Venita Wolf 1944-2014

[Botany Bay]

Startrek.com have reported that the lovely Venita Wolf -- Yeoman Ross from "Squire of Gothos" -- passed away late last year. She had been in poor health for quite a while apparently.

It was a memorable episode, and to me, it was a memorable one shot as a yeoman. She was one of my first crushes. I had always hoped to meet her and tell her the effect she had on me as a teenager .

From what scant information there is about her in the public domain, as I understand it, she quit acting and ended up marrying a nightclub owner and band promoter and worked in the music industry for a while.

I'm not sure how active she was with conventions, but I would loved to have met her. Her daughter just recently made the news of her mother's passing public.

RIP Venita, and thanks for your contribution to Star Trek. For this Trekker, a very memorable one

 

[ZapBrannigan]

She was absolutely gorgeous.

 

[PCz911]

A fantastic beauty. Is the playboy cover shot her? Eye color is different.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

A fantastic beauty. Is the playboy cover shot her? Eye color is different.

Yes, it's her. The trouble is, you're looking at a highly compressed, low-quality jpeg. I'm sure the actual magazine image on paper showed much bluer eyes.

 

[johnnybear]

Still a great pic and yes you can tell it's her! RIP Yeoman Theresa Ross! Shame she wasn't in more episodes...
JB

 

[Keith1701]

A fantastic beauty. Is the playboy cover shot her? Eye color is different.

She was pretty woman indeed. Rest in Peace.

 

[CrazyMatt]

IMHO the prettiest of all of the yeoman seen in the series.

 

[GSchnitzer]

A fantastic beauty. Is the playboy cover shot her? Eye color is different.

Yes, it's her. The trouble is, you're looking at a highly compressed, low-quality jpeg. I'm sure the actual magazine image on paper showed much bluer eyes.

Better (larger) picture of the cover photo shows brown eyes:

http://www.amazon.com/Playboy-Magazine-Heather-Venita-Girls/dp/B00W65ZD2C

 

[Ithekro]

Dick Martin definately had the right idea about that in that time period. "I'd like to bump into her in a dark alley. Really slowly."

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Better (larger) picture of the cover photo shows brown eyes:

http://www.amazon.com/Playboy-Magazine-Heather-Venita-Girls/dp/B00W65ZD2C

It's still her. As I understand it, she got the cover but did not pose nude in the issue.

What we're dealing with here is:

- jpeg quality and compression issues,

- the age and condition of the physical cover being scanned. How long was it in somebody's damp basement? Was the ink 100 percent stable?

- and the question of what color decisions the photo was printed with when it was brand new. Even a perfectly preserved copy of the magazine would not necessarily show her true eye color. Maybe her light blue eyes looked like hell in the color scheme of the raw photo, so they darkened them.

Thanks for the alternate image, though.