Bonita Friedericy Bonita Friedericy is an actress who portrayed the scientist who was later turned into a Borg drone in the second season episode . She filmed her scenes in early . Friedricy is married to John Billingsley , who plays Doctor Phlox in " Star Trek : Enterprise " . He had been trying to get her a role on " Enterprise " for a while , specifically to play one of his character ' s many wives . When she did guest star in " Regeneration " , he made it a point to tell people that her name is pronounced " so that it rhymes with " Fried and Greasy " " . In an audio commentary for " Regeneration " on the ENT Season 2 Blu - ray , Friedericy and Billingsley joked that Friedericy got the part of Rooney by sleeping with Tucker actor Connor Trinneer . In reality , Friedericy auditioned for the role of Rooney , but when she walked into the room to audition , " Star Trek : Enterprise " creators and Executive Producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga pretended not to know her . " " It was very unnerving , because I ' m very shy and I didn ' t know whether I should say hello or not , " " Friedericy explained . " " So , I sort of waved at them and they both kind of looked distastefully at me , and looked up at the ceiling and then they said , ' Go , ' and I thought I wasn ' t gonna get it , and it was sad , but then I got the call and I got it . " " On the set , Friedericy was referred to as a Borg baby . " " I was called the baby Borg because Borg are never little , and I ' m five - foot - three , " " she remarked . Applying the Borg makeup to Friedericy for Rooney ' s assimilated appearance took five - and - a - half hours . This was longer than usual because the makeup team , not having done any Borg for a while , initially made a mistake with Rooney ' s Borg makeup . To portray the assimilated Rooney , Friedericy also wore a Borg costume that Roxann Dawson had previously wore , in . Once Friedericy was made to look Borg , it was time for her to go before the cameras as the assimilated Rooney . Filming the character ' s death scene didn ' t require a stunt performer . " " I was really pleased with myself , " " she reminisced , " " because they squibbed me [ repeatedly ] , and I did my own stunt . " " Each time Friedericy performed the stunt sequence , John Billingsley applauded her from off - camera . ( ENT Season 2 Blu - ray , " Regeneration " audio commentary ) Her arctic archaeology team coat from " Regeneration " was later sold off on the It ' s A Wrap ! sale and auction on eBay . Her Borg costume was sold off at the " " auction at Christie ' s . Friedericy was interviewed for the article " A Bonnie Lass " in the in 2003 and for " Top of the Phlox " in in 2004 . Career . Friedericy is probably best known for her role as General Diane Beckman in the NBC series " Chuck " , a role she played in seventy - four episodes between 2007 and 2012 during the complete run of the series . actor Robert Duncan McNeill worked as producer and also directed several episodes . On " Chuck " , Friedericy worked with Tony Todd , Scott Bakula , John Fleck , John Larroquette , Clyde Kusatsu , Faran Tahir , Patrick Kilpatrick , Robert Picardo , and Christopher Lloyd . In an interview , she compared the role of General Beckman to Vaughn Armstrong ' s role as Admiral Maxwell Forrest on " Enterprise " , appearing mostly on a viewscreen to send the main characters on various assignments . Friedericy worked for around thirteen years as a teacher to finance her acting career until she made her stage debut in the early 1990s . Among her first screen roles are guest parts in episodes of " Mad About You " ( 1998 , with David Carpenter ) , " Buffy , the Vampire Slayer " ( 1999 , with Anthony Stewart Head , Harry Groener , Armin Shimerman , and Jimmie F . Skaggs ) , " Oh Baby " ( 1999 , with Ethan Dampf , Peggy Jo Jacobs , and Jennifer Savidge ) , " The Practice " ( 1999 , with Tucker Smallwood ) , and " The Drew Carey Show " ( 1999 , with Diedrich Bader , Nan Martin , and Benjamin Brown ) as well as featured roles in the family adventure " Malaika " ( 1998 ) , the drama " The Pornographer " ( 1999 , with Craig Wasson , Todd Feder , and Franc Luz ) , and the comedy " The Debtors " ( 1999 , with Michael J . Pollard , Steve Schirripa , Clement von Franckenstein , David Youse , and Kirk Alexander ) . Further television work includes " Family Law " ( 2000 , with Salli Richardson - Whitfield , Christopher McDonald , Julie Warner , K Callan , and Annette Helde ) , " 3rd Rock from the Sun " ( 2000 ) , " Strong Medicine " ( 2000 , with Robert Foxworth and Whoopi Goldberg ) , " Spin City " ( 2001 , with Alan Ruck ) , " Becker " ( 2001 , with Terry Farrell ) , " Dharma & Greg " ( 2001 , with Mitchell Ryan and Tracey Ellis ) , " Malcolm in the Middle " ( 2002 , with Dennis Cockrum ) , " Scrubs " ( 2002 , with Ken Jenkins ) , " Alias " ( 2003 , with Victor Garber , Terry O ' Quinn , Ken Lally , and Greg Grunberg ) , " Angel " ( 2003 ) , " 7th Heaven " ( 2004 , with Catherine Hicks and Stephen Collins ) , " Veronica Mars " ( 2004 ) , " Bones " ( 2005 ) , " Criminal Minds " ( 2005 , with Tony Todd and Sharisse Baker - Bernard ) , " CSI : Crime Scene Investigation " ( 2006 , with Wallace Langham and Liz Vassey ) , " Monk " ( 2006 , with Clyde Kusatsu and Aaron Lustig ) , " The West Wing " ( 2004 and 2006 , with Stephen Root , David Clennon , Van Epperson , and Wallace Langham ) , and " Without a Trace " ( 2007 , with Enrique Murciano and Mark A . Sheppard ) . In 2006 , Friedericy portrayed Mary Foote in three episodes of the ABC crime drama series " The Nine " , playing the on - screen wife of her real life husband John Billinsgley . She also worked with Jessica Collins , Conor O ' Farrell , Matt Kaminsky , Ron Ostrow , Jamie McShane , and Zach Grenier on these episodes . Beside her work on " Chuck " , Friedericy also had recurring roles in episodes of " My Name is Earl " ( 2008 , with Jim Lau , Jack Axelrod , and Frank Collison ) , " The Starter Wife " ( 2008 , with Ronny Cox , James Black , and Robin Atkin Downes ) , and " Twentysixmiles " ( 2010 , again working with husband John Billingsley ) and appeared in " Parks and Recreation " ( 2010 , with Jim O ' Heir ) , " Castle " ( 2012 , with Penny Johnson Jerald and Patrick Fischler ) , " Justified " ( 2013 , with Jim Beaver ) , " Hart of Dixie " ( 2013 , with Cress Williams ) , and " Intelligence " ( 2014 , with John Billingsley , Tony Amendola , and J . Downing ) . Film work includes the drama " Par 6 " ( 2002 ) , the drama " House of Sand and Fog " ( 2003 , with Mark Chaet , Marco Rodriguez , Al Rodrigo , Spencer Garrett , and Michael Papajohn ) , the comedy " Christmas with the Kranks " ( 2004 , playing the wife of " Regeneration " co - star John Short ) , the drama " Akeelah and the Bee " ( 2006 , with Tzi Ma and Craig Wasson ) , the comedy " Stay " ( 2006 , with Melinda Page Hamilton ) , the science fiction thriller " Next " ( 2007 ) , the drama " South of Pico " ( 2007 , with Jimmy Bennett and Paul Rae ) , the science fiction horror film " Alien Raiders " ( 2008 ) , the fantasy adventure " Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning Thief " ( 2010 ) , the horror sequel " Paranormal Activity 3 " ( 2011 , executive produced by Akiva Goldsman ) , the horror thriller " The Lords of Salem " ( 2012 , with Bruce Davison , Meg Foster , Richard Fancy , Andrew Prine , Michael Berryman , Sid Haig , Clint Howard , Daniel Roebuck , and Roger Morrissey ) , and the horror comedy " Shotgun Wedding " ( 2013 ) . More recently , Friedericy filmed episodes of " Impastor " ( 2015 ) , " How to Get Away with Murder " ( 2015 , with Famke Janssen , Roger Rignack , and Billy Brown ) , " The Friendless Five " ( 2015 ) , and " The People V . O . J . Simpson : American Crime Story " ( 2016 , with Bruce Greenwood and Michael McGrady ) as well as the drama " Salt Water " ( 2016 , with Deborah Strang ) on which she also worked as producer and the thriller " Madtown " ( 2016 , playing again the wife of real life husband John Billingsley ) .