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 ...

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 ...

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 ...