Monday, February 27, 2023

Happy birthday, actress Barbara Babcock!


Incredible and under-rated actress Barbara Babcock, born February 27, 1937 in Fort Riley, Kansas, appeared in two Star Trek episodes and provided voices in four others.  She first appeared in A Taste of Armageddon in 1967 and then Plato's Stepchildren in 1968.  She voiced Trelane's mother in Squire of Gothos, Isis the cat in Assignment: Earth, the Tholian commander in The Tholian Web, and Zetar in The Lights of Zetar. 

She appeared in three episodes of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury.  She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work in Hill Street Blues.



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