How the Borg Queen uses her sexuality.

It just emerged from me, I suppose, out of the costume. The physicality of her. I was obviously fully dressed, but I felt sort of naked. I felt as if I had no clothes on. The physicality of her just emerged as sexual. No-one had asked me to do it. But it was who she was.

When I took on Voyager it dawned on me, as I was getting ready, in a moment of absolute panic that I was going to be playing with two female characters, not with two male characters. Not Data and Picard. And I thought oh, that area of her energy, that aspect of the way she related to people the last time I was doing her is going to be changed.

I spoke to Ken Biller, the producer in charge of the episode, and he said, bless him, think of her as omnisexual. I realised that her manipulation of energy often, in a sexual way, was just her way of disarming and disturbing people that she was manipulating. So that in the scene with Seven of Nine � there was a very potent sexual energy. Well, she was going back and forth, she was treating Seven of Nine as if she were her child and then flipping to a sexual energy and then flipping back. What she was doing was never letting Seven of Nine be sure of where she stood.