American actress who played Minuet, the strikingly lifelike holodeck woman created by the Bynars, in the Next Generation episodes 11001001 and Future Imperfect.
Carolyn McCormick is an American actress who played Minuet in The Next Generation. In the first-season episode 11001001 the Bynars upgrade the holodeck and produce Minuet, a jazz-club companion so convincing that she keeps Riker and Picard occupied while the Enterprise-D is stolen.
McCormick returned in the fourth-season episode Future Imperfect, in which a false future presents Minuet as Riker's late wife, a mistake that lets him see through the illusion.
She is best known outside Star Trek as the psychologist Dr Elizabeth Olivet in Law and Order, a part she played across many years, and she has also worked extensively as an audiobook narrator.