Joanna Miles Joanna Miles is the actress who portrayed Perrin , wife of Sarek , in the two episodes and . For " Unification I " , Miles filmed her scenes on Thursday and between Tuesday and Wednesday on Paramount Stage 8 , 9 , and 16 . ( " Unification I " call sheets ) Miles was interviewed by Bill Florence for the article " Joanna Miles - Perrin " , published in . As a science fiction fan , Miles is familiar with and cites as her favorite , " " Particulary " Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home " . Leonard Nimoy has made a wonderful marriage between entertaining us and having us address issues that we need to face , and what better way to do it than through this medium ? " " Born in Nice , France , Miles decided at the age of ten not to follow into her mother ' s footsteps as an artist but becoming an actress . By the time she finished high school , Miles attended twenty - two different schools and lived in sixteen states . Her first professional acting work was the play " Goodbye My Fancy " for which she received her Actor ' s Equity card . Miles had her motion picture debut with a minor part in the 1960 drama " Butterfield 8 " on which she also worked as stand - in for and Susan Oliver . Following her film debut , Miles appeared in recurring roles in the television series " The Nurses " ( 1963 ) , " The Edge of Night " ( 1964 - 1965 ) , " A Flame in the Wind " ( 1964 ) , " The Secret Storm " ( 1967 - 1968 ) , and " All My Children " ( 1970 - 1971 ) . She also worked on the television drama " The Glass Menagerie " ( 1973 ) which earned her two Emmy Award s as Best Supporting Actress in Drama and Best Supporting Actress of the Year , the television drama " Born Innocent " ( 1974 ) , the science fiction horror film " Bug " ( 1975 , with James Greene ) , and the science fiction thriller " The Ultimate Warrior " ( 1975 , with Stephen McHattie ) before she worked with William Shatner in the " Barbary Coast " episode " Crazy Cats " in 1975 ( with Andrew Prine and Ian Wolfe ) . Miles had guest roles in episodes of " Petrocelli " ( 1976 , with Susan Howard and Ward Costello ) , " The Incredible Hulk " ( 1979 , directed by Reza Badiyi ) , " Trapper John , M . D . " ( 1982 , with Madge Sinclair and Gina Hecht ) , " Cagney & Lacey " ( 1986 ) , and " St . Elsewhere " ( 1987 , with Norman Lloyd , Ed Begley , Jr . , Bruce Greenwood , Christina Pickles , and Ray Walston ) and portrayed the recurring role of Martha Randolph in four episodes of the drama soap " Dallas " ( 1984 , with Susan Howard , John Beck , Mitchell Ryan , and Morgan Woodward ) . Further film work includes the television drama " Delta County , U . S . A . " ( 1977 , with John McLiam ) , the television science fiction film " A Fire in the Sky " ( 1978 , with Nicolas Coster and Marj Dusay ) , the horror film " The Orphan " ( 1979 ) , the drama " Cross Creek " ( 1983 , with Alfre Woodard , Ike Eisenmann , and Malcolm McDowell ) , the thriller " Blackout " ( 1988 ) , and an acclaimed performance as Queen Gertrude , mother of Hamlet , in the drama " Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead " ( 1990 ) . In the 1990s , Miles appeared in several television movies and had supporting roles in the thriller " Above Suspicion " ( 1995 , with Kim Cattrall , Ron Canada , Natalija Nogulich , and Michelle Bonilla ) and the science fiction thriller " Judge Dredd " ( 1995 , with Maurice Roëves , Mitchell Ryan , and Adrienne Barbeau ) . She guest starred in episodes of " Total Security " ( 1997 , with Tony Plana , Kristin Bauer , and Georgann Johnson ) , " Nothing Sacred " ( 1998 , with Kimberly Cullum ) , " Chicago Hope " ( 1998 and 2000 , with Michael Bofshever , Bob Clendenin , Ed O ' Ross , Allan Miller , Richard Riehle , Margot Rose , and Deborah Van Valkenburgh ) , and " Family Law " ( 2000 , with Julie Warner , Christopher McDonald , Juliana Donald , Salli Richardson , and Freda Foh Shen ) . In more recent years , Miles worked on " ER " ( 2000 , with John Pyper - Ferguson , Jenette Goldstein , Scott MacDonald , Skip Stellrecht , Bruce Wright , Megan Cole , Derek Mears , Christopher Michael , and Gwen Van Dam ) , Whoopi Goldberg ' s " Strong Medicine " ( 2001 , with Jack Donner and Martha Hackett ) , and " Judging Amy " ( 2002 , with Kevin Rahm , Lanei Chapman , and Dakin Matthews ) , the television movie " Jane Doe : Ties That Bind " ( 2007 , with Bruce French , Kimble Jemison , Lorna Raver , and Time Winters ) , the romance " Sex and Breakfast " ( 2007 ) on which she also worked as co - producer , the mystery thriller " Grave Misconduct " ( 2008 , with John Fleck and Fran Bennett ) , and the television drama " Jesse Stone : Thin Ice " ( 2009 , with Leslie Hope , Stephen McHattie , and William Sadler ) . As a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Motion Picture Academy , Miles continues to work on stage in plays such as " Women in Shorts " ( 2011 ) and " There Is No They " ( 2012 ) , in film and television .