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Karole Selmon (born 29 March 1950; age 75) is the actress who portrayed Yareena in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Code of Honor".

She also worked as a Starfleet officer at the Star Trek: The Experience theme park attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Selmon started her acting career in the late 1970s with her part as Sheila Moran in A Piece of the Action (1977) which also features Trek performers Marc Lawrence, Henry Kingi, Sr., Bob Minor, and Julius LeFlore. The following years she had guest roles in Roots (1977, starring LeVar Burton), The White Shadow (1979 and 1980, with Joan Pringle and Next Generation co-star Jonathan Frakes), and Hill Street Blues (1981, with James Sikking, Mark Metcalf, Tony Plana, and Barbara Bosson) and a featured role as Harbinger's sister in the 1982 comedy Wacko (with Charles Napier).

Following a part in Roe vs. Wade (1989, starring Holly Hunter, with Kathy Bates, Dion Anderson, Jeff Allin, James Avery, Ward Costello, David L. Crowley, Jerry Hardin, George Murdock, Glenn Morshower, Randy Oglesby, Angela Paton, David Selburg, and Kenneth Tigar) she took a break from acting and returned fifteen years later in 10-8: Officers on Duty (2004, featuring Rosalind Chao and Richard Tanner). The same year she appeared as a victim in the science fiction short film Apartment 206.

Selmon later portrayed a homeless woman in The Soloist (2009, with Rachael Harris, Stephen Root, and Arne Starr).

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