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Celeste Yarnall (born 26 July 1944; age 73) is an actress from Long Beach, California who played Martha Landon in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Apple". She filmed her scenes between Monday 17 July 1967 and Monday 24 July 1967 at Desilu Stage 10. Her other television credits include appearances on Bewitched, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Bonanza, Land of the Giants (with Don Marshall), and Melrose Place. She also had a role in 1971's Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man, as did fellow TOS guest star Paul Carr. Yarnall made her feature film debut in the 1963 comedy The Nutty Professor, in which she and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest actor Henry Gibson played college students. In 1968, she co-starred with fellow TOS guest star Robert Walker in the film The Face of Eve. She followed this with roles in the Elvis Presley film Live a Little, Love a Little in 1968 and the Academy Award-nominated comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in 1969. In 1972, Yarnall had a role in the Charles Bronson action film The Mechanic, as did fellow TOS guest actress Jill Ireland and DS9 guest actor Steve Vinovich. And in 1973, she co-starred with fellow Star Trek actors John Colicos, Joanne Linville, James B. Sikking, and William Smithers in the film Scorpio. More recent film credits include 1987's Fatal Beauty (starring Whoopi Goldberg, Harris Yulin, and Brad Dourif), 1990's Funny About Love (with Michael Bofshever and directed by Leonard Nimoy), and 1993's Born Yesterday (with Michael Ensign and Matthew Faison). Among her other distinctions, Yarnall was also the last woman to be elected as an original "Miss Rheingold," in 1964. [1] Previously another Star Trek yeoman, Emily Banks also held the same title.