American actress who played Lupaza, Kira's old comrade from the Shakaar resistance cell, in the Deep Space Nine episodes Shakaar and The Darkness and the Light.
Diane Salinger is an American actress known as Simone in Pee-wee's Big Adventure and for parts in Batman Returns and the series Carnivàle.
In Deep Space Nine she plays Lupaza, a veteran of the resistance cell led by Shakaar Edon in Dahkur province and the woman who made Kira's earring. She first appears in the third-season episode Shakaar, taking to the hills with her old comrades when the provisional government tries to seize their farm equipment.
She returns in the fifth-season episode The Darkness and the Light, coming to the station with Furel to protect Kira from an assassin, and both are killed by a bomb in the O'Briens' quarters.