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

Before Denise Crosby was cast as the ill-fated Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation, several other very different ...

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

Read more: Star Trek Stories That Are Actually Horrifying Denise Crosby didn't know much about "Star Trek" before taking on the role of Tasha Yar — and she certainly didn't know how beloved the ...

Fans were ecstatic to see some Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members return in Star Trek: Picard when it premiered in 2020. Many felt that the reunion of the entire main cast on screen by season ...

For a moment, Chao was the frontrunner for the role, although she would eventually be replaced by Denise Crosby, a rising star in Hollywood at the time, and star of "Eliminators." As it so happens ...

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Denise Crosby left the character of Tasha Yar in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Though her character was killed off in "Skin of Evil," the previous episode "Symbiosis" was ...