Jeri Ryan admits a selected purpose why she discovered it “exhausting” to reprise Seven of 9 in Star Trek: Picard. Ryan embodied Seven of 9 in 4 seasons of Star Trek: Voyager, and her iconic reclaimed Borg endures as one in all Star Trek‘s hottest characters many years after Voyager led to 2001.
In 2020, Star Trek: Picard introduced again Seven of 9 to hitch Admiral Jean-Luc Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) galaxy-saving ‘motley crew.’ Seven was a modified character who endured hardships after Star Trek: Voyager that noticed her go away Earth and discover a new life with the Fenris Rangers within the Beta Quadrant.
As reported by TrekMovie, Jeri Ryan joined her Star Trek: Voyager co-star, Tim Russ, on stage for a panel at Creation Leisure’s ST: CHI – Trek to Chicago conference. Ryan mentioned how Seven was created to offer Star Trek: Voyager mainstream consideration, and revealed her ideas on Seven’s signature catsuits.
When it comes to Seven of 9’s comeback, Jeri Ryan says she “had a more durable time discovering her” when she joined Star Trek: Picard due to the distinction in writing. Ryan credit Star Trek: Voyager govt producer Brannon Braga for creating Seven, and notes that there was a distinction between Braga’s “fantastically written” ex-Borg and the way Seven was initially written in Picard. Learn Jeri’s quote beneath:
“Principally, each phrase I uttered on Voyager was written or rewritten by Brannon Braga. This was very a lot his character. She was his imaginative and prescient. She was his child. She actually kind of got here absolutely fashioned out of his mind, and he by no means made a misstep, actually, I believe, with the way in which he developed her. It was fantastically written. So there was by no means a second the place I needed to go, ‘Oh, I don’t assume she would say that.’ As a result of he knew what her thoughts was. So I used to be very fortunate with the way in which she was written.”
“With Picard, it was totally different. It was exhausting. I had a more durable time discovering her to start with. I used to be so used to that voice being so particular for thus lengthy. And there have been a couple of instances the place I used to be like, ‘Okay, I’m not totally certain that that is…’ However they have been very open to suggestions and enter with issues like that.”
Star Trek: Picard season 1’s showrunner was Michael Chabon, and the celebrated novelist delved into Romulan and Borg mythology. Picard season 1 was a marked distinction, tonally and structurally, from what followers of Star Trek: The Subsequent Era and Star Trek: Voyager anticipated.
20 years faraway from Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of 9 was a modified character in Star Trek: Picard. Seven was remoted from her Voyager pals and lived a lifetime of violence and loss as a Fenris Ranger within the Delta Quadrant. One other change for Seven was Picard turning her into extra of a reluctant, phaser-toting motion hero.
In a 2023 look on The Shuttlepod Present, Brannon Braga identified, “I am undecided I’d have carried out” the sort of tales with Seven of 9 that Star Trek: Picard did. Braga, who was in a relationship with Jeri Ryan throughout their Star Trek: Voyager years, additionally thought Seven ought to have died on the finish of Voyager.
Star Trek: Picard season 3 was probably the most profitable iteration of that present, and Jeri Ryan was delighted by how her shut pal, Terry Matalas, wrote Seven of 9, who turned Captain of the USS Enterprise-G. Whether or not Jeri Ryan will get to play Captain Seven within the hoped-for Star Trek: Legacy spinoff remains to be anybody’s guess.
- Launch Date
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2020 – 2023
- Community
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CBS All Entry, Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Michael Chabon
- Administrators
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Jonathan Frakes, Hanelle M. Culpepper, Akiva Goldsman, Joe Menendez, Lea Thompson, Michael Weaver, Terry Matalas, Deborah Kampmeier, Dan Liu
- Writers
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Matt Okumura, Kiley Rossetter, Christopher B. Derrick