Happy Birthday Jeri Ryan!

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

Sorry, I get a little excited when I talk about firearms.

When I started out on "Star Trek: Voyager", they had to tell me everything about Star Trek, because I knew nothing about it. I had never seen the original series, I had never seen "Star Trek: The Next Generation". I think I'd seen a couple of episodes here and there - of the original series, probably. Never seen Voyager. Didn't know what a Borg was. They gave me a copy of "Star Trek: First Contact", the movie, so I could at least see what a Borg was. They also gave me a copy of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, whatever it is, so that I could bone up on my Star Trek knowledge. Fortunately, it sort of worked for the character that I wouldn't know any of the backstories of the people on Voyager, because she was coming in cold, like I was. That was actually helpful as opposed to detrimental.

My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive.

There are three things pageant women do. There's the Vaseline thing, which I didn't do. There's duct taping your boobs, which I never did because I'm not into pain. The third thing is using athletic spray adhesive on your butt to keep your swimsuit in place. I did do that. So one out of three ain't bad.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

He's a good man and good father.

Cheating is often more efficient.

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

Initially, I would stay in the costume much longer than I ended up staying in it, because it takes about twenty minutes to get into. Someone has to dress me and undress me. It's a production break if I have to get out of the costume to use the rest room or something. It grinds to a halt unless they can shoot something without me, which typically they can't, if it's a scene that I'm in. So in the interest of being a team player, the first season, I would not take rest room breaks, I just didn't drink anything on set, which is not the healthiest thing to do.

I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, 
her innocence.

You can't really prepare yourself for being greeted by a dozen Klingons drinking blood wine. So, it can be a bit off-putting coming in from the outside. But it's great fun and there are no fans like Star Trek fans.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while. 

No doubt that he will make an excellent senator.

They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character. 

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe. 

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up. 

I loved working with Eric Close and J. T. Walsh.

My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood.

I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend. 

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.