The Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

Your weekly deep-dive into the archives of Roddenberry Entertainment, from the personal files of Gene Roddenberry. Each week, "Dr. Trek" himself, Larry Nemecek, and his guest host will take a behind-the-scenes look at documents that haven't been viewed in decades—many being revealed publicly for the very first time!

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The Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Episodes (338)

Feb 17th Denise Crosby on Auditioning for TNG: How Macha Hernandez Became Tasha Yar
Feb 10th Star Trek IV's Lost Saavik Scene with Robin Curtis
Feb 3rd How 'The Chase' Inspired Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season

The Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Feb 17, 2026
23 minutes
21 MB

Before she was Tasha Yar, she was Lieutenant Commander Macha Hernandez. For the Season 14 finale of The Trek Files, Denise Crosby joins Larry Nemecek to revisit her original 1987 audition sides for Star Trek: The Next Generation, including early character descriptions that reveal a very different version of the Enterprise's security chief. Denise first read for Deanna Troi before Gene Roddenberry made a pivotal switch, reshaping the role of Macha Hernandez into Tasha Yar to fit Denise's strengths. In this week's episode, Denise reflects on the audition process, her favorite scene between Troi and Yar that...

The Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Denise Crosby on Auditioning for TNG: How Macha Hernandez Became Tasha Yar

Roddenberry Entertainment

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