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Lieutenant Natasha Yar, played by Denise Crosby, is a Starfleet officer in the fictional Star Trek universe. She serves as chief of security aboard the USS ''Enterprise''-D during Star Trek: The Next Generation
Overview Yar was born on Turkana IV, a colony that fell into anarchy and eventually severed ties to the United Federation of Planets (TNG: "Legacy"). Tasha learned to defend herself on the streets and avoid rape gangs (TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before"). She left Turkana IV at age 15, leaving her younger sister, Ishara, behind (TNG: "Legacy"). She later attended Starfleet Academy. After watching Yar cross a minefield to save a colonist, Jean-Luc Picard requested that she be assigned to his next command (TNG: "Legacy"). She later became chief of security and chief tactical officer aboard the USS ''Enterprise''-D (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint"). While the Enterprise crew is under the influence of a virus that causes people to lose control of their behavior, Tasha and Lieutenant Commander Data become sexually intimate (TNG: "The Naked Now"). Armus kills Yar on Vagra II (TNG: "Skin of Evil"). Lieutenant Worf replaces her as chief tactical and security officer (TNG: "The Child"). A temporal distortion causes the ''Enterprise''-C to travel to the 24th century, disappearing in the middle of a losing fight to protect the Klingon colony on Narendra III from Romulan attackers. As a result, the events of "Skin of Evil" do not happen: Yar lives and serves aboard the Enterprise in an alternate timeline in which the Federation is losing a war with the Klingon Empire. Believing that one ship's sacrifice could have prevented the war, Picard orders the Enterprise-C to return to its original time. Yar, learning from the time-sensitive Guinan that she has died "an empty death" "without purpose" in the normal timeline, travels back with the Enterprise-C (TNG: "Yesterday's ''Enterprise''"). Captured by the Romulans, she agreed to be a Romulan general's consort in exchange for her captors sparing the other Enterprise-C survivors' lives. She and a Romulan general had a daughter, Sela. The Romulans executed Yar when she tried to escape captivity with Sela. Sela went on to become a Romulan military officer (TNG: "Redemption, Part II"). Trivia | ||||||||
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