Susan Howard

Susan Howard is the American actress who played Mara in the third season episode . She filmed her scenes between Friday and Thursday at Desilu Stage 9.
Howard was born in Marshall, Texas, and graduated from Marshall High School in the early 1960s. She attended the University of Texas for two years, after which she moved to California, becoming a member of the Los Angeles Repertory Company. She began acting on television programs in 1966.
Outside of Star Trek, Howard is best known for playing Donna Culver Krebbs on from 1979 through 1987. This role actually began with a single guest appearance in 1979, but the producers liked her performance so much that they asked her to return, and she played the character for an additional eight years. Throughout her run on this series, she co-starred with other Trek actors, including Barbara Babcock, Joanna Cassidy, Glenn Corbett, Barry Jenner, Leigh J. McCloskey, Derek McGrath, Bert Remsen, William Smithers, Paul Sorensen, Ray Wise, and Morgan Woodward. Howard also tried her hand at writing for the series, ultimately becoming a member of the Writers Guild of America, a position which she still holds.
Prior to Dallas, Howard was a regular on (1974-76), playing lawyer Tony Petrocelli's wife (a role played by Diana Muldaur in the 1970 movie The Lawyer, from which the Petrocelli series was spun off). David Huddleston was also a regular on this series; the show's pilot movie, entitled Night Games, co-starred Henry Darrow. Other guest appearances on the show include William Shatner, John Colicos, Susan Oliver and Glenn Corbett among others. Howard's performance on Petrocelli garnered her nominations from both the s and the s. Despite this, the series was canceled in 1976.
In addition, Howard has made guest appearances on such TV series as (working with Lou Antonio and Ted Cassidy), The Flying Nun (including an episode with Michael Pataki), (with John Beck, Dean Stockwell, and Harry Townes), and Mission: Impossible (co-starring James B. Sikking and Paul Sorensen and directed by Reza Badiyi). Shortly after working with Michael Ansara on Star Trek, she appeared with him in an episode of Here Come the Brides, a series which starred Original Series guest stars Robert Brown, Mark Lenard and David Soul.
Howard reunited with her Original Series co-star William Shatner in the unsold TV pilot, Indict and Convict. Alfred Ryder and Michael Pataki appeared in this project, as well. Howard has also starred in a number of made-for-TV movies, including The Silent Gun (1969, with John Beck, Walker Edmiston, and Michael Forest), Columbo: The Most Crucial Game (1972, with James Gregory, Don Keefer and Dean Stockwell, written by John T. Dugan), and (1978, with Jane Wyatt and Michael Pataki). 
She has only three feature films to her credit. The first was (1977, starring fellow Original Series guest stars Morgan Woodward and Jeff Corey). That same year, she starred in , which also featured Byron Morrow. Most recently, she co-starred with Stanley Kamel in the 1993 independent drama Come the Morning.
== Other Trek connections ==
Additional television projects on which Howard has worked with other Star Trek alumni are as follows:
*Tarzan episode "Trina" (1968) with Nehemiah Persoff
* (1969) with Parley Baer and William Windom
* (1969) with Don Marshall
* (1969) with Hal Baylor and Yvonne Craig
*Mannix (1971) with Tim O'Connor
*Love, American Style segment "Love and the Baker's Half Dozen" (1971) with Susan Oliver
*Love, American Style segment "Love and the Sweet Sixteen" (1971) with Henry Gibson, Barbara Luna, and Lee Meriwether
*Savage (1973 pilot) with Bill Quinn
* (1973) with Joan Pringle
* (1976) with Roger Aaron Brown and directed by Russ Mayberry
* (1973) with William Bramley, Brooke Bundy, Jonathan Lippe, Lee Meriwether, Tim O'Connor, Barry Russo, and Jerry Summers
*Most Wanted episode "Ms. Murder" (1977) with William Smithers
*Killer on Board (1977 TV movie) with William Daniels and Thalmus Rasulala
*The Fantastic Journey episode "Vortez" (1977) with Jason Evers and Ike Eisenmann
*Barnaby Jones (1977) with Lee Meriwether and Granville Van Dusen
*The Busters (1978 pilot) with Lance LeGault and directed by Vincent McEveety
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(1979) with Roy Jenson
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