Barbara J. Tarbuck

Barbara J. Tarbuck was an actress who played Leka Trion in the fourth season episode and Kalev in the first season episode . She filmed her scenes for "The Host" on Wednesday on Paramount Stage 8.
The costume from her latter appearance was previously worn by Ellen Geer in the fifth season episode and by background actress Leslie McCasky in an episode of . Later it was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. Her costume from "The Host" was also sold off on eBay. 
Outside of Trek, Tarbuck had roles in several popular soap operas. She appeared several times on (starring Susan Howard, Leigh J. McCloskey, and Morgan Woodward) and (starring Joan Collins and Lee Bergere) before being given a recurring role as Dr. Randall on from 1986 through 1987. Among her co-stars on this series were Jonathan Banks, Leslie Bevis, Michael Ensign, Robert Foxworth, and Tarbuck's "Shadows of P'Jem" co-star Jeff Kober. Afterward, she went on to have recurring roles on and General Hospital. On the latter series she appeared in over forty episodes between 1996 and 2010.
She made guest appearances on a large number of other television programs, including (starring Robert Ito and Garry Walberg), (starring David Ogden Stiers), (starring William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr. and Norman Lloyd), (starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake, and also guest-starring Gwynyth Walsh), (starring Ben Vereen), (starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, and also guest-starring Alan Oppenheimer), (starring Roy Brocksmith and Ray Walston), (starring Miguel Ferrer), (starring Gordon Clapp), and Medical Investigation (starring Neal McDonough). She appeared in several episodes of , including 1984's "Matinee", which also guest-starred Bibi Besch and Armin Shimerman. Tarbuck co-starred with René Auberjonois, Erick Avari, Daniel Davis, and Carolyn Seymour in a 1992 episode of Civil Wars and with Thomas Kopache and Gates McFadden in a 2001 episode of The Division. The same year Tarbuck had a role in , as did Casey Biggs, John Billingsley, Virginia Madsen, Robert Joy, Jack Shearer, Armin Shimerman, and Kitty Swink. Tarbuck later appeared in episodes of The Event (2011, with Lisa Vidal, Bill Smitrovich, and Chase Kim) and Glee (2011).
Tarbuck had several major films to her credit, including (1986, co-starring Brian McNamara), and (1986, featuring Paul Dooley and Warren Munson). Her other films include (1991), (1995, with Keith Carradine), and Walking Tall, the latter of which starred actor Neal McDonough. She had a supporting role in (2009).
Tarbuck died on Monday 26 December 2016 from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, at the age of 74. 
== Other Trek connections ==
Additional projects in which Tarbuck acted with other Star Trek performers include:
* (1979, with Whit Bissell)
*Mr. R's Daughter (1979 TV movie, with Craig Wasson)
*A Christmas Without Snow (1980 TV movie, with James Cromwell)
*Condo episode "That's Entertainment" (1983, with Rosana DeSoto and Graham Jarvis)
*Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story (1984, with Stanley Kamel and Lawrence Pressman)
* (1985, with Biff Yeager)
* (1988, with Roy Brocksmith)
*David (1988 TV movie, with John Glover)
*I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989 TV movie, with Raymond Cruz, Gregg Henry, John Vickery, and Ray Walston)
* (1989, with Jack Blessing, Virginia Madsen, and Ray Wise)
*21 Jump Street episode "Come from the Shadows" (1989, with Tony Plana)
*The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990, with Andreas Katsulas)
*Jack Reed: Badge of Honor (1993 TV movie, with Bill Bolender, Bruce French, Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, and William Sadler)
*A Kiss Goodnight (1994 TV movie, with Shelly Desai and Mark Moses)
*Moment of Truth: Eye of the Stalker (1995 TV movie, with Joanna Cassidy and James MacDonald)
*Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story (1996 TV movie, with Cliff DeYoung and George D. Wallace)
* (1996, with Anthony De Longis and Tom Towles)
*The Burning Zone episode "Lethal Injection" (1996, with Dennis Christopher, Tim de Zarn, Sherman Howard, and Keith Szarabajka)
* (1997, with Mark Harelik and Norman Lloyd)
*Before He Wakes (1998 TV movie, with Ron Canada)
*Mr. Murder (1998 TV movie, with Jim Beaver, K Callan, Richard Riehle, Bill Smitrovich, and Dell Yount)
* (2001, with Tim Kelleher)
* (2003, with Bill Cobbs)
* (2003, with Gregory Itzin)
*NCIS (2004, with Tim Kelleher and Leon Russom)
* (2004, with Famke Janssen)
* (2005, with Robert Joy)
*Eyes episode "Poison" (2005, with Rick Worthy, Gregg Henry, Carlos LaCamara, Marta Martin, Raphael Sbarge, and David Spielberg)
*Close to Home episode "Dead or Alive" (2006, with John Carroll Lynch)
*Smith episode "Four" (2006, with Virginia Madsen, Shohreh Aghdashloo, William Lucking, Al Foster, Billy Mayo, and John Dixon)
*Journeyman episode "Home By Another Way" (2007, with John Aniston and Robert Pine)
*Wednesday Again (2008, with Jack Kehler)
== External links ==
* – former official site
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