American actress (1935–2003) who played Lieutenant Marla McGivers, the Enterprise historian who falls under the spell of Khan Noonien Singh, in the Original Series episode Space Seed.
Madlyn Rhue was an American actress, born in 1935, who was a frequent television guest star from the late 1950s onward and had a regular role in the series Bracken's World.
In the first-season episode Space Seed she played Marla McGivers, the ship's historian, whose fascination with forceful men of the past draws her to the revived Khan. McGivers helps him seize the Enterprise, then relents and frees Kirk, and chooses exile with Khan on Ceti Alpha V rather than a court martial. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan establishes that she died there.
Rhue continued to act in later years, including a recurring part in Murder, She Wrote. She died in 2003.