10 Star Trek Scenes Even More Impressive When You Know The Truth

Okay, so this entry will be a little more familiar to you by now, unless you’ve been hiding under a Styrofoam rock. Star Trek: Voyager changed quite a bit from the start of its fourth season onwards – Kes was out and Seven was in. It was clear that the producers wanted to 'sex things up a bit', and this (understandably to a degree) ruffled a few feathers.

It's fair to say that Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway) wasn’t at all happy with the arrival of Seven of Nine. As the first female captain, she felt she had a responsibility to set the tone for the representation of women in power and was hurt by the shift in attention to the new character. Unfortunately, she took this out on Ryan to the point where the latter often felt "nauseous before going into work" because "it was that miserable".

In a 2019 interview, Ryan notes the scenes with Mulgrew in Astrometrics as being particularly challenging to act. Yet, when watching, these are some of the most intimate, most emotional, and best played scenes of any episode. Case in point – in the fourth season episode Hope and Fear, Seven reveals to Janeway (in Astrometrics) her desire to remain in the Delta Quadrant instead of returning to Earth with the crew in the Dauntless. Whilst the scene is wrought with tension, both give powerful and nuanced performances – all the more so given the off-screen drama.