Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we review Crewman Rossi, a background character from several seasons of Enterprise.
Crewman Rossi is in the command division and serves aboard Archer's Enterprise. We see her in the background of many scenes throughout the first three seasons of this show.
In the first season, Rossi was seen most often as a face in the crowd at the mess hall. This included for the movie night in which the crew watches the Earth film For Whom The Bell Tolls. In one of these appearances, she is found unconscious next to her salad by Trip Tucker thanks to a Ferengi gas canister on board the ship.
In the second season, we see Rossi in the mess hall on many more occasions, but we also see her join other crewmates in some R&R, including a shore leave on Risa and on a recreation facility at an automated repair station the Enterprise visits. As with many poor background characters, she is also subject to the bad things that happen on board, including when she is possessed by a wisp in the episode The Crossing.
As her time on Enterprise goes on, we actually see crewman Rossi more in a work context. She is seen on the aft bridge working in the second season, and then we see her at the helm and in the situation room in various third season episodes. Thus, she joins the long list of distinguished officers who has served at the conn of a Starship Enterprise.
The character of Rossi was named for Enterprise associate producer Dave Rossi, when the character was given a name after appearing in several scripts. Rossi appears in many deleted scenes in the special features, if you watch those on the Enterprise disc sets. This is not surprising, given her over 25 appearances on the show.
Rossi was played by regular background actress Hilde Garcia. Garcia also appeared in some other stand in and background roles in Enterprise as well as in one episode of Voyager. She maintained a personal and professional website and blog for many years and as recently as 2016, but has not been very active in the acting field in recent years as she and her husband David have focused on raising their family.
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