Series: TNG

Character(s): Ensign Ro Laren, Dara

Michelle Forbes made her first appearance as Ro in the fifth season episode “Ensign Ro”, having previously impressed the producers with her brief performance as Dara in the fourth season episode “Half a Life”. She played Ro in an additional seven episodes, with the last being seventh season’s “Preemptive Strike”, in which her character defects to the Maquis.

The producers of Star Trek invited Forbes to reprise Ro in the spin-off series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but Forbes declined the offer and decided to focus on a career in films.

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Ro Laren was a female Bajoran national who formerly served in Starfleet aboard the Federation starship USS Enterprise-D before finally sympathizing with, and later defecting to, the Maquis.

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