Tasha Yar
Tasha Yar is a female television character who features in Star Trek.
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Biography
Natasha Yar
Tasha began to attend Starfleet Academy soon after her escape and credited Starfleet with saving her from her previous life. (TNG: Encounter at Farpoint) She joined Security because of the lawless environment in which she grew up. (TNG: Code of Honor) In 2363, while conducting a rescue mission, Yar rescued a colonist after traversing a Carnelian minefield. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's ship at the time was also present. Picard was so impressed with her bravery that he requested Yar be assigned to the Enterprise, as Yar's current ship's captain owed him a favor. (TNG: Legacy)
In 2364, Yar piloted Picard to the Enterprise-D in the shuttlecraft Galileo for his first visit to the ship. She set out to Farpoint Station from Earth Station McKinley with most of the crew. (TNG: All Good Things...) En route, the Enterprise was intercepted and detained by the entity known as Q. Tasha wanted to fight him, but Picard refused her suggestion because of the tremendous power of Q. While the senior staff was taken to the 21st century courtroom and put on trial by Q, Yar could no longer resist the urge to tell Q he was wrong for accusing Humanity of 'savage, childlike behavior'. She was placed into a sort of deep freeze by Q as punishment, but was later revived. Later, Yar took part in several away teams which investigated Farpoint Station and the living station's mate, which returned to seek vengeance against the Bandi for imprisoning the other creature. (TNG: Encounter at Farpoint)
Overview
Personality and attributes
As a child, she was noted to had been a frightened and angry young girl. This was until Starfleet took her in where they tempered her. (TNG: Skin of Evil)
Powers and abilities
Her bravery was notable to the point that this led to her being assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise by Captain Picard. (TNG: Legacy)
Notes
- Tasha Yar was created by Gene Roddenberry and D. C. Fontana where she was portrayed by actress Denise Crosby and she featured in the setting of the Star Trek universe.
Alternate Versions
- In Star Trek: The Next Generation, an alternate version of Tasha Yar appeared in the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". This version was made as a result of the USS Enterprise-C's accidental transit from 2344 to 2366 through a temporal rift. A change in the timeline resulted where Tasha had not been killed at Vagra II, and continued to serve as tactical officer aboard the Enterprise-D during a war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Tasha had joined the Enterprise-D crew immediately upon graduating from Starfleet Academy in 2362. In 2366, the Enterprise-D encountered the Enterprise-C as it emerged from the temporal rift, after the Enterprise-C had nearly been destroyed in a Romulan attack on the Klingon outpost at Narendra III. During the course of making repairs to the Enterprise-C, Tasha became close to a crewmember from that ship, Lieutenant Richard Castillo, and the two of them developed romantic feelings for one another. She later became aware, through Guinan, that in the other timeline she had died a meaningless death. When the Enterprise-C's captain, Rachel Garrett, was killed in a Klingon attack, Tasha requested permission from Captain Picard to transfer to the Enterprise-C and accompany it back through the rift in an attempt to restore the timeline, explaining that she wanted her death to count for something. Captain Picard granted her request. Although Castillo, who had assumed command of the Enterprise-C, was initially reluctant to accept Tasha on an apparent suicide mission, he relented and assigned her to the tactical position. Entering the rift just as three Klingon Birds-of-Prey began attacking both Enterprises, the Enterprise-C successfully returned to its own time, where it played an instrumental role in guaranteeing peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, restoring the flow of history.
In other media
Novels
Appearances
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987)
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