Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
The controversial romantic relationship between Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) and Commander Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ) has been explained by the twoStar Trek : Voyageractors . Seven and Chakotay were romantically geminate together inVoyagerseason 7 , which felt like a rehash of the hasty pairing of Lt . Worf ( Michael Dorn ) and Counselor Deanna Troi ( Marina Sirtis ) inStar Trek : The Next Generation . The precipitous mean of Seven and Chakotay ’s conjugation , and the mishandling of their amorous relationship failed to gain ground over manyVoyagerfans at the time or since the last time of year air .
Both Jeri Ryan and Robert Beltran have spoken about the issues with the wild-eyed family relationship between their respectiveStar Trek : Voyagercharacters . In the bookThe Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The terminated , Uncensored , and unauthorised Oral History of Star Trekby Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman , Jeri Ryan and Robert Beltran reflected on the job with their romantic union . register the actors ' view below :
Robert Beltran : They had chat up with a Chakotay / Janeway possibility for way too long at the beginning , and so who was forget but me and some ensign or me and maybe Seven of Nine ? So they just kind of hurl us together , and it seemed to me that if they had been think alternatively of one episode after the other , but imagine in the tenacious trial , what great stuff they could have written gear up for that .
Jeri Ryan : So we ’d already set up that Seven is in love with him or had fall in love with him , and the very next episode we dissipate after that had Seven and Chakotay getting stranded on some major planet . We went to the producers and said , “ Okay , is something go to happen ? Are we playing this through ? ” And they all said , “ No , do n’t fiddle any of that ; that was just one episode . ” That was a short uncanny , but we never diddle it . Then , all of a sudden , we ’re back together at the conclusion for the conclusion .
Why Seven and Chakotay’s Star Trek: Voyager Romance Never Worked
Jeri Ryan and Robert Beltran are absolutely correct about the way out with Seven and Chakotay’sStar Trek : Voyagerromance . As Jeri Ryan points out inThe Fifty - Year Mission , Seven ’s attraction to Chakotay had already been instal in theVoyagerepisode " Human Error . " When it was established that the emotion of a romanticist kinship would overwhelm her Borg circuit , the voltage couple between Seven and Chakotay was abandoned . As a result , it always felt thatStar Trek : Voyager ’s finaleresurrected the Seven and Chakotay romanticism as a mean to add up some tragedy to the alternate time to come in which the tragical couple had both perished .
Rather than being a well - thought - out way to develop Seven ’s character arc , the doom romance with Chakotay meet out off - cover to inspire Admiral Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) to interchange history . If the author had pass the eight episodes between " Human Error " and " Endgame " developing the romance between Seven and Chakotay then it would have had a much bragging impact on theStar Trek : Voyagerfinale . Instead , it ’s mostly been blank out about , having been ignore by Chakotay ’s plot line inStar Trek : Prodigyand Seven ’s arc inStar Trek : Picard .
Source : The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 geezerhood : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and Unauthorized unwritten History of Star Trekby Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman
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In this sci - fi serial , the starship Voyager becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant , 70,000 light-colored - years from Earth . The diverse gang , led by Captain Janeway , embarks on a precarious journeying family , encountering unfamiliar species and challenges while adhering to Federation principles in uncharted space .
In this sci-fi series, the starship Voyager becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 light-years from Earth. The diverse crew, led by Captain Janeway, embarks on a perilous journey home, encountering unfamiliar species and challenges while adhering to Federation principles in uncharted space.
