Editing Tasha Yar (section)

==Appearances==
Natasha Yar's origins are explained in the season four episode "[[Legacy (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Legacy]]". She was born on the planet Turkana&nbsp;IV in 2337. She had a younger sister named [[Ishara Yar|Ishara]], who was born five years after her. Shortly after Ishara's birth, the girls' parents were killed and they were taken in by other people; however, they were subsequently abandoned and Tasha was required to look after her sister on her own.<ref name=legacy>{{cite episode |title=Legacy|episode-link=Legacy (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |last=Menosky |first=Joe |season=4|number=6 |date=October 29, 1990}}</ref> The government on the planet had collapsed, and the sisters were forced to scavenge for food while avoiding rape gangs.<ref name=wherenoone>{{cite episode |title=Where No One Has Gone Before |episode-link=Where No One Has Gone Before |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |last1=Duane |first1=Diane |last2=Reaves |first2=Michael |season=1 |number=6 |date=October 26, 1987}}</ref> In 2352, aged 15, Tasha managed to leave Turkana&nbsp;IV. She never saw Ishara again; the latter joined the "Coalition", one of the factions on the planet before Tasha left. Tasha refused to join the [[Cadre (politics)|cadres]] on the planet, blaming them for her parents' deaths.<ref name=legacy/>

Yar appeared for the first time in the pilot episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' as the Security and Tactical Officer on board the USS ''Enterprise''-D. When [[Captain Picard]] orders an emergency saucer separation, Yar is one of the bridge crew to accompany him to the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)#Command|battle bridge]]. She is amongst the crew abducted by [[Q (Star Trek)|Q]], and later serves on the away team to Farpoint Station.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Encounter at Farpoint |episode-link=Encounter at Farpoint |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first1=D. C. |last1=Fontana |first2=Gene |last2=Roddenberry |season=1 |number=1 |date=September 28, 1987}}</ref> In both that episode and "[[Hide and Q]]", she is outspoken and the most openly defiant of Q of the cast, although her defiance is ineffective both times.<ref>{{harvp|Lee|2018|pp=203-204}}.</ref>  In "[[The Naked Now]]", while the crew are under the influence of an alien ailment, she initiates a sexual encounter with the android [[Data (Star Trek)|Data]].<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Naked Now|episode-link=The Naked Now |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first1=John D. F. |last1=Black |first2=J. Michael |last2=Bingham |season=1 |number=3 |date=October 5, 1987}}</ref> In "[[Code of Honor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Code of Honor]]" Yar is abducted by Lutan, the leader of the planet Ligon II, after she demonstrates her combat skills on the [[holodeck]]. She kills Lutan's wife Yareena in ritual combat to the death, though Yareena is revived on the ''Enterprise'' by Doctor [[Beverly Crusher|Crusher]].<ref>{{cite episode |title=Code of Honor |episode-link=Code of Honor (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first1=Kathryn |last1=Powers |first2=Michael |last2=Baron |season=1 |number=4 |date=October 12, 1987}}</ref> During the events of "[[Where No One Has Gone Before]]", Yar begins to hallucinate that she is back on Turkana&nbsp;IV and running for her life.<ref name=wherenoone/> In "[[The Arsenal of Freedom]]", Yar and Data are trapped together on the surface of the planet Minos and are attacked by a series of sentry probes that adapt to Data and Yar's phasers. The situation is resolved by Captain Picard, who is trapped elsewhere on the planet's surface with Dr. Crusher.<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Arsenal of Freedom|episode-link=The Arsenal of Freedom |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first1=Richard |last1=Manning |first2=Hans |last2=Beimler |first3=Maurice |last3=Hurley |first4=Robert |last4=Lewin |season=1 |number=21 |date=April 11, 1988}}</ref>

In "[[Skin of Evil]]", Yar forms part of the away team that [[Transporter (Star Trek)|beams]] down to Vagra II to rescue Deanna Troi from a crashed shuttlecraft. She is killed by the creature Armus in a display of his power. The crew hold a memorial service for her on the holodeck, and [[Worf]] replaces her as chief tactical and security officer.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Skin of Evil |episode-link=Skin of Evil |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first1=Joseph |last1=Stefano |first2=Hannah Louise |last2=Shearer |season=1 |number=23 |date=April 25, 1988}}</ref>

Yar's legacy has a minor role in  "[[The Measure of a Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Measure of a Man]]", a second season episode.  Despite Data's lack of emotions, he is sentimentally attached to her, and keeps a small hologram of her in his quarters.<ref>{{harvp|Hanley|1997|p=105}}.</ref> During the court hearing on Data's stature as a sentient being, he says that he and Yar were intimate and that she was special to him.<ref name="measureofman">{{cite episode |title=The Measure of a Man |episode-link=The Measure of a Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first1=Melinda M. |last1=Snodgrass |season=2 |number=9 |date=February 13, 1989}}</ref> 

The [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C)|USS ''Enterprise''-C]] emerges from a rift in space-time in "[[Yesterday's Enterprise]]", and the timeline is changed.  Yar is once again alive and in her former position on the ''Enterprise''-D. She works with the older Enterprise's helmsman, [[Richard Castillo (Star Trek)|Richard Castillo]], and the two become close. [[Guinan (Star Trek)|Guinan]], who has some awareness of the timeline that would be restored by the ''Enterprise''-C returning into the rift, confides in Yar that she believes that Yar died senselessly in that timeline. Based on that advice, Yar transfers to the ''Enterprise''-C and returns with it to two decades into the past, and its expected destruction at the hands of the [[Romulan]]s while defending the [[Klingon]] outpost Narendra&nbsp;III.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Yesterday's Enterprise |episode-link=Yesterday's Enterprise |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first1=Ira Steven |last1=Behr |first2=Richard |last2=Manning |first3=Hans |last3=Beimler |first4=Ronald D. |last4=Moore |first5=Trent Christopher |last5=Ganino |first6=Eric A. |last6=Stillwell |season=3 |number=15 |date=February 19, 1990}}</ref> The alternative universe version of Yar traveled back in time on board the ''Enterprise''-C, and into the main timeline. This process was later described as "world jumping" rather than a typical timeline travel story by critics.<ref>{{harvp|Hanley|1997|p=213}}.</ref>

In the two-part episode "[[Redemption (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Redemption]]", Denise Crosby plays [[Sela (Star Trek)|Sela]], Yar's half-Romulan daughter.  In a follow-up to "Yesterday's Enterprise", it is revealed that several members of the ''Enterprise''-C crew were captured by the Romulans when it returned through the rift, including Yar.  A Romulan general offered to spare the crew's lives if she became his consort. After a year, Yar gave birth to Sela. When Sela was four, Yar attempted to escape but Sela screamed to prevent her from being taken away from her father. After she was caught, Yar was executed.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Redemption (Part II) |episode-link=Redemption (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first=Ronald D. |last=Moore |season=5 |number=1 |date=September 23, 1991}}</ref>

The series finale "[[All Good Things... (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|All Good Things...]]" includes Yar's final appearance, in scenes that take place prior to and in the early parts of "[[Encounter at Farpoint]]". As most of the bridge crew are yet to join the ''Enterprise''-D in the scenes, Yar is one of the senior members of the crew under Captain Picard in the earliest of the three timeframes in the episode. She needs to be convinced by Picard to put the ship in danger in order to destroy the temporal anti-time anomaly that threatens to prevent life from evolving on Earth.<ref>{{cite episode |title=All Good Things&nbsp;... |episode-link=All Good Things... (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|series=Star Trek: The Next Generation |first1=Brannon |last1=Braga |first2=Ronald D. |last2=Moore |season=7 |number=25/26 |date=May 23, 1994}}</ref>