When speaking with ET in the lead up to Picard’s debut, Ryan referred to Seven’s former wardrobe as “the cat suit,” a nod to Michelle Pfeiffer’s costume in Batman Returns. When she reprised the role for Star Trek: Picard, the character’s look received a rugged style fashion upgrade. “I won’t miss the corset,” Ryan said with a laugh, referencing Seven’s trademark skintight clothes. “Crossing your legs is not that easy in these suits.” He said while the clothes are “plain and nondescript” and look “harmless,” audiences might not realize they’re also fitted to the actor, preventing even the most basic of bodily positions. He followed this up by lifting his arms and demonstrating the costume’s limited range of motion. “I’m not gonna miss this uniform,” Robert Beltran, who played Maquis rebel leader Chakotay, told ET. “And now we’re coming back to the real world.”
Filming between 24 to 26 full-hours of TV across each of its seven seasons meant they had practically been living on the Paramount Studios lot, with the occasional short drive to Griffith Park for location shoots. In the heyday of network television’s enormous episode orders (by today’s standards), he noted that Voyager’s intense shooting schedule had left them without a standard hiatus break year after year. “It’s like we’ve been out of show business ” Robert Duncan McNeill, who played cocky pilot Tom Paris, told ET. We do everything in nature to argue against that.” “Because we do everything to avoid the sadness. Almost revelry.” “Acting out” and “lunacy” were some of her other predictions. She believed the entire cast was exhibiting the first of many emotional stages in a collective grieving process that would unfold over the coming weeks. “It’s intriguing to me to watch this process,” Mulgrew told ET on set. Ryan described the mood on set as “uncontrolled chaos.” For Voyager’s lead star, it was a fascinating experience to witness first-hand. As they taped the show’s final moments, there was plenty of uncertainty at what the next chapter of their lives would look like in and outside of the Star Trek phenomenon. And now, the time had come for actors and characters alike to bid farewell.įor seven years, the Voyager cast enjoyed a prime spot within an iconic pop culture franchise, one that also boasted an unprecedented fan movement that stretched across the globe. And you really do become like a family, because you see them more than your family.”Īfter having been stranded thousands of lightyears away from the Alpha quadrant, the ship’s crew of Starfleet officers and Maquis rebels had successfully banded together while they endured a bombardment of deadly obstacles throughout the journey home. “I’ve been with these people for four years and they’ve been together for seven. “We’ve had a couple days that were a little bittersweet,” Jeri Ryan, who stepped into the role of Seven of Nine at the start of Voyager’s fourth season, told ET.
When ET chatted with the cast of Voyager on set in 2001 amid filming the series finale, ‘Endgame,’ the ensemble revealed they were experiencing many of the same feelings behind the scenes as their counterparts on board the show’s Intrepid class starship. Upon its debut in 1995, Voyager’s mission was to continue this success by introducing Captain Kathyrn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Star Trek’s first series with a female lead actor. When the show came to a close, it marked the beginning of the end for a special era in Gene Roddenberry’s universe, which had flourished with the one-hour sci-fi dramas led by Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Captain Sisko ( Avery Brooks). Star Trek: Voyager ended 20 years ago, which made it the franchise’s third consecutive series to run for seven seasons, following The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.