Anna Karen Morrow (20 September 1914 – 1 July 2009; age 94) [1] was the actress who appeared as a Sarpeidon mort in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode third season episode "All Our Yesterdays". She filmed her scenes on Friday 20 December 1968 and Monday 23 December 1968 at Paramount Pictures' European Town back lot, and at Desilu Stage 10.
In one of her earliest known television roles, Karen appeared with Original Series co-star DeForest Kelley in a 1956 episode of Matinee Theatre. That same year, she made her film debut with an uncredited appearance in The Price of Fear with fellow Original Series guest performers Phillip Pine and Warren Stevens.
Karen made an uncredited appearance in The Wrong Man (1956, featuring Barry Atwater, Paul Carr, Charles Cooper and Nehemiah Persoff). In 1960, she was directed by John Newland on an episode of Alcoa Premiere One Step Beyond. Karen then co-starred with Parley Baer in a 1962 episode of Wagon Train and worked with William Windom on The Farmer's Daughter in 1963.
Between 1965 and 1966, Karen played the recurring role of Mrs. Chernak on Peyton Place. Also prior to her appearance on Star Trek, Karen and her Original Series co-star William Shatner appeared together in a 1966 episode of Gunsmoke (along with Liam Sullivan and Charles Seel). Her later TV credits include guest appearances on Marcus Welby, M.D., in 1972 and 1975, and an appearance on Project U.F.O. in 1978.
She was married to the actor Jeff Morrow from 1947 until his death in 1993. Karen died from complications of old age at a retirement home in Woodland Hills, California on 1 July 2009. She was 94 years old. [2]