American actress, born 1963 and known for A League of Their Own and Tank Girl, who played Noss, the stranded alien who falls in love with Tuvok, in the Voyager episode Gravity.
Lori Petty is an American actress and director whose films include Point Break, A League of Their Own, Free Willy and the title role in Tank Girl. She later played Lolly Whitehill in Orange Is the New Black.
She appears in Star Trek in the fifth-season Voyager episode Gravity. Petty plays Noss, a lone survivor who has spent many seasons scavenging on a desert planet trapped inside a gravity well.
When Tuvok, Tom Paris and the Doctor crash there, Noss learns their language and comes to love Tuvok, who cannot return her feelings because of his Vulcan discipline. Before they part he shares a mind-meld with her so that she can understand what he could not say.