|| Mission Review

Production Number: 169 (STV401)
Original air date: 9/3/97

Written by: Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Directed by: Winrich Kolbe

The Voyager crew prepares to help the Borg engage an enemy more malevolent then their own and Seven of Nine, an intriguing representative who speaks for the collective, emerges, in the season premiere of "Star Trek: Voyager" airing Wednesday, September 3 (9:00-10:00 P.M., ET/PT) on UPN

Jeri Ryan is Introduced as New Character, Seven of Nine

Guest Stars:

• Not Credited: David Anthony Marshall as Annika's father
• Not Credited: Nikki Tyler as the Annika's mother
• Not Credited: Erica Bryan as the Annika (young Seven)
• Majel Barrett as the Narrator

Notes:

• This episode features the addition of a new cast member: Jeri Ryan as a rescued Borg, codenamed "Seventh of Nine".
• The opening credits now read:

  Starring:

  Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway

  Also Starring:

  Robert Beltran as Chakotay

  Roxann Dawson as B'Elanna Torres

  Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris

  Ethan Phillips as Neelix

  Robert Picardo as The Doctor

  Tim Russ as Tuvok

  Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine

  Garrett Wang as Harry Kim

  And in the lead credits, after the title:

  Also Starring:

  Jennifer Lien

• [[9/2]] Ethan Phillips:
  Jeri [Ryan] is a real bombshell. That suit of hers is very tight. If it were any tighter she'd be dead. Her outfit looks like it's stretched tarmac.
• [[9/10]] Kate Mulgrew:
  It will take some time before Janeway and Chakotay can re-establish the kind of intimacy and trust they had.
• [[9/10]] Kate Mulgrew:
  I played that scene in the hive as if I were surrounded by a million serial killers.
• [[9/17]] Jeri Ryan:
  I heard you had to be given oxygen while shooting. Is this true? Are you ok?
  I have to clear something up about this.
  I've read some interviews that I've given and the way this story has been quoted frequently makes it sound like the producers were standing there with whips saying "Now you get in that costume and you suffer!" Which of course is not the case.
  Yes, I was given oxygen. And yes I'm fine. Thanks for asking!
  But obviously as soon as they realized there was a problem, they immediately asked what they could do to fix it. This has nothing to do with the silver costume... it was purely the Borg costume.

• [[8/27]] Jeri Taylor:
  She is, to state the obvious, stunningly beautiful. However--and this is what you don't usually get when you have someone who is that attractive--she is also a remarkable actress, and she has grown into the part.
• [[8/27]] Jeri Taylor:
  She had no clue what a Borg was, asked about a billion questions and went off and looked at some of the episodes, still feeling very insecure and not sure what she was able to carry off the role. We were more sure than she was; she has an amazing strength. She looks very delicate and ethereal. But she stood face-to-face with Janeway, Tuvok, and Chakotay and the intensity that she projected was just astonishing. We were simply blown over.
• [[8/27]] Jeri Taylor:
  Jeri [Ryan] will simply bring a breath of fresh air and be a unique kind of character that we can explore--the Borg who has been Borg since she has been a child. She was taken by the Borg as a very young child, grew up, came of age as a Borg, has lost all memory and sense of Humanity, and is now suddenly cut off from the collective. She goes through an awful period of withdrawl, doesn't want to be on Voyager, doesn't want to be Human. She wants to go back to the Borg and for that to be the only thing that she's ever known. She has an incredible journey ahead of her.
• [[8/27]] Rick Berman:
  "Scorpion, Part II" will feature some of the biggest surprises that have ever been seen on a season opener for a long time.
• [[8/27]] Brannon Braga:
  I'm planning on saying that one of the things that made the Borg more vulnerable was the fact that the Queen was killed, and we'll learn a little bit about that in part II.

The ship remains on Red Alert after Janeway, in exchange for safe passage through space, reaches an agreement with the Borg Collective to help them fight Species 8472, a race more malevolent than their own, on the season premiere of "Star Trek: Voyager" airing Wednesday, September 3 (9:00-10:00 p.m.,ET/PT) on UPN. Actress Jeri Ryan is introduced as a regular cast member, Seven of Nine.

Although Chakotay strongly objects to the unpredictable collaboration, Janeway and Tuvok transport, with great caution, to the Borg Cube. When a drone attempts to temporarily assimilate Janeway by connecting a neuro-transreceiver to her, the alarmed Captain convinces them to instead choose a representative to communicate verbally with her. Soon, a vaguely human Borg emerges to speak for the Collective; designated Seven of Nine, she helps them prepare to engage the enemy--but when she boards Voyager, the entire crew is on edge. Meanwhile, the Doctor determines that the mysterious alien species is accessing Kes' memory.

Soon, a vaguely human Borg emerges to speak for the Collective. Designated Seven of Nine, she helps them prepare to engage the enemy -- but when she boards the U.S.S. Voyager, the entire crew is on edge. Meanwhile, the Doctor determines that Species 8472 is accessing Kes' memory. -->

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