American actress who played the Maquis fighter Kalita in The Next Generation's Preemptive Strike and Deep Space Nine's Defiant, Martok's wife Sirella, and the Romulan senator Tal'aura in Star Trek Nemesis.
Shannon Cochran is an American stage and screen actress with a long association with Chicago theatre; her films include The Ring.
In Preemptive Strike she plays Kalita, a member of the Maquis cell that Ro Laren infiltrates and then joins. She repeated the role in the Deep Space Nine episode Defiant, serving under Thomas Riker when he steals the ship.
She returned to Deep Space Nine as Sirella, the formidable mistress of the House of Martok, who puts Jadzia Dax through her paces in You Are Cordially Invited. In Star Trek Nemesis she is Tal'aura, the senator who leaves the thalaron device in the Senate chamber.