Jeri Ryan's 25-Year 'Star Trek' Legacy: Seven of Nine's Best Moments on 'Voyager' & 'Picard' (Flashback)
etonline.comwhen 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 ’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 ensemble had been done before — Worf (Michael Dorn) hopped off the Enterprise to join the cast of 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,” 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, was lacking one of ’s most successful archetypes.
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.
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