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Lieutenant Natasha "Tasha" Yar; Enterprise-D chief of security under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. "Encounter at Farpoint, Part I". Ukrainian in descent, Yar was born on a failed Federation colony on planet Turkana IV. Her parents were killed when she was only five, and she spent much of her childhood in a bitter struggle for survival, evading marauding rape gangs and caring for her younger sister, Ishara Yar. One of the few "normal" aspects of her childhood was her ownership of a pet kitten that she protected. "Where No One Has Gone Before". Tasha escaped from Turkana IV at the age of 15, choosing to join Starfleet. "The Naked Now"

As a Starfleet officer, she impressed Captain Jean-Luc Picard with her courage in rescuing a wounded colonist, making her way through a Carnellian mine field. Thus, Picard requested that she be transferred to the Enterprise-D in early 2364. "Legacy". Picard met Yar when she piloted the shuttlecralt that first took him to the ship just prior to his assuming command of the Enterprise-D. While under the inhibition-stripping effects of the Psi 2000 virus in early 2364, Tasha apparently became intimate with fellow Enterprise-D crew member Data. "The Naked Now".

Yar was killed in late 2364 while participating in a rescue mission on planet Vagra II. Tasha, knowing her line of work entailed considerable risk, left a holographic farewell to her comrades in which she thanked her shipmates for being part of her life. "Skin of Evil". Data kept a small holographic portrait of Tasha, and he considered it one of his most precious personal possessions. "The Measure of a Man".

Lt. Yar also appeared in "All Good Things..., Parts I and II"

Alternate Lt. Natasha Yar; In the alternate timeline created when the Enterprise-C vanished from its "proper" place in 2344 into a temporal rift, Enterprise-D Security Officer Tasha Yar did not die at planet Vagra II in 2364. Instead, she remained as security chief aboard that ship during a war between the Federation and the Klingons. The alternate Yar was on duty when the Enterprise-C emerged from a temporal rift, and she served as liaison between the two ships, working closely with Lieutenant Richard Castillo, with whom she became romantically involved. When it was learned that the Enterprise-C had to return to the past, the alternate Yar volunteered to return with that ship, despite the knowledge that the mission meant virtually certain death. "Yesterday's Enterprise". No direct evidence survived of the existence of the alternate Yar (or the emergence of the Enterprise-C) after the return of the Enterprise-C to the past. However, in 2367, a Romulan operative named Sela began a series of covert operations against the Klingon government. Sela was apparently the child of Yar and a Romulan general who had captured the Enterprise-C bridge crew at Narendra III. The Romulan general agreed to spare the bridge crew if Yar agreed to become his consort. Sela was born a year later, in 2345. Sela claimed that the alternate Yar was killed trying to escape when Sela was four. "Redemption, Part II"