Jamaican-born actor (1938–1995) who played the captain of the USS Saratoga in Star Trek IV and Geordi's mother, Captain Silva La Forge, in the episode Interface.
Madge Sinclair was a Jamaican-born actor, born in 1938, nominated for an Emmy Award for Roots and a winner for Gabriel's Fire. She played the queen in Coming to America and voiced Sarabi in The Lion King.
In the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home she appears, without screen credit, as the commanding officer of the USS Saratoga, a ship disabled by the alien probe. The part is often noted as the first woman starship captain shown on screen in Star Trek.
She returned in 1993 for the seventh-season Next Generation episode Interface, as Captain Silva La Forge of the USS Hera, Geordi's mother, whose image he encounters after her ship is reported lost. Sinclair died in 1995.