Talk:Tasha Yar

Stupid

How did somebody as stupid as Yar survive to become Security Officer of Enterprise? And what was Picard thinking when he selected her? This is a woman who attacks a powerful, unknown alien with her bare hands. She deserved to remain a Yarsickle. Worf should've gotten the top Security job, & a promotion, right out of Farpoint. --trekphiler, 18/11/05

Opinion noted and disregarded.

-G

Written Out?

Was the character written with the intention to eliminate her in the first season? Or did they write her out because Crosby didn't want to play the part anymore? (As a regular, at least)

Crosby left the show on her own accord, which is probably why they gave her such a dumb death.

This strongly parallels the death of Jadzia in DS9 -- while being a major character she also died rather randomly when the actress decided to leave the show. The pointlessness of these deaths also strongly remind me on the stereotypical redshirts of TOS, who would usually die a very stupid death shortly after being introduced to the public.

The randomness of the deaths of Yar and Jadzia also reeks of improvision. While Yar died the typical redshirt death (the character's death being a turning point of the episode), Jadzia's death felt entirely improvised to me -- it's one of "those other things" that happen throughout the episode and cutting out the scene wouldn't have changed much about the general plot of the episode (other than the plots developing out of Jadzia's death and the introduction of Ezri Dax (in fact, I'm a bit suspicious that some episodes featuring Ezri Dax may have originally been written for Jadzia's character and then tweaked after they had to replace her)).

This is just MHO, though, so don't take any of that as fact. I'm just one of the TNG fanboys who would've rather liked Wesley Crusher kick the bucket than Tasha (who, after all, had sex with and android -- which is a big plus for any true geek). --Ashmodai 22:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

CROSBY FIRED?

It was originally reported in the Canadian media that she was fired due to her work as a porn actress that was only discovered by producers only after she signed on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.29.187 (talk) 21:00, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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Media in Vancouver suggested that she was terminated after producers discovered her stint as a porn-star. They felt that her history would distract viewers from the character significantly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.29.187 (talk) 20:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

NATASHA

I dont think her name is really natasha its just tasha...she mentions that in "survivors", a star trek novel.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.103.176 (talk • contribs) 18:27, 12 July 2006

According to memory alpha it is Natasha. Gimmetrow 00:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Memory Alpha has no connections to StarTrek except being a fan page. Now if they got this from Paramount, that would be different. SRodgers--65.24.77.104 19:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

It is Natasha. It is stated on startrek.com ----Willie 08:56, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Can't remember any exact episodes, but her name being Natasha is definitely mentioned in one of the first few episodes.WinterSnowblind (talk) 17:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

German American

Can the editor who keeps trying to place this article in Category:Fictional German-Americans please provide some justification? The character was born on Turkana IV, not Earth, so I am unsure you can claim she is a German-American. Even if she was born on Earth, the nations of Germany and the USA had ceased to exist centuries earlier. Do you have a reliable source to say she was a German American? Road Wizard 18:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I put on that editor's talk page that I thought the character was considered Ukrainian ancestry. The memory alpha page (linked in this article) supports that. Gimmetrow 19:08, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Startrek.com also has it as Natasha. PrometheusX303 19:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

True...Tasha is not German, but Ukranian and I think part Russian.

removed "homage" reference

I'm deleting this line:

Yar was oringinally named "Hernandez," an homage to the character of Private Vasquez from the film Aliens.

It seems silly to say that one character is an homage to another when the only they they have in common is being portrayed by the same actor. By that logic, Benjamin Sisko is an homage to Hawk from Spenser: For Hire, as Avery Brooks portrayed both.

Sister?

I thought Yar had a sister.

Nevermind I found it.

She does. The sister's name is Ishara and at first she mocks Tasha for fleeing the awful world they grew up in, then eventually grew to admire Tasha's heroism.

Yeah, Ishara Yar. She was hot. 70.251.241.224 (talk) 20:12, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Vasquez

I am almost 100% certain that this is in the TNG Companion. Will add this once I get back. Morwen - Talk 11:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

reason for departure

The official word, as given by Denise Crosby herself in interviews, is that she felt stifled by the writing on the show. Her character did not see much action, and she felt all Tasha did stand at the bridge and answer to the captain. (Having just finished watching season 1 up to "Skin of Evil", I have to agree.)

I don't know if Denise Crosby ever did hardcore porn (and the couple episodes of Red Shoe Diaries post-Trek don't count), but she was in an issue of Playboy, which I have also seen cited as the secret/true reason for her departure from the show--that she was fired. The pictures were first published in a [issue] and apparently some others from that time appeared in a [issue], so the timing might be of interest if the fired theory is true. She did a couple episodes of Red Shoe Diaries post-Trek

Also, I don't know how relevant any of this may be to the Tasha Yar article; I just saw it above and wanted to comment. Sorry about that. I'm gonna hop over to the talk page on Denise and see if there's anything of interest...