https://archive.org/details/CharacterInsightEp185
Jae first appears in the fourth season of TNG, a few episodes after the events of the two-part episode The Best of Both Worlds. She often appears on the bridge over the final four seasons of the show, manning various stations as an operations officer. She is probably best remembered for her mohawk-like hairdo for the first portion of her appearances, which made her stand out even in a crew containing multiple species and an android.
Like many background characters, this puts her in the line of fire on multiple occasions. For example, she was seriously injured in the episode Disaster when the Enterprise strikes a quantum filament. She also passes out when the ship overheats to remove an infection of nitrous parasites in the episode Cost of Living. This action in the line of fire continues all the way to the movies, as Jae is the injured officer who must be replaced at the conn by Deanna Troi after being hit by flying debris while the Enterprise crash lands on Veridian III in Star Trek Generations.
Jae is clearly interested in music and ship social activities, as she is often seen in crew Ten Forward events as well as at concerts and poetry readings performed by main crew regulars. We also learn that this character is highly into swimming. That, plus appearances all over the bridge as well as at the transporter room and in main engineering, shows that this is another swiss army knife crew member in the background on the Enterprise-D.
Her speaking roles are small, like in this background conversation with Riker in the episode Liaisons:
Riker - "Good evening, ensign"
Jae - "Good evening"
Jae also appears in the episode Lower Decks, which focuses on some of the lesser known but often seen background characters. However, this is just one of 62 appearances over the final four seasons of the show, with 3 additional appearances in the first 3 TNG movies.
Regular background actress Tracee Lee Cocco played Jae, and she appeared as a Borg in a few episodes as well while also appearing in Voyager and Deep Space Nine. She also played a lifeguard in Baywatch during her acting career, which ended with Star Trek in the 1990s. She now is a dental hygienist in California, so that proves you just never know who is cleaning your teeth!
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