TV Shows: TNG, DS9, Voyager,

Movies: Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection

Characters: Lieutenant Jae, Antican, Kobheerian, Crippled Borg drone, San Francisco visitor, Marketplace alien, Alien bar patron, USS Cheyenne science officer, Tak Tak shopper, Nekrit alien

Tracee Lee Cocco is an actress, model and stuntwoman who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. She was most visibly seen as Lieutenant Jae, a regular background character on The Next Generation, between the fourth and seventh seasons. She was one of the background performers who also appeared in the three Next Generation feature films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, and Star Trek: Insurrection. In addition, Cocco worked as stand-in for Alice Krige (the “Borg Queen”) in Star Trek: First Contact.

In “Descent” she played one of the Borg drones mentally damaged by Lore’s experimentation. On Deep Space 9, she could sometimes be seen in alien make-up in Quark’s and played several aliens such as an Antican. Cocco was one of several regular background performers from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager who participated in the filming of the interactive movie Star Trek: Borg; she is most notably seen as a Starfleet science officer visible in the corridor aboard the USS Cheyenne at the start of the movie. She also appeared as an alien bar character in the 1996 video game Star Trek: Klingon.

According to the call sheets, Cocco was scheduled to appear in the fourth season episodes “First Contact” in a scene in Ten Forward, “Galaxy’s Child” in scenes on the bridge, and “Identity Crisis”, “Qpid”, and “In Theory” in scenes in Ten Forward and engineering but was either not filmed or cut from the final episodes. She was also scheduled to appear at the ops station in the fifth season episode “Ensign Ro”, in engineering scenes in the episodes “The Game” and “Conundrum”, in corridor scenes in “Ethics”, in Ten Forward scenes in “The Outcast”, and on the bridge in “Imaginary Friend” and “I Borg” but was not seen in the final episodes.

On Wednesday 4 June 1997, Cocco was transformed into a Ferengi for an official Paramount event, held at 3:30 pm. According to the call sheet, the seventh day of filming of VOY: “Scorpion, Part II”, Cocco had a makeup call at 11:30 am and was working alongside Michael Braveheart.

In the early 1990s, Cocco was part of the group of background regulars who made a promotional tour for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She appeared as a Ferengi along with Cameron, Joycelyn Robinson, and Michael Braveheart. She continued to appear on conventions throughout the United States and at conventions in other countries such as the London Film & Comic Con in 2012, the FedCon in Germany in 2013, the Preston ComicCon in 2018, and the Destination Star Trek Birmingham convention in 2019. [4] [5]

More recently, Cocco appeared as Khuhl in the two Star Trek: Renegades episodes “The Requiem, Part 1” and “The Requiem, Part 2” in 2017. The episodes were written by Ethan H. Calk, Sky Douglas Conway, and Jack Treviño and directed by Tim Russ. Cocco worked on these episodes with Walter Koenig, Terry Farrell, Robert Beltran, Gary Graham, Aron Eisenberg, Nichelle Nichols, Manu Intiraymi, Tim Russ, Courtney Peldon, Darth Schuhe, Cirroc Lofton, Hana Hatae, Ryan T. Husk, and Dragon Dronet.

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