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If you watched Star Trek: Picard, you might have noticed that Seven of Nine felt different. The former Borg drone was very formal and logical when she was introduced on Star Trek: Voyager. When we see her again in Picard, she’s more sarcastic, casual, and a bit witty. In short, she’s more human.

“All of it felt different,” Seven of Nine actress Jeri Ryan admitted during a panel at Spacecon 2026. “It was terrifying, because when I got the script, it was so different, and I was panicking because I couldn’t find her voice. Because the voice for Seven on Voyager for those four years was so specific. It was really jarring to read something so different, and I was having a really hard time trying to wrap my head around how to play this.”

“My dear friend Johnny Del Arco, who played Hugh the Borg, had just gone through the exact same thing on Picard, like, a week before I did or a couple of weeks before I did. And he’s also a wonderful director and actor himself. And so he came over and had lunch, and he went over the scenes with me and worked on it, and he actually gave me a little tidbit, which is what I needed to make sense of it.”

“We would just throw ideas out there to see what would kind of work and click for me. And he said, what if she just made a conscious choice to act and sound as human as possible? So, she’ll always look visibly bored. She had the Borg hardware on her face. And in the storyline in Picard, the Borg were being hunted for parts, literally. What if she made that conscious choice? And that’s all I needed.”

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