Noriko Suzuki

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Noriko Suzuki (born February 1962; age 62) is an actress who worked as a regular background performer on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager and also appeared in Star Trek Generations. As a background actress she received no credit for her appearances. Her Starfleet uniform from Generations was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]^(X)

Suzuki was scheduled to have a walk-on part as ensign in the fourth season episode "Clues" but was dropped after the revisions. The scene would have been scene 36, filmed on 29 November 1990, in the corridor in front of the transporter room. According to the call sheets, she was also scheduled to appear in the fourth season episodes "First Contact" as the transporter officer who beamed the Malcorians aboard in a scene in the transporter room and in "Identity Crisis" in scenes in engineering but was either not filmed or cut from the final episodes. Suzuki was also scheduled to appear in corridor scenes in the fifth season episode "New Ground" but was not part of the final episode.