Star Trek: Voyager
Actress Jeri Ryan is right to say that Seven of Nine is n’t a sexual fibre inStar Trek : Voyager . Jeri Ryan ’s Seven of Nine was total to theStar Trek : Voyagercast in the fourth time of year to revitalizeVoyager , which suffered from flagging ratings liken to earlierStar Trekshows . As an ex - Borg drone who oftentimes butted heads with Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew),Seven of Nine was a highly sound character who created much - call for spectacular tensionon the USS Voyager . Those who did n’t watchVoyager , however , might assume Seven of Nine was only there to be sexy .
Seven of Nine actress Jeri Ryan appeared onLate Night with Conan O’Brienin 1999 to promoteStar Trek : Voyagerseason 5 , episodes 15 & 16 , " Dark Frontier " , on UPN . The 2 - part instalment wasStar Trek : Voyager ’s 2nd feature - duration case after its premier sequence , " Caretaker " , and aired as a2 - hourStar Trek : Voyagermovie . OnConan , Jeri Ryan explains that Seven of Nine , while sexy,“is not a sexual character at all”,and offer an explanation for Seven ’s skintight Borg suit . Star Trek : Voyagertalk starts at 1:36 in the video cartridge clip of Jeri Ryan onLate Night With Conan O’Brienbelow .
Why Jeri Ryan Says Seven Of Nine Isn’t A Sexual Character In Star Trek: Voyager
Seven of Nine Can Be Sexy Without Being Sexual
OnLate Night with Conan O’Brien , Conan says Seven of Nine is"one of the sexiest characters I ’ve ever seen on TV",but Jeri Ryan explain the part of Seven of Nine was not inherently sexual . As Seven of Nine ’s organic structure and mind bring around from a life-time as a Borg drone , Seven remain come away from human emotion . Any conception of sexuality that Seven of Nine had was purely academicsince Seven still considered herself more Borg than human . The fact that Seven of Nine was sexy was strictly incidental to Seven being an unbelievably interestingStar Trekcharacter .
Jeri Ryan : " Seven of Nine is not a intimate quality at all . "
Conan O’Brien : " [ She ’s ] a Borg … And that means no emotion ? "
Jeri Ryan : " It means she ’s part cybernetic , and she ’s part human . She has emotions , but she ’s not comfortable carry them . "
Seven of Nine ’s skintight costumes prove thatJeri Ryan ’s addition to theStar Trek : Voyagercast was a exonerated dictation to draw in the young male demographicthatVoyagerhad miss compared to earlierStar Trekshows . Star Trek : Voyagerwas , by pattern , a smart , female - driven sci - fi show lead by Kate Mulgrew ’s Captain Kathryn Janeway . That firmly - won report could have been lessen by Seven of Nine being the purely intimate character that she come out to be . Instead , Seven of Nine was beautifulandintelligent , and Seven ’s journeying to discovering her man became one ofStar Trek ’s best fictitious character bow .
The Reason For Seven Of Nine’s Skintight Borg Uniform Explained
Jeri Ryan Explains Seven Of Nine’s “Medicinal” Borg Catsuit
In theLate Nox with Conan O’Brienclip , Conan asks Jeri Ryan if there ’s a"sci - fi reason"for Seven of Nine ’s skintight bodysuit . Ryan explains thatSeven of Nine ’s attire is a"medicinal"healing agent that rectify Seven ’s human skin . After Seven of Nine was sever from the Borg Collective , Seven ’s human physiology start to confirm itself , and rejected the Borg implant . To relieve this , the Doctor ( Robert Picardo ) surgically removed most of Seven ’s cybernetic part and designedSeven of Nine ’s silver catsuitto act as a full - dead body bandage , with a girdle that mimic Seven ’s Borg exoskeleton .
Jeri Ryan ’s uniforms as Seven of Nine in Star Trek : Voyager and Picard went through a wide reach of looks . But which one was the best ?
Seven of Nine’s"medicinal"silver catsuit was constringe and unmanageable for Jeri Ryan to move in , soSeven ’s iconic costume was restfully swapped for a brown bodysuit after the first few episodes ofStar Trek : Voyagerseason 4 . There was no explanation for the variety , but it ’s probable the Doctor ’s original silver suit successfully heal the worst of Seven of Nine ’s trauma . Jeri Ryan say Seven of Nine ’s two - toned puritanic unvarying is"a fashion choice",so Seven is more aware of her appearing asStar Trek : Voyagergoes on , but that does n’t shift Seven ’s position towards gender , and Ryan remains right to say Seven of Nine is n’t a sexual character .
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