American actress who played Sarin, the Suliban defector who meets Archer on Rigel X and reveals the existence of the Temporal Cold War, in the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot Broken Bow.
Melinda Clarke is an American television actress who appeared in Broken Bow, the opening story of Star Trek: Enterprise.
She plays Sarin, a former member of the Suliban Cabal who has turned against it. Sarin was the contact who gave the Klingon courier Klaang proof that the Cabal was stirring up civil strife inside the Klingon Empire. On Rigel X she approaches Archer in human guise before showing her true Suliban appearance.
Sarin tells Archer that the Cabal takes its orders from the future in what she calls a temporal cold war, the first mention of the conflict that runs through the series. She is shot and killed by Cabal soldiers as the landing party escapes.