Showing posts with label Jeri Ryan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeri Ryan. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

"Star Trek: Voyager" premieres 1995



Star Trek: Voyager, the fourth live-action Star Trek series, premiered January 16, 1995.  In the first episode, Caretaker, the star ship Voyager is thrown 70,000 light-years away into the Delta Quadrant along with a Maqui ship full of rebels, some of whom were in Star Fleet.  They have to join an uneasy alliance to make it back home.

It is the first series to have a female captain, Capt. Kathryn Janeway played by Kate Mulgrew.  Robert Beltran played Starfleet-turned-outlaw-turned-Starfleet Commander Chakotay.  I thought he was the coolest second-in-command of all the series and the most under-appreciated.  Voyager also introduced the first character that I really did not like: Neelix.  He was the most annoying of ALL Star Trek characters.

The rest were pretty awesome people.  Garret Wang (Ensign Kim), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine),  Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lt. Paris), Robert Picardo (the Doctor) and Tim Russ (Lt. Tuvok).

I stopped watching the show after the third season when it became The Janeway/Seven of Nine Show, but I did watch the last season.


Monday, February 22, 2016

Happy birthday, Seven of Nine!



Breath-taking Jeri Ryan, born February 22, 1968, is most fondly remembered by us Trekkies as Seven of Nine on "Star Trek: Voyager". According to her bio, she was Miss Illinois 1989 and came in 4th at the 1990 Miss America pageant (has anybody seen the winner lately?).  I also enjoyed her brief cameos on "Two and a Half Men" since she managed to show off her comedic talents as well.

Here she takes on The Rock!