After some further development, Hernandez was changed to Tanya, then Natasha, then just Tasha Yar after casting had begun ... The Next Generation" oral history printed in EW in 2007.

Star Trek's Tasha Yar was almost played by Rosalind Chao but the role ultimately went to Denise Crosby, who left after season ...

The Next Generation, which aired from 1987 to 1994, featured Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar. However, it almost didn't happen.

There was a lot of time spent on the casting of Tasha Yar during the preliminary period of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was decided early on that they wanted the security chief to have an ...

that she wasn’t even called Tasha Yar. “LT. Macha Hernandez – 26 year old woman of unspecified Latin descent who serves as the starship’s security chief,” read the first casting call for ...

Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) was one of the original Next Generation crew when the series started. In the role of security chief, Yar was feisty but both loyal and reliable. If there was a threat ...

The cover of Star Trek: Defiant #5, revealed in IDW Publishing’s June solicitations, depicts Sela, the half-Romulan daughter of an alternate timeline’s Tasha Yar. Sela was a recurring ...