Terri Garr

Teri Garr , credited as Terri Garr, was the actress who played Roberta Lincoln in the second season episode .
She filmed her scenes between Wednesday and Monday at Paramount Stage 5 and on location at Paramount Pictures' "Windsor Street" backlot.
Garr earned an nomination in 1983 for her supporting role in (featuring James W. Jansen). She is also well-known for her roles in (1974, co-starring Kenneth Mars and featuring Ian Abercrombie, Benjie Bancroft, Lars Hensen, John Hugh McKnight, Monty O'Grady, Arthur Tovey, and Max Wagner), and (1977, with Gene Dynarski and Monty O'Grady).
She was born in Lakewood, Ohio, but was raised in North Hollywood. Her father, Eddie Garr was a comedic actor, her mother, Phyllis Lind Garr worked as a costumer in films. 
In her youth, Garr was trained in ballet and other forms of dance, and made her initial film appearances as a background dancer in "beach party" films and Elvis Presley movies, often accompanied by her best friend and roommate at the time, Carey Foster. She appeared uncredited in no less than six Elvis movies from 1963 to 1967, including (1964, with Yvonne Craig, Lance LeGault, Carey Foster, and directed by Gene Nelson), (1964, with Lance LeGault, K.L. Smith, Marianna Hill, and Carey Foster), (1964, with Pete Kellett, Lance LeGault, Edwin Rochelle, and William Meader), and (1967, with James Gregory, Marj Dusay, Angelique Pettyjohn, and Corbin Bernsen).
Her later films include (1968, with Byron Morrow and her Original Series co-star Bruce Mars), (1968, with Logan Ramsey, Abraham Sofaer, Charles Macaulay and an uncredited Tania Lemani), (1974), (1976, with Keye Luke, Dean Stockwell, and Ricardo Montalban), (1977, starring George Burns, with Jeff Corey, David Ogden Stiers, Paul Sorvino, William Daniels and Clyde Kusatsu), (1979), (1981, with Jeffrey Combs), (1983), (1983, with Christopher Lloyd, Graham Jarvis, Carolyn Seymour, Derek McGrath, Michael Ensign, and Bruce French), (1984, with Peter Weller), (1985, with Dick Miller), (1992, with Wallace Shawn, Thalmus Rasulala, and Dennis Madalone), (1994, with Mike Starr and Charles Rocket), (1996, with Tom Hodges and Wallace Langham), and (1999, with Kirsten Dunst and Saul Rubinek). In addition, she was seen in (1992) and (1994), both of which also featured Sally Kellerman. The former film also featured appearances by René Auberjonois, Paul Dooley, Louise Fletcher, Whoopi Goldberg, Joel Grey, Malcolm McDowell, Bert Remsen, Dean Stockwell, Brian Tochi, and Ray Walston.
Besides her appearance on Star Trek, Garr also appeared on such classic television shows as 
 (1966, with William O'Connell), The Andy Griffith Show, , The Bob Newhart Show, and (1974, with William Sargent and Mariette Hartley), and hosted Saturday Night Live (1983, while Joe Piscopo was in the cast). She also had a recurring role as Sgt. Phyllis Norton on , starring Diana Muldaur and Ken Lynch. Others she worked with on this show include Lawrence Montaigne, Michael Pataki, Nehemiah Persoff, Brock Peters, Eugene Roche, Joseph Ruskin, and Gregory Sierra. She later had a recurring role as Phoebe Buffay's biological (and namesake) mother on Friends, voiced the role of Mary McGinnis on Batman Beyond and (2000, with Dean Stockwell and Frank Welker), and guest-starred on such shows as (starring Kelsey Grammer), (1999, starring Eriq La Salle, with Freda Foh Shen), Whoopi Goldberg’s (2001, starring Jenifer Lewis), (2005, starring Mariska Hargitay).
Garr publicly revealed in 2002 that she had been diagnosed some years earlier with . Garr joined Madlyn Rhue and David L. Lander as a Trek performer afflicted with the disease. Despite this, she continued to work occasionally in film and television. In December 2006, she underwent surgery to treat a brain aneurysm and was said to be "recovering nicely."
Garr died on in Los Angeles, following a long battle with multiple sclerosis. 
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