Helix: Star Trek: Voyager’s Jeri Ryan Joins the Cast

Syfy has announced that Star Trek: Voyager alum Jeri Ryan has signed on for a multi-episode arc on upcoming thriller Helix. She s set to play Constance Sutton, manipulative COO of the Ilaria Corporation, owner of the Arctic research facility where the series takes place. From Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), Lynda Obst (Contact), and Steven Maeda (Lost), with the latter acting as showrunner, Helix follows a team of CDC scientists to research facility Arctic Biosystems, where they ll be investigating a possible disease outbreak. The deeper they get into the mysterious symptoms, the more trouble they ll be finding themselves in, as the desolate climate, the extremely high pressure they ve been put under, and the vested interest of other parties in keeping a cure for the outbreak locked away begin to weigh on them heavily. Additionally, there s a chance that in looking into the outbreak, one (or several) of them could become infected, endangering everyone at the facility and

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