American actress who played the recurring Enterprise-D conn officer Ensign Sariel Rager in four Next Generation episodes, and later starred in Space: Above and Beyond.
Lanei Chapman is an American actress best known as Lieutenant Vanessa Damphousse in the science-fiction series Space: Above and Beyond.
In The Next Generation she plays Ensign Sariel Rager, one of the officers seen at the conn in the fourth to sixth seasons. She appears in Galaxy's Child and Night Terrors, where she is among the crew worn down by the loss of dream sleep, and again in Relics, in which she flies the ship through the closing hatch of the Dyson sphere.
Her largest part comes in Schisms, where Rager is one of the crew members abducted from their beds by solanogen-based aliens and helps Troi to reconstruct the examination table on the holodeck.