American actress born in 1935 who played Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas, the Enterprise archaeology and anthropology officer loved by Apollo, in the Original Series episode Who Mourns for Adonais?
Leslie Parrish is an American actress, born in 1935, best known in cinema for playing Daisy Mae in the musical Li'l Abner (1959) and Jocelyn Jordan in The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
Her Star Trek role came in the second-season episode Who Mourns for Adonais?, in which she played Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas, the ship's specialist in ancient civilisations. Apollo chooses Palamas as his consort and dresses her in a classical gown; Kirk has to persuade her to reject the god so that his power can be broken, to the distress of Scotty, who is in love with her.
Parrish made many television guest appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, among them Batman and Mannix, and later worked as a producer.