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Lieutenant Natasha Yar was a character on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was portrayed by actress Denise Crosby.

Overview

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Born on Turkana IV, a colony world which fell into anarchy after it was abandoned by the Federation, Tasha learned to defend herself on the streets and avoid the rape gangs.

As a young adult, Tasha joined Starfleet. Later, she became the chief security officer of the USS Enterprise-D.

While the crew of the Enterprise was under the influence of a virus which caused people to lose control of their behavior, Tasha and Data became sexually intimate (episode "The Naked Now").

She was later killed by an evil force known as Armus on Vagra II, less than a year after the Enterprise-D began its mission (episode "Skin of Evil"). After her untimely death, Lieutenant Worf replaced her as security chief aboard the Enterprise.

Denise Crosby returned to the series as "Tasha Yar" during the series finale, "All Good Things..." (which involved time travel). Tasha's most notable return was in the third season episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", showing an accidentally created alternate timeline. In the new timeline, Tasha had never been killed, and still served on the Enterprise D. This Tasha ended up leaving the alternate timeline, now serving on the USS Enterprise-C in the "normal" timeline, but in the past. She eventually bore a half-Romulan daughter named Sela.

Sela herself appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons, also played by Denise Crosby. Between these roles and a second-season archival-footage appearance, Crosby appeared in every season of Star Trek: The Next Generation except the sixth.

Tasha also had a younger sister, named Ishara (in the episode "Legacy").

Trivia

Originally, the character of Natasha Yar was to be called "Macha Hernandez", an homage to the character of Private Vasquez from the film "Aliens". Jenette Goldstein, who played Vasquez, was set to play Hernandez, but was replaced in that role by Marina Sirtis. At that time, Denise Crosby was set to play Deanna Troi, but she and Sirtis switched roles before production on the series commenced.

External links

Tasha Yar at Memory Alpha

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