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Star Trek fans may know Nana Visitor as Major Kira Nerys from Deep Space Nine, but that’s not her only contribution to the franchise. In 2024 she wrote a book about the women in Star Trek titled Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek. The book presents a detailed look on the various female actresses and characters who have appeared in the franchise over the years.

In order to write the book, Visitor had to look at Star Trek through a new lens. Not as an actress, but as a viewer. “I had to watch them all,” Nana Visitor revealed during a panel at GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2026. “I couldn’t say what I thought until I watched all of them. And that was fabulous because I had the wrong idea about a lot of it. When I was on DS9, I would see Seven of Nine on the side of the road on a big poster, and I would go, ‘Oh, I see. Now they’re just selling sex.’ And I was disgusted, and I was like, I don’t need to watch this show.”

However, Visitor’s view on Seven of Nine cooled once she watched Star Trek: Voyager. “When I actually did, she’s a Trojan horse because you may come for that costume, but you stay because of the humanity and the number of people she can represent. And the relationship between these two women, which wasn’t depicted so often. I got an education for sure,” Visitor admitted.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (and, for that matter, Star Trek: Voyager) is streaming on Paramount+.

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