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chief medical officer Katherine Pulaski

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Diana Muldaur
19. august 1938 -

chief medical officer Katherine Pulaski
[Season 2]

About the character:
Katherine Pulaski is from Earth and trained doctor. She has been married three times and was once sweetheart with Kyle Riker, the father of first officer William Thomas Riker. She is a lady, who do not let herself be put down and speaks out her opinion. She preferes transport by shuttlecraft rather than using the transporter. When she learns, that the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D is to have a new chief medical officer, she immediately took the chance.

About the actor:
Diana Muldaur is the replacement of Gates McFadden and is to play the character of chief medical officer Katherine Pulaski from season 2. But the viewers do not like the character and want Beverly Crusher back, so for that reason Diana Muldaur is only playing in this one season.

Diana Muldaur has also made guest appearances as two different characters in the "Star Trek" episodes "Return to Tomorrow" (52) and "Is There in Truth no Beauty" (63).

Has appeared in:
1968:           "Star Trek" - tv series
                      episode "Return to Tomorrow" (52) as doctor Ann Mulhall

1968:           "Bonanza" - tv series
                      episode "The Passing of a King" (308)

1968:           "Star Trek" - tv series
                      episode "Is There in Truth no Beauty" (63) as doctor Miranda                       Jones

1971:           "Alias Smith and Jones" - tv series
                      episode "The Great Shell Game" (6)

1971 - 1976: "McCloud" - tv series
                      [Season 2 - 7]

1974:           "Cannon" - tv series
                      episode "Blood Money" (70)

1977:           "The Streets of San Francisco" - tv series
                      episode "Dead Lift" (115)

1980:           "Quincy, M.E." - tv series
                      episode "Deadly Arena" (81)

1980:           "The Return of Frank Cannon" - tv movie

1981:           "Quincy, M.E." - tv series
                      episode "Slow Boat to Madness" (Part 1) (103)

1981:           "Quincy, M.E." - tv series
                      episode "Slow Boat to Madness" (Part 2) (104)

1985:           "Murder, She Wrote" - tv series
                      episode "Footnote to Murder" (18)

1988 - 1989: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" - tv series
                      [Season 2]

1989 - 1991: "L.A. Law" - tv series
                      [Season 4 - 5]

1989:           "Return of Sam McCloud" - tv movie

1991:           "Matlock" - tv series
                      episode "The Trial" (Part 1) (112)

1991:           "Matlock" - tv series
                      episode "The Trial" (Part 2) (113)

1991:           "Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion" - tv movie

 

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