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Top 10 Best Star Trek Female Characters, Ranked From Romulans to Illyrians

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It’s not easy coming up with the  best Star Trek female characters , because there are so many to choose from. We wish we could name every one of them since there have been amazing female characters throughout the original Star Trek series, The Next Generation, and the recent Strange New Worlds. But this bodes well for the franchise, providing an excellent balance between male and female characters that’s helped elevate Star Trek beyond the confines of any world. Without further ado, let’s check out the list.

10. Romulan Commander

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The first time the Federation’s deadliest enemy was introduced was in the original series episode The Enterprise Incident. Kirk gives in to his daring nature and takes his Enterprise ship into Romulan territory, where he encounters a squadron. What makes this character even more significant is the fact that she remains unnamed to this day and yet is such an important milestone for Star Trek canon and history.

While Kirk attempts to gather intel on the Romulans, the commander is fascinated by Spock and tries to persuade him to join her. It becomes apparent she might have a romantic inclination toward him. After inviting Spock to dinner, she explains how Romulan women are passionate when compared to logical Vulcan women. Spock is put on edge, but resists her offer and maintains his loyalty. All along, Spock was helping Kirk steal the invaluable cloaking device to help advance the Federation’s technology. At the end of the episode, the Romulan commander is captured aboard the Enterprise and held as a prisoner. In a moment of privacy, Spock admits that his romantic interest in her was not pretended.

9. Philippa Georgiou

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Georgiou is a Malaysian human who became one of the Starfleet Academy’s most decorated officers and the captain of U.S.S. Shenzou. During a routine activity, her crew encountered the hostile Klingon Empire and things quickly escalated into an event known as the Battle at the Binary Stars before becoming the catalyst to the Klingon-Federation War. Georgiou lost her life to the leader of the Klingons, T’Kuvma, as she tried to capture him on his ship in an attempt to prevent the war. She is a smart and driven commander who will go down in Star Trek history for her sacrifice.

8. Elizabeth Shelby

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Commander Elizabeth Shelby has a bit of notoriety to her name, mostly owing to her rivalry with Commander William T. Riker. After confidently believing she would replace him as Captain Picard’s first officer, Riker didn’t take too kindly to her after his promotion to commander of U.S.S. Melbourne. To Shelby’s chagrin, she ended up becoming Riker’s first officer. Elizabeth has a similar personality to Admiral James T. Kirk in that she is a risk-taker when the greater good is involved.

As such, she ended up going over Riker’s head when leading an away team to investigate a Borg attack, and went so far as to lead another team to rescue Picard when the Borg kidnapped him. She eventually moved up the ranks to be a commanding officer herself, and it would be great to find out more about her in future shows.

7. Deanna Troi

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Deanna Troi is a standout character not just due to her exoticness, but also because of her half-human, half-Betazoid hybrid race. This mixed-race is what gave her telepathic abilities (though decreased in their effectiveness), and those powers were perfect for the crew’s counselor. She brought prominence to this Starfleet position and proved the most valuable assets to have in space are communication and empathy.

On many occasions, her abilities helped smooth things out during turbulent encounters, and she survived many different scenarios including being surgically altered, impersonating Romulans, and figuring out when others were lying. Deanna eventually married Riker and did more than enough to secure her legacy in Star Trek canon and history.

6. Michael Burnham

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Michael has great importance to Star Trek canon, bringing more diversity while also being the main protagonist on the Star Trek: Discovery series despite not acting as the captain. Her story overshadows her captain Gabriel Lorca, and while she served under Captain Phillippa Georgiou, she would commit mutiny and injure Phillippa in order to force the U.S.S. Shenzhou to preemptively attack the Klingons. After being a part of the Klingon-Federation war’s inciting incident, Captain Lorca reduced her sentence since he wanted crew members dedicated to defeating the Klingons.

Her backstory is unique in that she was a human raised by Klingons, and none other than Spock’s father, Sarek, specifically. Not a typical Star Trek character, Michael is a complicated woman, most likely created under modern characterization precepts, and it will be interesting to see how her story develops.

5. Beverly Crusher

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Talk about an intimidating name. Beverly Crusher is an all-around amazing female character, and not at all an aggressive one like her last name might suggest. She served as the chief medical officer on both Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E, and was a main crew member on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was also a loving mother to Wesley Crusher and after her husband’s tragic passing, developed a close bond with Picard that blurred the lines between friendship and romance.

Beverly Crusher is controversial in that many wished she was further developed than what was allowed on screen in the Star Trek the Next Generation shows and movies. Her closeness to Picard also rallied fans to request her to have a main role in the Picard series, and many non-canonical books were written about the pairing, and the life they share together, along with their son.

4. Seven of Nine

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Seven of Nine’s name should state the obvious; there’s nothing quite like her. Although human, she was a former Borg drone, meaning she was part of the Borg Collective until she was liberated by Kathryn Janeway and her U.S.S. Voyager crew. As an assimilated Borg, she was taken by them and enhanced with cybernetics. In the case of Seven of Nine, or Annika Hansen, she was abducted at the age of six and dubbed Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One.

After her complex and traumatic upbringing, she becomes nuanced and complicated aboard the U.S.S. Voyager. She brings many deep, dramatic, and thematic elements to Star Trek, portraying a character that demands respect, patience, and understanding. After all, consider the fact that she was kidnapped as a child, forced to become a Borg drone, and then has difficulty assimilating with her human peers (let alone other races), while also having to suppress an urge to rejoin the Borg. For the show, she brought plenty of tense moments, as well as emotional scenes, funny moments, and butt-kicking action.

3. Nyota Uhura

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Uhura has seen different incarnations throughout the various Star Trek series and movies, and Strange New Worlds has really taken her to the next level. Her latest on-screen portrayal brings a balanced sense of vulnerability, strengths, weaknesses, and backstory. Although she begins as a communications officer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, she eventually achieves the rank of commander of the U.S.S. Leondegrance for her remaining services to the Starfleet.

She can also be considered the first true standout female character or lead and deserves it completely. Uhura brings a great amount of diversity and unique themes to explore. As the expert linguist on her crew, and with her potential to grow, we’re looking forward to seeing more of her on a regular basis.

2. Number One / Una Chin-Riley

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As her designated name states, Number One is the first officer to Pike, and ranks just shy of the number one spot on this list. In the original series, she was only referred to as Number One but was later named Una Chin-Riley in several non-canon Star Trek novels. It’s great how Strange New Worlds finally solidifies her name as canon. Also in the new series, Una is given a more involved role and is attached to a key plot involving Pike’s destiny. Since she’s an Illyrian, she’s genetically modified, which is also why she looks like a human, while her kind normally does not.

From the beginning of the Strange New Worlds series, Starfleet makes it clear that they are anti-genetically modified beings. This puts her in a terrible position, and in direct defiance of Federation law. Regardless, she’s already had spotlight episodes where she’s saved the crew from a deadly virus, and has special empathy when it comes to forming bonds with fellow crew members. The fact that she risks it all to help her crewmates and perform her duties to better mankind makes her all the more compelling and one to root for.

1. Kathryn Janeway

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Kathryn Janeway is an iconic female character that hasn’t received as much attention as she should, especially in recent Star Trek lore and media. In Starfleet history, she remains one of the most highly decorated captains and is notoriously known for her obsession with coffee. On a more serious note, one of her most notable accomplishments is how she took command of the U.S.S. Voyager as it made its way through the dangerous Delta Quadrant, which is home to the Borg Collective. Thanks to her leadership, the Voyager was able to bring the crew safely back to earth through a Borg transwarp conduit.

Her time as a commander also gained her another milestone which she achieved during her space exploration. It’s been estimated in various episodes how she’s made first contact with more alien races than James T. Kirk. She eventually gets promoted to the rank of Admiral after helping prevent another technologically advanced species from the Delta Quadrant, the Vau N’Akat, from destroying the Federation. To top it off, she defeated the Borg Queen and has a diverse background full of hobbies, passions, and scientific skills. Most of all, she comes across as being a balanced leader; one who is smart, decisive, and strong, but also kind, caring, and understanding. No other female character has been involved in so many Star Trek critical events and achieved so much, which makes her deserving of this top spot.

That’s our list of the top best Star Trek female characters , but the great thing about this franchise is that it has always been a pioneer for portraying powerful women of diverse races, ages, and cultures. There are way more than 10 great female characters in the Star Trek mythos, and new prominent female characters are being introduced all the time. If you’re a Star Trek fan, you owe it to yourself to check out the video game, Resurgence .

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Actresses who appeared on the original Star Trek television series.

1. Nichelle Nichols

Actress | Star Trek

Nichelle Nichols was one of 10 children born to parents Lishia and Samuel Nichols in Robbins, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. She was a singer and dancer before turning to acting and finding fame in her groundbreaking role of Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek (1966) series. As long as she could remember,...

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2. Majel Barrett

Actress | Star Trek: First Contact

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3. Susan Oliver

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4. Laurel Goodwin

Actress | Girls! Girls! Girls!

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5. Sally Kellerman

Actress | MASH

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6. Andrea Dromm

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7. Grace Lee Whitney

Actress | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

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8. Karen Steele

Actress | Marty

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Eve McHuron (Mudd's Women)

9. Susan Denberg

Actress | Frankenstein Created Woman

After becoming immersed in the 60s high life of drugs and sex, Denberg left show business and returned to Austria. News interviews at the time show a depressed Denberg in the company of her mother, at home in Klagenfurt. These news items, repeated in fan periodicals for years, gave the impression ...

Magda Kovas (Mudd's Women)

10. Maggie Thrett

Maggie Thrett was born on November 18, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Dimension 5 (1966) and McCloud (1970). She was married to Donnelly Rhodes and Alex ?. She died on December 18, 2022 in Long Island, New York, USA.

Ruth Bonaventure (Mudd's Women)

11. Jeanne Bal

Jeanne Bal was born on May 3, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Perry Mason (1957) and Thriller (1960). She was married to Edward Richard Lee and Ross Bowman . She died on April 30, 1996 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

Nancy Crater #1 (The Man Trap)

12. Francine Pyne

Francine Pyne was born on January 9, 1940 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), It Takes a Thief (1968) and A House Is Not a Home (1964). She died on August 15, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Nancy Crater #2 (The Man Trap)

13. Pat McNulty

Actress | The House of God

Pat McNulty was born on October 16, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress and editor, known for The House of God (1984), Star Trek (1966) and The Detectives (1959). She was married to Don Dorrell . She died on September 4, 2023.

Yeoman Tina Lawton (Charlie X)

14. Barbara Baldavin

Barbara Baldavin was born on October 18, 1938 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and casting director, known for Star Trek (1966), Skeeter (1993) and The Bionic Woman (1976). She is married to Joseph D'Agosta .

Angela Martine (Balance Of Terror, Shore Leave, Turnabout Intruder)

15. Sherry Jackson

Actress | The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

Gorgeous, brown-eyed, chestnut-maned Sherry Jackson began her promising career as a pig-tailed, pleasant-looking child actress. Born in Idaho on February 15, 1942, she was the only daughter of four children born to Maurita Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson, Sr. Her father died when she was 6...

Andrea (What Are Little Girls Made Of?)

16. Marianna Hill

Actress | High Plains Drifter

A familiar character actress, Marianna Hill is the daughter of a building contractor. From her native southern California, her family moved around frequently, including to Canada, Spain and Great Britain. As a result, she became familiar with different accents and dialects, whether a French accent ...

Dr. Helen Noel (Dagger Of The Mind)

17. Susanne Wasson

Susanne Wasson was born on September 19, 1942 in Searcy, Arkansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Hart to Hart (1979) and Rain Without Thunder (1992).

Lethe (Dagger Of The Mind)

18. Kim Darby

Actress | True Grit

The child of professional dancers, Kim Darby began her career studying dance with her father, as well as Nico Charisse . At fourteen, she was granted special admission to Tony Barr 's acting workshop at Desilu Studios on the Paramount Pictures lot. He wrote later that it was her remarkable openness, ...

Miri (Miri)

19. Barbara Anderson

Actress | Ironside

Beautiful green-eyed Barbara Jeanne Anderson is best remembered on screen as the socialite- turned San Francisco police Officer Eve Whitfield in the first four seasons of the NBC police drama Ironside (1967), starring Raymond Burr . She was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of an enlisted ...

Lenore Karidian (The Conscience Of The King)

20. Natalie Norwick

Actress | 87th Precinct

Natalie Norwick was born on May 28, 1923 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for 87th Precinct (1961), Star Trek (1966) and 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956). She was married to William Sargent and Bernard Robertson. She died on December 20, 2007 in Broward, Florida, USA.

Martha Leighton (The Conscience Of The King)

21. Phyllis Douglas

Born Phyllis Callow in Hollywood -- to Ridgeway Callow , a native of the Isle of Man (UK), and his wife, Peggy Watts , a Ziegfeld Girl and socialite -- at age two Phyllis Douglas played the baby "Bonnie Blue Butler" in Gone with the Wind (1939). Her father, who had served in the RAF, was hired by ...

Yeoman Mears (The Galileo Seven), Girl #2 (The Way To Eden)

22. Joan Marshall

Actress | Homicidal

Born on June 9, 1931 in Chicago, Joan Marshall attended St. Clement's School. Looking far more mature than her age would indicate, when she was just 14 years old she auditioned for, and was hired, as a showgirl at Chicago's Chez Paree, one of the country's foremost nightclubs in the 1940s and 1950s...

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23. Julie Parrish

Actress | Mannix

Julie Parrish was born on October 21, 1940 in Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Mannix (1967), Fireball 500 (1966) and Return to Peyton Place (1972). She died on October 1, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Miss Piper (The Menagerie)

24. Shirley Bonne

Actress | My Sister Eileen

Shirley Bonne was born on May 22, 1934 in Inglewood, California, USA. She is an actress, known for My Sister Eileen (1960), The Bob Cummings Show (1955) and Star Trek (1966).

Ruth (Shore Leave)

25. Emily Banks

Actress | Live a Little, Love a Little

American actress Emily Ann Banks was born in Norfolk, Virginia, but spent much of her childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father served in the military (he later found work as a graphic artist). After high school, Emily graduated from Simmons University in Boston and then embarked on a...

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26. Venita Wolf

Venita Wolf was born on September 1, 1945 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Catalina Caper (1967) and The Beverly Hillbillies (1962). She was married to Skip Taylor. She died on November 22, 2014 in Hollywood Hills, California, USA.

Yeoman Teresa Ross (The Squire Of Gothos)

27. Janet MacLachlan

Actress | The Thirteenth Floor

Janet MacLachlan was born on August 27, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Tick, Tick, Tick (1970) and Heart and Souls (1993). She died on October 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Lieutenant Charlene Masters (The Alternative Factor)

28. Brioni Farrell

Brioni Farrell was born on February 12, 1940 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress and executive, known for Star Trek (1966), General Hospital (1963) and Fantasy Island (1977). She was married to Eugene Robert Glazer . She died on August 8, 2018 in California, USA.

Tula (The Return Of The Archons)

29. Barbara Babcock

Actress | Far and Away

Blue-eyed, red-haired American character actress, often seen as resolute, strong-willed women. Though born in Kansas, Barbara Babcock spent much of her early childhood in Japan, where her father, U.S. Army Major General Conrad Stanton Babcock Jr., was posted (he was also a noted equestrian, who ...

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30. Miko Mayama

Miko Mayama was born on August 15, 1939 in Kyoto, Japan. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), That Man Bolt (1973) and The Hawaiians (1970).

Yeoman Tamura (A Taste Of Armageddon)

31. Madlyn Rhue

Actress | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

American character actress Madlyn Rhue was one of television's most prolific actresses and has starred in everything from sitcoms to soap operas to drama series and films for nearly 40 years. Her beautiful looks, natural red hair and brown eyes got her the attention of television producers and she ...

Lieutenant Marla McGivers (Space Seed)

32. Jill Ireland

Actress | Hard Times

Jill Ireland was a British-American actress best known for her appearance as "Leila Kalomi", the only woman Mr. Spock ever loved (in the Star Trek (1966) episode, Star Trek: This Side of Paradise (1967)) and for her many supporting roles in the movies of Charles Bronson . She is also known for her ...

Leila Kalomi (This Side Of Paradise)

33. Joan Collins

Actress | Dynasty

Joan Collins is an English actress from Paddington, London. She is most famous for playing the role of vengeful schemer Alexis Carrington Colby in the soap opera "Dynasty" (1981-1989). In 1997, She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama. In 2015, She...

Edith Keeler (The City On The Edge Of Forever)

34. Joan Swift

Joan Swift was born on May 11, 1933 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Brainstorm (1965) and I Spy (1965). She was married to Clancy. She died on June 26, 2016 in Concord, California, USA.

Aurelan Kirk (Operation: Annihilate!)

35. Maurishka

Maurishka Tagliaferro (born July 1941; age 80) is an actress who appeared as "Yeoman Zahra" in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Operation -- Annihilate!", credited only as Maurishka. She filmed her scenes on Wednesday 15 February 1967 on location at the TRW Space and Defense...

Yeoman Zahra Jamal (Operation: Annihilate!)

36. Antoinette Bower

Actress | Die Sister, Die!

Antoinette Bower's first job on leaving school in London was as a Field Language Supervisor for the International Refugee Organization in Germany, an experience which very much influenced her view of the world. Shortly after IRO was discontinued, she joined her family in Canada and found work as a ...

Sylvia (Catspaw)

37. Elinor Donahue

Actress | Pretty Woman

Tap dancing at the age of 16 months, pert and pretty Elinor Donahue has been entertaining audiences for six decades. Born Mary Eleanor Donahue in Tacoma, Washington, on April 19, 1937, she appeared as a radio singer and vaudeville dancer while a mere toddler, then was picked up by Universal Studios...

Commissioner Nancy Hedford (Metamorphosis)

38. Julie Newmar

Actress | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Julia Chalene Newmeyer was born on August 16, 1933, in Los Angeles, California, the eldest of three children. Her father, Don, was a one-time professional football player (LA Buccaneers, 1926), her mother, Helene Jesmer , was a star of the Follies of 1920 and later became a fashion designer under ...

Eleen (Friday's Child)

39. Leslie Parrish

Actress | The Manchurian Candidate

She started as a model, and in 1955 became an actress. She acted under her birth name, Marjorie Hellen, until 1959. Afterwards she was known as Leslie Parrish. She appeared in more than 100 TV shows. She is known as one of the first women producers. She's always had a passion for music. She was ...

Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas (Who Mourns For Adonais?)

40. Arlene Martel

Arlene Martel is well-known to Star Trek (1966) fans as Spock's Vulcan bride, T'Pring, in the episode, Star Trek: Amok Time (1967). Born Arline Greta Sax to Austrian Jewish immigrants on April 14, 1936 in New York City, she spent her early years in one of the poorest slums in the Bronx. When her ...

T'Pring (Amok Time)

41. Elizabeth Rogers

Actress | The Towering Inferno

Elizabeth Rogers was born on May 18, 1934 in Austin, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Towering Inferno (1974), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) and Star Trek (1966). She was married to Erik L. Nelson . She died on November 6, 2004 in Tarzana, California, USA.

Lieutenant Palmer (The Doomsday Machine, The Way To Eden)

42. Pilar Seurat

Actress | Adventures in Paradise

Born Rita Hernandez in Manila, Philippines, Pilar Seurat moved to Los Angeles in her childhood and started out as a dancer in Ken Murray 's "Blackouts" troupe. In the late 1950s she started her acting career in several guest TV appearances, and was often considered at the top of the list whenever a ...

Sybo (Wolf In The Fold)

43. Judith McConnell

Actress | The Purge: Anarchy

Judith McConnell was born on April 6, 1944 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Purge: Anarchy (2014), The Weather Man (2005) and Santa Barbara (1984).

Yeoman Tankris (Wolf In The Fold)

44. Virginia Aldridge

Writer | The Twilight Zone

Virginia Aldridge was born on September 1, 1938 in the USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Twilight Zone (1985), Knight Rider (1982) and Star Trek (1966). She was previously married to Richard Hartunian .

Lieutenant Karen Tracey (Wolf In The Fold)

45. Tanya Lemani

Tanya Lemani was born on March 17, 1945 in Iran. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Big Daddy (1969) and Warriors of Stone .

Kara (Wolf In The Fold)

46. Shari Nims

Shari Nims is known for Star Trek (1966) and Easy Come, Easy Go (1967).

Sayana (The Apple)

47. Celeste Yarnall

Celeste Yarnall is an amazing woman of many talents who has been very successful in a diverse number of fields. There appears to be nothing she cannot do when she puts her mind to it. Apart from her initial career as model, spokesperson and actress, Celeste has also managed several talented ...

Yeoman Martha Landon (The Apple)

48. BarBara Luna

Actress | One Life to Live

Barbara Ann Luna was born on March 2, in Manhattan and virtually grew up on Broadway. Her Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino background has led her to portray a variety of roles. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II cast her in the Broadway hit musical "South Pacific", as ...

Lieutenant Marlena Moreau (Mirror, Mirror)

49. Sarah Marshall

Actress | Dave

Sarah Marshall was born on May 25, 1933 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Dave (1993), The Long, Hot Summer (1958) and Star Trek (1966). She was married to Karl Held and Mel Bourne . She died on January 18, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Dr. Janet Wallace (The Deadly Years)

50. Beverly Washburn

Actress | Old Yeller

Beverly Washburn was born on November 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Old Yeller (1957), Star Trek (1966) and When the World Came to San Francisco (2015). She is married to Michael Radell.

Lieutenant Arlene Galway (The Deadly Years)

51. Carolyn Nelson

Actress | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Carolyn Nelson is known for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Star Trek (1966) and It Takes a Thief (1968). She was previously married to Joseph Sargent .

Yeoman Doris Atkins (The Deadly Years)

52. Alyce Andrece

Alyce Andrece was born on September 5, 1936 in Thornton, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) and Occasional Wife (1966). She died on May 14, 2005 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

Alice series (I, Mudd)

53. Rhae Andrece

Rhae Andrece was born on September 5, 1936 in Thornton, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) and Occasional Wife (1966). She died on March 2, 2009 in Northridge, California, USA.

54. Colleen Thornton

Sister of Maureen Thornton

Barbara series (I, Mudd)

55. Maureen Thornton

Actress | Pilgrim's Progress

Maureen Thornton is known for Pilgrim's Progress (1978), Barlow (1971) and The Silence of Robert Raskin (2002).

56. Starr Wilson

Twin sister of Tamara Wilson .

Maisie series (I, Mudd)

57. Tamara Wilson

Twin sister of Starr Wilson .

58. Lois Jewell

Lois Jewell was born on October 8, 1938 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966) and The Flying Nun (1967). She died on December 20, 2014 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Drusilla (Bread And Circuses)

59. Jane Wyatt

Actress | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Born in Campgaw, New Jersey, Jane Waddington Wyatt came from a New York family of social distinction (her father was a Wall Street investment banker and her mother was a drama critic). Jane was raised from the age of three months in New York City and attended the fashionable Chapin School and later...

Amanda (Journey To Babel)

60. Nancy Kovack

Actress | Jason and the Argonauts

A native of Flint, Michigan, Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15, a radio deejay at 16, a college graduate at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20. Her professional acting career began on television in New York, first as one of Jackie Gleason 's "Glea Girls" and ...

Nona (A Private Little War)

61. Angelique Pettyjohn

Actress | Repo Man

Born Dorothy Lee Perrins in Los Angeles, California on March 11, 1943, Angelique Pettyjohn began modeling at a very young age. She also took advantage of her living in the locus of "American Dreams" by studying acting. Pettyjohn made her movie debut at age 21, under the name "Angelique", in the ...

Shahna (The Gamesters Of Triskelion)

62. Jane Ross

Jane Ross was born on January 9, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1960) and Light Fantastic (1964). She was married to Lorin E. Price . She died on June 27, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Tamoon (The Gamesters Of Triskelion)

63. Victoria George

Victoria George is known for Star Trek (1966), El Dorado (1966) and The Green Hornet (1966).

Ensign Jana Haines (The Gamesters Of Triskelion)

64. Barbara Bouchet

Actress | Gangs of New York

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65. Lezlie Dalton

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66. Julie Cobb

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67. Diana Muldaur

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69. Irene Kelly

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70. Teri Garr

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71. Victoria Vetri

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72. Bonnie Beecher

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73. France Nuyen

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74. Sabrina Scharf

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75. Joanne Linville

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76. Marj Dusay

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Kara (Spock's Brain)

77. Sheila Leighton

Sheila Leighton was born on October 22, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), The Green Hornet (1966) and Get Smart (1965).

Luma (Spock's Brain)

78. Kathryn Hays

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Gem (The Empath)

79. Katherine Woodville

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80. Susan Howard

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Mara (Day of the Dove)

81. Kathie Browne

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82. Lee Meriwether

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Losira (That Which Survives)

83. Naomi Newman

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Lieutenant Rahda (That Which Survives)

84. Yvonne Craig

Actress | Batgirl

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Marta (Whom Gods Destroy)

85. Sharon Acker

Actress | Happy Birthday to Me

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Odona (The Mark of Gideon)

86. Jan Shutan

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87. Diana Ewing

Actress | The Way We Were

Diana Ewing was born on January 4, 1946 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. She is an actress, known for The Way We Were (1973), Star Trek (1966) and Mission: Impossible (1966).

Droxine (The Cloudminders)

88. Charlene Polite

Born in Ohio, Charlene graduated from Youngstown University, in the mid-1960s, where she married her first husband, poet Frank Polite. Following graduation, she acted in regional theater, including the Pittsburgh (PA) Playhouse, where she had a post-graduate scholarship. Later, she moved to San ...

Vanna (The Cloudminders)

89. Mary Linda Rapelye

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90. Deborah Downey

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Mavig (The Way to Eden)

91. Louise Sorel

Actress | Days of Our Lives

A flashy, aggressive, cold and calculating villainess and eternally hopeless meddler on a number of daytime soap operas, Louise Sorel has given her opulent, show-stopping characters major doses of humor and grit that have allowed her to become one of daytime's more popular figures for over six ...

Rayna Kapec (Requiem for Methuselah)

92. Carol Daniels

Stunts | The Blues Brothers

Carol Daniels was born on October 7, 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Blues Brothers (1980), Anaconda (1997) and Star Trek (1966).

Zora (The Savage Curtain)

93. Mariette Hartley

Actress | The Incredible Hulk

Mariette Hartley was born Mary Loretta, a name she dislikes, in Weston, Connecticut. She was raised in accordance with the principles espoused by her behavioral psychologist grandfather, John B. Watson, who believed that children should never be held or cuddled. She says that the lack of warmth at ...

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94. Anna Karen

Anna Karen was born on September 20, 1914 in New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Shadow of the Cloak (1951) and One Step Beyond (1959). She was married to Jeff Morrow . She died on July 1, 2009 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

Sarpeidon Mort (All Our Yesterdays)

95. Sandra Smith

Sandra Smith was born on June 27, 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), The Interns (1970) and Mannix (1967). She was previously married to Billy James and Steve Reeves .

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35 Actresses You Forgot Appeared In ‘Star Trek’

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For the past 50 years, the  Star Trek  franchise has captured audiences imaginations on both the big and small screen, with six TV series and a dozen feature films, as well as some upcoming  projects in the pipeline . During that half-century, Star Trek has managed to accrue quite the ensemble of guest stars, playing everyone from alien races from far-off worlds to people from Earth’s past and present. We’ve previously looked at some of the great actors who have popped up , so here’s a rundown of 35 actresses that are forever part of Star Trek history.

Michelle Forbes

Having had recurring roles in several TV staples like  True Blood  and  Homicide: Life on the Street , Forbes is also known for playing Ensign Ro Loren in Star Trek: The Next Generation , a part she got after impressing producers with a one-off performance as the character Dara earlier in the show’s run.

Ashley Judd

The now-famous Judd got her start in front of the camera as Ensign Robin Lefler in two episodes of  Star Trek: The Next Generation’s fifth season. While she’s since made it to Hollywood’s A-List as an actress, she comes from a famous family, with both her mother and step-sister singing vocals in the country supergroup The Judds.

Julie Warner

Warner had acted in a handful of TV roles prior to Star Trek: The Next Generation , where she played Cristy Henshaw, a civilian resident of the Enterprise D and an on-again, off-again girlfriend to Lt. Geordi La Forge (Lavar Burton).

Olivia d’Abo

The cool older sister from The Wonder Years,  Olivia D’Abo, did a one-episode spot as Amanda Rogers in Star Trek: The Next Generation, who started aboard the Enterprise-D as the intern to Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), before it was revealed that she was a descendant of Q. Which meant she had to come to terms with that whole super-powerful, four-dimensional being thing.

Famke Janssen

The original Jean Grey from the   X-Men  film franchise had her first small-screen role as Kamala, a Kriosian who falls in love with Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) during an episode of  Star Trek: The Next Generation .

A minor TV star throughout the ’90s and early-2000s, Cox was barely recognizable behind all the prosthetics as Sarjenka, a Dreman girl in communication with the android Data (Brent Spiner), who urges Picard’s help in saving her world. Data even manages to show some affection toward her after she’s returned home having had her memory of the Enterprise erased, because sometimes the Prime Directive is harsh.

Kirsten Dunst

Having just finished starring as Peggy Blumquist on the second season of  Fargo  on FX , Dunst has literally grown up on the silver screen. Which meant she had a pretty impressive acting resume by the time she guest starred as the telepathic Cairn Hedril in the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation .

Brenda Strong

The character of Rashella, played by Brenda Strong, was an Aldean who aimed to repopulate her near-sterile planet using the Enterprise-D’s resident children in an early episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation . Strong has since returned to the sci-fi genre these days, guest starring in The CW’s brilliant original series The 100 .

Pamela Adlon

Before she was the cranky, apprehensive girlfriend on FX’s Louis , Pamela Adlon, (then Pamela Segall), she played Oji in a single episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation . A member of the less-advanced Mintakin tribe, she’s left in awe of how the technology aboard the Enterprise-D was able to heal her father, Liko, leaving Picard to re-explain to her the concept of mortality.

Bebe Neuwirth

Neuwirth, best known as Frasier’s ex on Cheers , played Nurse Lanel in the fourth season of The Next Generation . Stationed aboard the Malconian medical facility, she helps First Officer William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) escape, but only on the condition that he helps her cross ‘sex with an alien’ off her bucket list.

Teri Hatcher

Early on in her career, with only a couple roles under her belt, this  Desperate Housewives star had to settle for an uncredited part as a transporter chief in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s second season.

Whoopi Goldberg

Yes, you remember Whoopi Goldberg’s Guinan, the El-Aurian bartender of Ten-Forward, the Enterprise-D’s lounge from Star Trek: The Next Generation , but maybe some people don’t. While she was part of the race known as The Listeners, making her the ideal barkeep, she was also known to dole out sagely advice to Starfleet personnel now and then.

Kim Catrall

Vulcan Starfleet officer Valeris was, at first, written in as Saavik, the character first played by Kirstie Alley in 1981’s  Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan  — a role Catrall herself auditioned for. She agreed to appear in Trek’s sixth installment, The Undiscovered Country , but only after learning that she’d be playing an entirely new character all her own.

The actress/supermodel played Martia in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , a double-crossing shape-shifter who, over the course of the film, would also take the form of a massive alien, a young girl, and eventually Captain Kirk himself, the last one giving us one of the most self-aware  Star Trek  jokes of all time.

Yvonne Craig

In the mid 1960s, Yvonne Craig went from playing Batgirl on TV’s Batman to playing Marta, a member of the Orion race and one of  Star Trek’s quintessential green seductresses. However, despite her very best efforts, she fails to both seduce and stab Captain Kirk.

Jane Wiedlin

Wiedlin was already famous as the singer/guitarist in the definitive ’80s band The Go-Gos, but she had an extremely brief cameo in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as Trillya, a Communications Officer sending out a desperate distress call out to Starfleet. Thankfully, she got a bit more screen time as Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure .

Catherine Hicks

Dr. Gillian Taylor, a 20th century in-house whale expert in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, was played by soap opera mainstay Catherine Hicks, who’d go on to play family matriarch Annie Camden for 11 seasons on  7th Heaven .

Kirstie Alley

In her big-screen debut, Alley played Saavik, the Vulcan Starfleet officer in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . She’d turn down the chance to reprise her role in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock over a financial dispute, which meant the role was recast with actress Robin Curtis. She’d go back and forth between roles on the big and small screen, and would eventually make TV history by replacing Shelly Long on the long-running Cheers .

The Oscar-winning actress and comedy icon had a role as secretary Roberta Lincoln in Star Trek ‘s Cold War episode “Assignment Earth.” And, like many in the 20th century the Enterprise crew seems to encounter, she ended up playing a fateful role in the future of humankind.

Julie Newmar

One of the three actresses to play Catwoman opposite Adam West in Batman,  Newmar had a role on Star Trek as Eleen, a pregnant Capellan who was forced to flee her home after a coup against her husband left him dead. She ended up returning to the role of Catwoman by voicing the role in Rocksteady Video Games’ Arkham Knight last year.

Sally Kellerman

After CBS elected to re-film the  Star Trek  pilot, they made a few changes. One, they cast William Shatner as James T. Kirk, another was their hiring Sally Kellerman to play Elizabeth Dehner, a Starfleet officer who develops uncanny abilities after encountering the psionic barrier.

Joan Collins

While she’s most readily associated with 80’s TV staple Dynasty , she stars in one of Star Trek’s most beloved episodes, “City On The Edge of Tomorrow,” playing the big-hearted Edith Keeler. When Kirk and Spock go back in time to rescue Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Kirk ends up falling in love with her, despite knowing the pivotal role she plays in the future of mankind (of course!).

Dina Meyer played the Romulan Commander Donatra in Star Trek: Nemesis  back in 2002, the same year she was cast as Barbara Gordon in the series Birds of Prey , a Batman adaptation sans-Batman. She’s probably best remembered, though, as the ill-fated Dizzy Flores in the 1997’s Starship Troopers .

Heather Langenkamp

You wouldn’t know it from looking at her, but that’s Nightmare on Elm Street’s Heather Langenkamp underneath all those prosthetics playing Moto, a Starfleet Security Officer in Star Trek: Into Darkness . The actress was initially working on the film as a make-up artist before she landed the role.

Lark Voorhies

Voorhies, known for an entire generation as Lisa Turtle from Saved By The Bell , was also part of the Star Trek universe as Leanne, a civilian resident of the Deep Space 9 station who was romantically involved with Jake Sisto (Cirroc Lofton) for a spell.

Gabrielle Union

Former teen heartthrob Gabrielle Union stuck fairly close to typecasting for her one-episode role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as N’Garen, a young Klingon weapons officer.

Sarah Silverman

This comedy superstar played 20th century scientist Rain Robinson on Star Trek: Voyager in the mid-1990s during the two-part episode “Future’s End,” which like all female scientists from the 20th century, ended up falling for a Starfleet office. Silverman has managed to stay in the spotlight throughout the bulk of her career, balancing her standup with guest starring roles in shows like Masters of Sex , as well as lighthearted material, like her frequent voice work on Bob’s Burgers .

Virginia Madsen

While she was immensely popular in the mid-80s, actress Virginia Madsen has continued to work consistently, proving her ability to blend herself into any part. Such was the case with her role in Star Trek: Voyager as Kellin, a Ramuran tracer who, because of the traits of her species, ends up having a rather complicated love affair with one of the crew members.

Sharon Lawrence

During her run as Sylvia Costas on NYPD Blue , Lawrence starred as Amelia Earhart, the female pilot and 20th century icon who was written in as a character on  Star Trek: Voyager.  The show goes so far as to solve her mysterious disappearance, which was the work of the alien species the Briori.

Rachael Harris

Another well-known staple in the world of comedy, Harris played Martis, an Ocampan who gives birth to her daughter, Kes, who would later become a crew member of The USS Intrepid on   Star Trek: Voyager .

The Orange is the New Black actress, perhaps best remembered from  A League of Their Own, pops up in a Star Trek: Voyager  episode as Noss, a mysterious stranger who lives on an uncharted planet, teaching Tom Paris and Tuvok how to survive on the desolate world she calls home.

Joanna Cassidy

Cassidy has been acting since the late-1960s, and eventually added Star Trek to her resume as the Vulcan T’Les, an instructor at the Vulcan Science Academy in Star Trek: Enterprise back in 2004 . 

Wynona Ryder

For the J.J. Abrams ‘  Star Trek reboot, Winona Rider played the part of Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock (played by both Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy), who was killed while trying to evacuated her adopted home planet.

Jennifer Morrison

Yes, Emma Swan from NBC’s Once Upon A Time played Winona, the mother of Captain Kirk (now played by Chris Pine), in Star Trek and the sequel Star Trek: Into Darkness .

Alfre Woodard

A survivor of the third world war, Alfre Woodard played Lily Sloane, a human who helps Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) build the first ever warp drive, drawing intergalactic attention to planet Earth in Star Trek: First Contact . Of course, the Enterprise-D is drawn in to help stave off some unwanted attention from the time-traveling Borg.

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Sexism in Star Trek

Uhura and James Kirk

Star Trek may have been progressive for its time, but it was still a product of the 1960s. This was especially obvious in how it treated women, from Orion slave girls to tiny miniskirts to William Ware Theiss’ outfits, which left little to the imagination.

Putting a woman of color on the command bridge of the Enterprise was a big deal in 1960s America, but Uhura often had little more to do than relay messages. In “The Man Trap”, she even complains to Spock that she is bored with her work and asks him, “Why don’t you tell me I’m an attractive young lady or ask me if I’ve ever been in love?”

Whoopi Goldberg and Nichelle Nichols

Uhura was seldom involved in decision-making. She would stay behind whenever the other, male officers decanted to the briefing room to discuss the crisis of the week.

Nichelle Nichols felt her character was being underused, telling TV Guide in 1967, “My problem is being a black woman on top of being a woman.”

Even when Uhura played a bigger role in the story, she behaved differently from the men. When centuries of human history are wiped out in “The City on the Edge of Forever”, Uhura lets Kirk know she is “frightened”. Can you imagine Scotty or Sulu making a similar confession?

But, looking back, Nichols also insisted the part mattered. She told Starlog in 1992:

I rather resent it when people say Uhura didn’t do anything but say, “Hailing frequencies open.” That’s not true. It demeans my status. Uhura represented womanhood and the breakthrough of cross-racial representation. She represented dignity and intelligence, and no one can take that away from her, or me.

Her mere presence inspired Mae Jemison to become an astronaut and Whoopi Goldberg to become an actor.

Nichelle Nichols and Mae Jemison

Women second

Uhura’s “frightened” moment in “The City on the Edge of Forever” was not the norm. Nichols was more often able to portray Uhura as a professional women. In “The Naked Time”, when an intoxicated Sulu declares to Uhura, “I’ll protect you, fair maiden,” she responds: “Sorry, neither.”

Others were not so lucky. Grace Lee Whitney, who played Janice Rand, had to fall in William Shatner’s arms whenever there was danger, notably in “Balance of Terror”. Emily Banks, playing Yeoman Barrows, dons a medieval dress in “Shore Leave” in an attempt to woo Dr McCoy and sobs uncontrollably when he apparently dies until the captain calls her to order. Madlyn Rhue, as Marla McGivers, only has to lay eyes on the superman Khan in “Space Seed” to betray her crew for him. The only thing saving the women of the Enterprise from emotional breakdown are the men, usually Kirk.

Janice Rand and James Kirk

Exceptions include Lieutenant Palamas (Leslie Parrish), who manipulates Apollo’s affection for her in “Who Mourns for Adonias?”, and Areel Shaw (Joan Marshall), who doesn’t let her feelings for Kirk stand in the way of prosecuting him in “Court Martial”.

Although even she, like so many of the series’ female guest stars, was a love interest of Kirk’s.

In “Who Mourns for Adonias?”, Kirk and McCoy take it for granted that Palamas will “leave the service” as soon as she “find[s] the right man.” Janice Lester’s (Sandra Smith) lament in “Turnabout Intruder” — “Your world of starship captains doesn’t admit women” — was for a time interpreted by fans as meaning women couldn’t command starships. The more charitable interpretation is that a captain doesn’t have time for marriage. In either case, the interests and desires of women come second.

Including their sexual desires. After an evil Kirk attempts to rape Rand in “The Enemy Within”, Spock creepily remarks to her that the impostor “had some interesting qualities.” Apollo in “Who Mourns for Adonias?”, Charlie in “Charlie X”, Kryton in “Elaan of Troyius” and Salish in “The Paradise Syndrome” all attempt murder when the women they desire turn them down.

When a powerful woman does show up, such as Joanne Linville’s Romulan commander in “The Enterprise Incident”, she can be manipulated by a man.

By men, for men

Dorothy Fontana

The above is far from an exhaustive list of examples, but they make the point: with few exceptions, the women of Star Trek were defined by their relations with men. In only 7.5 percent of episodes do two named female characters talk with each other about something other than men. (For comparison, The Next Generation would score 45 percent in this so-called Bechdel test, named after cartoonist Alison Bechdel.)

One reason was that the show was made by men. Dorothy C. Fontana was the only woman script writer and story editor. (And she was credited as “D.C. Fontana” to hide her sex.) All the cinematographers, directors and producers were men .

Another reason, according to Producer Herb Solow, was Roddenberry himself. To the Star Trek creator, Solow writes in Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , “Women were, essentially, sex objects always ready for action.”

(Roddenberry would regret this, admitting in an interview with Cinefantastique not long before his death that, during The Original Series , “I didn’t pay any attention to women.”)

We see this in the way women were dressed, in the way they were photographed and even in the way they were filmed.

Grace Lee Whitney

The miniskirts may not have been intentionally sexist. Nichols writes in Beyond Uhura that no one saw them as demeaning at the time. “In fact, the miniskirt was a symbol of sexual liberation.”

But they were also, according to Hannah Givens , a way to reassure an anxious public “that femininity wouldn’t disappear in the Space Age.”

The first woman had already flown to space in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. Her “mannish” and militarized appearance seemed to indicate dangerously unstable gender roles. While Star Trek challenged those roles with its scripts — even challenging heteronormativity in important ways — miniskirts helped camouflage those statements and make them palatable for the audience.

Costume designer William Ware Theiss, a gay man, made sexy outfits for men as well. But it were his revealing dresses for women that inspired the “Theiss Titillation Theory”: the idea that sex appeal lies not in the amount of skin shown, but rather in the likelihood of a costume falling off.

Andrea

Examples include Sherry Jackson’s android in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”, whose top consists of two crossing straps of fabric connected in one piece to her trousers, and the dress Apollo fashions for Palamas in “Who Mourns for Adonias?”, the front of which is held up by the weight of the train falling over her shoulder.

Kirk’s gaze

On closeup, women’s faces were shot in a soft focus and often paired with romantic, swooning music :

While the crew members were shot heroically in blazing light and sharp focus, love interests, on the other hand, looked more like watercolors. To achieve the effect, thin layers of plastic, or diffusion filters, were placed before the lens for those shots.

The technique came to be known as “The Gaussian Girl,” named for the Gaussian blur.

Regular actresses Majel Barrett, Nichelle Nichols and Grace Lee Whitney were usually exempt.

The technique was typically reserved as sort of “Kirk’s gaze” point-of-view perspective.

Marla McGivers

13 comments

Fantastic article! I wish I had this on EAS as well, because it further evidences some observations I made when watching TOS in more recent years, including “Gaussian girls”.
I think that as accurate as your piece is in calling out some of the sexist elements of TOS, it misses the mark in damning Trek as made by men for men. What about the way Kirk often managed to rip his shirt, exposing his chest? Or the way Spock was given more exposure when it became known that women were responding to him with desire? It’s enough to point out that TOS was a product of its time, but it is also true they were trying to make a successful television show and that, even today, means a little sexiness often needs to be part of the mix. If the way sex was added to the female characters is more obvious to contemporary eyes, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t added to the male characters as much, though perhaps in ways we overlook. Ultimately I’m not sure what the purpose of these sorts of claims are. Is it to say that somehow the producers were morally wrong in what they put on the screen? Is it to say that Star Trek does not deserve the reputation it has for being progressive? Is it to warn contemporary fans not to model the behavior seen in the show?
I think the article doesn’t judge TOS by today’s standards, but just calls out what would be different today. There was nothing wrong with it in the 1960s, except perhaps that it was a missed chance to go even further that TOS did anyway.
“Grace Lee Whitney, who played Janice Rand, had to fall in William Shatner’s arms whenever there was danger, notably in “Balance of Terror”.” It’s worth noting that this was later highlighted in the internal Star Trek writers’ guide as an example of what *not* to do, although those scenarios are criticized as being unrealistic rather than being sexist. Transcript as taken from The Making of Star Trek pp. 324-326. I’ve significantly abridged it, but I’ve not changed any context. All emphasis from original, both CAPS and *italics*. CAN YOU FIND THE MAJOR STAR TREK FORMAT ERROR IN THE FOLLOWING “TEASE” FROM A STORY OUTLINE? The scene is the bridge of the U.S.S. (United States Spaceship) *Enterprise*. Captain Kirk is at his command position, his lovely but highly efficient female Yeoman at his side. Suddenly, and without provocation, our Starship is attacked by an alien space vessel. […] Kirk puts his arms about his lovely Yeoman, comforting and embracing her as they wait for what seems certain death. FADE OUT. (END TEASER) PLEASE CHECK ONE ( ) *Inaccurate terminology.* The *Enterprise* is more correctly an international vessel, the United Spaceship *Enterprise*. ( ) *Scientifically incorrect.* […] ( ) *Unbelievable.* The Captain would not hug a pretty Yeoman on the bridge of his vessel. ( ) *Concept weak.* […] NO, WE’RE NOT JOKING. THE PRECEDING PAGE WAS A VERY REAL AND IMPORTANT TEST OF YOUR APPROACH TO SCIENCE FICTION. HERE’S WHY. ( ) *Inaccurate terminology.* Wrong, if you checked this one. Sure, the term “United States Spaceship” was incorrect, but it could have been fixed with a pencil slash. […] ( ) *Scientifically incorrect.* Wrong again; beware if you checked this one. […] ( ) *Concept weak.* Wrong again. It is, in fact, much like the opening of one of our best episodes of last year. […] UNDERSTANDING THE RIGHT ANSWER TO THIS IS BASIC TO UNDERSTANDING THE STAR TREK FORMAT. THIS WAS THE CORRECT ANSWER: (x) Unbelievable. Why the correct answer? Simply because we’ve learned during a full season of making visual science fiction that believability of characters, their actions and reactions, is our greatest need and is the most important angle factor. Let’s explore that briefly: NOW, TRY AGAIN. SAME BASIC STORY SITUATION, BUT AGAINST ANOTHER BACKGROUND. The time is today. We’re in Vietnam waters aboard the navy cruiser U.S.S. Detroit. Suddenly an enemy gunboat heads for us, our guns unable to stop it, and we realize it’s a suicide attack with an atomic warhead. Would Captain E.. Henderson, presently commanding the U.S.S. *Defiant*, turn and hug a comely female WAVE who happened to be on his ship’s bridge? As simple as that. This is our standard test that has led to Star Trek believability. (It also suggests much of what has been wrong in filmed sf of the past.) *No, Captain Henderson wouldn’t! Not if he’s the kind of captain we hope is commanding any naval vessel of ours!* Nor would our Captain Kirk hug a female crewman in a moment of danger, not if he’s to remain believable. (Some might *prefer* that Henderson were somewhere making love rather than shelling Asian ports, but that’s a whole different story for a whole different network. Probably BBC.)
“One reason was that the show was made by men. Dorothy C. Fontana was the only woman script writer and story editor.” This quote seems off the mark for several reasons: how can you describe a show as being made “by men” – implying the complete absence of women – then actually list a woman who happened to not only write scripts, but was a story editor? For another, it omits the contributions of several women writers like Margaret Armen (“The Gamesters of Triskelion,” “The Paradise Syndrome,” “The Cloud Minders”), Jean Lisette Aroeste (“Is There In Truth No Beauty?” “All Our Yesterdays”), Joyce Muskat (“The Empath”), Judy Burns (co-writer “The Tholian Web”) and Shari Lewis (co-writer “The Lights of Zetar”). Not only did women write for TOS, they authored some of the most insightful and emotional episodes of the entire franchise. By all means, it’s important to acknowledge how far we’ve come since the 1960s, but I think it’s also important to remember the trailblazers who helped Trek transcend its time.
I think you need read up on television production titles, especially in Hollywood. Story editor is the most junior staff member on a TV show (if you don’t count interns). They just take down everyone’s notes in a writer’s room. They don’t ‘edit’ in the sense that we think of in literary publishing. Don’t know where you’re from, but here in America we’re all about titles over real work. Once upon a time, I was a ‘manager’ even though no other human being in the company reported to me. It was just that the title was attached to the salary slot.
Yes, Star Trek was trail-blazing and progressive in many respects, but in this respect — gender, gender roles, gender parity — it wasn’t. In this respect, Star Trek was like most shows in the 1960s. It was hardly unique in its stereotypical, one-dimensional portrayal of women, but — as Bernd said — it was a missed opportunity. Acknowledging that doesn’t diminish Star Trek ’s legacy or reputation. In fact, it was the recognition that the original Star Trek had done women a disservice that led to improvements (and some silly overreactions) in TNG and the later series. I have another story, about sexism and gender roles in The Next Generation , coming out later this year that ties into this. As for some of the specific criticisms: 1. There is a difference between sexy and sexism. Male characters, like Kirk and Spock, may have been sexy, but they were complex characters with their own internal motivations and emotions. Female characters seldom were. As I mention in the article, they were often defined by the actions of men. That’s sexism. 2. A few episodes were written by women, but they were few and with the exception of Fontana all the permanent staff were men. So I think it’s fair to say Star Trek was “made by men”. This matters, because if there are (almost) no women in the room when decisions are made about how to write or portray or a scene, or what costume to give an actress, then chances are you’ll end up with decisions that aren’t exactly gender-balanced. That’s still true today. It was certainly true in the 1960s.
It’s very fair to say it was made by men for men. I don’t know anything about D.C. Fontana, but when only one woman is on the staff, she often thinks and writes like one of the boys. She’s probably extremely talented, otherwise she wouldn’t have been hired, but she also may have been an attractive hire because of the unlikelihood that she would challenge conventional gender norms.
I don’t think we should make such assumptions. What we know for sure is that Fontana was credited as “D.C.”, instead of “Dorothy”, to hide her sex. And I think you’re right on the first point – if there’s only one woman in a group, the culture is almost inevitably going to male and male-oriented. Arguing Star Trek wasn’t made “by men, for men” because there was one (one!) woman on a production staff of dozens misses the point.
The article omits an important fact which deserves mention. In the original pilot which later became the episode “The Cage,” there was a female second in command played by Majel Barrett who later played nurse Chapel. NBC nixed that idea and forced them to change it
That depends on which account you believe. Roddenberry said NBC didn’t want a woman as second in command, Solow says NBC didn’t like any of the casting of the first pilot except Hunter and Nimoy. I suspect the truth is that Number One didn’t test well with test audiences and NBC didn’t like the casting, so the character was dropped.
Sure, the women’s parts were different, especially on the ship. There were no female admirals or ship’s captains. In that sense, Star Trek broke few barriers, especially in the beginning. But outside of Starfleet, there were many intriguing, exceptional and powerful female characters: Mea 3, Commissioner Hepford, Edith Keeler, Losira, Lt. Marlena Moreau, the female lawyer who prosecuted Kirk for the Ben Finney incident. Sylvia, Lt. Palomas, the Romulan Commander of Season 3, Miranda, Dr. Anne Mulhall… I could go on. There’s a female lieutenant in “That Which Survives” who convinces Spock to alter his search strategy in a way Sulu never did. Yeah, some were damsels in distress in part, but most exercised real authority and/or good judgement which saved the main characters. Can’t understand the last episode with a rule of no female captains. A meta statement on 60s reality?
Perceptive piece. I’ve been re-warching the original series and noticed many of the things you describe, such as Uhura’s remarks, the way the yeomen wait on Kirk and those incredibly short skirts.

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  • Vulcan female characters have played a variety of roles in the Star Trek franchise, from Starfleet officers to influential leaders on Vulcan. They have had relationships with Starfleet officers and have been proteges of Spock.
  • Some notable Vulcan women include Lt. Valeris, a disappointment and traitor; Admiral Patar, who met a tragic end; Lt. T'Veen, who was murdered in a hostage situation; T'Mir, who helped introduce Vulcan technology to Earth; and President T'Rina, who helped reunify Vulcan and Romulan races.
  • T'Pau, described as "all of Vulcan in one package," was a powerful and influential woman on Vulcan, while T'Pring's complicated love story with Spock has been given more context and nuance in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Lt. T'Lyn has emerged as a popular new Vulcan character, and Lt. Saavik and Subcommander T'Pol are considered legendary Vulcan characters.

Female Vulcans rank among Star Trek ' s greatest characters, and a few are even notorious. Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 1, "Amok Time," opened up Mr. Spock's (Leonard Nimoy) Vulcan culture when he returned to his homeworld. "Amok Time" introduced two crucial female Vulcan characters, T'Pring (Arlene Martel) and T'Pau (Celia Lovsky), who set the stage for how the women of Vulcan would be portrayed throughout the Star Trek franchise.

Vulcan female characters run the gamut of being Star Trek series leads and supporting characters. Some have been Starfleet Officers while others proudly work on Vulcan. Star Trek's Vulcan women have had relationships with Starfleet Officers, and two have been the proteges of Spock. Influential and powerful Vulcan women have made an impact in every generation of Star Trek . One disgraced the United Federation of Planets in the late 23rd century while another is helping unify the Federation in the distant 32nd century. Here are 10 of the best and worst of Star Trek's female Vulcan characters.

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Lieutenant Valeris - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Played by kim cattrall.

Lt. Valeris (Kim Cattrall) is, perhaps, the greatest disappointment among Star Trek's female Vulcans, and she is certainly a sore subject for her mentor Spock. The first Vulcan to graduate at the top of her class from Starfleet Academy, Lt. Valeris was stationed on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . Valeris was secretly part of a conspiracy involving rogue Klingons, Romulans, and Federation officers who assassinated Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner) and framed Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner). Valeris and her conspirators' plan to prevent peace between the Klingons and the Federation was foiled, and Valeris was arrested for treason.

Admiral Patar - Star Trek: Discovery

Played by tara nicodemo, star trek: discovery.

Release Date 2017-09-24

Genres Drama, Sci-Fi, Adventure

Streaming Sevice Paramount+

Patar (Tara Nicodemo) is notable as a female Vulcan who achieved the rank of Starfleet Admiral. In Star Trek: Discovery season 2, Admiral Patar was among a group of flag officers who empowered Control, Section 31's threat assessment A.I. Control went rogue and took over Section 31, killing and replacing several Starfleet Officers including Section 31's leader Captain Leland (Alan Van Sprang). Admiral Patar was among those Control murdered and impersonated, a sad ending for a Vulcan woman who rose so high in 23rd-century Starfleet.

Lieutenant T'Veen - Star Trek: Picard

Played by stephanie czajkowski, star trek: picard.

Release Date 2020-01-23

Genres Drama, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

Lieutenant T'Veen (Stephanie Czajkowski) is a Star Trek: Picard season 3 tragedy. T'Veen was the Science Officer of the USS Titan-A, and she was an essential part of Captain Liam Shaw's (Todd Stashwick) bridge crew. When Changelings led by Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer) invaded the Titan, they stormed the bridge and held the crew hostage. T'Veen was murdered by Vadic in order to force Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) to surrender. T'Veen cried a tear before she was disintegrated, which indicates the bald Science Officer was half-Vulcan and half-Deltan.

T'Mir - Star Trek: Enterprise

Played by jolene blalock, star trek: enterprise.

Release Date 2005-05-13

Genres Sci-Fi

Streaming Sevice Paramount+, Netflix

T'Mir was the second foremother (great-grandmother) of T'Pol on Star Trek: Enterprise and Jolene Blalock played both roles in Enterprise season 2, episode 2, "Carbon Creek". T'Mir was part of a Vulcan expedition that crash-landed on Earth in 1957, making them among the first Vulcans to visit Earth over a century before Star Trek's official First Contact Day. T'Mir and her crewmates secretly lived along the unsuspecting people of Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania for months. Prior to her rescue, T'Mir sold Vulcan velcro technology in order to pay for one of the townspeople's college education.

In Star Trek's canon, T'Mir is the reason the human race has velcro.

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President T'Rina - Star Trek: Discovery

Played by tara rosling.

In Star Trek: Discovery 's 32nd century, T'Rina (Tara Rosling) is President of Ni'Var, the renamed planet Vulcan that is home to the reunified Vulcan and Romulan races, as well as the Romulan warrior nuns called the Qowat Milat. Initially reluctant to allow Ni'Var to rejoin the fractured United Federation of Planets after The Burn, T'Rina changed her mind after observing the heroism of Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) of the USS Discovery, who led First Contact with Species 10-C in an adjoining galaxy. T'Rina also sparked a romance with Captain Saru (Doug Jones), the first love story between a Vulcan and a Kelpien.

T'Pau - Star Trek: The Original Series & Star Trek: Enterprise

Played by celia lovsky in tos and kara zediker on enterprise, star trek: the original series.

Release Date 1966-09-08

Genres Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Described by Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) as "all of Vulcan in one package," T'Pau (Celia Lovsky) was the most powerful and influential woman on Vulcan during Star Trek: The Original Series ' era. T'Pau, the first person to turn down a seat on the Federation Council, oversaw the kal-if-fee ritual that severed the bond between Spock and his fiancée, T'Pring (Arlene Martel). Over a century earlier, Star Trek: Enterprise season 4 depicted how Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and T'Pol helped a younger T'Pau (Kara Zediker ) overthrow the corrupt Vulcan government's plot to subjugate Vulcan to the Romulans and reinstall the teachings of Surak.

T'Pring - Star Trek: The Original Series & Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Played by arlene martel in tos and gia sandhu in strange new worlds, star trek: strange new worlds.

Release Date 2022-05-05

Genres Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

For decades, T'Pring was seen as a callous woman who wished to break her engagement to Spock in order to marry another man, Stonn (Lawrence Montaigne) in Star Trek: The Original Series season 2's premiere, "Amok Time." Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has added far more context and nuance to the genuine but complicated love story between the younger T'Pring (Gia Sandhu) and Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck). At this point in their lives, Spock and T'Pring tried to make their relationship work, but it was jeopardized by Spock's devotion to Starfleet and his attraction to Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), which caused T'Pring to put the brakes on her and Spock's engagement.

Lieutenant T'Lyn - Star Trek: Lower Decks

Played by gabrielle ruiz.

Lieutenant T'Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz) quickly emerged as the most popular new Vulcan female character Star Trek has introduced in decades. On Star Trek: Lower Decks , T'Lyn was banished from her Vulcan science vessel for being "too emotional," and she transferred to Starfleet's USS Cerritos. T'Lyn's dry logic has been a welcome and hilarious contrast to her fellow Lower Deckers, and she was pleased to receive a quick promotion to Lieutenant, junior grade. Deciding that her place is on the Cerritos after all, T'Lyn is a welcome reminder of how cool and genuinely funny Vulcans can be.

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Lieutenant Saavik -Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock & Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Played by kirstie alley in star trek ii and robin curtis in star trek iii & star trek iv.

Debuting in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Lt. Saavik (Kirstie Alley) was the first significant Vulcan character in Starfleet, and she has become legendary despite just 3 appearances in the Star Trek movies. Saavik served on the USS Enterprise during Admiral Kirk's battle with Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban). Saavik returned in Star Trek III and IV , where she was played by Robin Curtis, and she was crucial in restoring the resurrected Spock back to his proper Vulcan self. Although Saavik hasn't been seen since 1986, Star Trek: Picard season 3's backstory updated her canon.

In 2293, Saavik was promoted to become the first Captain of the USS Titan.

Subcommander T'Pol - Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise retconned Subcommander T'Pol to be the first Vulcan to serve as Science Officer and First Officer of the Starship Enterprise. T'Pol was a reluctant participant in the NX-01 Enterprise's maiden voyage under Captain Jonathan Archer, but she remained aboard the human vessel and gradually came to respect and befriend the Starfleet Officers. T'Pol's knowledge and efficiency were integral to the legendary voyages of the NX-01 Enterprise, while T'Pol herself shifted her allegiance from the Vulcan High Command to Starfleet. Jolene Blalock arguably delivered the finest portrayal of a Vulcan since Leonard Nimoy himself, and T'Pol is not only the greatest female Vulcan in Star Trek but one of the best Vulcan characters of the franchise.

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47 Badass Women of Star Trek

The Beat is celebrating Women’s History Month with some of Trek’s most badass women.

To celebrate Women’s History Month here at Stately Beat Manor, we’ve put together a list of 47 badass women of Star Trek! 

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Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols & Celia Rose Gooding)

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When the first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first aired, communications officer Nyota Uhura was there on the bridge! A key player in all three seasons of TOS , Uhura continued to make an impression on the bridge of the Enterprise in the sequel series, Star Trek: The Animated Series . In fact, TAS even allowed Uhura to take command of the Enterprise in one episode!

Uhura also appeared in all 6 of the TOS cast movies. And in Star Trek: Picard season 2, background details revealed she became a Starfleet Captain, commanding the first ship on which Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) served. On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , Gooding gives us a look of Uhura’s early days on the Enterprise .

Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry)

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Originally making her debut on Star Trek: The Next Generation , Lwaxana may have managed to top these memorable appearances when she heavily flirted with the rule-abiding shapeshifter Odo ( René Auberjonois ) on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Regrettably, Barrett-Roddenberry died before the debut of Star Trek: Lower Decks , a venue that would have provided an incredible stage for Lwaxana.

“My mother’s joy came from bringing Lwaxana Troi to life because they didn’t write that character for her, but that was her being herself. She wouldn’t let anyone put her in her place. She was over the top, and she was flamboyant. When push came to shove, she would shove back,” said Rod Roddenberry about his mother’s favorite role in the Star Trek franchise in an interview with Geek Girl Authority .

Vice Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew)

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On Star Trek: Voyager , Captain Kathryn Janeway gave us our first leading lady commander. Over the course of all seven seasons, Janeway fearlessly guided her wayward crew back to Earth from the Delta Quadrant. Meanwhile, she consumed a lot of coffee and conducted experiments that revolutionized many areas of Starfleet science upon Voy ’s return.

A few years after the conclusion of Voyager , on Star Trek: Prodigy , two different versions of Janeway play key roles. While the Emergency Training Hologram Janeway guides the young crew of the USS Protostar , Vice Admiral Janeway plays a game of cat-and-mouse with the misunderstood crew.

Michael Burnam (Sonequa Martin-Green)

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Burnham didn’t start in the center chair on Star Trek: Discovery , and since the start of the series, we’ve seen her under the command of Captains that span the competence spectrum. Fortunately, that’s all behind us now, as a leap to the far-flung future at the outset of season 3 has allowed Captain Burnham to take her rightful place at the top of Disco ’s chain of command.

Time and again, Burnham demonstrates her competent leadership in matters personal and professional. Equally impressive is Martin-Green’s work on the series behind the camera, which earned her a producer credit for the show’s fourth season.

Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan)

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After being rescued from the Borg on Voyager , Seven was integrated into the Voy crew under the tutelage and guidance of Captain Janeway. After returning to the Alpha Quadrant with the crew, Seven attempted to join Starfleet, but was rejected. She instead became a defender of the innocent by joining the Fenris Rangers.

On Picard , Seven’s ongoing involvement with Admiral Picard’s adventures led to her successful conscription into Starfleet. As the First Officer aboard the USS Titan-A in Picard season 3, Seven plays an important role during a crucial mission.

D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells)

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As one of the first Orion ever to enlist in Starfleet, Tendi is truly going boldly where no one has gone before! Orion slave girls were originally introduced in the original pilot of TOS.   While other Orion women have appeared in Star Trek  shows since then, Tendi represents a major step forward in the depiction of the alien species.

In Lower Decks season 3, Tendi begins to accept her Orion heritage and her career gets fast-tracked due to her ongoing Science Officer training. And thanks to a holodeck movie, she can finally see herself in the role of Captain for the first time. Tendi is both the dreamer and the dream. She deserves all the pesto she can eat!

Hoshi Sato (Linda Park)

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On the bridge of the NX-01 Enterprise on Star Trek: Enterprise , Hoshi serves an important role in humanity’s fledging steps into the stars. As linguist, her role is fundamental to the communications abilities of the crew under Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ).

In the Mirror Universe, Hoshi also plays an important role. After murdering Mirror Archer, she becomes the first Terran Emperor. In the opening pages of Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing by John Jackson Miller , Emperor Sato is quoted: “I started as an educator. The lesson I teach today: it takes only one Terran to turn reality upside down, and change the future…” 

Nurse Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry & Jess Bush)

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First appearing in 1966’s TOS episode “The Naked Time,” Gene Roddenberry snuck his wife Majel on to the CBS set in a blonde wig and cast her as the badass essential worker of the Enterprise, Nurse Chapel. Before she spent time pining over Science Officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) and bandaging up a whiney Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Chapel earned several advanced degrees to become a bio-researcher. 

Did I mention she’s queer AF? By the time Star Trek: The Motion Picture rolls around, she’s not only queer AF, but she’s also a queer AF doctor.

T’Pol (Jolene Blalock)

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As the first Vulcan to serve aboard a starship helmed by humans, T’Pol had to put up with a lot—especially that human odor. Once she got used to the smell, T’Pol’s time with the hoo-mans proved invaluable, and she learned to stand up for herself even when it went against the wishes of the High Command. While falling in love and making babies certainly doesn’t make you great, boldly going to home base with Chief Engineer Trip Tucker is a story for the herstory books! 

Una Chin-Riley (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry & Rebecca Romijin)

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Una, or simply “Number One,” first appeared in the original TOS pilot. However, her part was cut from the series. Barrett-Roddenberry was subsequently recast, both as the aforementioned Nurse Chapel and the Enterprise computer. Later, on TAS , she also played the original Caitian, communications officer M’Ress.

Meanwhile, SNW is finally giving Una the chance for further development. Over the course of the first season, we learned that Una is a genetic augment. This means she’s barred from Starfleet service, and has enlisted under false pretenses. Just how this engaging ongoing storyline plays out remains to be seen, and the character’s absence during TOS lends tension to the dangling plot thread.

Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis)

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As the Captain of a California-class ship, Freeman doesn’t always get the respect that she’s earned. However, that never stops her from fully committing to performing her duties as a Starfleet officer. This includes when she’s facing sarcastic Vulcan salutes from her daughter and dealing with one of those Starfleet Badmirals that seem to show up so often.

Time and again, Freeman proves that the support ships are just as important to the continued operation of the Federation as any flagship could be. And besides, the Cerritos is kind of like the Enterprise of the Cali-class. Cerritos strong!

Philipa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh)

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Georgiou Prime was a decorated Starfleet Captain in her own right. However, she dies early on in the series. We get a much better chance to get to know Mirror Georgiou over the course of the character’s multi-season role on Discovery . 

After being dragged into our universe, the sharp-tongued and shockingly intelligent Mirror Georgiou winds up joining the secret Starfleet division Section 31. While the character is currently MIA after stepping through the Guardian of Forever, the Star Trek: Section 31  spinoff starring Mirror Georgiou reportedly remains in development.

Dr. Gillian Taylor (Catherine Hicks)

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In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , Dr. Taylor is a whale biologist who works for the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California in 1986. She plays an important role in ensuring humpback whales George and Gracie are able to travel back to the future at the climax of the movie.

Once she arrives in the future, it appears as though Taylor makes a splash herself. In Lower Decks , the logo for the Cetacean Ops division aboard the Cerritos borrows heavily from the 1980s logo for the Cetacean Institute. This heavily implies that Taylor’s work plays an important role in the development of this popular field of study.

Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor)

female star trek characters original series

Nerys can go toe-to-toe with anyone: Cardassian prison warden and fascist despot Gul Dukat, fellow rage-fueled Bajoran freedom fighter Lieutenant Shax, and even a pansexual Mirror Universe version of herself.

On Lower Decks , it is revealed that in the wake of Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) becoming a wormhole alien god, Nerys took over as commander of Deep Space 9. 

Jadzia Dax & Ezri Dax (Terry Farrell & Nicole de Boer)

female star trek characters original series

Jadzia and Ezri are the two Trill hosts of the Dax symbiote who play an important role in the events of DS9 . In events that took place before the series, a former male host of the symbiote was good friends with Captain Sisko. This adds an extra dimension to the relationship between Jadzia and Sisko, who affectionately refers to her as “old man.”  

Regrettably, Jadzia is murdered by the despicable Gul Dukat in the penultimate season of DS9 . However, this does give the opportunity for us to meet Ezri, who proves to offer a hitherto unseen perspective on the proceedings that take place on the space station.

Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui) 

female star trek characters original series

As the youngest Federation crew member on this list, Rok-Tahk, a refugee from Brikar, is a genius with a pension for all of the scientific disciplines and a heart of gold. Every planet that Rok-Tahk visits proves that she’ll do anything for creatures great and small, even risk her life. 

Read Rebecca Oliver Kaplan’s interview with Alazraqui here . 

Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis)

female star trek characters original series

While Picard may keep his Number One close at hand, he keeps his counselor, Troi, equally close. Over the course of TNG , this proves to be the best possible decision, as Troi’s insight regularly proves invaluable in the conflicts faced by the Enterprise-D .

In spite of serving on a Federation ship, Troi rarely wears a regulation Starfleet uniform. However, this sartorial decision demonstrates that the flagship’s counselor is beyond competent, whether she’s wearing a Starfleet uniform or not!

Gwyndala (Ella Purnell)

female star trek characters original series

A genetic clone created by her father, The Diviner ( John Noble ), Gwyn was literally designed to unite her people, the Vau N’Akat. Over the course of Star Trek: Prodigy ’s first season, Gwyn found her way to her purpose, a complex journey that is still in progress.

Just how Gwyn will play into future seasons remains to be seen. Nevertheless, as an initial antagonist who became part of the core crew of the Protostar, Gwyn carries on and embodies some of the most important themes from Janeway’s former crew aboard Voy.

Doctor T’Ana (Gillian Vigman)

female star trek characters original series

When she was first introduced on Lower Decks , T’Ana could be considered “a cat in a coat,” as Ensign Fletcher unfavorably dubs her. However as the character has revealed more of herself to audiences, she has become a fan favorite.

Part of her undeniable appeal comes from her passionate romance with Bajorian beefcake Shax. Better yet, while T’Ana is an undeniably sexual character, she’s never subjected to the male gaze. When it comes to T’Ana, the gaze subjects you.

B’Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson)

female star trek characters original series

There aren’t very many role models if you’re a women with suicidal ideation , especially in STEM. As a former Federation foe and Maquis Resistance fighter, when the Maquis ship that Torres was stationed on and Voyager get stranded in the Delta Quadrant, she must adapt to Starfleet rules and regulations after she’s named Chief Engineer.

It’s not an easy journey for the Klingon-Human engineer—in fact, she almost commits suicide before the starship finds its way back to Earth—but in the end, she discovers a will to live and the strength within herself to keep fighting against impossible odds.

Oh, and she’ll always have Tom Paris.

Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman)

female star trek characters original series

Who’s hot for teacher? Every single cadet whose had the pleasure of having Professor Tilly. Not only is Professor Tilly a science genius who programmed the food replicator to produce only spumoni ice cream by calculating the exact protein concentration and small particle dispersion of emulsifiers required, but she also knows how to whip out her survival training skills at the drop of a shuttle. In the 32nd century, she saves several cadets when a training mission goes south.

Me Hani Ika Hali Po (Yadira Guevara-Prip)

female star trek characters original series

Thanks to Tilly’s spumoni ice cream, Po, Queen of Xahea, saves galaxies. That may be putting their storyline simply, but Tilly and Po are proof positive of the power of female friendships. With a mother who encouraged her to be extraordinary and brother who taught her science, Po eventually develops a dilithium incubator that enables recrystalization of the mineral, making her world the most politically-relevant planet in the Alpha Quadrant. Luckily, thanks to the Queen’s relationship with Tilly, Po and Xahea remain safe.

Jett Reno (Tig Notaro)

female star trek characters original series

Reno crashed on a planet with the rest of her crew. As the ship’s only surviving crew member, she had to put all of her skills as an engineer to work to survive until the Disco  rescued her. A few seasons later, she saved the day with licorice—yes, licorice—and her finely honed wit.

La’An Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong)

female star trek characters original series

The descendant of Khan Noonien Singh, one of Star Trek ‘s most notorious villains, La’An showed that she’s more than in her genes in the first season of SNW . Hopefully, La’An will be writing a ‘How to Slay the Gorn’ manual sometime in the future.

Read Avery Kaplan’s interview with Chong here .

Doctor Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill)

female star trek characters original series

A cyberneticist at the Daystrom Institute who becomes wrapped up in Picard’s misadventures in the first and second seasons of Picard , Jurati eventually merges with an alternate-timeline Borg Queen ( Annie Wersching ). After performing a show-stealing rendition of “Shadows of the Night,” the mind-merged duo goes on to become the first member of a new kind of Borg: the Jurati Collective.

The Jurati Collective is currently guarding a massive tear in space-time that tore open in the season premiere and finale of Picard ’s second season. While she does not appear in Picard ’s third season, we’ll hopefully hear more from this intriguing new evolution of Jurati soon.

Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome)

female star trek characters original series

While she may not be a fan of protocol, Mariner is still Starfleet through and through! As the self-appointed boss of Beta Shift, Mariner sometimes instigates chaos in the name of “building character.” But at the end of the day, nothing’s more important to her than her family, chosen or biological.

Over the course of the third season of Lower Decks, Mariner was in a relationship with Jen the Andorian ( Lauren Lapkus ). However, it’s unclear if this coupling will recur in season 4. Plus, we’re looking forward to seeing how Mariner mixes with new Cerritos arrival T’Lyn ( Gabrielle Ruiz ).

President Laira Rillak (Chelah Horsdal)

female star trek characters original series

Rillak is a politician who was elected president of the Federation of Planets in 3190. While in this position, she faced a sweeping tragedy that challenged her leadership: the advent of the Dark Matter Anomaly. Fortunately, Rillak is a strong and competent leader who helps keep the Federation together during this difficult interval. At the conclusion of the season, she and Captain Burnham welcome Earth back into the Federation.

Doctor Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden)

female star trek characters original series

Originally introduced in the first episode of TNG , Crusher was absent during the second season of the series. This is because she left to become the head of Starfleet Medical! The incredibly gifted M.D. returned to the Enterprise-D in the third season and played a key role in many of the adventures undertaken by that ship and its predecessor, the Enterprise-E .

T’Pring (Arlene Martel, Gia Sandhu & Ethan Peck)

female star trek characters original series

Over the course of the first season of SNW , T’Pring has played an important role in multiple episodes. In one of them, “Spock Amok,” she even temporarily switched bodies with her betrothed and was thus obligated to reluctantly engage in hijinks.

In the TOS episode “Amok Time,” T’Pring executes her right to kal-if-fee in order to break her engagement to Spock, preferring another mate, Stonn. No need to feel bad for Spock, however. He returned to the Enterprise with his boyfriend, Kirk.

Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd)

female star trek characters original series

Happy Birthday, Raffi! It’s not easy to get clean. It’s especially not easy to get clean in the 25th century, in which designer drugs are tailored to be even more addictive using an ophthalmic drug delivery system, a particularly nasty way to get high that has an added risk of addiction. With drugs designed to each junkie’s taste so that repeat customers don’t turn to another dealer, it’s hard for any 21st and 25th century addict to turn over a new leaf. 

Using today’s understanding of substance abuse, rates of addiction are higher in the LGBTQIA+ community because of the political, social, and cultural pressure of being queer in America. This makes Star Trek: Picard’s decision to tell a story of addiction and recovery with a Black bisexual woman extremely relevant to today.

T’Veen (Stephanie Czajkowski)

female star trek characters original series

T’Veen is the science officer aboard the Titan-A in Picard season 3. The character is part Vulcan and one-quarter Deltan. Deltans are a species first introduced in TMP , and they are renowned for their sensuality. This ensures an intriguing character combination when combined with the repressive nature of most Vulcans.

Laris (Orla Brady)

female star trek characters original series

Laris is more than the woman who told Picard that he wasn’t worth her waiting around until he got his shit together. She is also a good cook and housekeeper, great Chateau Picard head of security, and excellent former Tal Shiar intelligence officer. As a member of the Romulan intelligence agency, which is known for its ruthless efficiency, Laris would have been responsible for reporting to the highest levels of government and military. Now, she uses her hard-earned Tal Shiar skills to help Picard and Starfleet. 

Captain Sonya Gomez (Lycia Naff)

female star trek characters original series

When we first met Gomez on TNG , she was an Ensign who spilled a considerable amount of hot chocolate on Captain Picard. But when she reappears on Lower Decks , Gomez has not only ranked all the way up to Captain herself, she’s in command of the impressive USS Archimedes , an Obena-class ship.

But lest you think success has gone to Gomez’s head, never fear. In “First First Contact,” she even allows Freeman to conduct First Contact with the Laaperians. “No ego on that one,” remarks an intoxicated Freeman after the event.

Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard)

female star trek characters original series

Anyone who can tell Captain Picard to shut up using a Moby Dick reference is a queen. Also, 2064 appears to be as lily-white as 2023, which comes as no surprise as it’s only a couple of decades after Star Trek ‘s Bell Riots. It’s a safe bet to assume that Lily’s indignance towards cis white men is deeply ingrained following years of negative experiences. 

Renée Picard (Penelope Mitchell)

female star trek characters original series

Doctor Picard is the single thread holding together Star Trek ‘s utopian vision of the future. She was already a trauma survivor by age ten, having survived the capsizing of her sailboat of the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. By age 11, this girl genius had taught herself Cantonese, chess, and fluid dynamics. Her passions led her to a career as a test pilot, and from there, she was recruited by NASA to save the Milky Way Galaxy (and our timeline) with a microorganism found on the Europa Mission. 

Saavik (Kristie Alley & Robin Curtis)

female star trek characters original series

Saavik was first introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . In that movie, she became the first person to be seen taking the infamous “Kobayashi Maru” onscreen. She played an important role in the resurrection of the titular Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock . She later became the Captain of the first Titan , a fact that is commemorated by a shuttlecraft bearing her name aboard the Titan-A in Picard season 3.

Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg & Ito Aghayere) 

female star trek characters original series

Guinan is the long-(long-)time proprietor of the bar Ten Forward, which has been located in various places, including Los Angeles and aboard the Enterprise-D . She tends bar, and she listens. She is a survivor of the Borg’s assimilation of her species.

Guinan is an invaluable advisor to Picard, and friend to Ensign Ro. Part of her will always be present inside the Nexus due to an event that took place in the first scenes of Star Trek: Generations . Also, she used to hang out with Samuel Clemens.

T’Rina (Tara Rosling)

female star trek characters original series

T’Rina serves as the President of Ni’Var in the late thirty-second century. She must advocate for the interests of her people during a complicated time in the history of the galaxy, and ultimately leads her world to reenter the Federation. Furthermore, her mind-melding abilities are an integral step towards the ultimate successful First Contact with Species 10-C.

Demora Sulu (Jacqueline Kim)

female star trek characters original series

Demora first appeared in Generations , where she was an ensign serving as helmsman aboard the maiden voyage of the Enterprise-B . She is the daughter of the legendary helmsman Hikaru Sulu ( George Takei ). According to many prose stories and Star Trek Online canon, Demora would later go on to become Captain of the B .

Chancellor L’Rell (Mary Chieffo)

female star trek characters original series

Klingons, the warrior race, aren’t exactly known for how they treat their women, but that doesn’t mean that several Klingon women haven’t risen to power on Qo’nos. One of the Klingon women who stands out the most in the planet’s rich history is L’Rell, who united the Klingon houses and was responsible for ending the Federation-Klingon War. Although, like many women in power, Mother L’Rell had to subscribe to a certain aesthetic to maintain her control, but she did it in feminine Elizabethian royal attire.

To learn more, watch the epic Klingon anthem from STO , “ Steel and Flame ,” written by Jason Charles Miller and performed by L’Rell (Chieffo), which describes the Chancellor’s return and rise to power within the Klingon empire.

Grilka (Mary Kay Adams)

female star trek characters original series

Grilka lives life full tilt, even bucking Klingon tradition to marry a Ferengi. When Quark claimed that he killed Grilka’s husband Kozak, she forced the barkeep to marry her so that she could retain control of her house. Thus, the House of Kozak became the House of Grilka, and feminists everywhere cheered. 

While L’Rell may have been born centuries before Grilka, Chieffo’s interpretation of the Klingon Chancellor was inspired by Adams’ performance in DS9 . In an interview with GGA , Chieffo said, “My favorite forever will be Grilka. […] It was a moment of, ‘Oh, it’s still a patriarchal society.’ […] L’Rell had to rise to power, ultimately to Chancellor, which is far more than Grilka got to do, but I’m glad I got to reap some of the benefits of the path she paved.”

Leeta (Chase Masterson)

female star trek characters original series

A dabo girl, and the OG sexy nerd. Leeta played ignorant before Paris Hilton made it cool. The Bajoran has led more than one rebellion. Not only did she work with the Terran Resistance Forces on Terok Nor, but she also teamed up with the rest of the Quark’s Bar staff to create a labor union.

Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia)

female star trek characters original series

Ortegas is the helmsman on the Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ). In addition to her impressive piloting skills, Ortegas is the only one with the hair and wit to match Pike’s generous allotment of each asset.

In the SNW episode “The Elysian Kingdom,” Ortegas carries on one a proud Enterprise helmsman tradition: swashbuckling. Touché, Ortegas!

Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes)

female star trek characters original series

When Ro first joined the crew of the Enterprise-D on TNG , she didn’t exactly face a warm welcome. Nevertheless, Ro managed to earn the respect of the rest of the crew, thanks in part to her friendship with Guinan. However, Ro was never willing to compromise her beliefs in order to fit in. For one thing, she ensured Picard would allow her to bend Starfleet uniform code so she could wear her traditional Bajoran earring.

Ro empathized with the Maquis, and ultimately defected from Starfleet in order to join their ranks. While Ro had initially been considered for DS9 , when Forbes declined the offer, she made way for the creation of Kira.

Professor Keiko O’Brien (Rosalind Chao)

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She turned a meat eater into a plant lover, and that is only the beginning of her list of achievements. Born in Japan, Keiko is a galaxy-class civilian botanist onboard the Enterprise-D and an elementary school teacher on Deep Space 9. In addition, a Pah-Wraith only possessed her once—in your face, Dukat. 

Zora (Sash Striga & Annabelle Wallis)

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Zora is the first of her kind, a fully sentient Starfleet vessel. When a Starfleet doctor tells the crew of the Discovery to evaluate Zora to see if her fully integrated sentient programming is against Starfleet regulation, the AI eloquently argues for her right to exist, saying, “I am attached to [my form] as you are to yours.” 

Watch Season 4, Episode 7, “…But to Connect,” to see more Zora (and trans allegory at its finest).

Ensign Kearns (Kari Wahlgren)

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An ensign aboard the Cali-class USS Carlsbad , Kearns is so skilled at her duties, she even impresses Ensign Mariner. While Beta Shift initially assumes that she thinks she’s too good for them, they later discover she is actually intimidated by the impressive reputation earned by the Cerritos.

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Joanne Linville

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Joanne Linville ( 15 January 1928 – 20 June 2021 ; age 93) was an actress who played the Romulan commander in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode " The Enterprise Incident ".

She filmed her scenes on Wednesday 19 June 1968 , and between Monday 24 June 1968 and Wednesday 26 June 1968 at Desilu Stage 9 and Paramount Stage 3 .

Linville was the first actress to play a female Romulan in the Star Trek franchise, and it may be this role for which she is most well-known. For the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode " Face Of The Enemy ", writer Naren Shankar suggested that Linville reprise her role as the Romulan commander, but she was unavailable. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 270)

Linville began acting on television in the 1950s, appearing on several popular anthology series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Kraft Television Theatre , and One Step Beyond . Perhaps her earliest was a 1954 episode of Studio One co-starring fellow Original Series guest performer David Opatoshu . She went on to make three more appearances on Studio One (including one with Fritz Weaver ), and even had a recurring role on the show. Another early appearance for Linville was a 1956 episode of The Kaiser Aluminum Hour entitled "Gwyneth", in which Linville played the title character. This episode also marked the first of several times Linville would work with her future Star Trek co-star William Shatner . She and Shatner next appeared together in a 1958 episode of The United States Steel Hour and then in a 1961 episode of The Defenders – both times playing husband and wife – before working together on Star Trek . She also worked with Leonard Nimoy prior to Star Trek , co-starring together (with Paul Carr ) in a 1962 episode of the drama Sam Benedict .

In 1959, Linville co-starred with the man who played the first Romulan commander seen on Star Trek , Mark Lenard , on a DuPont Show of the Month production of Don Quixote . In 1961, she starred as a Civil War widow unaware of the fact that she's dead in the episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "The Passerby", co-starring with fellow Original Series guest stars James Gregory and Rex Holman . She also guest-starred with Celia Lovsky in an episode of Gunsmoke that same year.

She went on to appear on such shows as Ben Casey , I Spy , The Fugitive (in an episode playing the wife of James Daly with Arch Whiting ), Bonanza (playing the daughter of Jeff Corey 's character), two episodes of Hawaii Five-O (including the two-part episode "Once Upon a Time" with Vince Howard , William Schallert , and Bill Zuckert ), Kojak (with Malachi Throne ), The Streets of San Francisco , CHiPs (with Robert Pine ), Charlie's Angels (with Bill Zuckert), and Mrs. Columbo (starring Kate Mulgrew in the title role). She also co-starred with both Fritz Weaver and Jason Wingreen in one episode of two different shows: The F.B.I. in 1969 (having previously appeared in an episode with William Smithers ) and Barnaby Jones in 1970 (on which she had previously appeared with Richard Derr ). Lee Meriwether was a regular on the latter series. The FBI episode with Linville and Fritz Weaver also featured Barry Atwater .

Linville's career also included small roles in a few feature films, most notably as Burt Lancaster's wife in the 1973 action thriller Scorpio , which also featured fellow Trek veterans John Colicos , James B. Sikking , William Smithers, and Celeste Yarnall . Other films in which she appeared include 1976's A Star Is Born and Gable and Lombard and 1982's The Seduction (starring Michael Sarrazin and Kevin Brophy ). Her earliest film, however, was the Academy Award-nominated 1958 drama The Goddess .

Additionally, Linville had roles in a number of made-for-TV movies, including 1970's House on Greenapple Road , in which she played the wife of the character played by William Windom . Tim O'Connor , Paul Fix , Ned Romero , Peter Mark Richman (billed as Mark Richman), and Ena Hartman were also in this film. She also appeared in Lou Antonio 's TV movie The Critical List in 1978. During the 1980s, Linville made two appearances on the soap opera Dynasty (starring Joan Collins and Lee Bergere ), an episode of L.A. Law (starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake ), and the 1989 TV movie From the Dead of Night (with Merritt Butrick ) before retiring from acting.

Linville was married from 1962 until 1973 to director Mark Rydell, and it was only for a supporting role in his 2001 TV biopic on James Dean that she briefly came out of retirement. She and Rydell had two children together – actors Amy and Christopher Rydell , the latter of whom has appeared on Star Trek: Enterprise . Amy Rydell later reprised her mother's role as the Romulan Commander for the fan series Star Trek Continues two-part finale, "To Boldly Go". Linville herself participated in the fan audio drama "Starship Excelsior" for the 50th anniversary special, "Tomorrow's Excelsior", reprising her role as the Romulan Commander.

Linville passed away on 20 June 2021 at the age of 93. [1]

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Celebrating Star Trek's Women Writers

From The Original Series to Lower Decks, these women have helped shape canon for the better.

Star Trek: The Original Series

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Star Trek has a history of not only highlighting powerful women on-screen, but featuring them behind-the-scenes as well. Going as far back as Star Trek : The Original Series , each series has featured women as episode writers, which was a striking move for a 1960s show. As the franchise continued to grow throughout the years, more women joined the Star Trek writing family, bringing us stories of humanity, hope, and heartbreak.

We’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite episodes written by women, starting with The Original Series and going all the way forward to Star Trek: Lower Decks . These stories have touched our hearts and changed Star Trek ’s canon for the better. Celebrate the history of women behind the camera by tuning in to these iconic episodes.

Star Trek : The Original Series

D.c. fontana , writer, "journey to babel".

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We’ve written about how much we love this episode before, but we consider it so important that it made this list too. D.C. Fontana changed our view of Vulcan by introducing Spock’s parents in this episode packed full of intrigue. As the Enterprise transports ambassadors, including Spock’s father Ambassador Sarek, to an important diplomatic meeting, a murder occurs and Sarek falls gravely ill. Fontana develops Spock’s character beautifully as he considers the needs of the many versus the needs of the few (a long time before Wrath of Khan ), and we can’t get enough of the family dynamics at play in the episode.

Jean Lisette Aroeste , writer, "Is There No Truth in Beauty?"

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Another popular episode from The Original Series, this episode follows psychologist Miranda Jones as she and the Enterprise travel with Medusan ambassador Kollos to his ship. The episode has plenty of action, but is perhaps most famous for summarizing Vulcan philosophy in a beautiful fashion that rings true today. There is infinite diversity in infinite combinations, and writer Jean Lisette Aroeste crafted the running theme of diversity in its infinite beauty perfectly.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Melinda m. snodgrass , writer, "the measure of a man".

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One of the best The Next Generation episodes (and so important that we included it in our Picard watch guide ), "The Measure of a Man" questioned Data’s personhood. Picard stood strong for his crewmember’s agency, even as Riker is forced into the uncomfortable position of having to argue against it. Melinda M. Snodgrass crafted an introspective episode that forced the crew of the Enterprise to examine what makes someone human, and in turn gave us one of the best episodes of television.

Jeri Taylor , writer, "The Drumhead"

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Picard faces a miscarriage of justice by a corrupt Starfleet admiral in this episode that defined him as a character. Picard believes that justice should be carried out in a rational, collected fashion, even as Admiral Satie accuses him of crimes he did not commit after defending a crewman from accusations of sabotage. Jeri Taylor gets to the heart of what makes Picard an admirable captain and a good man in this classic episode.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

D.c. fontana , writer, "dax".

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Taking up the pen again, Fontana wrote this episode which questions whether Jadzia Dax is guilty of crimes committed by the Dax symbiont while she was not the symbiont’s host. Questions of what makes someone culpable abound, as do plenty of twists and a surprising last minute play. One of the only episodes Fontana penned for DS9, this one is a good one to check out, especially if you’re a fan of legal intrigue.

Jane Espenson , writer, "Accession"

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Written by Jane Espenson, who’d go on to pen episodes of other popular genre shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Once Upon a Time , this episode explores the culture of Bajor and their caste system. Sisko must take a stand to ensure that the freedoms of the Bajoran people aren’t infringed upon. While not often found on the average Deep Space Nine top 10 episodes list, “Accession” is an important episode for characters like Kira, and a great way to check out the early work of one of television’s most famous sci-fi writers.

Star Trek: Voyager

Jeri taylor , writer, "coda" nancy malone , director, "coda".

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Janeway is struggling to survive as an entity wants to feed on her body in this decidedly creepy story, written by Jeri Taylor and directed by Nancy Malone. This episode follows Janeway’s struggle after she “dies,” and even includes her seeing what she assumes is the spirit of her father. If you need a scary tale to celebrate Halloween, you can’t go wrong with this, and if you’re looking for a good episode, Jeri Taylor rarely lets us down.

Phyllis Strong , co-writer, "Author, Author"

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The Doctor’s humanity and agency take center stage in “Author, Author,” co-written by Phyllis Strong. The Doctor wants to publish a novel when he returns to Earth, but the publishers refuse to recognize him as the copyright owner since he is not human. The crew of Voyager rallies behind him, establishing his personhood. One of the best Voyager episodes, Strong also co-wrote several episodes in the series’ final season.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Judith reeves-stevens , co-writer, "terra prime".

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The conclusion of a two-part episode, with a story and teleplay co-written by Judith Reeves-Stevens, saw Tucker and T’Pol facing a horrifying situation — a baby created from their genes being used as proof for why humans and other alien species should never have children. While the terrorists are stopped and the day is saved, their baby dies. It’s a heartbreaking narrative that shows the power of Star Trek to break our hearts as well as show viewers the best, and worst, of humanity.

Phyllis Strong , writer, "Regeneration"

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The Borg make their first appearance in the Enterprise timeline in an episode by Phyllis Strong. The episode features the crew trying to rescue missing researchers, and ends with the tease that the Borg have sent a message to their hive in the Delta Quadrant. The Borg have always been a terrifying part of Star Trek canon, and this is another fascinating addition to their lore.

Star Trek: Discovery

Bo yeon kim and erika lippoldt , writers, "through the valley of shadows".

Recap Through the Valley of Shadows

As Burnham wrestles with new discoveries, Pike faces a glimpse of the future in the penultimate episode of Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery . Seeing his own future, Pike opts to choose the good of the many over his own future, establishing himself as one of the greatest Starfleet captains. The episode was written by Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt, the writing team behind many of Discovery ’s episodes, and it gives us an emotional look at Pike, who became a fan-favorite during the course of the season.

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The third season of Star Trek: Discovery traveled to an unknown future where the status quo as we know it was out of balance. Burnham and the crew of the Discovery helped bring hope to the Federation and to a galaxy stricken by loss, and the finale cemented that hopeful message. Written by showrunner Michelle Paradise, this action-packed episode showcased the Discovery crew at their best and set up a whole new galaxy of adventures. Let’s fly, indeed.

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Kirsten Beyer brought Seven of Nine into a new era with “Stardust City Rag.” Seven has clearly been through so much in the time between Voyager and Picard , and we get a glimpse of that in the painful opening scene. Perhaps more important is the emotional conversation she has with Picard towards the end of the episode, where she asks him if he ever felt like he fully regained his humanity following assimilation. The commentary on their shared trauma is powerful.

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Samantha Humphrey, alongside showrunner Michael Chabon, wrote the reunion between Picard, Riker, and Troi. This powerful episode showed how far all three characters have come since their TNG days. As Riker and Troi remind Picard of the man he once was, Humphrey also sent off fan-favorite Hugh in a heroic blaze of glory. Fans adored the episode for all the beautiful moments of healing and the heartbreak that came alongside it.

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In Lower Decks ’ fourth episode, Mariner, Tendi, and Captain Freeman take the spotlight. Freeman wants Mariner off the ship, and she thinks a promotion is just the way to do it; however, when the ship is in danger, mother and daughter must work together to save the Cerritos . Meanwhile, Tendi struggles with feeling unliked after she accidentally interrupts a fellow crewman’s ascension ceremony. With plenty of jokes and Easter eggs, as well as a koala who carries the universe on its back, this episode is an excellent addition to the series.

This article was originally published on March 17, 2020.

In addition to streaming on Paramount+, Star Trek: Picard will also stream on Prime Video outside of the US and Canada, and in Canada can be seen on Bell Media's CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave.

Star Trek: Discovery Seasons 1-4 are currently streaming exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., the U.K., Switzerland, South Korea, Latin America, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, and Austria. Seasons 2 and 3 are also available on the Pluto TV Star Trek channel in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media's CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. Star Trek: Discovery is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

Star Trek: Lower Decks streams exclusively in the United States and Latin America on Paramount+. The series is distributed concurrently by Paramount Group Content Distribution on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan, India, and more, and in Canada on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. Additional international availability to be announced at a later date.

Stay tuned to StarTrek.com for more details! And be sure to follow @StarTrek on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

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10 Most Powerful Women in Star Trek

Star Trek has never shied away from showing women in powerful positions, and these characters show just how strong they can be.

Star Trek is well-known for pushing the boundaries in terms of representation since The Original Series aired on television in the 1960s. The Original Series showed the first significant representation of a black woman in space, and the first interracial kiss on prime-time television. In the 1990s, Star Trek introduced its first female captain and chief engineer in Voyager.

Throughout the various Star Trek series and movies over the years, there have therefore been many powerful female characters within and outside the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet. Some of them act as captains and admirals, some as emperors, and some as rulers of entire species. Some are allies of the Federation, where others use their power to become dreaded antagonists.

10 Kira Nerys

In the Prime Universe, Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) is a major, later colonel, in the Bajoran miliary, as well as briefly becoming a Starfleet officer on Deep Space Nine. Kira assumes command of the space station at some point, and also plays an integral role during the Dominion War, helping the Cardassian Rebellion survive to overthrow the Changelings.

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Being the Intendant and ruler of the space station Terok Nor in the Mirror Universe, Kira occupies powerful positions wherever she finds herself. Kira Nerys features mainly in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but also makes a surprise appearance in Lower Decks.

9 B'Elanna Torres

The first female chief engineer in Star Trek, B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) is the feisty half-Klingon, half-Human who serves under Captain Janeway on the USS Voyager. B'Elanna's intellect is only matched by the half-Borg Seven of Nine, and her fighting spirit far surpasses that of anyone else on Voyager.

B'Elanna's engineering skills saves Voyager on more than one occasion, and she manages her engineering team with an iron first. B'Elanna is not only one of the powerful woman in Star Trek, but also one of the most iconic Klingons the franchise has seen to date.

8 Nyota Uhura

Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) is one of the iconic women from The Original Series, and reappears throughout Star Trek in the Kelvin timeline films, as well as, more recently, in Strange New Worlds (played by Celia Rose Gooding). Uhura has been an inspiration to women and girls for years, being the first major representation of a black woman on a spaceship on prime-time television.

Although Uhura did not have many lines in The Original Series, her ingenuity and intellect is shown more fully in Strange New Worlds, when it is revealed that she speaks 37 earth languages, and she is a xeno-linguist.

7 Number One

Una Chin-Riley (Majel Barrett), also called Number One, is Captain Pike's first in command on the starship Enterprise. Number One makes a brief appearance in The Original Series as well as in the Star Trek short films called Short Treks, but she plays a far more prominent role in Star Trek: Discovery and Strange New Worlds (where she is played by Rebecca Romjin).

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Number One is incredibly resourceful and reliable, so much so that the title "Number One" has been given to others in her command level. For the 1960s, when she made her first appearance, it was unheard of to have a representation of a woman in such a high level of command.

6 Seven of Nine

Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) is the famous ex-Borg human from Star Trek: Voyager. Recently, Seven of Nine has returned in Star Trek: Picard as a gun-toting vigilante and first officer on board the USS Titan. Seven of Nine is unmatched in her intelligence and precision, and acts as astrometrics officer on Voyager for most of their journey home.

After Captain Janeway frees Seven of Nine from the Borg, Seven saves the day on many occasions, and she proves to be a loyal and trustworthy officer and friend to Admiral Picard and his crew after Voyager's return home.

5 Michael Burnham

The main character and heroine in Star Trek: Discovery is Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green). Michael Burnham's journey in Starfleet is somewhat convoluted, but because of her bravery and absolute morals and beliefs, she eventually rises to captaincy, becoming captain of the USS Discovery.

Burnham is a human who was raised on Vulcan , and so she is as logical and intelligent as she is brave. She plays a major role in saving the universe on more than one occasion, crossing universes, jumping to the future, and traveling to the edge of the galaxy to do so.

4 L'Rell

L'Rell (Mary Chieffo) is sometimes overlooked when talking about powerful women in Star Trek, but this Klingon plays a major role in unifying the Klingon houses and the entire Klingon race. L'Rell appears in Star Trek: Discovery, and she is shown as a fierce Klingon leader, who is willing to do anything to preserve her race.

Acting as Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, L'Rell is instrumental in ending the Klingon-Federation war and is so devoted to her cause that she is even willing to part from her child to earn the other leaders' respect.

3 Kathryn Janeway

The first female Captain to lead a Star Trek series, Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Captain of the USS Voyager, is a trailblazer female character. Captain Janeway successfully guides Voyager through the perilous Delta Quadrant in a 75 thousand-lightyear journey home after she and her crew are displaced by an entity called The Caretaker.

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Janeway later becomes an Admiral, and she is an unwavering leader who is absolute in her morals. Captain Janeway is so brave to the point where she might seem reckless at times, and she is famous for dealing a crippling blow to the Borg and the Borg Queen.

2 Philippa Georgiou

In the Prime Universe, Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) is a respected Starfleet Captain, but in the Mirror Universe, she is the ruthless Emperor of the violent and totalitarian Terran Empire. Emperor Georgiou crosses over to the Prime Universe and eventually becomes a covert operative for Section 31.

Georgiou, although evil at first, is a great fighter and turns out to help the Federation on more than one occasion. Her send-off in season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery shows that she has changed her Terran ways and will fight the good fight in the future.

1 The Borg Queen

The Borg Queen is perhaps one of the biggest antagonists in the Star Trek universe and inspires fear in most that cross her path. Being the leader of billions of Borg drones , with the ability to transcend the physical body, the Borg Queen is a formidable enemy to any Captain that encounters her.

The Borg Queen makes her first appearance in the film First Contact, and is a constant foil to Captain Janeway in Voyager. She is also the main antagonist in season 2 of Star Trek: Picard, and causes havoc to the Federation and entire races with her power and influence. The character has been played by several actresses: Alice Krige, Susanna Thompson, and Annie Wersching.

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The Best Original Star Trek Characters, Ranked

The characters of Star Trek: The Original Series are some of the most recognizable in pop culture, and here are the best of the best.

In 1966, Star Trek aired its first episode on NBC. Created by Gene Roddenberry and set in the year 2266, Star Trek followed the crew of Starship Enterprise, who were on a five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, seek out new civilizations, and go where nobody had gone before. While the series only lasted three seasons with 79 episodes airing, Star Trek endured as a piece of pop culture and generated a massive, passionate fanbase in syndication that kept the show going in the public consciousness long after it aired. The show's popularity eventually led to a series of high-profile films that reunited the cast of the original series, which started in 1979 with Star Trek: The Motion Picture and ran for six films until the release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in 1991.

One of the major appeals of Star Trek was its characters. While it was a science fiction series and promised audiences wild adventures, the budget and technological limitations made the Star Trek rely heavily on its characters to carry the series. From an adventurous captain, a half-alien science officer, and a crew who represented the diverse culture and ethnicity Earth had to offer, Star Trek: The Original Series had something for everyone; the characters became pop culture icons, with the actors reprising their roles in feature films even when movie stars were getting younger. The characters were so popular that telling the team's origin story and recasting them was a major selling point of restarting the franchise in 2009's Star Trek . These are the best characters from Star Trek: The Original Series .

9 Christine Chapel

Christine Chapel was the ship's nurse and was an important part of the crew for the series' three seasons often used to contrast Spock's Vulcan nature. Played by Majel Barrett (who was originally cast as the role of Number One in the first Star Trek pilot), she went on to marry Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and was the voice of the Enterprise computer. Sadly the character was reduced to small minimal roles in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , and was completely absent from the Kelvin reboot films (with only two off-screen mentions); however, the character is set to return to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and will be played by Jess Bush.

8 Pavel Chekov

Introduced in season two as a way to appeal to a younger audience, Pavel Chekov is a Russian-born navigator of the ship and is 17. The series cast Walter Koening in the role and gave him a hairstyle reminiscent of The Beatles and The Monkees to show his youthful charm. Including a Russian character on television in the 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, was a big move and one that speaks to the overriding optimism of the Star Trek franchise that the future can and should be better than the present.

7 Hikaru Sulu

The ship's helmsman, Gene Roddenberry created Hikaru Sulu to represent all of Asia in an attempt to show the peace of the future that Star Trek takes place. Sulu was played by the larger-than-life actor George Takei , whose signature voice gives the character's dialogue a great deal of weight and helps sell the reality of the series. One of Sulu's most defining features is his large list of hobbies, establishing a well-rounded character with a life outside his job. Sulu has an interest in botany, gymnastics, and fencing.

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After the series, Sulu rises through the ranks over the course of the films as he is promoted to lieutenant commander in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and eventually Captain of the USS Excelsior in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .

6 Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Montgomery Scott aka Scotty is the ship's engineer, third in command, and has a close connection to the Enterprise, often taking care of it the way a parent would a child. Played by actor James Doohan , Scotty is often a source of comedic relief across the original series and films. Scotty often provides a sense of warmth and charm to the stories' events, and throughout the original series and original six films, he stays as the lead engineer for the ship, showing somebody who is truly doing what he loves.

5 Khan Noonien Singh

Though only appearing in one episode of the original series, Khan Noonien Singh (played by Richardo Montalbán), there is a reason this one-off character was brought back to be the main villain in a Star Trek film. A genetically-powered superhuman who controlled more than a quarter of planet Earth in the 1990s, Khan and his crew were frozen in suspended animation, only to be awakened by the crew of the Enterprise in the future.

After attempting to take control of the Enterprise from Kirk, Khan and his crew are marooned on Ceti Alpha V to start a new colony of their own. The character makes a return in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, looking for revenge against Kirk, and ends up sticking a critical blow to the crew by indirectly causing the death of Spock. Khan is the most dangerous foe the Enterprise Crew ever faced, and even after just one episode it was clear the character had more stories to tell, with Benedict Cumberbatch playing him prominently in the reboot films, and the character having a connection to Strange New World s .

4 Leonard "Bones" McCoy

The ship's leading medical officer, Bones is one of Kirk's best friends and often someone Kirk can talk to and seek advice from. His status as a doctor means Bones typically advocates for courses of action that could reduce harm. Played by DeForest Kelly, Bones created part of the series' central triangle of character dynamics between the central leads. Bones is defined by his emotions, sardonic wit, and his compassion, which often comes into conflict with Spock's cold logic. Bones and Spock may differ in approach, but the two have a strong mutual respect for one another, and it is because of Bones that Spock is able to return to life in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock .

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Bones also may have the two most popular lines in Star Trek . "He's dead Jim" and "I'm a doctor, not..." are not just popular in terms of Star Trek, but in the wider popular culture lexicon as well. Bones is a character who heals but provides a great source of comedy and levity in some of the series' more intense moments.

3 Nhoyot Uhura

Uhura is the ship's translator and communications officer, and the character, played by Nichelle Nichols , was a major leap in terms of representation on television. Uhura was one of the first major starring roles for a Black woman on television, and the kiss between her and Kirk in the 1968 episode "Plato's Stepchildren" was one of the first major depictions of an interracial kiss on television. Uhura's importance extends outside the series but into the larger world, as seeing a Black woman in a major role on a television series being treated as an equal to her peers was the promise of the utopian future Star Trek promised its audience.

It was a major source of inspiration for stars like Whoopie Goldberg (who went on to play Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation ) and Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to fly aboard the Space Shuttle, and even President Barack Obama. When Nichols considered quitting Star Trek , one important fan convinced her not to: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Uhura made a statement that television could be a place for everyone.

2 James T. Kirk

The captain of the USS Enterprise, James T. Kirk is one of the most popular characters in all science fiction. He is a man of action who will solve a problem with his fist, but also is an academic who can negotiate peace. Kirk is a ladies' man, but also someone with a rich soul who deeply cares for others. Surprisingly, the character was not originally in the original series pilot. Yet the character, and the acting of William Shatner in the role, is what helped launch Star Trek into the franchise audiences know and love today, as Kirk and Shatner are the perfect blend of melodrama and camp that gave Star Trek the energy it needed.

Kirk became the model archetype of a science fiction hero for young audiences, very much in the vein of pulp heroes like Doc Savage of Flash Gordon. Kirk's characterization is so well-defined in popular culture, he has been parodied and referenced outside of Star Trek extensively over half a century, and Shatner's status as Kirk eventually led to him at the age of 90 being flown to space in the Blue Origin sub-orbital space shuttle , making him the oldest person to fly in space. Every subsequent captain in Star Trek media is defined by how similar or different they are to Kirk. With Captain Kirk at the helm, audiences were fully on board for the adventures of the USS Enterprise.

Kirk may be the captain, but ask any random person and the first thing they think of when they think of Star Trek is Spock . The half-human, half-Vulcan science officer of the Enterprise, Spock is the ship's second in command and Kirk's best friend, and while the character is often known for using logic to solve issues, Spock is defined by his humanity and grows over the course of the franchise the more he embraces it.

Perfectly played by Leonard Nimoy, the character was originally rejected by the network for appearing to be satanic . Yet Spock has become the face of the franchise, as the character appeared in all six original films with the crew and was featured in an important episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ; the return of Leonard Nimoy in the role in the reboot films after years away was considered a passing of the baton to the cast of the 2009 Star Trek . Spock's numerous memorable quotes from "logical," "live long and prosper," and "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one," have helped define the franchise. Spock is the best that Star Trek has to offer.

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10 star trek movie female characters who only appeared once.

From TOS to the Kelvin Timeline, Star Trek movies introduced great new female characters, but some were never seen again after their lone appearance.

  • Star Trek films have introduced several new female characters who only appear in one movie, but each character contributes something significant to the franchise.
  • These female characters are diverse in their personalities, roles, and motives, representing a wide range of character types within the Star Trek movies.
  • While it's unlikely that these characters will return in future Star Trek installments, the future remains unwritten, leaving open the possibility for their second appearances or new incarnations.

Star Trek films have established a curious trend of introducing new female characters who are never seen again after their initial appearance . After the successful transition of Star Trek: The Original Series to the big screen, it only made sense to add more women to the final frontier. Creator Gene Roddenberry's original vision for Star Trek involved more women than TOS actually included, but progressive attitudes in the 1970s and 1980s led to creating new female characters in prominent roles for Star Trek movies. Star Trek: The Next Generation 's films continued adding new female characters to the franchise, as did J.J. Abrams' Kelvin Timeline movies.

In keeping with Star Trek 's commitment to creating whole characters regardless of gender, each of these women is a unique and well-defined character , though the significance of their roles in each Star Trek film may vary. In most cases, there's a good reason that they're limited to a single outing in the Star Trek universe. The Star Trek movies ' plots may not allow for their returns, with some women's stories coming to a fitting end within the runtime of a single film. In other cases, however, it would be interesting to see where the future could have taken these new female Star Trek characters.

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10 lieutenant ilia (persis khambatta), star trek: the motion picture.

Lieutenant Ilia was the Deltan navigator of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. As a Deltan, Ilia was required to swear an oath of celibacy before entering Starfleet, due to Deltan sexuality posing a psychological risk to other Starfleet officers, as was nearly the case with Ilia's former lover, Captain Will Decker (Stephen Collins). Ilia's esper abilities made her an excellent navigator, but also led to Ilia's ultimate fate of being absorbed by the V'ger probe after it had attained sentience. Ilia was officially logged as missing in action rather than killed, but that still prevented Ilia from returning for any Star Trek sequels.

9 Dr. Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch)

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Dr. Carol Marcus was a lead scientist on Project Genesis in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , and developed Project Genesis and the Genesis Device that created "life from lifelessness" , turning matter into Class-M planets suitable for life. Sharply intelligent, independent, and assertive, Carol was also a former lover of Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner), and mother of Kirk's son, David (Merritt Butrick). There were plans to include Carol Marcus in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , but writer Harve Bennett ultimately opted to cut Carol's scenes from the film due to budget and story constraints.

8 Dr. Gillian Taylor (Catherine Hicks)

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In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , the USS Enterprise crew enlisted the aid of Dr. Gillian Taylor, assistant director of the Cetacean Institute in 1980s San Francisco, to bring two humpback whales to the future. Gillian met Admiral Kirk and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) with measured acceptance despite professional skepticism, since they also prioritized the care of whales George and Gracie . Dr. Taylor accompanied the crew to the 23rd century as the lone expert on humpback whales in a time when no others existed. Gillian Taylor was assigned to a science vessel after arriving in the future , so could have reappeared in a future Star Trek installment, but never did.

7 Caithlin Dar (Cynthia Gouw)

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Caithlin Dar was an easy-going and fashionable Romulan ambassador who defied established Romulan stereotypes . As a delegate to Paradise City in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , Caithlin's hope for peace between the Romulan Star Empire, the Klingon Empire, and the Federation further set her apart from other Romulans. Caithlin survived being manipulated by Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) in his quest to discover the mythical Sha Ka Ree, and was included in the final reception at the end of Star Trek V. As an atypical Romulan, Caithlin Dar would have been an interesting player in Star Trek 's ongoing political landscape if she had returned.

6 Lieutenant Valeris (Kim Cattrall)

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Lieutenant Valeris was the first Vulcan to graduate at the top of her class from Starfleet Academy, where she was mentored by Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy) , but Valeris' greater impact is in her betrayal of Starfleet as part of the Khitomer Conspiracy in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . Valeris believed peace with the Klingons was not logical, so framed Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) for the murder of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner) to undermine the upcoming peace conference. After Kirk and McCoy escaped the Klingon prison Rura Penthe, Valeris' crimes were revealed via Spock's mind meld , and Valeris was arrested, preventing her from further appearances.

5 Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard)

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A 21st-century associate of Dr. Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell), Lily Sloane helped Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) fight the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact . Lily's civilian status meant she could speak frankly to Picard, and after observing how relentlessly Picard pursued the Borg onboard the Enterprise, Lily identified Jean-Luc's true motive of mindless revenge , comparing Picard to Moby Dick 's Captain Ahab. Lily Sloane's intervention was instrumental in shifting Picard's mindset, leading to victory against the Borg and the successful launch of the Phoenix. Unlike Dr. Taylor, Lily Sloane remained in her own time, so she didn't return to Star Trek .

4 Anij (Donna Murphy)

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Anij was a leader among the Ba'ku in Star Trek: Insurrection , kept eternally young thanks to the regenerative power of the Ba'ku homeworld's metaphasic radiation. Initially suspicious of outsiders, Anij became a love interest for Captain Jean-Luc Picard as the USS Enterprise-E crew helped the Ba'ku retaliate against the Son'a and Starfleet conspiracy to relocate the Ba'ku and take over their planet. Intelligent and insightful, Anij was a strong match for Jean-Luc, but Anij's responsibility to the Ba'ku and Picard's loyalty to Starfleet meant their romance was destined to be short-lived . It's implied Jean-Luc returned to the Briar Patch for a visit after Star Trek: Insurrection , but Anij was never seen again.

3 Commander Donatra (Dina Meyer)

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Commander Donatra's initial role in Star Trek: Nemesis was as an advisor to Shinzon (Tom Hardy), the Picard clone that Donatra and Commander Suran (Jude Ciccolella) installed as Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire. When Shinzon unexpectedly betrayed the Romulans with plans to destroy Earth, Donatra allied herself with Captain Picard and the Enterprise to eliminate Shinzon as a mutual threat. Nemesis ' poor reception closed the door to future Star Trek: The Next Generation movies, but Picard's personal mission helping Romulans in Star Trek: Picard could have allowed for Donatra's return.

2 Dr. Carol Marcus (Alice Eve)

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Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek Into Darkness is a younger version of her Prime Universe counterpart, and a physicist specializing in advanced weaponry. Dr. Marcus arrived with a personal mission to locate missing torpedoes, which were given to Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) by Carol's father, Admiral Alexander Marcus (Peter Weller). Despite being the subject of the male gaze, Carol still matched Kirk's wit and independence , and joined the Enterprise crew by the end of Star Trek Into Darkness. The teased Carol and Kirk romance never continued in the Kelvin Timeline, however, because Carol Marcus left the crew before Star Trek Into Darkness' follow-up, Star Trek Beyond .

1 Jaylah (Sofia Boutella)

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After surviving an attack by Krall (Idris Elba), alien scavenger and delightful badass Jaylah lived in the husk of the crashed USS Franklin on Altamid, where she initiated friendships with fellow strandees Captain James T. Kirk and Montgomery Scott (Simon Pegg), who helped restore the Franklin. As an outsider who found comfort and hope in Starfleet, Jaylah brought heart, humor, and sheer tenacity to the Enterprise crew , and overcame personal trauma to help defeat Krall. Jaylah's decision to join Starfleet promised her return in future Star Trek movies, but Beyond was the last film in the Kelvin Timeline, so Jaylah has yet to return to Star Trek .

While each of these new female Star Trek characters only appeared in one movie, they all contributed something to the larger tapestry of the Star Trek franchise in their single appearances. From allies to enemies, scientists to scavengers, the women in Star Trek movies represented a wide range of character types and temperaments , with a variety of motives and roles within their movies' plots. It may be unlikely that any will ever return to Star Trek as the series continues, but as the future remains unwritten, new stories could provide opportunities for second appearances or new incarnations of memorable women in Star Trek movies.

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Why Star Trek Uniform Colors Changed From the Original Series to Next Generation

The uniforms on Star Trek have changed over time, but for reasons that make a lot more sense behind the scenes than on the Enterprise bridge.

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Even if you don’t know an El-Aurian from an Illyrian, even if you can’t tell the original Enterprise from the Enterprise-D, you’re probably familiar with one of the fundamental rules of Star Trek : redshirts always die.

Unlike many of the popular misconceptions about the series (Kirk doesn’t actually chase women, for example), the redshirt stereotype does have grounding in the show. Over the course of three seasons in The Original Series , 26 characters wearing red tunics died, as opposed to 15 wearing gold and blue combined. But that trend stopped with the Star Trek movies, and continued to fall away with The Next Generation and the spinoffs that followed.

Why, you ask? Because the costume colors signify a crewman’s role on their particular ship, and the color scheme changed between TOS and TNG .

Although some Trekkies hate to admit it, Star Trek didn’t really have much in the way of canon in its first few episodes. Leaving aside the infamous grinning Spock in the original pilot, it took several episodes to decide on the name of Starfleet or the Prime Directive. The same was true of the uniforms, as demonstrated by the luscious green shirt that Kirk sometimes sported.

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By the end of the series, however, the three main colors solidified into the following divisions: those in command wore gold, people such as Kirk and Sulu. Science officers and doctors, namely Spock and Bones, dressed in blue, while everyone else had red shirts. And by everyone else, that includes engineers like Scotty and security personnel, which is why they tended to get killed.

But as is so often the case with all things Trek , the uniforms weren’t entirely what creator Gene Roddenberry had in mind. Most notably, the gold uniforms were actually intended to be green, but read on camera as the color that we know today. During production of the never-released follow-up show, Star Trek: Phase II , Roddenberry wanted continuity between TOS and the new series, not only in terms of the cast, which mixed Kirk and Sulu with newcomers, but also production. In particular, Roddenberry brought back his original series costume designer William Ware Theiss.

However, when production shifted and Phase II became Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Theiss was replaced by Robert Fletcher, who designed costumes for the movie crew through Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home . Fletcher maintained some of Roddenberry’s vision for TMP , which tried to match ’70s aesthetics by giving the crew pastel pajamas. But when Nicholas Meyer took over for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Fletcher designed military-inspired uniforms to match the director’s naval warfare vision.

Although most Trekkies prefer the Meyer movies, Roddenberry hated the militarization of Starfleet and, equally important, resented the way his franchise was taken from him. So when Roddenberry regained some power for The Next Generation , he sought to right the ship, so to speak, by making Starfleet explorers again. And with it, he brought back Theiss.

For the most part, Theiss succeeded where Roddenberry and Fletcher failed in TMP . The TNG uniforms feel like ’80s versions of the ’60s original, especially after they were revised in season 3. However, with the emphasis on division colors came a confusing switch. Once again, science officers and doctors wore blue, but command now wore red while operations wore gold. Also, there’s the skant, but only Lower Decks talks about that now.

So why did the colors change? Once again, the answer is simple and almost mundane. Patrick Stewart apparently didn’t look commanding enough in yellow, while Brent Spiner , in his pale Data makeup, didn’t look good in red.

Roddenberry and the producers may have also been amenable to these changes because of the public’s changing perception of the aesthetic of Star Trek at the time. It was the massive success of Star Trek IV that gave Roddenberry the green light for TNG , and in that movie the crew wore the same civilian clothes that they sported in The Search for Spock , but during the first three Trek movies, Kirk wore red (as did Spock and the rest of the crew, because everyone wore red in Meyers’ more militarized uniforms).

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So in the eyes of casual fans, the Captain wore red. And even Trekkies had seen enough of Kirk in red that the idea didn’t seem outlandish.

The Trek uniforms have been altered many times since. TNG and Deep Space Nine later limited colors to the shoulders, a look continued in Voyager . The TNG movies then introduced darker uniforms in Star Trek: First Contact , with division colors on the underliner, a look adopted by later seasons of Deep Space Nine .

These stories adhere to the division colors from TNG , but whenever the franchise goes back to pre- TNG era — including the J.J. Abrams reboot movies or Strange New Worlds — the TOS colors come back into play. Even the prequel series Enterprise , in which the crew of the NX-01 wears blue jumpsuits with TOS division colors on the piping. And then there’s Discovery , which began with blue uniforms and a different division color scheme, but that show started out as its own thing, anyway.

Rest assured, writers both official and on the internet have offered in-Universe explanations for the evolution of the costumes. But the best explanation is that Star Trek , as an ongoing story over six decades old, had evolved and mutated over the years, sometimes in ways that don’t make sense. And as long as some unnamed operations ensign gets killed now and again, that’s just fine.

Joe George

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Joe George’s writing has appeared at Slate, Polygon, Tor.com, and elsewhere!

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