She's a good actor and I don't blame her for bailing when it looked like every scene was going to reference the rape gangs of Turkana IV.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
78 points (98.8% liked)
Star Trek
2468 readers
54 users here now
/c/StarTrek: Your safe harbored Spacedock in these Stellar Seas!
Fire up the inertial dampeners, retract all moorings and clear space dock. It's time to boldy go where no one has gone before!
~ 1. Be Civil. This is a Star Trek community and lets keep that energy. Be kind, respectful and polite to one another.
~ 2. Be Courteous. Please use the spoiler tags for any new Trek content that's been released in the past month. Check this page for lemmy formatting) for any posts. Also please keep spoilers out of the titles!
~ 3. Be Considerate. We're spread out across a lot of different instances but don't forget to follow your instances rules and the instance rules for Lemmy.world.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
yeah, that bit of character lore was bit much.
I am super glad they brought her back for that episode, and then used this role as the basis for her other character in TNG.
There's something about Romulan Bowl Cut that makes everyone look exquisitely sinister.
Discussion
Was Tasha Yar of the alternate timeline, where the Federation was at war with the Klingons, from a failed colony like Prime Yar was?
Would the Federation have even put that colony out there without a peace treaty? Or would it have been evacuated prior to failure due to Klingon raids?
I ask because Yar in Yesterday’s Enterprise always felt different to me. She seems wiser and more self-confident. Not like someone who endured the trauma of spending her early life running from gangs. Her attitude and posture was more strict and straight arrow. It made her seem like a military brat, someone who spent longer around in and around Starfleet.
The Prime Enterprise crew kept saying Sela’s mother was ‘their Tasha Yar’ but what if it wasn’t? What if her mother was a much different person than the the Yar they knew?
It's a safe bet that she is a different Yar if looking at it from a multi-verse perspective.
Timey-Wimey universe shenanigans aren't exactly consistent in Star Trek. TNG was still using the concept of "altered universes" instead of "alternate universes". Alternate Universes wouldn't really become a story-telling device until DS9 mirror-universe and on from there to Enterprise, Discovery, etc...
But when TNG was being made, unless I'm forgetting something, the premise was very much that THE universe of the show was altered, not that they were moved to a different timeline.
So from the perspective of the episode, yes...that very much was their Tasha Yar since it's presumed it's the same universe, just altered. If the episode had been aired after they had established the multi-verse, than it's likely that she wouldn't be the same Yar.
Her change in demeanour is likely an acting choice by Crosby, since she's playing a Yar that has been on the Enterprise for much longer. She's more comfortable and confident in her role.
Exactly. Not an alternate universe, just a branch timeline from the point the Enterprise-C was suppose to be destroyed.
So the altered timeline had been departing from the Prime timeline in meaningful ways for about 30 years at the point of the alternate events of Yesterday’s Enterprise. Before Tasha and her sister were born. Their lives could have played out very similarly, or they could have been completely different. That’s why I wanted to hear what other people thought.
The whole out of universe production explanation is good. Like how some things in the Original Series went past warp 10 because the showrunners were still figuring out what Warp was and how to represent it.
I think that even though it was believed from a production standpoint that she would be the same woman, just not killed by Armus, she still gave a slightly altered performance. I don’t know how much of that was her just getting back into the character, or being told to act ‘darker and more serious,’ or if she deliberately chose to set this timeline’s Yar apart. Crosby’s definitely someone who can act with that nuance because Sela is portrayed as a unique character and not simply a Romulan Tasha.
I’m confused by what you’re trying to say, the mirror universe first debuted in the original series, and this wasn’t an alternate universe episode it was an alternate timeline episode. So yeah it’s like the Doc and Marty who are definitely the same people despite the timeline changes in the second movie.
the mirror universe first debuted in the original series
OMG I'm an idiot! I completely forgot the O.G. series...
I have to absolultely turn in my nerd card. Seriously...I'm embarassed. Ignore me.
i don't think it was communicated in the episode in any way but it seems obvious that while the basic character traits of the crew are more or less the same they had to be adapted into new context. so you're probably right that Yesterday's Enterprise Yar is not really TNG S1 Yar in more than one way.
She looks like a mix of Gillian Anderson and Abigail thorn