In the original Casting Call for "Star Trek: Next Generation", author of the late months of 1986, the head of security of the company was to be a character in Latina named Macha Fernandez, which is said to have been modeled on the image of Vasquez. Indeed, there was a brief attempt to hire Goldstein for the role, as long as writer DC Fontana noted that she is not actually Latina. The character as a result was renamed Tanya and then in the end Tasha. The new Tasha Yar received intriguing backstation. It was survived by an ambitious country colony that, through greed and poor management, completely failed. Livedweight among lawlessness, uncontrolled sexual abuse and poverty before escaping and joining Starflit.

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Dennis Crosby was eventually thrown like Tasha South, and the show's producers gave the face position on the bridge, ensuring that South will always be on camera. Crosby, however, noted that the central position of the bridge does not mean that her character has been given a lot, and that Tasha South is seriously signed. Crosby, upset by this, left the series near the end of his first season, and the producers wrote a story in which Yar was killed by a powerful tar monster. We can speculate what would happen to South if Crosby remained; Treates can tell you that the show has become far more focused on character-and much better-up to its third season.

However, when the South was still thrown, Crosby was still not in-in. Indeed, there is now a known casting memorandum of 1987 (manually posted by trekmovie) where producer Johnon Ferraro wrote to TV President Paramount Johnon Pique to announce the finalists for each role. Crosby, it turns out, was none of the FAR finalists. However, the following actresses were.

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Trees already know Rosalind Yao like Keiko O'Brien, wife of Support to the Chief of the Land of Miles O'Brien (Colm Meini) First introduced in the episode "Next Generation" "Data Day" (January 7, 1991). Zhao will appear in seven additional episodes of "Next General" before moving to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, appearing on another 19. Manufacturers probably threw Chao like Keiko after remembering her audition for the role of South.

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Before "Star Trek", Chao had a fruitful TV career to return in 1970, when he was only 13 years old. Chao performed with the California -based opera group "Beijing Opera" for five years, so it was ease in front of the audience. Her first TV role was playing the daughter of a Chinese clothed owner in an episode of "Here's Lucy". She also appeared on hit shows such as "Kook", "Hardy Boys/Nancy Drewsers", "Incredible Hulk" and "Incredible Spiderman". Her first feature film was the 1980 "Great Fight", which was Jackkeep's first attempt to reach an American audience. She had a repetitive role in "Diff'rent Strokes", and appeared on "M*A*S*h", "The-Team", "Riptide", "Stingray", "Miami Vice" and more. The film's fans are likely to remember her work in the "Club of Joy Happiness". "Star Trek" would only be another feather in her hat.

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Chao, now 67, was recently in "3 Body Problem" and "Sweet tooth" so she is still working.

In another entertaining part of casting, the late actress Patty Jautake was considered the role of Keiko, but she ended up as an accompanying character named Nurse Ogawa.

Buni Bailey can be best known to pop audiences as a "girl" in A-ha music video "Take on Me". She also played the girl in A-ha- "The Sun always shines on TV" (in case she wasn't clear, she hanged out with the band's main singer). She was also dancing for Billy Idol's video to "be a Lubish". Some may also recognize Bailey as Badas Punk pick in Stuart Gordon's unforgettable horror film in 1987 "Dolls". It was she who took out the apple and replaced with dolls.

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She will less recognize her work in Rafal Zilinski's fully imperceptible film in 1992 "Spellcaster" (also starring Adam Ant and Richard Blade). She was the most famous, perhaps, for her punk and music associations. Bailey may have been rejected for the role of Tasha South because of her lack of scripted acting experience. She was good at the "dolls", but she had to seem an ordinary neophyte in the presence of Star Pro like Rosalind Chao. Also, as a security officer, Tasha Far will have to bring a very difficult authority, and this is not the vibration he receives from Bailey watching the music video "Take on Me". She has not done very professional screening since the early 1990s, working instead of as a dance instructor in her native England.

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Like Rosalind Chao, the producers of "Next Generation" remembered actress Iaululia Nixon from her audition "Tasha Far" and eventually welcomed her to play in the episode of "Arsenal of Freedom" (April 11, 1988). Nixon would also play a peasant in the episode "Deep Space Nine" Paradise "(February 14, 1994), and kept his scientific TV-chedess playing Catherine Sakai, one of the semi-plays in the first season of" Babylon 5. " Maybe he took some ideas from "Babylon 5."

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Nixon started working as a model and actress when she was still in college, and appeared in two episodes of Magnum Pi in the mid-1980s. Her first film role was contrary to Sylvester Stallone in "Rambo: First Blood II" in 1985. She also starred in Nico Mastorakis's comedy in 1988 Glic! " What, by chance, was also shown by Buni Bailey. Nixon was currently married to actor David Soul, starring films such as "K2" and "Sidekix". She also appeared in the notorious video game adaptation in 1994 Double Dragon and shows such as "Seasquest DSV" and "Walker, Texas Ranger". It seemed to have attracted a lot of attention from the casting directors of the genre in the 1990s.

Nixon's latest film was Steven Spielberg's "Ready player" and she officially released his retirement from acting On her Instagram account in 2025. She was always recognized and worked very hard. I believe her retirement is going well.

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Leah Ayers had a big biography when he audited to play Tasha Far. In 1979 She also played Marcia Brady in that strange, short -lived restart in 1990 at Brady Banc called "Bredis". She, like the other actresses on this list, also appeared on the episodes of the "A-Team" and, of course, the "Love-Boat". There was a time when the actor was not considered legitimate until they appear in the associated role of the "Love Boat". She was in 11 episodes of the "1 and ten" sporting and three episodes of "Walker, Texas Rangon". Valuable actors seem to often paths.

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She, like Bailey, also had little music experience, playing a waitress in the video for "More than you deserve" on Matt Bread. The most famous role of Ayers may be that of Janenice Kent in The thriller of the Jeanan-Clause van Dam "blood". Ayers withdrew from acting in 1998. She married her current husband Bruce, took Khalish's surname and now Co-Runes Family Consultation Clinic in Los Angeles. Bruce Kalisch also worked in Hollywood, so they probably have a lot in common.

Actress Lian Laglund has not had a very long biography, after behaving only in films and TV from 1983 to 1991. She was in the movie "Monster" "Case of Murder of Da", and Studio Comedy in 1987 "The Screeze". She was playing Morin O'Hara in a slightly watched TV biopic called "Lucy and Desi: Before Laughter". She was considered Tasha Far, but she seems to have retired shortly afterwards.

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This is fun: at the head of this article, I mentioned "Paramount Memo" written by Feron Ferraro and revealed another interesting casting wrinkle. Dennis Crosby seems to be considered the role of adviser Troy, the empathetic shrinkage of the USS company. British actress Marina Sirtis has come to read the role of Tasha Far, and the creator of the show Genein Bornboys has hit the idea of ​​having roles in the exchange of Syrtis and Crosby. Syrtis was eventually thrown as an adviser Troy, and Crosby played by Tasha Far. Indeed, There are reports on casting directors "Star Trek" Testing Crosby and Syris together to see if they were photographed well.

However, all this was during the casting whirlpool, and the above -mentioned memorandum could include people in the late stages of feedback, but also those who had not yet entered. It is now difficult to paint someone else in those roles of "next generation", but a little imagination has tantalized us with the possibilities.

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