The first series had lots of babes in costumes but now the women dress quite demurely.

The notion of woman has changed since then. It�s not that women are no longer sexual images, but we have to also depict them as something more than that, because they are. You know, in the mid 60s to 70s, it was Barbarella, it was Barbie, it was Babe time. But we can�t in full honesty, and in modern thought process, do that.

We want to send out that people can be attractive and sensual, and even sexual, but they can also have a brain and they can succeed. It�s the Seven of Nine image. We had this very erotic physical form that walks around spouting more information, more techno-babble than anybody else on the series, who is the most reserved, in that way, in the physical way, and yet we get this interesting dichotomy of image versus content. And I think it makes for a richer image, I think it makes for a better story line, and I think we can also sort of hold our heads up and say we�re not just pandering her body, we�re actually trying to play around with images. One might say, you�re just justifying, sex � perhaps I am.

Definitely beyond Baywatch, oh God. It�s the greatest fear, that that�s what you�re turning things into.