American actress who played Dr Toby Russell, the neurospecialist whose experimental genitronic procedure offers the paralysed Worf a risky cure, in the Next Generation episode Ethics.
Caroline Kava is an American actress whose films include Year of the Dragon and Born on the Fourth of July.
In Ethics she plays Toby Russell, a visiting specialist who comes aboard after Worf's spine is crushed in a cargo bay accident. She proposes replacing it with one grown by a genitronic replicator, a technique not yet approved for humanoids.
Beverly Crusher is appalled by her readiness to try unproven treatments, especially after Russell loses a patient from the transport ship Denver. The operation succeeds only because of Klingon redundancy, and Kava leaves the character unrepentant as Crusher delivers a cold verdict on her methods.