Picard - 10 Essential Seven Of Nine Star Trek Episodes
10. Letting Loose - Timeless
Kicking off the list with a short but funny entry, Star Trek Voyager celebrated its 100th episode with a time travel episode. We had Geordi, we had a seasoned, embittered Harry Kim (probably still an Ensign) and we had the fantastic crash landing sequence on the frozen planet.
During the celebration scenes in engineering, glasses of Star Trek's most popular alcohol substitute synthahol are passed around. As people clink cheers to each other, the camera lingers on Seven, watching her hand like a flower child at Woodstock. The Doctor comes to speak to her and she worries that her implants are beginning to malfunction - her motor and visual processors are slipping. The Doctor, concerned, scans her. She's three sheets to the wind.
Seven has constantly been a source of straight laced stiff-upper-lip dignity and here in just a few moments, Jeri Ryan shows a command of comedy as she allows the Doctor to take her away to sickbay but not before she thanks him for his kind mentoring skills. 'We are as one!' she exclaims with excitement, repeating it to a shocked Harry Kim. Barely 30 seconds long and one of the funniest scenes in Voyager's history