I n   Memoriam         

Jane Wyatt  -  October 20
Best remembered as the iconic mother Margaret Anderson in Father Knows Best — for which she won three Emmys in a row (1958-60) — Jane Wyatt played another iconic mother in Star Trek: Amanda, the wife of Vulcan ambassador Sarek who gave Spock his half-human lineage. She was 96 when she died of natural causes.

Andreas Katsulas  -  February 13
With a striking Greek visage that made him perfect for strong alien roles, Andreas Katsulas' face was very familiar to science fiction fans. In Star Trek he played a recurring role as the Romulan "Commander Tomalak" in several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and was the Vissian captain "Drennik" in the moving Enterprise episode "Cogenitor." In Babylon 5 he was the Narn ambassador "G'Kar." He is perhaps most recognizable as the notorious one-armed man "Frederick Sykes" in "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford. He died of lung cancer at age 59.

Paul Carr  -  February 17
He wore gold, but he was one of Star Trek's first redshirts. Paul Carr played "Lt. Lee Kelso" in the second Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before," but alas, his character would be killed (by the psychokinetic Gary Mitchell) before the episode was over. Carr also appeared in many other science-fiction classics from the '60s through the '80s, including The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, The Six Million Dollar Man and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. He died at age 72, also of lung cancer.

Joseph Bernard  -  April 3
A noted acting teacher as well as actor, Joseph Bernard was in New York coaching his friend Jerry Lewis in preparation for a television guest spot when he died at age 82. Bernard played "Tark," the Argelian musician whose daughter Kara was murdered by Redjac, in "Wolf in the Fold." He was executive director of the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Hollywood for 11 years, and also appeared in episodes of The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, I Spy, Get Smart and Mission: Impossible.

Joseph Stefano  -  August 25
He is the writer who killed both Marion Crane and Tasha Yar. Joseph Stefano wrote the ST:TNG episode "Skin of Evil" which brought about the demise of the character played by Denise Crosby (by her own wish), but his horror/suspense talents were most prominently on display in the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," where the Janet Leigh character was so famously stabbed in the shower early in the film. Stefano was also a major creative force behind The Outer Limits in its first incarnation on TV. He succumbed to lung disease and heart failure at age 84.

Byron Morrow  -  May 11
A veteran actor whose distinguished look often led him to be cast as a top military officer, Byron Morrow twice played an admiral who tried to tell Captain Kirk what to do. He was "Admiral Komack" in "Amok Time" and "Admiral Westervliet" in "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky." He was 94.

Edward Albert  -  September 22
Mostly famous as the son of Green Acres star Eddie Albert, Edward Laurence Albert carved his own path as an award-winning actor (he won a Golden Globe for the 1972 film "Butterflies are Free"), but he was also an outspoken environmental activist alongside his friend Ed Begley Jr. Albert played the Bajoran "Zayra" in the early Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "A Man Alone." He was also a very good son — he devoted the last decade of his life caring for his father, who had Alzheimer's disease and died a year earlier. Edward Jr. was only 55, and once again the culprit was lung cancer.

Hal Lynch  -  October 5
Unforgettable as the 20th-century Air Police Sergeant who was accidentally beamed aboard the Enterprise in "Tomorrow is Yesterday," Hal Lynch died at age 78 of an apparent suicide. Aside from a long resume of guest stints on '60s and '70s TV shows, Lynch helped Lee Meriwether establish Theatre West, a non-profit arts organization in Hollywood, but then spent the last 30 years of his life in his home state of Alabama.

Lois Hall  -  December 21
Most well-known as a leading lady in Westerns during the 1940s and '50s, Lois Hall appeared in TNG's "Who Watches the Watchers?" as "Dr. Mary Warren," an anthropologist injured on Mintaka III who ultimately died in Dr. Crusher's Sickbay in front of a stunned Mintakan. Hall was shooting David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" in New Orleans when she fell ill, and died shortly after returning to Los Angeles. She was 80.

Sylvia Frier  -  April 30
Finally, we want to pay tribute to Sylvia (Colson) Frier, long-time Star Trek fan and Web site denizen who passed away at age 53 after an extended illness — a little over a year after her husband, Ben Frier, also died. Ben and Sylvia became famous in the online Star Trek community when they were married in cyberspace in what was known at the time as the Starfleet Lounge. Sylvia, of Massachusetts, was one of the first dedicated fans to join the "Star Trek: Continuum" — the forerunner of STARTREK.COM — when it launched in July 1996. She actively participated in the message boards and live chat rooms, and was engaged by Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) as a community moderator to moderate the message boards and host discussions in the Starfleet Lounge chat room.