Even more than being assimilated and having her parents assimilated at such a young age."Ĭonsidering this is Seven of Nine's first appearance in the pantheon of Trek since the Star Trek: Voyager finale in 2001, her character goes through quite a bit. That is probably the greatest tragedy of Seven's life. For several takes, it was just me sloppy crying. "We did several takes of that, because as I'd say what had happened, Jeri, me the actor Jeri, kept bursting into tears. "When we were shooting the later scenes, where she is confronting Bjayzl and explaining everything that's happened to Picard - as I was describing this scene, I'd be sobbing," Ryan says. Having to access vulnerability wasn't hard for Ryan, but it also meant that the emotional forcefield she wore around Seven for so many years would no longer protect her while shooting these scenes. It wasn't difficult to access those emotions, as a parent. "When I was talking to Jonathan Frakes, who directed the episode, we agreed that this scene is probably the first time that Seven truly let go of her emotions. "That loss more than anything else, shaped what she's become over the last 13 years," Ryan says. In Picard, however, Seven is defined by her emotional responses, and Ryan says the biggest change in her character's life was precisely the moment she loses her former protégé and surrogate son, Icheb in the opening flashbacks of the episode. Her extreme emotional responses to anything on Voyager were often the direct result of some crossed signals ("Infinite Regress") or her internal tech breaking down ("Imperfection"), wired malfunctions instead of truly intangible reactions. Seven of Nine wasn't exactly the Spock of Star Trek: Voyager - in some ways, you could argue she was even more stoic and hardcore than any Vulcan. Because her voice was so specific for those four years on Voyager." "That was how I could have her to speak so much more loosely and casually and in a much more contemporary way. "That's what I needed as an actor to make it make sense," Ryan adds. I'm so screwed.' And eventually, he said, 'What if she makes a conscious choice to be as human as possible to survive?' And that was like a little switch going off. "I was literally pacing around and freaking out saying, 'I'm so screwed. He came over to help me with the scenes," Ryan explains. "Luckily, Jonathan Del Arco - who plays Hugh Borg - had gone through a similar crisis when he'd had to figure out who he was now. In Ryan's case, a collaboration with another Borg actor, Jonathan Del Arco, made all the difference. So how did Jeri Ryan reboot Seven of Nine? Turns out, former Borg drones still rely on the hivemind of the Collective. "I knew she would be changed, but the voice was what I was hung-up on. "Finding Seven's voice was terrifying for me," Ryan tells SYFY WIRE. **Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Picard, Season 1, Episode 5, "Stardust City Rag."** Instead, she had to dig deep to figure out who her famous character was in the brave new world of contemporary Star Trek. And as the Borg say, resistance is futile, which now seems prophetic in the most recent episode of Star Trek: Picard, "Stardust City Rag," Seven has returned and she is quite visibly, the most fractured, emotional, and human version of the character we've ever seen.įor Jeri Ryan, finding the new voice for Seven wasn't as easy as switching off a Borg implant. In essence, she was resisting her basic humanity. When Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) first joined the crew of Star Trek: Voyager, she told Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) she didn't want to be disconnected from the Borg hivemind.
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