Marley McClean was aged about seven when she appeared in [#136 Collective], the story which introduces the Borg children (left screenshot), [#138 Ashes to Ashes], [#139 Child's Play] and [#145 The Haunting of Deck 12], all of which aired near the end of Season 6.

Mezoti on board the damaged Borg cube. [Collective]

Mezoti and fellow neo-natal drones (Azan and Rebi) are concerned about the health of the newly-born Borg baby in Seven's arms. [Collective]

Mezoti captures Harry Kim who has been leaving playing cards to mark his route. She says the Queen of Hearts reminds her of Seven. [Collective]

Mezoti comforts the dying First. [Collective]

While Borg neo-natal drones, the children do not have names but Borg designations.

2 screenshots from [Collective]

Mezoti is a very interesting character. I like her because she is mischievous and creative in the way she doesn't abide by Seven of Nine's rules. And I like the way she is as a Borg. Her style is a very military style and that she is very mature for her age. I also like that she is an alien. I love sitting and getting the make-up on. I love it a lot. Although it takes time [2½ hours] to become a full Borg and a little more than 30 minutes for the current incarnation of Mezoti and can be strenuous, it's fun. I enjoy being an alien. I'd rather play an alien than be a human. I hadn't done anything like it before, so it's really great.

The first episode of the show I did, [Collective], was my favourite one so far. It was awesome. I was in that Borg costume and it made me my character. It was me and these other Borg children, and we were able to take people hostage. I had never played a character that did something like that. I loved being Borg. I loved the very first time I saw Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway. I love the other Borg children. [Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Kurt Wetherill (Azan) and Cody Wetherill (Rebi).] I love Manu. He's really awesome. We talk all the time and he's really hilarious. Then I'm like best friends with the two twins [Kurt and Cody], and their parents are really good friends with my mom now. We invite them over to our house. So our relationships have strengthened and I've made new friends because of the show, which is great. Jeri Ryan is a wonderful person to work with. She is very down-to-earth. We talk on the set a lot. She explains everything about the Borg to me. I didn't really ever watch Star Trek, so this is a learning experience for me. So Jeri is just great. She's always smiling and she's always talking to us. That's probably because she loves kids.

Mezoti on board the damaged Borg cube, with the former First (whose name turns out to be Icheb). [Collective] Mezoti on board USS Voyager, name restored, and Borg implants removed. [Collective] In Voyager's astrometrics lab, Mezoti receives a message from Ensign Ballard on a Kobali ship. Earlier dialogue establishes Mezoti's age as 8. [Ashes to Ashes]

Mezoti arrives to play kadiskot in the messhall with the other children; Icheb is also arriving; Azan and Rebi have not yet appeared; Naomi Wildman is already there. Neelix waits, having set up the playing board.

Mezoti exhibits developing individuality as she disobeys Seven instruction to make a geometric shape and makes a clay bust of her instead because it is more fun. [Ashes to Ashes]

Kim gives Mezoti Lindsay Ballard's hairbrush which Ballard had given to him. [Ashes to Ashes]

Mezoti at the 1st Annual Voyager Science Fair: "It's a Tairenian ant colony. I infused the soil with a blue ion dye so it'd be easier to see the insects. The drones produce a fluorescent enzyme that's activated by the queen." [Child's Play]

Asked what she would like to see happen with her character, Marley fumbles for words. The question has caught her offguard. What would I like to see happen? I don't know. I'd like to come back! I hope they bring me back. But what would I hope? I would hope... I love doing dramatics... I love being dramatic. Maybe if something was wrong with me or one of the other Borg kids and they had to go through a whole operation and everything was really dramatic... I don't know. It's a very good question.

At the time of this interview, Season 7, known to be [Star Trek Voyager]'s last, was in production, and Marley had not yet been called into Paramount Pictures to shoot new episodes as Mezoti. It turned out that the Borg children, including Mezoti, leave USS Voyager in the opening scene (the 'teaser'), for the twins' world (they are of the Wysanti species) and she, though a Norcadian (a fact established in [Collective], stated by Janeway), goes with them. In the story [#135 Tsunkatse], the episode before Mezoti is introduced, part of Mezoti's home star system is seen.

Mezoti, Azan and Rebi leave USS Voyager forever. The woman with them is of the Wysanti, as are the twins. [Imperfection]

Mezoti says farewell to Icheb. [Imperfection]

I want to be an actress, but I don't know if I'm going to be one for the rest of my life. I definitely want to do something in the entertainment business. If I stayed an actress, I'd also like to be a screenwriter or a producer or a director or a casting director. Anything that's in the entertainment business, anything that's related to it, I love. I do look forward to acting for the rest of my life, but I don't know if it will be a full-time job for me. If it pays well and it supports me well, then maybe I'll only act. I've been auditioning this summer, but I haven't got a part yet. I'm not too worried because I've had something every summer since I've been acting. If you think about it, though, you can depend on acting if you get a really great gig, but sometimes you can have your low times and your high times. As long as it pays the bills, as long as I can make a living from it, I'd love to do it.