10 Incredible Times Star Trek Ensigns Saved The Day
6. The Entire Ship And Timeline (Ensign Anna Jameson)
"Jameson, Anna. Service Number 860790."
Lieutenant Carey wasn’t any the wiser, but you might recognise this ensign as Seven of Nine. This is left field, or maybe even flirting with a bit of a cheat, but long before Picard’s field commission, Seven was recruited by the USS Relativity. It is reasonable, and a little bit of fun, to assume that she officially carried the rank during that period. In any case, tempus fugit…
When a mysterious saboteur from the 29th century (it turns out to be a rancorous, future-future Captain Braxton) places a force-3 temporal disruptor somewhere, some time, on Voyager, Seven is enlisted to save the day. She is beamed back and forth along Voyager’s history to prevent the ship’s destruction, risking 'temporal psychosis' in the process. She even dies at one point. Now, that’s an incredible sacrifice for our technically speaking first-time ensign! Her future-present-past self also will be has been was is – starting to agree with Braxton about those tenses – afflicted by some dizzying sensory aphasia as a result.
With a little help from a reluctantly-drafted Captain Janeway, Braxton is stopped, and Voyager saved. Let us all look backward to the time when Ensign Anna 'Seven' Jameson gets the praise she clearly deserves.