Jana Karson is an actress who appeared twice on Star Trek. She first appeared as a Tyran technician in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "The Quality of Life". Her costume from this episode was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1](X) She then played an Ocampa in the Star Trek: Voyager first season episode "Caretaker". She received no credit for her appearance but is listed on the call sheet for Monday 12 December 1994 when she filmed her scenes on location at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Karson appeared as a bar patron in the Cheers episodes "Do Not Forsake Me, O' My Postman" (1992, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Derek McGrath, Paul Willson, Leland Orser, Tory Christopher, Brian Demonbreun, Bill Thomas Miller, and Mark Watson), "Teaching with the Enemy" (1992, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Michael Buchman Silver, Don Bennett, Renna Bogdanowicz, Brian Demonbreun, Gary Hunter, Bill Thomas Miller, Debra Dilley, and Mark Watson), "The Girl in the Plastic Bubble" (1992, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Peter Vogt, Brian Demonbreun, Bill Thomas Miller, Don Bennett, Renna Bogdanowicz, Gary Hunter, and Stuart Nixon), and "Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey" (1993, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Paul Willson, Maurice Roëves, Mike Fujimoto, S. Reed, Mark Watson, Ilona Wilson, Lee Faranda, and Curt Truman).
She also worked as background actress, a White House reporter, on Mars Attacks! (1996, starring Pierce Brosnan, with Paul Winfield, Willie Garson, Michael Reilly Burke, Valerie Wildman, Richard Irving, Vinny Argiro, Gregg Daniel, Jeanne Mori, Frank Welker, Greg Bronson, Robert Buckingham, Faith Burton, Maria Celeste Genitempo, Adolphus Hankins, Tami Peterson, Jerry Quinn, Michael Wilkinson, and Brian J. Williams), and a baseball game spectator on the comedy The Benchwarmers (2006, with Doug Jones, James Earl Jones, Rob Frank, Irene Roseen, Joni Avery, Suzanne Lodge, Bruce Dobos, and Robert Buckingham).