American actress (1942–2022) who played Yeoman J. M. Colt, Captain Pike's new yeoman, in the first Star Trek pilot, The Cage.
Laurel Goodwin was an American actress, born in 1942, who made her film debut opposite Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) and followed it with Papa's Delicate Condition (1963).
In The Cage she played Yeoman Colt, newly assigned to Captain Pike, who is uncomfortable having a woman on the bridge. Colt is beamed into the Talosians' menagerie with Number One as an alternative mate for Pike, and the Talosians reveal her private admiration for her captain. The footage was reused in The Menagerie.
Goodwin made television guest appearances through the 1960s before moving into other work. At her death in 2022 she was the last surviving credited cast member of the first pilot.