Supposedly Brannon Braga.
There’s a mention in her Wikipedia article.
Sorry, no pics. 
According to that article she dated Braga in 2000, which would indicate that they dated after she got the part. Not before. In fact it seems she was still married to someone else when she first acted as 7 of 9.
She would hardly need to sleep with the producer after she had the role in order to secure it. Especially since the ratings apparently jumped 60% after she joined.
To conclude, she may have slept with a producer, but you could hardly claim that this was the reason she landed the role since she slept with said producer long after she had the role.
I don’t think that is why she got the part, I think that is why it changed into Star Trek-Seven of Nine. 
I think the shark was jumped when she wrestled that wrestler guy, whats-his-name.
Ok, I know this thread has moved on to Voyager, but I just wanted to add that the correct answer for worst episode of DS9 is Meridian.
Thank you.
Indeed, Sir.
So bad I had to look it up.
Not as bad as the one where Sisko ends up on the planet where “technology doesn’t work” run by that preachy anti-tech woman. That actually made me angry watching it.
No, no, no, if you’re playing “Name the worst DS9 episode” and you don’t go with a Ferengi ep, you’re doing it wrong.
The Ferengi episodes were great!
Quark leaning on the invisible cloaking device they were stealing, and waving at Sisko.
Explorers: Cisko builds a lightship complete with manually operated sails: He and jake then use it to fly to cardassiaOne wonders why he didn’t fit pedals: they are after all an efficient means of applying physical force.
The ship was solar powered somehow,
Yep, it had light sails (often called solar sails currently).
I meant that the movement of the sails and other ship devices was by hand, not its propulsion. Also, IIRC, the ship was at least partly wooden, but I can’t find a cite, I might be misremembering that.
The explanation for how they reached Cardassia was that they entered a “tachyon cluster” which, because tachyons are faster than light, don cher know, it propelled them across the warp threshold. Bull-shit.
I’m pretty sure it became the Seven of Nine show just because they felt they at first needed to fill in the backstory of the new character, and then people liked it so they kept doing it. Oh, and other than Robert Picardo (Holodoc), Jeri Ryan was the best actor on the series. It’s easier to write for good actors.
Though while I like Seven, I was definitely sad to see Kes go. I really think they didn’t do enough with her. I thought she was very intriguing.
BTW, they originally were going to get rid of Garret Wang (Kim). But he made People’s Top 50 sexiest men, so he got kept. Jennifer Lien (Kes) was the only other of the main cast whose contract was up. If not for People, we could have had two beautiful blondes on the show.
Second this!
In fact, I always thought the Ferengi are the people we are today. All that greed and profit. The Ferengi were us. Don’t get me wrong, I am a businessman and I live on profits, but I guess I don’t actually have rules of acquisition. And I would never kick a poor man in the street. But every man has basic rights. And healthcare and education are things that government must take care of. There should be no profits made for education and healthcare.
Please ignore above post. That was the beer talking. Although I still like the Ferengi episodes.
I thought the episode False Profits was good.
I liked the way they encounter the two Ferengis who were lost in a worm whole back in a TNG episode. Although I thought they made them a bit dumb. For a couple of people who have successfully taken control of an entire world, they really should have been a lot smarter.
Getting close to the end of season 3 now and we’ve had the first Borg encounter.
Won’t be long now for 7 of 9 to show up. Or so I hope.
Just finished the episode Favorite Son which I thought was quite good.
Was it just me or did the Taresians look a lot like the Trill?
I was expecting Jadzia to appear at any minute.
But alas, they weren’t really Trill.
Speaking of which, I remember the first time the Trill were encountered in TNG. Back then they had funky foreheads and no spots. At DS9 the Trill went through a transformation and replaced the forehead with the spots. I guess they felt they needed to make the Trill more attractive and I have to admit Jadzia certainly was.
I remember an episode where someone asked Jadzia how far down her spots go and she replies “All the way!”
Hmmm…
It was a makeup thing–Farrell was allergic to the stuff they then used for prosthetics. Spots made with makeup worked better.
But that wasn’t the biggest difference with Trills. The one on TNG completely took over the human host, rather than merging into a composite personality. Riker was not Riker when he was a temporary host.
Anyone else notice on rewatching how horribly generic most of the aliens of the week are?.
Humans on Earth have so many varied cultures and clothing, would it have killed the costumers to take some inspiration from say National Geo?
I really feel that often Trek has world building as a weak point.
That could be fanwanked (or might have even been stated outright by the creators somewhere) that it’s different when the symbiont is in a human instead of a real trill host. But even so, the new Odan wanted to continue her relationship with Crusher, IIRC, which was supposedly taboo on DS9 when Dax met and kissed her widow.