Star Trek has been going through a massive growth phase as of late, jumping into the streaming wars like every other major franchise world. Paramount+ has offered viewers in live-action Star Trek shows like Discovery, animation series like Lower Decks and Prodigy, and several high-profile spinoff series like Picard and Strange New Worlds. It’s an understatement to say that many of those ideas have been polarizing – but one series that likely would’ve been a sure bet is also one that never came to completion.
Star Trek: Voyager and Picard star Jeri Ryan attended Spacecon in San Antonio, Texas, recently, where she revealed to a crowd attending panel that there has been discussions of a Star Trek spinoff show centered around her character Seven of Nine – and even a formal pitch that she had been presented with:
“There has been talk. And there was an idea that was actually proposed to me after Picard ended, which was not the Legacy show that I know the fans are screaming for, that I want to do,” Ryan explained. “But it just wasn’t me… It didn’t feel like the appropriate kind of thing… But there has been chatter. And if there is one thing I have learnt with this series it is: never say never. You never know.”
Seven of Nine’s Star Trek History Explained
Jeri Ryan’s Seven of Nine was once “Annika Hansen,” a colonist whose family took a ship to explore undiscovered regions of space, where the found the Borg and were assimilated into its collective. In the Voyager Season 4’s two-part episode “Scorpion” the Borg version of Annika (designate: “Seven of Nine”) came onboard the USS Voyager as an ambassador for the Borg, but ended up being imprisoned and having her connection to the collective cut.
Seven of Nine served aboard Voyager for years; in the time period of Star Trek: Picard (almost 20 years after the events of Voyager), Seven of Nine becomes a Fenris Ranger, taking on peacekeeping duties in the hazardous region of the Romulan Neutral Zone. She followed Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) on a fresh set of adventures, which concluded with Seven of Nine becoming the new captain of the USS Enterprise-G, with her girlfriend Raffi Musiker as first officer, and Picard’s son Jack Crusher II as her ensign and advisor.
What’s Next For Seven of Nine?
Star Trek fans were by-and-large happy with Picard Season 3, which brought back the legacy characters of TNG and mixed them into the new era of Picard characters (Seven of Nine, Raffi, etc.), while introducing the the offspring of TNG characters, like Jack Crusher and Geordi La Gorge’s daughters Sidney and Alandra. There’s been a continuing optimism that Star Trek: Picard‘s denouement would springboard into a new series, Star Trek: Legacy, which would pick up the exploits of the Enterprise-G.
After being granted the captain’s chair, it’s reasonable that Jeri Ryan would be more interested in leading Star Trek: Legacy than doing a Seven of Nine spinoff. And a lot of admirers agree with her.
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Via: Trek Movie
