Seven experiences another powerful reunion in the season 6 episode "Unimatrix Zero." In 2377, three years after her liberation from the Borg Collective, Annika Hansen's lover Axum manages to reconnect with her and allow her to re-enter Unimatrix Zero. However, Seven can't access her old memories at first and doesn't remember she once had an entire life in the virtual construct.

Over the course of the two-episode storyline, Seven's original Annika Hansen personality appears to resurface. She remembers the names of old friends, appears as a fully human woman, and becomes noticeably more relaxed than her Seven of Nine persona. Although Axum doesn't disclose their former relationship, Seven eventually pieces together her lost memories and realizes she's still in love with him.

Voyager manages to liberate the Borg inhabitants of Unimatrix Zero although the crew's efforts end up destroying the virtual sanctuary. Tragically, Axum reveals his drone form is stationed in a remote sector of the Beta Quadrant, making a real-life reunion impossible. In the end, Seven manages to salvage more of her Annika Hansen persona, but loses the people she grew up with.

Possible future and romance

Seven's newfound interest in exploring human emotion leads her to pursue a serious romance with Voyager 's first officer, Commander Chakotay. Initially, Seven only interacts with a holographic simulation of Chakotay in the season 7 episode "Human Error." When her attempts to experience strong emotion cause a Borg implant in her brain to hurt her, she chooses to have surgery to remove the implant in the series finale, "Endgame," and begin dating the real Chakotay.

At one point in "Endgame," an older Admiral Janeway from an alternate future travels to the present and informs Captain Janeway that the Chakotay and Seven of Nine of her reality married while serving on Voyager. However, Seven dies on an away mission and when Voyager returns to Earth in 2394, Chakotay dies shortly after. By traveling to her past, Admiral Janeway is able to bring Voyager home by the year 2377, erasing her own timeline.

On his Instagram , Star Trek: Picard showrunner Michael Chabon stated that the Seven and Chakotay relationship likely ended by 2399. Regardless, Seven's choice to have her emotion-limiting Borg implant removed may have allowed her to explore a fuller range of emotions, explaining how her personality dramatically changed by the events of Star Trek: Picard.

Return to the Alpha Quadrant

Returning home to Earth may have been Voyager' s main mission, but the homecoming comes with some major downsides for Seven of Nine. Although the Voyager crew accept Seven as one of the family, other worlds are less welcoming. People hold many prejudices against the Borg for the planets and people they destroyed. This extends to "xBs" or people like Seven who were liberated from the Borg Collective and are struggling to regain their lost individuality.

Fortunately, the xBs gain an ally in Hugh (Jonathan del Arco) a former Borg drone who regained his individuality in the season 5 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "I Borg." By 2399, Hugh becomes a Federation citizen and the executive director of a Romulan Borg Reclamation Project. In the Star Trek: Picard episode "The End is the Beginning," Hugh reveals that the xBs are now the most despised people in the galaxy. By working with the Romulans , who seek to profit off the xBs by removing their implants and learning from the technology, Hugh hopes the xBs can be treated with more humanity during their recovery. While Seven knows of Hugh, she does not work with him.

Joining the Fenris Rangers

Seven of Nine joins a vigilante organization in the Romulan Neutral Zone known as the Fenris Rangers. Operating in the largely lawless Quris sector in the Beta Quadrant, the Fenris Rangers soon find themselves overrun when a power vacuum attracts many smugglers and warlords to their territory. Her experiences (and her newfound ability to process more emotion) radically alter Seven's personality. No longer the uptight professional she was aboard Voyager , Seven now adopts a more sarcastic and edgy persona. She also abandons her famous catsuits and starts dressing in leather jackets and sweaters.

Seven receives an additional traumatic experience when she loses her "son" Icheb (Casey King). After successfully enrolling in and graduating from Starfleet Academy, Icheb becomes a lieutenant assigned to the science vessel U.S.S. Coleman by 2386 . He also assists Seven and the Fenris Rangers by participating in reconnaissance missions for them. Unfortunately, one of the Rangers –- a friend of Seven's named Bjayzl –- is secretly a black-market dealer in Borg parts who sees an opportunity to profit off Icheb.

After learning of Icheb through Seven, Bjayzl lures Icheb into an ambush and transports him to a facility where his implants are forcibly removed, leaving him in agonizing pain. Seven tracks down Icheb and kills the doctor torturing him, but she's forced to fatally shoot Icheb to end his suffering. The experience scars Seven who feels less hopeful about the universe from that point on.

Meeting Jean-Luc Picard

By 2399, Seven is still working with the Fenris Rangers. In the Star Trek: Picard episode "Absolute Candor," she helps the ship La Sirena in a battle with a Romulan Bird-of-Prey and is beamed aboard the La Sirena when her ship is destroyed. Seven ends up meeting retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), who was once assimilated into the Borg Collective himself. Now seeking to rescue Soji (Isa Briones), a synthetic woman from the Borg Reclamation Project, Picard asks for Seven's help in rescuing one of Soji's creators, Dr. Bruce Maddox (John Ales), who had been captured by Bjayzl (Necar Zadegan).

Seeing an opportunity to take her revenge on Bjayzl, Seven agrees to help Picard's crew. In the episode "Stardust City Rag," Seven lets herself be used as bait to draw out Bjayzl and helps Picard save Maddox. Shortly after, however, she beams down to Bjayzl's nightclub and vaporizes her former friend before shooting her way out through Bjayzl's security team.

Seven displays strong differences from her earlier persona. Where she once got drunk on a single glass of champagne in the Star Trek: Voyager season 5 episode "Timeless," by the time of Star Trek: Picard she downs an entire glass of bourbon in a single gulp. Despite her cavalier attitude, she admits she's still working on regaining her humanity "every damn day of my life."

The new Borg Queen

At the end of "Stardust City Rag," Seven leaves a communication chip with Picard, offering her help in case he ever needs a vigilante. In the episode "Broken Pieces," Picard's Romulan friend Elnor (Evan Evagora) uses the chip to contact Seven, who makes her way onto the Romulans' damaged Borg vessel — known as the Artifact — just in time to save his life. When the Romulans begin jettisoning the Borg drones into space and killing the xBs, Seven decides to save them by connecting herself to the drones in a mini-Collective, effectively transforming herself into a new Borg Queen.

The experience unnerves Seven, who fears she won't want to let the drones go once she re-experiences Borg life. However, she's able to resist temptation and disconnect everyone (including herself) from the new Collective once they take control of the Borg cube. Still realizing she has work to do, she directs the Artifact to follow Picard's crew to the planet Coppelius. She reunites with Picard and helps him contact Starfleet, but stays behind to help the xBs.

Joining a new crew

In the final scene of the Star Trek: Picard episode "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2," Seven of Nine apparently joins Picard's new crew aboard the La Sirena to wander the galaxy. She's also seen holding hands affectionately with Picard's former first officer, Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd). This, along with some hints about Seven's past relationship with Bjayzl, indicates that Seven of Nine may now identify herself as gay or bisexual.

Jeri Ryan has announced that she will return as Seven of Nine in season 2 of Star Trek: Picard. She also admited in her Twitter feed that she enjoys playing Seven more on Picard than she did on Voyager. Seven's dramatic evolution from her original incarnation on Star Trek: Voyager to her present form on Star Trek: Picard indicates that this former Borg drone will continue to change in surprising ways as her story continues.

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Jeri Taylor

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Prior to joining Star Trek , Taylor was a producer, story editor, and occasional director on the hit medical series Quincy, M.E. , on which Trek guest performers Robert Ito and Garry Walberg were regular cast members. She went on to serve as producer and writer for such series as Magnum, P.I. , In the Heat of the Night , and Jake and the Fatman . She also directed episodes of the latter series. In addition, she co-wrote the 1987 CBS TV movie A Place to Call Home , for which she also served as supervising producer. She was also a producer of the short-lived TV adaptation of the film Blue Thunder , whose guest stars included Tracy Scoggins , Sam Anderson , Ray Wise , John Hancock , Robert DoQui , and Kurtwood Smith .

She joined the staff of The Next Generation as supervising producer in 1990 and held that position through the show's fifth season . She then served as co-executive producer for the show's sixth season , and was then promoted to executive producer for its final season , and served as showrunner for the final year, as Michael Piller was primarily occupied with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine at the time. She also co-wrote three episodes of Deep Space Nine during the latter period. Additionally, she assisted in the production of the Trek films Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact , receiving special thanks notices in each of the films' end credits for her contributions. Working in the business since 1976, Taylor was asked to join the staff after rewriting the episode " Suddenly Human ". (" Chronicles from the Final Frontier ", TNG Season 4 DVD special feature)

Taylor on the set of Voyager

After Next Generation came to an end in 1994, Taylor co-created Star Trek: Voyager with Rick Berman and Michael Piller and served as executive producer on that series for its first four seasons. She also worked on several episodes of the series as a writer. She retired from the series (and the franchise) in 1998 , handing over her position of Executive Producer and showrunner to Brannon Braga , but continued to serve as creative consultant for the show during its last three seasons.

Between 1994 and 1998, Taylor gave the Indiana University Lilly Library a collection of papers from her career, which included outlines, final scripts for the entire Next Generation series and the first two Voyager seasons, technical notes, cast lists, and shooting schedules for the final season of The Next Generation (1993-1994), and draft scripts, casting call sheets, research notes, etc. for Voyager (1994-1996). Some of the outlines, technical notes, and lists contain Taylor's handwritten changes and comments. [2]

1 Writing credits
2 Producing credits
3 Bibliography
4 Star Trek interviews
5 External links

Writing credits [ ]

Taylor with Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner on the set of "All Good Things..."

" Suddenly Human " (teleplay with John Whelpley ) ( Season 4 )
" Final Mission " (teleplay with Kacey Arnold-Ince )
" The Wounded " (teleplay)
" Night Terrors " (teleplay with Pamela Douglas )
" Galaxy's Child " (co-writer, uncredited)
" The Drumhead "
" Silicon Avatar " (teleplay) ( Season 5 )
" Unification I " (teleplay)
" Violations " (teleplay with Pamela Gray )
" The Outcast "
" I Borg " (uncredited)
" Time's Arrow, Part II " (teleplay) ( Season 6 )
" Chain Of Command, Part II " (uncredited)
" Aquiel " (story)
" Descent " (story)
" Interface " (uncredited, Season 7 )
" Sub Rosa " (television story)
" The Homecoming " (story with Ira Steven Behr ) ( Season 2 )
" The Maquis, Part I " (story with Rick Berman , Michael Piller and James Crocker )
" The Maquis, Part II " (story with Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Ira Steven Behr)
" Caretaker " (teleplay with Michael Piller, story with Rick Berman and Michael Piller) ( Season 1 )
" Eye of the Needle " (teleplay with Bill Dial )
" The 37's " (with Brannon Braga ) ( Season 2 )
" Elogium " (teleplay with Kenneth Biller )
" Persistence of Vision "
" Alliances "
" Investigations " (teleplay)
" Resolutions "
" Coda " ( Season 3 )
" Real Life " (teleplay)
" Day of Honor " ( Season 4 )
" Hunters "
" Nothing Human " ( Season 5 )

Producing credits [ ]

Season 4 (" Brothers " – " Redemption ") – Supervising Producer
Season 5 – Supervising Producer (26 episodes)
Season 6 – Co-Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Season 7 – Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Season 1 – Executive Producer (16 episodes)
Season 2 – Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Season 3 – Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Season 4 – Executive Producer (26 episodes)

Bibliography [ ]

Unification (novelization)

Star Trek interviews [ ]

TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Chronicles from the Final Frontier", interviewed on 17 March 1994
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Five" ("A Visit from Spock ", " I Borg "), interviewed on 17 March 1994
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry " ("Gene's Final Voyage"), interviewed on 17 March 1994
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Seven" ("An Ending And A Beginning", "The Final Episode"), interviewed on 17 March 1994 and 8 November 1994
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Seven" ("Creating Stronger Women"), interviewed on 17 March 1994
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "The Making of "All Good Things..." Year Seven", interviewed on 17 March 1994
VOY Season 1 DVD special feature Braving the Unknown: Season One , interviewed on 8 November 1994
E! Inside Star Trek: Voyager ( 1995 )
Launch of Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure (1995)

External links [ ]

Jeri Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
Jeri Taylor at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Jeri Taylor at Wikipedia

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Star Trek: Voyager Created Its Own Version Of WandaVision Almost 30 Years Ago

Star Trek: Voyager had a version of WandaVision in an episode from season 3.
Voyager's finale "Endgame" also shares similarities with Avengers: Endgame in plot and villains.
Both Star Trek: Voyager and the MCU have more similarities than are initially apparent.

Star Trek: Voyager did a version of WandaVision nearly 30 years before the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although Star Trek and the MCU are both huge franchises, there generally aren't a lot of similarities between the two. The MCU took a decidedly science fiction lean during its first three phases but in a different way than the Star Trek timeline , which depicts a utopian vision of the future while the MCU runs concurrently with the present. However, one MCU show that did seemingly borrow a story idea from Star Trek was WandaVision .

Kicking off Phase Four of the MCU in 2021, WandaVision followed Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) living a seemingly idyllic sitcom-inspired life in small-town New Jersey. Through a slow build-up, the show revealed that in her grief over Vision's death, Wanda had used her Chaos Magic to create their marital bliss, inadvertently enslaving the entire town of Westview in the process to act as characters in her fantasy. Although not a direct copy, this premise is a lot like a season 3 episode of Voyager involving the Doctor (Robert Picardo) .

Star Trek: Voyager Cast & Character Guide

In its seven seasons, Star Trek: Voyager introduced many new faces to the Trek universe. Here is a breakdown of the show's main cast and characters.

Voyagers Season 3 Episode Real Life Is Like Star Treks Version Of WandaVision

"real life" has a lot of similarities to the mcu show.

Voyager season 3, episode 22, "Real Life" bears a lot of similarities to WandaVision in premise. Although there was no mystery about how the Doctor's fantasy in "Real Life" existed thanks to Star Trek 's holodeck , both he and Wanda created an idealized version of family life for themselves to experience something they felt like they couldn't have any other way . Additionally, the sitcom aspect of WandaVision and how it progresses through different eras is also loosely reflected in "Real Life." The quote from Robert Picardo below talking about the episode's premise unintentionally sums up these similarities well:

"The first act of that script is like a '70s sitcom. It's like The Partridge Family or The Brady Bunch. Everything about it is like an old sitcom. Then the second act after The Doctor's family program has been randomized, so that everybody's not so perfect in their behavior became like a '90s sitcom, where everybody's dissing dad. Then, suddenly, it took this odd turn and became very dramatic. And the last part of the show is like an ER episode, where a child is going to die. It starts out so silly and so ridiculous, then becomes quite touching by the end."

Of course, WandaVision is not a one-to-one copy of "Real Life," and likely wasn't directly inspired by the Star Trek episode. The show relies much more heavily on the question of why Westview exists and has a clear villain whereas "Real Life" does not. The theme of grief and loss is also much more present throughout. However, both "Real Life" and WandaVision end up giving their protagonist a greater understanding of their own humanity and the emotional/mental trials they could withstand. Interestingly, "Real Life" isn't even the only Voyager episode with a connection to the MCU.

Star Trek: Voyager's "Endgame" Beat Avengers By 28 Years

Voyager also did "endgame" before the avengers franchise.

Similarly to the explosive final film of the MCU's Phase Three, Voyager ’s series finale was also called “Endgame.” The chess term is a fairly popular title for finales, but the similarities between "Endgame" and Avengers: Endgame don't end there. Both stories involved time travel to reverse - or in Voyager ’s case prevent - the deaths of several important characters . In the MCU, the scale was much larger thanks to the Blip, but Admiral Janeway's (Kate Mulgrew) plan to prevent the deaths of Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) and Chakotay (Robert Beltran) in Voyager was just as important.

Another big similarity between the two projects was their respective villains. Although their motivations differed widely, Thanos (Josh Brolin) and the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) are fairly comparable big bads in terms of their relative importance to their respective franchises. Thanos is perhaps the most substantial villain the MCU has created to date, and the Borg Queen is the head of Star Trek 's biggest enemy. Despite many differences, Star Trek: Voyager and the MCU are a lot more similar than they might appear at first glance.

Source: Braving the Unknown: Season Three , Voyager season 3 DVD special features

Star Trek: Voyager is available to stream on Paramount+.

WandaVision and Avengers: Endgame are available to stream on Disney+

Star Trek: Voyager

Cast Jennifer Lien, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill, Roxann Dawson, Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo

Release Date May 23, 1995

Genres Sci-Fi, Adventure

Network UPN

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Writers Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

Showrunner Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

Rating TV-PG

Where To Watch Paramount+

WandaVision

Cast Evan Peters, Kat Dennings, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Teyonah Parris, Debra Jo Rupp, Randall Park, Kathryn Hahn

Release Date January 15, 2021

Genres Drama, Superhero, Action, Adventure

Streaming Service(s) Disney+

Franchise(s) Marvel Cinematic Universe

Writers Jac Schaeffer

Directors Matt Shakman

Showrunner Jac Schaeffer

Avengers: Endgame

Cast Josh Brolin, Bradley Cooper, Evangeline Lilly, Paul Rudd, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen, Karen Gillan, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Paul Bettany, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, Scarlett Johansson, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Tom Holland

Release Date April 26, 2019

Genres Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Writers Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus

Director Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Distributor(s) Marvel, Disney

Rating PG-13

Runtime 182 Minutes

prequel(s) The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War

Budget 356 million USD

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Jeri Ryan, Voyager’s Seven Of Nine & Star Trek Future Explained

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The Doctor says Seven of Nine's skin-tight suit helps with the healing process post-Borg removal - but is it necessary?
In Star Trek: Picard, Seven's practical civilian clothes replace the medically-prescribed catsuits and high heels.
Seven's wardrobe evolution shows her newfound agency, ditching the outfits that were never medically necessary.

Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine costumes in Star Trek: Voyager made no sense. After Seven of Nine's connection to the Borg Collective is severed in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, episode 1, "Scorpion, Part 2", Seven's human body begins rejecting its Borg implants. To save Seven of Nine's life, the Doctor (Robert Picardo) and Kes (Jennifer Lien) work together in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, episode 2, "The Gift", to surgically remove Seven's extensive Borg implants, which allows Seven's humanity to physically reassert itself. By the episode's end, Seven of Nine looks practically human, with regrown hair and new clothing: a tight silver catsuit with integrated high-heeled shoes.

It's no secret that Jeri Ryan was added to the Star Trek: Voyager cast to draw in new viewers as a sexually appealing young woman, and in that regard, it does actually make perfect sense to outfit Seven of Nine in tight costumes and high heels. The young male demographic that Star Trek: Voyager intended to court by adding Seven of Nine is far more likely to tune in when Ryan, as the new hot girl, is wearing something that shows off her body. The reason for Seven of Nine's costumes is abundantly clear from a production standpoint. In-universe, however, the explanation for Seven's outfits is murkier.

From Borg Drone to Starfleet Captain, Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine has had a fascinating story arc on Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Picard.

The Doctor Designed Seven of Nine's Star Trek: Voyager Costumes But They Made No Sense

The borg do not wear high heels.

The disconnect comes because Star Trek: Voyager attempts to give an in-universe reason for Seven of Nine's sexy costumes . The Doctor takes credit for designing Seven's skintight silver suit, which is ostensibly supposed to aid in the healing process after 82% of Seven's Borg hardware has been removed. The structure of the underlying corset is intended to mimic rigid Borg exo-plating that, theoretically, Seven's human muscular system hasn't adapted to the absence of. This also implies there's a reason for Seven's shoes that's connected to de-assimilation, but Seven of Nine did not wear high heels as a Borg . It would have made more sense to do away with any explanation at all.

Seven of Nine's silver catsuit disappears after a few episodes, and a new brown bodysuit debuts in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, episode 6, "The Raven", presumably because the medical need for the tightly-corseted costume has passed in the time Seven has been aboard the USS Voyager. Instead of replicating a Starfleet uniform for Seven of Nine, as was done for Star Trek: Voyager 's Maquis crewmembers , Seven continues to wear skintight unitards. It could be argued that a one-piece garment made from a stretch fabric that allows for ease of movement is efficient, but if that's the case, there's no reason for Seven of Nine to continue wearing corsets and high heels, as she does.

Seven of Nine wears a Starfleet uniform in Star Trek: Voyager season 7, episode 11, "Shattered", when Seven is assigned an undercover mission in the USS Voyager's past.

Seven Of Nine's Star Trek: Picard Costumes Are More Practical

Seven's utilitarian clothes look great on jeri ryan.

When audiences are reunited with Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Picard , Seven's trademark catsuits are nowhere to be found, instead replaced with clothes that Seven of Nine chooses to wear for herself. Seven of Nine's Fenris Ranger look are part of a rugged and practical civilian ensemble, entirely appropriate for the action-packed lifestyle Seven has in Star Trek: Picard season 1. In Star Trek: P icard season 2, Seven of Nine trades the wardrobe of the Confederation of Earth's President Annika Hansen for easy-wearing civilian attire. As a full-fledged Starfleet officer in Star Trek: Picard season 3, Commander Seven of Nine is, at long last, outfitted in a Starfleet uniform.

Ultimately, Seven of Nine's Star Trek: Picard wardrobe reflects well-earned agency after decades of humanity. Gone are the medically-prescribed catsuits and ridiculous high heels. Instead, Seven's clothes are a realistic evolution of a character who's figured out to be human, and makes her own choices. The Borg tenets of efficiency and utility are still high priorities, but in each season, Seven of Nine's costumes on Star Trek: Picard are clearly comfortable. It's a welcome change that proves the catsuits and heels that the Doctor prescribed were never actually medically necessary in Star Trek: Voyager.

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Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 9 - "Vox" Jeri Ryan has discussed whether she would reprise the role of Seven of Nine for Terry Matalas' proposed Star Trek: Picard spinoff series Star Trek: Legacy.As Picard comes to an end, fans are eager to find out what's next for Star Trek's 25th-century characters.As well as reuniting the entire Star Trek: The Next Generation cast ...
Jeri Taylor
Jeri Cecile Taylor (born 30 June 1938; age 85) is a television writer and producer best known for her contributions to the Star Trek franchise. Born in Bloomington, Indiana, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Indiana University in 1959, [1] and her master's degree in English from California State University at Northridge. She is the mother of two-time Star Trek: The Next ...
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Set at the end of the 24th century, 18 years after the events of `Star Trek: Nemesis', retired admiral Jean-Luc Picard is still deeply affected by the loss of Lieutenant Commander Data and the destruction of Romulus, and steps into the next chapter of his life. ... First events of 2024 and Jeri Ryan is shining like the star she is. Enjoy the HQ ...
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Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine costumes in Star Trek: Voyager made no sense. After Seven of Nine's connection to the Borg Collective is severed in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, episode 1, "Scorpion, Part 2", Seven's human body begins rejecting its Borg implants. To save Seven of Nine's life, the Doctor (Robert Picardo) and Kes (Jennifer Lien) work together in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, episode 2 ...
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