Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Marj Dusay, Star Trek and soap opera actress, born 1936



Marj Dusay, born February 20, 1936 in Hays, Kansas, had a lengthy career in soap operas or daytime dramas such as All My Children and The Guiding Light, but to us Trekkies, we know here from the infamous Star Trek episode Spock's Brain, widely considered to be the worst of the original series.

In the first episode of the third season, the crew of the Enterprise has to deal with a woman who has abducted Spock's brain for her planet's 'controller'.  The woman Kara, played by Dusay, utters the phrase "Brain and brain!  What is brain?"

A dubious role to become famous, but it worked for Marj.

She passed away in New York City in 2020 at age 83. 

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