American actress who, as a child, played Sarjenka, the Dreman girl whose radio messages reach Data, in the second-season Next Generation episode Pen Pals.
Nikki Cox is an American actress who began working as a child performer and dancer. As an adult she starred in the comedies Unhappily Ever After and Nikki and in the drama Las Vegas.
In the second-season Next Generation episode Pen Pals she plays Sarjenka, a child on the geologically unstable planet Drema IV. Data picks up her transmissions and answers, and their correspondence forces Picard and his officers to debate how far the Prime Directive binds them.
Cox performed under orange alien make-up with elongated fingers. At the end of the story Dr Pulaski removes Sarjenka's memories of the Enterprise-D.