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Elizabeth Rogers
Elizabeth Rogers as Lt. Palmer in Star Trek
Born	Betty Jayne Rogers (1934-05-18)May 18, 1934 Austin, Texas, U.S.
Died	November 6, 2004(2004-11-06) (aged 70) Tarzana, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actress and Producer
Years active	1965–1986
Spouse	Erik L. Nelson ​(m. 1968)​
Children	1

Elizabeth Rogers (born Betty Jayne Rogers, May 18, 1934 – November 6, 2004) was an American actress.

Life and career

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Born in Austin, Texas, she played minor characters in thirty-seven episodes of a dozen different prime-time network series, including Little House on the Prairie, Bewitched, Gunsmoke, The Waltons, Marcus Welby, M.D., Dragnet 1966, Mannix, Dragnet 1967, Bonanza, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Dr. Kildare, Gunsmoke and Slattery's People.

In the original Star Trek television series, she portrayed Lt. Palmer, a substitute communications officer, in two episodes: "The Doomsday Machine" (1967) and "The Way to Eden" (1969). For Doomsday Machine, Rogers was brought in at the last minute after Nichelle Nichols (the series regular as communications officer Lt. Uhura) informed the producers that she was flying to New York for a concert performance. As Nichols had no standard contract she was legally free to do so, but Rogers' appearance was intended to convince her to keep herself available for Star Trek. Rogers said in a later interview, "I got the part when Uhura had a singing engagement. I was used as an instant 'threat' replacement."

During the 1970s, she also appeared in a string of Irwin Allen produced films including The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). She was a personal friend of Allen and his wife, Sheila Matthews Allen, and was married to actor Erik Nelson (also a regular in Irwin Allen films) in the backyard of Allen's home. Her other film appearances included Bittersweet Love (1976), The Van (1977), Grand Theft Auto (1977), and An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) as David Keith's mother.

Death

She died from multiple strokes and lung cancer on November 6, 2004, in Tarzana, California at the age of 70.

Filmography

Notes

1. Only one other actress, Barbara Baldavin, ever served as a substitute, credited, communications officer for Uhura , playing Lt. Lisa in the final episode of the series, "Turnabout Intruder".

References

1. Marc Cushman, with Susan Osborn, These Are the Voyages, TOS, Season Two, Jacobs/Brown Press, Los Angeles, 2014, p 149

External links

• Biography portal
• Elizabeth Rogers at IMDb 
• Elizabeth Rogers at Memory Alpha

• 1934 births
• 2004 deaths
• American film actresses
• American television actresses
• Deaths from lung cancer in California
• Actresses from Austin, Texas
• 20th-century American actresses
• 21st-century American women