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Diana Muldaur had huge shoes to fill when she was brought back to the Star Trek franchise for Star Trek: The Next Generation's second season. A veteran of the franchise already, Muldaur played two characters in the Original Series. First as Ann Mulhall in "Return to Tomorrow", and then as Dr. Miranda Jones in the episode "Is There Trutht in Beauty".

She would once again return to Star Trek in season two of The Next Generation. Instead of coming back for an episode or two, as she did in the series prior, she instead returned for the majority of the second season. She stood in as the new ship's doctor, Doctor Katherine Pulaski.

Pulaski was brought in to replace Gates McFadden, who left the show for a season. McFadden's character, Dr. Beverly Crusher, wasn't killed off the way her season one colleague was. McFadden wasn't the only woman to...

Diana Muldaur played three different characters in the Star Trek franchise, all of whom happened to be doctors. In her appearances on Star Trek: The Original Series, Muldaur played Dr. Ann Mulhall and Dr. Miranda Jones. Muldaur later joined Star Trek: The Next Generation as Dr. Katherine Pulaski, the Chief Medical Officer of the USS Enterprise-d.

Diana Muldaur has played three different Star Trek characters in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Diana Muldaur is one of the few actors to have visited both the Enterprise of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart) Enterprise-d. While Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, and James Doohan all briefly reprised their original roles on Tng, Muldaur played different characters in all three of her Star Trek appearances. While none of her three characters are related, all of them happen to be doctors.

In Star Trek: The Original Series...