Jae Jae was a 24th century Starfleet officer , who started her career on board the as an ensign , usually serving in the operations division beginning around 2367 . By 2369 , she held the rank of lieutenant junior grade . ( ) Service history . 2367 . Jae was on the bridge working at an aft console , when K ' Ehleyr , on board Klingon chancellor K ' mpec ' s ship , contacted the " Enterprise " - D . ( ) She was on duty on the bridge when the crew tried to steer a garbage scow into the Gamelan sun . ( ) Jae had a drink in Ten Forward after the " Enterprise " - D managed to escape a cosmic string . ( ) She passed Data in a corridor while the Android was on his way to Keiko Ishikawa . ( ) She was back on the bridge when the ship met with the Cardassian warship " Trager " . ( ) She was working in main engineering when Data and La Forge tried to find a way out of a binary star system . ( ) Jae was on the bridge when the " Enterprise " - D encountered the Cytherian probe in the vicinity of the Argus Array ; she received new orders from Lieutenant Worf shortly thereafter . Later she was working in engineering when La Forge passed her on his way to the holodeck . ( ) She was manning the ops when the " Enterprise " - D was in orbit of Kaelon II and was threatened by two Kaelon warship s . ( ) Jae was working in a shuttlebay shortly before Odan took a shuttle to Peliar Zel II . ( ) She was working on the lowest level of the warp core after Geordi La Forge returned from his trip to Risa . She was later on duty in the transporter room beaming Governor Vagh and Ambassador aboard the " Enterprise " - D . Jae was also part of the forensic team which searched for DNA samples on weapons containers in cargo bay 4 shortly before the assassination try on Governor Vagh . ( ) Jae was one of the officers waiting outside the transporter room to say farewell to Worf when he went to fight in the Klingon Civil War in 2367 . ( ) 2368 . She was on duty on the bridge at an aft console when the " Enterprise " - D was in orbit of El - Adrel IV in 2368 and met the Children of Tama . ( ) Jae was manning the ops when Doctor Kila Marr killed the Crystalline Entity in early 2368 . ( ) In 2368 , Jae was seriously injured when the " Enterprise " - D struck a quantum filament . She was brought to Ten Forward for treatment , since the rest of the ship had been cut off from sickbay . ( ) She was one of the crewmembers assigned to scan the debris of the Vulcan transport " " . ( ) Jae was on duty in main engineering when the " Enterprise " - D was in orbit of Penthara IV and was paid a visit by Berlinghoff Rasmussen . ( ) She was present on the bridge when the crew experimented with Doctor Ja ' Dar ' s soliton wave theories ( ) and when the wreck of the was discovered . ( ) Sometime between 2366 and 2368 she was one of the engineering crewmembers who were evacuated from the main engineering due to a warp core breach . Commander Riker experienced this event during a telepathic memory invasion by the Ullian Jev and remembered the death of Ensign Keller . ( ) She was on duty on the bridge during the last repetition of the temporal causality loop the " Enterprise " - D was caught in 2368 . ( ) Jae was working in main engineering when Captain Picard and Dr . Crusher got their report from Geordi La Forge and Data regarding the accident of the Nova Squadron . ( ) Jae was on duty on the bridge when the ship was infected by nitrium parasite s the same year . She passed out on the bridge and had to be led to sickbay when the ship had to overheat in order to kill the parasites . ( ) She was on duty on the bridge , as usual manning an aft console , when the " Enterprise " - D started to assist a Romulan science vessel with repairs in late 2368 . ( ) Jae was also on duty on the bridge when Captain Jean - Luc Picard lost consciousness as he was affected by a probe sent by the long dead inhabitants of Kataan , ( ) and when the ship was in orbit of Devidia II a short time later . ( ) 2369 . She remained on the bridge until Captain Picard returned to the ship and the " Enterprise " - D destroyed the cave with the Devidian portal . ( ) In early 2369 , when the " Enterprise " - D came to the rescue of the , she was on duty on the bridge . ( ) She was also on duty when the " Enterprise " - D came to the rescue of the transport ship " Dorian " ( ) and a few days later when the crew found the Dyson sphere that the had crashed on . ( ) Jae attended Data ' s poetry reading in early 2369 and sat next to Captain Picard and Lieutenant Worf . Data ' s poetry was less than inspirational , but she was polite and stayed for the entire reading . ( ) She was on duty on the bridge when the ship was in orbit of Tagra IV and Orn Lote contacted the " Enterprise " - D . ( ) Jae manned her aft station on the bridge when Captain Picard , as a teenager , entered the bridge and made orders . She was astonished by this circumstance . Later she was among the bridge crew , who was held hostage by the renegade Ferengi . ( ) She was among the last group beamed back aboard the " Enterprise " - D from the particle fountain station while Captain Picard and Geordi La Forge were still aboard the station . ( ) She was back on the bridge when the " Enterprise " - D under the command of Captain Edward Jellico faced the Cardassian Gul Lemec and when Captain Picard returned to the " Enterprise " - D . ( ) She was also on duty when Captain Picard contacted Governor and tried to find out what happened to Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari and Lieutenant Keith Rocha on Relay Station 47 . ( ) " In an alternate timeline , caused by Captain Picard ' s near death experiences and Q ' s power , she was working on an aft station aboard the " Enterprise " - D . " ( ) She was on duty on the bridge moments before the personnel was evacuated to the Remmler Array because of the planned baryon sweep of the ship . ( ) Jae attended the " Trio in G minor " concert in Ten Forward performed by Data , Nella Daren , and Cheney . She was seated next to Captain Picard . ( ) Jae was on duty on the bridge , walking towards the Environmental Station when Lieutenant Commander Data announced to Captain Picard that he had completed his spectral analysis of the outer shell of a protostar . ( ) Jae received a PADD from Captain Picard , shortly before Counselor Troi entered the bridge and told Picard about her concerns regarding Dr . Crusher . ( ) She was part of the day shift which replaced the night shift shortly before Lieutenant Worf took a leave of absence and visited the monastery on Boreth . ( ) She joined the jazz concert , held in Ten Forward and came late . When she arrived she greeted a fellow ensign . ( ) Jae was again on duty on an aft station of the bridge when the " Enterprise " - D was caught in a temporal fragment and frozen in time . ( ) She served on the bridge during the attack of the renegade Borg in orbit of Ohniaka III and was also present when two Borg drone s beamed on the bridge . ( ) 2370 . Jae was one of many " Enterprise " - D crewmembers to beam down to the rogue Borg planet in search of Data , and was one of the first to return to the ship once the " Enterprise " - D began retrieving the search teams . ( ) The same year she attended the banquet in Ten Forward and welcomed the Iyaaran ambassador s on board . During the banquet she had a conversation with Commander Riker . ( ) She was manning an aft station on the bridge when Data experienced his first nightmare s . ( ) Jae attended the banquet for the Cairn in Ten Forward and remained off duty in the bar . ( ) Lieutenant j . g . Jae served on an aft station on the bridge when Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher were held hostages by the Kesprytt ( ) and when the two scientists Serova and Rabal beamed aboard the " Enterprise " - D . ( ) Off duty , she attended the concert by Data and Juliana Tainer in Ten Forward , and sat next to Commander Riker . ( ) " In an alternate quantum reality , she was one of the guests at Worf ' s surprise 30th birthday party . Later she was on duty and manned an aft station on the bridge . " ( ) Jae was on duty at the bridge when the " Enterprise " - D arrived at Boraal II after it received the distress call from Nikolai Rozhenko . She remained on the bridge and was present when Captain Picard held his speech to honor the Boraalan s . ( ) She was working on the bridge when the weather modification network of the Caldos colony caused malfunctions aboard the " Enterprise " - D and the bridge was filled with fog . ( ) In 2370 , Jae was part of the beta shift , which began duty at 1200 hours . Commander Riker and Ensign Gates also worked this shift . Before and after she served in this shift , she joined fellow crewmembers in Ten Forward , had a drink with Ensign Kellogg , and played a game of Terrace against a science officer . ( ) She was on duty on the bridge when the " Enterprise " - D passed a rogue comet in sector 1156 and discovered the D ' Arsay archive in this comet . ( ) Jae served on the aft section of the bridge shortly after Daniel Kwan committed suicide . ( ) She was also on duty on the bridge when the crew was beginning to feel the influence of Barclay ' s Protomorphosis Syndrome . ( ) Jae was on duty on the bridge shortly after the " Enterprise " - D left orbit of Maranga IV . ( ) She was also working at an aft station on the bridge when the ship encountered DaiMon Bok ' s probe in late 2370 . ( ) Jae was on duty on the bridge when the ship was developing an emergent property in late 2370 . ( ) She was on duty on the bridge when Lieutenant Ro Laren returned to the ship a short time later . ( ) She was also on duty on the bridge when the ship was investigating a temporal anomaly in the Devron system . ( ) 2371 . She transferred to the command division in 2371 . She served as flight controller as the " Enterprise " entered the Amargosa system . She was later passed outside Ten Forward while talking to a male friend by Data and La Forge after they installed Data ' s emotion chip . She later appeared in Ten Forward talking to the same gentleman . During the battle with the Duras sisters , Jae was hit by debris , requiring Deanna Troi to take the conn . She returned to the bridge just as the saucer section began its descent towards Veridian III . ( ) 2372 - 2373 . Jae was one of Jean - Luc Picard ' s old crew that transferred to the in 2372 . She was then in the sciences division , and on duty for the " Enterprise " s involvement in the Battle of Sector 001 in 2373 . She was one of the officers on the bridge while the Borg began to assimilate the ship and worked on weapons modifications under the supervision of Doctor Beverly Crusher . ( ) 2375 . Jae was in dress uniform and one of the crew welcoming the Evora in Ten Forward in 2375 . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Jae was played by regular TNG background actress Tracee Lee Cocco . She was generally seen at the environment station on the bridge , although she also made frequent appearances in main engineering , the corridor s , and Ten Forward . She seemed to be very comfortable with both Captain Picard and Commander Riker ; she sat closely to Picard in and in , Riker had his arm around the back of her chair during Data and Dr . Tainer ' s concert . Cocco ' s official site claimed the character was named Lieutenant Jae , and this is maintained here although no official production source has named the character . In an interview on Trek FM ' s Earl Grey podcast , Cocco stated the name was created accidentally on set by Commander Riker actor Jonathan Frakes , and had just stuck . The part she played in " Unification I & II " was referred to in Jeri Taylor ' s novelization of that episode with the name , although the description of the character didn ' t quite match Cocco ' s appearance . She had a baby brother named Casey who died young and still suffered from lingering guilt over not having spent enough time with him . According to The Continuing Committee card game , her character enjoyed swimming and shipboard artistic events .