Debra Dilley

Debra Dilley (also known as Dee Giffin Scott) is an actress who was hired to portray a Vulcan maiden in . She was picked in an interview and went to the costume fitting at Paramount, where she was sent to Gene Roddenberry's office to have her costume approved by him. Dilley filmed her scenes at Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road at Alumni Avenue, Eagle Rock, City of Los Angeles, California, which stood in as Mount Seleya. Star Trek III assistant director Babs Subramaniam tried to hire Dilley as stand-in for Gates McFadden at the beginning of in , but the production only hired non- members as stand-ins.
 after her first Star Trek performance, Dilley was hired to portray the Romulan Commander Sela in the fourth season episode . For this part, she also received no credit, as she was only seen as the figure hiding in the shadows. Actress Denise Crosby, who played Sela in the following episodes, lent her voice for the scene in "The Mind's Eye". Dilley auditioned for this part with forty-nine other women and finally got the part. Unusually, she got an acting contract for this role and was called back to work on more episodes of TNG, where she portrayed multiple aliens and Starfleet officers. Dilley also worked as additional stand-in and second-unit special effects photo double for Gates McFadden's Beverly Crusher when the regulars Lorine Mendell and Cameron were unavailable. A few years earlier, her union membership was the reason she was not hired for this part.
Two costumes worn by her were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including the Vulcan maiden costume and an operations division officer uniform from the TNG episode . The latter costume featured the name tag "Miss Dilley". Dilley can also be seen, along with costumer Kimberley J. Shull, on the SkyBox trading card "Alterations" from the set The Making of Star Trek: The Next Generation. 
With a career of over twenty years as an actress, Dilley worked on several other projects beside Star Trek. In 1981, she worked as a model for writer and director on , starring James Coburn and Leigh Taylor-Young, with Georgann Johnson, Terrence E. McNally, Barry Jenner, Gary Combs, and Eurlyne Epper-Woldman. In 1982, she worked as a background actress on , where she portrayed a futuristic police officer. The film also featured Joanna Cassidy. In 1988, she was hired to work on as a stand-in and also portrayed an alien hooker. Among the Star Trek alumni who worked on Alien Nation are Leslie Bevis, Jeff Kober, Roger Aaron Brown, Brian Thompson, Keone Young, Earl Boen, Frank Collison, and Tom Morga.
Beside her film work, Dilley also worked as a crewmember on the science-fiction series V, between 1984 and 1985, and on J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. On the latter show, she can be seen as many different alien characters and also worked as a stand-in. She also appeared on (1985, episode "The Gown", with Joan Collins, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Charles Parks, and Conrad Hurtt), Hill Street Blues, (1987, with Michael Horton, Monte Markham, Faith Burton, Walter Smith, and Gunnel Eriksson), and (1991, with Joan Collins, Robin Sachs, Tony Jay, Keone Young, Wendie Malick, Evelyn Guerrero, Jeff O'Haco, Ray Reinhardt, Renna Bogdanowicz, Phil Culotta, Bruce Dobos, Peter Eastman, Michael Echols, Melanie Hathorn, Steve Hershon, Bill Blair, and Curt Truman).
Dilley appeared as one of the spitting players' wives in the comedy The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988, with Ricardo Montalban, Raye Birk, Tiny Ron, Nicholas Worth, Lawrence Tierney, Brett Bartlett, Rick Seaman, Mark Holton, Jim Painter, John Copage, Michael Moorehead, Eddie Hice, Robert Herron, Larry Robb, Anthony Giger, Gene Poe, George Sasaki, Joel Schultz, Michael Wilkinson, Faith Burton, Leslie Hoffman, John Blower, Joey Banks, Bruce Dobos, Mike Paciorek, Tom Morga, Randy James, Len Felber, Allan Graf, Bruce Barbour, Nick Dimitri, Terry Jackson, Gene LeBell, Carey Loftin, Jimmy Ortega, Mary Peters, Rick Sawaya, Brian J. Williams, and Harry Wowchuck).
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Vulcan maiden 5.jpg|Vulcan maiden(uncredited)
File:Sela in the shadows.jpg|Sela(uncredited)
File:Enterprise-D transporter chief, 2369.jpg|Enterprise-D ensign, , , , , , , , (uncredited)
File:Klingon pilgrim 3.jpg|Klingon pilgrim(uncredited)
File:Frozen Romulan 5, 2369.jpg|Romulan officer(uncredited)
File:Borg drone 4, 2370.jpg|Borg drone(uncredited)
=== Stand-in work ===
* – stand-in for Patricia Tallman
== External link ==
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