Summary
Peyton List praises Jeri Ryan but says Narissa’s fight with Seven of Nine inStar Trek: Picardseason 1 was only a fraction of what was intended.List played the Romulan villain Narissa inStar Trek: Picardseason 1.A member of the fanatical Romulan sect called the Zhat Vash,Narissa and her brother Narek(Harry Treadaway) were on a mission to destroy the planet Coppelius, the homeworld of a race of synthetics that Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his motley crew, which included Seven of Nine, sought to protect.
Appearing as a guest onThe D-Con Chamberpodcast, Peyton List had nothing but compliments for Jeri Ryan, who she worked with inStar Trek: Picardseason 1’s finale. Hosts Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer also asked List about her climactic fight scene with Ryan, and Peyton reveals thatwhat was seen inPicard’sseason 1 ender was a lot less than the epic slugfest List and Ryan spent a week rehearsing.Read Peyton’s quote and watch herD-Con Chamberinterview below:
[Jeri Ryan] was amazing. She was really unnecessarily kind and cool with me… That fight was probably… I think what actually made it to air was 10 [or] 15% of what was choreographed and what we rehearsed. We rehearsed that for a week. It was a really long fight. It was really extensive. They had stunt doubles on wires and poles. It was really, really elaborate, the way it was choreographed and how we learned it [compared] to what was actually shot and what we actually used.
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What Happened When Seven Of Nine Fought Narissa In Star Trek: Picard?
It was one of Seven of Nine’s first big action scenes
Star Trek: Picardseason 1 revampedStar Trek: Voyager’s Seven of Nine into an action hero, which culminated in Seven’s dramatic brawl with Narissa inStar Trek: Picardseason 1’s finale, “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part II.” Seven had already displayed her action chops as a Fenris Ranger earlier inStar Trek: Picardseason 1, andSeven owed Narissa payback after the Romulan blew thousands of innocent Borg drones into space.Seven of Nine found Narissa aboard the Borg Cube Artifact, and they battled it out until Narissa fell to her death.
Peyton List’s stint as a remorseless Romulan big bad was memorable.
Seven of Nine’s newly-minted action prowess was the first step inStar Trek: Picard’s ultimate goal to make her a Starfleet Captain. Indeed, not only did Seven of Nine join Starfleet butStar Trek: Picardseason 3 endedwithSeven of Nine becoming Captain of the USS Enterprise-G. setting up her own proposed spinoff dubbedStar Trek: Legacy.As for Narissa, Peyton List’s stint as a remorseless Romulan big bad was memorable, but her story ended withStar Trek: Picardseason 1.
