American actress (1930–2013) who played Rear Admiral Brand, the Starfleet Academy superintendent who presides over the Nova Squadron inquiry, in the Next Generation episode The First Duty.
Jacqueline Brookes was an American stage, film and television actress and a respected acting teacher in New York. Her screen work included The Gambler, Ghost Story and a long list of daytime dramas.
In The First Duty she plays Admiral Brand, who heads the Academy and conducts the hearing into the collision that killed Cadet Joshua Albert. She is patient but unbending, telling the surviving cadets plainly that she believes they are withholding something.
When Wesley Crusher at last admits that the squadron was attempting the banned Kolvoord Starburst, Brand expels Nicholas Locarno and strips the others of a year's academic credit.