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Denise Crosby (24/11-1957)
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| Native: |
Human, born on Turkana IV (Civil-war-planet) |
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| Lover: |
Data
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| Family: |
Sister, Lashara
Mother, (unknown) Killed in gangwars
Father, (unknown) Killed in gangwars
Daughter, Sela (Romulan Commander)
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| Friends: |
Worf
Jean-Luc Picard
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| Known as: |
"Yar", "Tasha" |
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Quick of judge, warrior |
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| Position: |
Lieutenant, Security Chief |
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Profile
Born on Turkana IV, a human colony whose government collapsed under the
weight of overgrown urban gangs, Tasha Yar had to learn to defend herself at
an early age. She occasionally mentioned avoiding the planet's rampant drug
abuse and rape gangs, and eventually her parents were killed in gang
battles, leaving Tasha to look after her younger sister Ishara. When a
chance to leave Turkana IV presented itself, Tasha left, but Ishara decided
to stay and become a member of one of the planet's cadres. Picard first saw
Tasha when she led a rescue team from another ship through a minefield, and
while selecting the crew for the Enterprise's maiden voyage, Picard requested
her to be assigned as chief of security. Tasha served aboard the Enterprise
ably until the crew's encounter with the entity known as Armus on
Vagra II. Armus killed Tasha simply to show the crew that he could kill one
of them at his leisure, and the damage was too severe for Dr.�Crusher to
resuscitate her. Worf was appointed chief of security and Tasha now remains
only in the crew's memories.
In the third season's Yesterday's Enterprise, however, the emergence of
the Enterprise NCC-1701-C - thought to be lost 23 years before the 1701-D's
mission began - from a rift in time caused the present Enterprise to enter a
parallel timeline in which the Federation was at war with the Klingons and
Tasha Yar was still alive, well, and serving on the Enterprise. When the
time came for the Enterprise C to return to the rift, restoring the
Enterprise D to her regular timeline, Tasha, after being told by Guinan that she
had, in fact, died a meaningless death on Vagra II, transferred to the
Enterprise-C and returned with that crew to the past. The Enterprise-C was
captured by Romulans and the crew was to be killed, but a Romulan commander
took a liking to Tasha and allowed her fellow crewmembers to live in
exchange for her agreeing to marry him. The "alternate" Tasha also had a
daughter, Sela, by the Romulan. When Sela was five years old, Tasha took her
and tried to escape, but Sela cried out and Tasha was captured and executed.
Sela, having now gained a high rank in the Romulan Empire, was presumably
told many stories about the crew of the Enterprise by Tasha, as she once
captured Geordi and used a brainwashing technique perfectly suited to him
because of his VISOR implants ("The�Mind's�Eye"), accurately predicted
Picard's return to intervene in the Klingon civil war ("Redemption"), and
anticipated that Data would not be suspicious of Romulan activity
("Redemption�Part�II"), although Data surprised everyone by not taking the
bait.
Probably the most famous reminder of Tasha is her seduction of Data in
"The Naked�Now". Although she told him "it never happened" after the intoxicant
that put her in an amorous mood was eliminated, Data later said that he
and Tasha spent further time together ("Legacy"), and the android also keeps
a holographic portrait of Tasha ("The�Measure�of�a�Man", "The�Most�Toys").
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