Quotes

[on her ex-husband Jack Ryan who is running for United States Senator in Illinois] He's a good man and good father.

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.

[on her Seven of Nine costume] 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.

When I started out on Star Trek: Voyager (1995), 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 (1987). 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 (1996), 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.

I grew up as an Army brat, so I moved around a lot as a child. Always being the new kid was tough, but it taught me to be very adaptable and it certainly got me ready for the nomadic life of an actor!

[her Voyager costume] I was involved in all the costume fittings, all of the discussions. I knew what this was. And I was okay with the costume. I knew it was sexy. I knew what they were going for. I was okay with that because the way the character was written. And bear in mind, this was the '90s, guys.

[settling her Voyager feud with Kate Mulgrew] I had a long discussion with Kate [Mulgrew], actually, on the cruise, the COVID cruise [Star Trek: The Cruise IV, in 2020] We talked for like three hours. It was lovely. It was really, really nice. But hearing it from the way she experienced it and the way things were handled from the producer side of it and the network side of it and the studio side of it, it wasn't handled nicely. I don't think it was handled well. Yeah, I think it could have been-it should have been a very different situation all around, for all parties, I think. And it would have been very different experience, because it wasn't a fun experience at all.