Denise Crosby

Denise Crosby is an American actress best known for portraying Tasha Yar and her daughter Sela in Star Trek: The Next Generation, two roles she has reprised in Star Trek Online.

=Biography= Denise Crosby was born on November 24, 1957. Crosby has appeared in numerous television and film roles since the 1980s. In 1987 Crosby was cast as Natasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation, a role she played during the series' first season. After her character's death, Crosby returned to The Next Generation multiple times, reprising her role of Yar as well as portraying the villainous character of Sela.

Despite her early departure from The Next Generation, Crosby has retained many ties to the Star Trek franchise, notably voicing her characters for multiple and producing the documentaries ' and '.

In recent years, Crosby has appeared on Showtime's ' and AMC's '.

=Star Trek Online= Denise Crosby has appeared in Star Trek Online since January 2013, when she portrayed Tasha Yar in the anniversary episode. In May 2013 Crosby returned for the expansion Legacy of Romulus, portraying Romulan Empress Sela. In 2014 an 2015 Crosby continued to portray Sela in several missions, some of them revamped from the original Romulan story arc for Federation characters. In 2017 Crosby returned for the mission, in which both Sela and Yar appear for the first time together, offering a preliminary conclusion to the story arcs of both characters.

Missions Involved

 * Listed in order of release.


 * (as Tasha Yar)
 * (as Sela)
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 * (as Sela and Tasha Yar)

Additional voice-overs

 * Sector space exploration narrations (Tau Dewa sector space)
 * Rank-up congratulation messages for Romulan Republic characters
 * Iconian Resistance reputation: Encoded Data Receiver messages

=Gallery=  File:voiceacting_denisecrosby_001.png|Voice over sessions File:Natasha Yar.png|Tasha Yar File:Sela.png|Empress Sela File:Lasvegas eisenbergmastersoncrosby.jpg|Crosby, with co-stars Aron Eisenberg and Chase Masterson, during a promotional panel for STO 

=Notes=
 * Denise Crosby was the third Star Trek actor to reprise her role in Star Trek Online. She appeared initially as Tasha Yar in and later voiced Sela for Legacy of Romulus.
 * The story of is a direct continuation of the The Next Generation episode , in which Denise Crosby reappeared for the first time after her character's death in Season 1 of the series. The episode (and thus the mission) also laid the groundwork of the character of Sela.
 * Sela appeared in-game long before the addition of Crosby's voice-overs (including a Foundry asset in her likeness).

=See also=

STOWiki articles

 * Natasha Yar
 * Sela
 * Voice acting
 * Canon elements in Star Trek Online
 * List of canon characters

External

 * on Wikipedia
 * on Memory Alpha
 * On Screen! - Episode 2 (feat. Denise Crosby) on YouTube