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      Can’t remember if it was before or after but I liked her in pet cemetery

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        Pet Sematary was after she left Star Trek.

        As a teenager at the time, I liked her a lot more in The Red Shoe Diaries.

        Looking back, quite the step down.

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      Was that the name of her next show? I never even heard of it. Unfortunately Denise Crosby joined the ranks of McLean Stevenson (Henry Blake on MAS*H) and other actors who quit popular shows they thought were holding back their careers so they could move on to not having one.

      Bringing her back as a Romulan in the Yesterday’s Enterprise arc was pretty awesome tho.

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        She was on it a few years later, but considering it was basically soft porn, it’s not exactly stuff I think she wants to be remembered for.

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    Rosalind Chao (Keiko) was the lead to get the role of Tasha Yar before the auditions. Denise Crosby auditioned for Troi.

    I’d love a TV show that was made up of sketches of actors playing the roles they didn’t get.

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    It’s so sad that, technically, she was ahead of her time. We want to see a thoughtful future world, but the writers were failing her as to writing her as a real character in that world who experienced growth. Worst loss of the first season, in my opinion, because it showed how even people trying to be on the cutting edge of acceptance and inclusion can still fall short.

    Which is why I turn my nose up at anyone who calls themselves “an ally” of any struggle. Sorry buddy, it’s up to those struggling to name you as an ally, that’s not a label you get to self-apply. Never call yourself an ally, and maybe someday your actions will show you really are an ally. (Much like the whole “Any man who must say, ‘I am the King’, is no true king.” quote)