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Melanie Shatner (born 1 August 1964; age 59) is a former actress who appeared as a jogger in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (for which she went uncredited) and as the captain's yeoman in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

Melanie is the youngest daughter of William Shatner and younger sister to Lisabeth and Leslie Shatner.

She also appeared in an episode of Tek War which was written by (along with Lisabeth), directed by, and starring her father.

She made a supporting guest appearance in an episode of Knots Landing in 1989, alongside Vincent Schiavelli, and had a small role in the horror film The First Power (with Jeff Kober, Julianna McCarthy, J. Patrick McNamara, and Scott Lawrence) and the horror comedy Syngenor (with Charles Lucia) the next year.

Further television guest appearances include an episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Dark Justice (with Richard Lineback), the anthology show Perversions of Science (guest starring and directed by her father), and Mercy Point (with Brian McNamara and John Cothran, Jr.).

She had major supporting and co-starring roles in the family TV movie Camp Cucamonga (1990, with Chad Allen and Richard Herd), the direct-to-video horrors Bloodstone: Species II (1992) and Bloodlust: Species III (1993), the sci-fi horror TV movie The Alien Within (1995), and the romantic TV movie Their Second Chance (1997).

She retired from acting in 1999, after she married fellow actor Joel Gretsch, with whom she has two daughters. In 2000, she opened a boutique store in Studio City, Los Angeles.

Trivia[]

  • Together the letters from the names of the three sisters were used to make up the name Mr. Lemli, as well as Shatner's Lemli Productions Inc.
  • The Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 553) incorrectly lists Melanie as the "brunette in black lace dress" in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Miri", however, that girl is actually not one of Shatner's daughters.
  • In 1988, she appeared in an Oldsmobile commercial, mentioning her father driving a starship. The commercial ends with William Shatner beaming inside the car to join his daughter.

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