"Operation: Annihilate!" is the final episode of Season 1. Most sites show it as Episode 29, but I counted the pilot as Episode 1, making this one 30. A "guest beauty" appearing is a smoking hot Black model and part-time actress from the 1960s named Maurishka Taliaferro, who played the role of Yeoman Zahra. In Operation: Annihilate! the Enterprise crew investigate a planet where everyone is going crazy. They learn that a flying bug attacking people is causing the problem. ...Don't we have those problems now?
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| Yeoman Zahra, played by Maurishka Taliaferro, beams down with | the landing party. |
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| Nice shot of Yeoman Zahra. |
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| Oh, why didn't we see a lot more of her? This was the only Star Trek episode in which she appeared. |
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Yeoman Zahra closing in on Spock.
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Yeoman Zahra spoke a line just twice during the episode. This was the first one.
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Amazing eyes looking up into your eyes while you're standing there. Uhh, reminds me of...certain experiences.
Yeoman Zahra was all over this episode, even when trying to restrain a crazed Spock after he was infected by a creature.
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| For you Nurse Chapel fans, shes returns in this episode. |
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| This was her only other speaking scene..."Captain, look. Mr. Spock." |
More about Maurishka Taliaferro...
Not a whole lot of information about Maurishka Taliaferro can be found. She was a model during the 1960s known simply as "Maurishka". One online record shows her born in 1941. Maurishka had just a few appearances in film in television. She appeared alongside Elvis Presley in his 1968 film "Stay Away, Joe". Amazon lists a book of poetry called "Knowing Is a Sometime Friend" by Maurishka Taliaferro, first published in 1972, with illustrations by water color artist Monica Allen. I don't have confirmation that it's the same person, but with that name what are the chances it isn't? Another site shows Maurishka Taliaferro, who is now 75, residing in California. That listing has her name reversed (Taliaferro Maurishka).
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