American actress (1931–1992) who played Lieutenant Areel Shaw, the Starfleet lawyer who prosecutes Kirk, in the first-season Original Series episode Court Martial.
Joan Marshall was an American actress, born in 1931, who appeared widely in television in the late 1950s and 1960s. Under the name Jean Arless she took the central role in William Castle's thriller Homicidal (1961).
In Court Martial she played Areel Shaw of the Judge Advocate's office, an old flame of Kirk's who meets him again on Starbase 11. Shaw warns him that she has been assigned to prosecute and recommends Samuel T. Cogley as his defender, then presents the computer record that appears to show Kirk jettisoning the pod too early.
Marshall retired from acting in the 1970s. She died in 1992.