Seven of Nine
Former Borg drone who joins the crew of the starship Voyager.
Seven of Nine (born Annika Hansen) is a fictional character introduced in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. Portrayed by Jeri Ryan, she is a former Borg drone who joins the crew of the Federation starship Voyager. Her full Borg designation was Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One. While her birth name became known to her crewmates, after joining the Voyager crew she chose to continue to be called Seven of Nine, though she allowed "Seven" to be used informally.
Seven of Nine was introduced in the fourth-season premiere, "Scorpion, Part II". The character replaced Kes in the main cast, and was intended to introduce a foil to Captain Kathryn Janeway, similar to the role Spock performs for Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series. The character appeared through the final episode, "Endgame". Stories related to her relationship with Captain Janeway and with The Doctor appeared throughout the series; some episodes, such as "The Raven", explored her background and earlier life as Annika Hansen before she was assimilated by the Borg.
Seven of Nine, again played by Ryan, also appears in the series Star Trek: Picard as a recurring character in the first season before being promoted to series regular for the second and third seasons.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Star Trek
- First
- "Scorpion, Part II" (1997) (Voyager)
- Portrayed by
- Jeri Ryan
- Katelin Petersen (child)
- Erica Bryan (child)
- Species
- Human (at birth)
- Borg drone
- Human with Borg enhancements (last seen)
- Affiliation
- United Federation of Planets (at birth)
- Borg Collective
- Starfleet
- Fenris Rangers (Picard seasons 1-2)
- Family
- Magnus Hansen (father), Erin Hansen (mother); Icheb (ward, "my child")
- Partner
- Axum
- Chakotay
- Rafaella "Raffi" Musiker (last seen)
Lore & Background
Seven of Nine's backstory was explained during the course of Star Trek: Voyager. She was born on the Tendara Colony on Stardate 25479 to Magnus and Erin Hansen, and was named Annika. At the age of four, her parents were given use of the research vessel USS Raven by Starfleet to study the Borg. She was later assimilated into the Borg Collective.
After being freed from the Collective and joining Voyager's crew, she chose to continue to be called Seven of Nine, though she allowed "Seven" to be used informally. Her relationship with Captain Janeway evolved from adversarial to mutual respect, which Ryan later described as a mother-daughter relationship on the show, although she said that the writers had managed to make the character into more of an unruly teenager. The cyborg nature of the character is seen as representing a challenge to "simple conceptions of connections/disconnections between bodies."
Ryan maintained that the main topic about Seven was "humanity" and stated that her character was pivotal to the success of the show, because she "brought conflict to the show, which it was sadly lacking. … The Voyager crew was just one big happy family." After the addition of the former Borg drone to the starship's crew at the start of the fourth season of Voyager, the shows' weekly viewer ratings increased by more than 60%.
Reader's Guide
Seven of Nine appeared on Star Trek: Voyager between 1997 and 2001, and between 2020 and 2023 on Star Trek: Picard. In the following years, the Voyager writers wrote several plot lines revolving around Seven's exploration of the positive and negative sides of human individuality. Ryan said that she had several favourite Seven of Nine episodes, including "The Gift", "The Raven", "Revulsion", "Hunters", "Prey" and the two-part "The Killing Game". Ryan remarked that she would "love to do something without special effects or rubber glued to my face, it'd be a nice change of pace."
Following the end of Voyager, Ryan joined the main cast of Boston Public, comparing her new character of Ronnie with Seven of Nine, saying "[Seven] had all of these emotions, she just wasn't comfortable expressing them, and didn't really know how to express them; Ronnie, my character on Boston Public, is quite comfortable expressing them, and is fairly free with her expressions, I think. So it's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be much more free, as far as the acting style."
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