I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!

She had been chosen to play Counsellor Deanna Troi before Gene Roddenberry switched the roles that Denise Crosby and Marina Sirtis had initially been given. Jenna Yar (grandmother of Natasha Yar) in the fan produced series Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II. This came to be in season three's "Yesterday's Enterprise" in which an alternate timeline is created after the USS Enterprise-C the predecessor to TNG's USS Enterprise-D comes forward 22 years in time.

Denise Michelle Crosby (born November 24 1957) is an American actress best known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar in Season One of Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as Yar's own daughter the half-Romulan Commander Sela. She is also known for her numerous film and television roles and for starring in and producing the film Trekkies. She was the paternal granddaughter of entertainer Bing Crosby.