Happy birthday, Ensign Ro!

Michelle Forbes, born January 8, 1965, is best known by Trekkies as Ensign Ro Laren on Star Trek: The Next Generation.  She had appeared previously on an earlier episode with David Ogden Stiers.  She starred in 8 episodes as Ensign/Lieutenant Ro.  She was offered a full-time role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but turned it down since she wanted to have some variety in her early career.

Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Disaster" airs 1991

Another of my favorite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation series Disaster aired October 19, 1991.  After the Enterprise hits a quantum filament, the ship is incapacitated, isolating the crew.  Troi, Miles O'Brien and Ensign Ro are trapped on the bridge.  Picard is trapped in a turbolift with three children and his child-skills are put to the test.  Riker, Data, Worf and Keiko O'Brien are stuck in Ten Forward.  In a hilarious break from the drama, Keiko goes into labor and Worf has to deliver the baby.