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Julie Cobb<\/strong> once played Yeoman Leslie Thompson, a redshirt who lost her life in the original series’ By Any Other Name<\/em>.<\/p>\n In the episode, Thompson was reduced to a cube, which was than crushed by the Kelvan alien Rojan.<\/p>\n Cobb was only twenty-one when she took on the role of Thompson in her first acting gig. “I had an agent and I was auditioning for things,” she said. “I got that job, and it was directed by Marc Daniels<\/strong>, who had been a contemporary of my mother and father (actors Helen Beverley<\/strong> and Lee J. Cobb<\/strong>). William Shatner<\/strong> had been in a film with my dad, The Brothers Karamazov. But I\u2019d like to think I got the part on my own, even though I was very nervous auditioning. I was even more nervous on the set. But it was a great experience and it\u2019s followed me all these years, all my life.”<\/p>\n Although nervous, the director and actors soon set Cobb at ease. “[Director] Marc Daniels was a gentle, intelligent, sweet guy,” she said. “I remember being so nervous that I could barely walk and talk at the same time. Shatner was paternal, funny, sweet. Leonard Nimoy<\/strong>, oddly enough, had been my first acting teacher. When I was sixteen, I was in an acting class that Leonard taught. So I got through it. It was a few days’ work. It’s kind of a blur to me because I was a baby. But they made me feel great.”<\/p>\n Cobb’s daughter Rosemary Morgan<\/strong> (Star Trek: Voyager: The Chute<\/em>) saw the clip where Thompson’s cube was crushed and reacted to it as a writer might react. “I will tell you about my daughter’s sense of humor,” said Cobb. “We found the clip of them reducing me to a little cube and crushing me to death. William Shatner was nothing if not intense as Kirk. He picks up the remnants of my body and he has a look of such loss on his face. Rosemary saw that and said, ‘Whooaa, clearly there was a backstory there.'”<\/p>\n Cobb is still acting, but has branched out into writing. She will be appearing at this summer’s Las Vegas Star Trek<\/em> convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Julie Cobb once played Yeoman Leslie Thompson, a redshirt who lost her life in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[8449,8450,8451,2519],"class_list":["post-40659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-cobb","tag-kelvan","tag-rojan","tag-thompson"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40661,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40659\/revisions\/40661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}