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In the primeStar Trektimeline , Tasha Yar run into her death early on inThe Next Generation’srun , leaving turgid parts of her character and backstory unexploited . In 2008 , IDW releasedStar Trek : The Last contemporaries , giving her a surprising pansy romance with anotherEnterprisecrew phallus .
Star Trek : The Last Generationwas written by Andrew Steven Harris and draw by Gordon Purcell . Set in a timeline in which the Klingons have overrun the Federation , Tasha and many of her comrade are resistance fighters . buff see that in this timeline , Tasha is in a family relationship with Ro Laren . Tragically , as part of their struggle for exemption , Ro sacrifices herself by cast herself on a grenade , save up both Picard and Tasha ’s hold out in the process .
While the story takes place in an substitute timeline , thisisthe continuity buff know and sleep with . Picard eventually discovers that the timeline has been changed by the meter traveler Braxton , who seeks to ward off an even larger threat than the Klingons . Once the exemption combatant find out Braxton has alter prison term , they unify to stop him and contribute back the original version of their lives . The timeline is then restored , with few characters commend the substitute history they all endure through .
Ensign Ro and Tasha Yar Fell in Love
Braxton’s New Timeline Brought the Pair Together
Both Tasha Yar and Ensign Ro were only in a fistful of episode ofStar Trek : The Next coevals , but both leave alone a lasting impression on devotee . Tasha was defeat off in the first season episode " Skin of Evil , " but was later resurrected through sentence travelling … and then killed off again in one of the dealership ’s most outre game twists . Ensign Ro joined the bunch of theEnterpriseduringNext Generation’sfifth time of year , but subsequently betray Starfleet . Ro on the face of it met her endinStar Trek : Picard’sthird season , sacrificing herself to salve her former Friend .
Tasha Yar was played by Denise Crosby , while Ensign Ro Laren was play by Michelle Forbes
Ensign Ro was one of Star Trek ’s most controversial characters , and Star Trek : Defiant # 1 confirms her tragic fortune .
Tasha and Ro Are One ofStar Trek’sGreatest “What-Ifs”
Star Trek Backed Fans' Queer Reading, But It Took Decades
WhileTasha Yar was n’t explicitly portrayed as fairy inThe Next Generation , many fans both at the meter and now consider her to be coded as a lesbian or epicene in the show . Star TrekgettingYar and Data togetherin ' The Naked Now ' is widely consider a clumsy attempt to stress her heterosexuality in the brass of far-flung venture concerning her sexuality , do at a clock time when LGBTQ+ character were far less welcome on - screen . Written in 2008,Star Trek : The Last Generationembraces fans ' queer reading of Tasha Yar , pair her with a character she sadly never got to meet in the original show .
Tasha Yar and Ro Laren ’s romance adds a tragical attribute to the resetting of the timeline seen inThe Last Generation . In the original and re - established timeline , Tasha confessed her loneliness but was killed offbefore she could develop any love life interestingness . Ro Laren did not come on dining table theEnterpriseuntil years after Tasha died , depriving Tasha of meeting the womanhood who - under dissimilar condition - would have become her true sexual love . In the primeStar Trektimeline , the two never met , sacrificing their connection for an Earth gratuitous of Klingon control .
