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For immediate gratification, look instead to smarmily charming Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) melding with feisty half-Klingon B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson). "Just being a woman wearing a prosthetic with ridges on your head, you wonder, C'mon, how sexy can I be?" says Dawson. "But fans are completely caught up in this relationship. They're cheering for it." In that case, might Janeway and Robert Beltran's Chakotay finally alleviate their own sexual tension? "I'm too busy running the ship," Mulgrew coyly deflects. "And I like the fact that there's unspoken romance."

Now that the crew is embracing the adventure (and just plain embracing), the bottom line remains, Can Voyager capture more viewers? Given its nasty Wednesdays-at-nine time slot opposite Drew Carey, 3rd Rock From the Sun, and Party of Five, the series certainly needs all the help it can muster. But judging from the Sept. 3 season opener, Seven has been generating some impressive numbers. Even up against a repeat of Ellen's coming-out episode and Dateline NBC's coverage of Princess Diana's death, the premiere, which featured the first look at the character, gave UPN its highest ratings since Voyager kick-started the netlet almost three years ago. And if Nielsen were monitoring salivary glands, it would have been working overtime. "Wow! Jeri Ryan is probably one of the few women who could actually make a Borg in full prosthetics look oh-so-sexy. Drooool!!!" posted one overexcited AOL fan. Perhaps Spock's Vulcan motto should be amended to "Love long and prosper."

Originally posted Sep 19, 1997 Published in issue #397 Sep 19, 1997 Order article reprints
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