Why did Tasha Yar leave Star Trek?

Crosby denied the growing rumors of her impending exit during contemporaneous interviews published before “Skin of Evil” aired, but she had indeed quit the series, mostly due to the lack of character development given to Tasha Yar.
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Why was Tasha Yar phased out of Star Trek The Next Generation after one season?

Why Denise Crosby Left The Next Generation. Crosby claimed that she left the series because she was unhappy with the role, even though she loved the character of Tasha Yar. "I wanted to leave the show," she explained in an interview with StarTrek.com. "Although it was Gene's idea to have the character die.
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Does Tasha Yar come back?

After the USS Enterprise-C emerges from a rift in space-time in "Yesterday's Enterprise", the timeline is changed and Yar is once again alive and in her former position on the Enterprise-D. She works with the older Enterprise's helmsman, Richard Castillo, and the two become close.
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Why did Beverly Crusher leave the enterprise?

An official announcement stated McFadden had left the series to pursue other career options. McFadden herself got a call from her agent who told her the producers had decided to go in another direction with the character. Like the other cast members, McFadden was surprised.
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Did Tasha Yar sleep with data?

When this episode was made, Roddenberry seized on the opportunity to fulfill his wish, and had Data have sex with Tasha Yar.
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Denise Crosby on MONSTER PARTY - on Leaving "Star Trek TNG"



How did Data have a daughter?

It is revealed that Dahj and Soji Asha are Data's daughters, created through fractal neuronic cloning, a procedure developed by Dr. Bruce Maddox.
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What happened to Lieutenant Commander Data?

At the last minute, Data beams onto the craft and attaches a personal transporter to Picard and sends him back to the Enterprise. He dies in the resulting explosion.
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Why was Gates McFadden fired on Star Trek?

According to Star Trek producer Rick Berman, McFadden was fired because Hurley, “had a real bone to pick with Gates." In turn, McFadden didn't care for Hurley, either. Hurley went directly to Roddenberry and asked to have Gates let go.
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Did Wesley Crusher create the Borg?

In Star Trek Next Gen S03E01 Evolution he improves on nanites so that they can work together and improve themselves. To allow further growth they leave the enterprise to a wormhole that sends them through space and time to delta quadrant around 1484.
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Did Gates McFadden get fired?

"They felt that they had too many women" - Star Trek actress Gates McFadden recalls being fired from the show. Fan favourite Star Trek: The Next Generation actress Gates McFadden recalls being fired and later re-hired on the show.
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Is Wesley Crusher Picard's son?

Whether or not this was the original plan, Star Trek ultimately debunked the idea of Wesley Crusher being Picard's son. Picard and Beverly did indeed have a past relationship: her late husband, Jack Crusher, was Picard's former first officer and best friend on the USS Stargazer.
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Why was Tasha Yar written?

With her sudden death, Tasha Yar became the first Star Trek series regular to be killed off and Worf took her place as Security Chief. As Crosby told TrekMovie in a 2012 interview, she asked to leave TNG because she was "miserable" and she "couldn't wait to get off that show".
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Why does Worf wear sash?

One of the unique attributes of Worf's character is the fact that he wears a sash or baldric to honor his Klingon heritage. At first, he wore a golden sash, a replica of the baldrics worn by Kor and Kang in TOS.
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Is Leland the first Borg?

But if Discovery is telling a Borg origin story, establishing Leland as the earliest Borg Drone could set the precedent for their human appearance.
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Why does no one like Wesley Crusher?

Wesley Crusher wasn't well-liked on Star Trek: TNG

And if you ask them why they dislike Wesley, they immediately start ticking off the reasons: he was annoying, arrogant, he was a “Mary Sue” character, he sulked a lot, and he was always saving the day.
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Did Section 31 create the Borg?

The core theory, hatched during Discovery's second season, holds that that Leland -- a Section 31 agent who merged with the synthetic components of Control -- becomes the first “proto-Borg” and uses the Red Angel suit to travel back in time to the Delta Quadrant and lay the foundation for the Borg Collective.
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Why did Maurice Hurley leave TNG?

Executive producer Rick Berman recalled that Hurley "had a real bone to pick" with McFadden and did not like her acting. He left the series after its second season, which left the door open for Rick Berman to rehire McFadden after dismissing her replacement Diana Muldaur. Hurley was replaced by Michael I.
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What happened to Wesley Crusher in Star Trek?

He remains in the Academy thereafter until the Traveler re-contacts him in the final season's "Journey's End", whereupon he resigns his commission and goes with the Traveler to explore other planes of reality.
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Who is the best Star Trek doctor?

11 Best Doctors In The Star Trek Universe
  • 8 Phil Boyce. ...
  • 7 The Doctor. ...
  • 6 Katherine Pulaski. ...
  • 5 Noonian Soong. ...
  • 4 Julian Bashir. ...
  • 3 Christine Chapel. Even though Dr. ...
  • 2 Ira Graves. A brilliant scientist, Ira Graves was a molecular cyberneticist. ...
  • 1 Phlox. The alien doctor of the first USS Enterprise, Phlox was always a unique healer.
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Why are Data's eyes yellow?

They knew that they wanted him to have yellow eyes (as Doctor Soong couldn't afford a set of the colored contacts that cosplayers use), but they were unsure of his skin.
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What happened Brent Spiner?

Brent Spiner Now

Roles in major projects like Star Trek: Picard and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels from last year still show that people are excited whenever Spiner makes an appearance in a film or television show.
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Why was Lal not mentioned in Picard?

Why did Picard not identify Dahj as Lal in Picard S01E01 "Remembrance"? The background is that Data had made a painting, which we had not seen before, of his daughter Lal. As the painting is titled "Daughter", we can assume that Lal is the subject.
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What happened to Picard's nephew?

You may recall that in "Star Trek: Generations" (1994) we learned that Picard's young nephew René and his father, Robert, the captain's brother, tragically died in a fire at the family home in 2371. Only Marie Picard, Robert's wife, survived.
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Why did Data name his child Lal?

Data chose the name for his offspring from a Hindi word meaning "beloved". Data's eventual hope was that someday his daughter would enter Starfleet Academy and serve in Starfleet, as he had. He wished to give back to the organization that had given him so many opportunities.
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