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Rita Tannenbaum

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Ensign Rita Tannenbaum was a Starfleet engineer who served aboard Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant in the 2370s.

Off duty, she visited Quark's bar when Pel made a business opportunity to Quark. (DS9: "Rules of Acquisition")

She was seated in front of Quark's bar on the second level of the Promenade when Quark and Odo were released from the security office and security aboard the station was back. (DS9: "Civil Defense")

In 2371, Tannenbaum was carrying a bag and walking behind Major Kira Nerys on the Promenade when Kira bumped into Thomas Riker. (DS9: "Defiant")

Off duty, she shared a drink at Quark's with another civilian and watched a game of darts between Jadzia Dax and Miles O'Brien. She stood also at the bar when O'Brien injured his shoulder in a game opposite Vulcan officer Syvar. (DS9: "Shakaar")

Security training on the promenade

Tannenbaum during the security training

Rita Tannenbaum was among the security personnel who took part in a training on the Promenade for a possible infiltration of the station by a Changeling. Later, she visited Quark's bar when dozens of Klingons were on shore leave aboard the station. She passed Garak's tailor shop on the Promenade shortly before Garak was roughed up by Drex and a group of Klingons. Tannenbaum worked on the bridge of the Defiant during the rescue mission for Kasidy Yates aboard the SS Xhosa. She visited Quark's when Worf visited the bar for the very first time and was introduced to Jadzia Dax and Major Kira by Miles O'Brien. She was also present at the bar when Worf and Miles O'Brien talked about the Klingons future and the destruction of the Enterprise-D. She was among the Starfleet personnel who boarded the Defiant for the mission to rescue the Detapa Council and walked past Sisko when he gave Major Kira orders. During the rescue mission and the fight with the Klingons, Tannenbaum remained on duty on the bridge. Back aboard Deep Space 9, Tannenbaum assisted in the evacuation of the civilians on the Promenade and stood guard, armed with a phaser rifle. Following the Klingon attack on the station, she assisted in repairs on the Promenade. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")

Sisko and Tannenbaum, Defiant

Tannenbaum with Sisko

She was on duty in engineering aboard the Defiant when malfunctions on the engineering deck occured due to the subspace inversion of the Bajoran wormhole. Tannenbaum was injured but cared for by Captain Sisko. In an alternate timeline, she later attended the memorial service on the Promenade for Benjamin Sisko following his death during the accident aboard the Defiant. During the service she stood near Broik behind the lectern. A few months later she visited Quark's when Nog tried to cheer up Jake Sisko with a holosuite program. Due to the Klingon threat, she was among the civilians and Bajorans who left the station by using a transport. (DS9: "The Visitor")

Off duty, Tannenbaum visited Quark's bar on the upper level while Dax and Bashir tried to give Benjamin Sisko a good advice regarding his future with Kasidy Yates. (DS9: "Indiscretion")

She was talking to several Bajoran officers in the background of Quark's bar when Jadzia Dax performed a magical trick on Quark. During the mission of the Trill scientists – creating a wormhole – Tannenbaum was working on the bridge aboard the Defiant. Off duty, she passed the shop of a Bajoran woman on the Promenade shortly before Lenara Kahn boarded her transport and left Deep Space 9. (DS9: "Rejoined")

She was on duty in engineering aboard the Defiant in 2372 during a meeting with the Karemma in the Gamma Quadrant. She was busy with repairs following an attack of two Jem'Hadar fighters. Later, aboard the station, she stood behind Quark in his bar and watched how Karemma Minister Hanok played his first game of dabo. She also shared a drink with fellow residents. (DS9: "Starship Down")

She stood next to Jadzia Dax on the Promenade when everyone was listening to Gowron's speech. (DS9: "Broken Link")

In 2373, the Defiant entered the atmosphere of a planet (later named "Gaia"), and discovered a settlement of their descendants from an alternate timeline. In the alternate timeline, the crew of the Defiant were sent back in time two hundred years, and stuck on the planet. In that alternate timeline, Rita Tannenbaum and Miles O'Brien (who'd finally come to terms with the fact that he'd never see his wife Keiko again) decided to marry, and have children. Among their descendants at the colony was a Miranda O'Brien and a young girl named Molly. However, when the Defiant failed to go back in time and fulfill its "destiny", the colony presumably ceased to exist. (DS9: "Children of Time")

Watching the fifth Dominion convoy

Watching the Dominion convoy

She stood on the upper level of the Promenade and talked to a Bajoran deputy before she joined the crowd in front of the large windows where she watched the fifth Dominion convoy passing the Bajoran wormhole. When the Bajoran Militia personnel and the Bajoran civilians were evacuated from Deep Space 9, she stood by one of the airlocks and assisted them in boarding a transport to Bajor. Later, she was among the Starfleet personnel who boarded the Defiant when Starfleet abandoned the station. (DS9: "Call to Arms")

Off duty, she visited Quark's when a grown-up Molly O'Brien wounded the Markalian Madrat seriously by stabbing him a broken bottle into his chest. (DS9: "Time's Orphan")

In 2379, Tannenbaum attended the wedding of Commander William T. Riker and Deanna Troi in Alaska on Earth. She was talking to other guests and standing behind Guinan during Data's performance of "Blue Skies". (Star Trek Nemesis)

Rita Tannenbaum was portrayed by regular background actress Ivy Borg who appeared throughout the seven year run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Assistant Director Paul Lawrence told Borg that she was the person who was Rita Tannenbaum in "Children of Time". (source)Ivy Borg to User:ThomasHL in an email in November 2010 (additional information).
Tannenbaum appears in the mobile game Star Trek Timelines using Ivy Borg's likeness.

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