American actress, known for The Warriors and Too Close for Comfort, who played police detective Preston in the Deep Space Nine episode Past Tense, Part II.
Deborah Van Valkenburgh is an American actress who came to notice as Mercy in the 1979 film The Warriors and then as Jackie Rush in the sitcom Too Close for Comfort.
In Deep Space Nine she appears in Past Tense, Part II as Detective Preston, the San Francisco police officer who handles negotiations with the residents holding hostages in the Sanctuary District in 2024.
Preston deals directly with Sisko, who is living out the role of Gabriel Bell, and is shown as sympathetic to the residents' demands but unable to stop the governor from ordering the assault that ends the riots.