Seven spends a lot of time in the Astrometrics lab. Does astronomy interest you?

The Astrometrics Lab was always a challenge to work in, because you�re supposed to see this huge arcing view screen, with all of these elaborate graphics and things like that, which, of course, are not there, because we�re working in front of a green screen.

Because we did this well before the design with the graphics were going to be, [we would sit] down with the directors and the producers and the post production people and try to figure out� "Well, we think this is going to be a dot over here, and we think this is going to be a big swirl that�s going to be roughly over here." We never knew exactly what we were looking at, so it was always a treat to watch the episode and see what we were actually reacting to because it always looked really good.

From a reality standpoint, how can you not be fascinated by astronomy and space? It�s so vast. It�s so incomprehensibly huge. I think it�s a conceited point of view to think that we�re the only life out there, when there is that much of it. I mean, for example, Voyager takes place in the Delta quadrant, thousands, millions of light years from home, right? It would take us seventy-something years to get home, travelling at Warp Nine, or whatever we�re travelling at. And that�s still in our galaxy, that�s still in the Milky Way. We haven�t even got out of the Milky Way yet and it�s that big. So, how can we think that there�s no other life anywhere else?

There are so many solar systems and so many planets. I think there�s fifty thousand planets they found out there that have, potentially, Earth�s environment. The same distance from their sun and possibly the same atmosphere and things like that. So, I think it would be wonderful within our lifetime if we could explore deep space but, sadly, that�s not going to happen.