But for me, I was the only other actor who actually paid for a publicist, nobody else
did first three seasons.
Tuvok.
Uhm wonderful, uhm, eh, lady to work with, and I would've liked to have more scenes with
her.
Seven of Nine is interesting, I was sitting at home late one night, and I was watching
a videotape of one of our episodes that had a Borg mummy in it or something, and I just,
I just thought, God the Borg, what if we had a Borg on the ship?
So I called Joe Menosky, and pitched this idea, and he thought it was a great idea,
and we talked about it.
All the things, what would that mean to have a Borg character?
It would be really cool, and then I called Rick, and it was late, but I was so excited,
so I called Rick Berman, and he really liked the idea, but he had this stroke of genius,
make it a Borg babe, and we just talked about it for a couple a hours, and we just thought
this is, this is a really cool idea.
This could be really just the thing we need.
Aah I see it now, it's so simple.
The decision to eh lose the character of Kes eh was, it was simultaneous to the decision
to bring on the character of Seven of Nine.
I will not do this.
I will not be a cog in the machine.
I will not accept the obsolete.
Keep your corporate ladder.
Keep your empty mission statements.
I will never play by the old rules again.
You *Laughter* with the com badge.
Yes?
Can I ask you...
You have a Borg thing on, oh I see *Laughter* Seven of Nine.
No, I have a problem with anybody who's late, OK.
The camera started at her feet, the heels were six inches, and went up the body that
never ended.
And I just said "Oh my God", so my arguement with it is phylosophical and political.
I don't have any argument with Jeri Ryan, but she should learn to be on time.
Next question.
I challenged, I challenged Jeri, I said Jeri, we were sitting in, in the make-up table,
and, and I said Jeri you know since you're going out with Brannon who is one of the chief
writers.
He'll never write a scene where you and I kiss, he's too jealous.
He would never write where you and I kiss, and she said "Oh my God, I'm gonna tell him
what you just said, I think it's so funny".
Well like two episodes later he, that's when they threw us together, and uhm he wrote me
a note, it said "Who's jealous?".
Haha haha ha haha.
Yeah I'll tell you something about Seven of Nine, uhm.
She was wearing this derma regenerating suit, right.
This is the reason it was so tight.
They were regenerating her skin, it was a derma regen...
she wore it for what four years.
Oh Stop!
I said let's take it off and see if it worked.
HAHA HAHA HA HAHA.
Come on.
What the Hell is going on here?
It's not shared a lot, but it's very hard to hide an erection in a starfleet uniform *Laughter*
I was twenty-one when I got the part, but I was playing like sixteen,
and I, I had a lot of scenes with Jeri Ryan. Haha haha.
And just a lot of tight two shots where you're just, you're just right there, you know, and
you, and I was twenty-one, did I mention what I... haha haha. and it's very *sighs* it's
something that, it's not shared a lot, but it's very hard to hide an erection in a starfleet
uniform.
HAHA HAHA HAHA clap, clap.
HAHA HAHA.
And so most of my memories are, are of just running off set for this reason or that reason.
Haha.
To get a bagel, or I gotta go to the bathroom, or I gotta go talk to you know, to get rid
of my boner.
Sad about Jen, and I'll tell you exactly why, coz I think she's a hell of an actress.
Sorry to see her go.
Sorry to see her go the way she went, eh knowing that she was a wonderful actress.
That, that was, that was tough.
She was not interested in anything but the work.
The hype and and all the other stuff, the glory and all that.
No, Jennifer was, wanted to do her job really well, and we never really had a goodbye.