Diana Giddings
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Lieutenant Diana Giddings was a Starfleet officer and junior engineer aboard the USS Enterprise-D.
Her quarters were located on deck 7, room number 3255. (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona")
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[edit] Service history
[edit] 2364
She was working in engineering when Q appeared for the first time aboard the Enterprise-D in 2364, and was later seen in a marketplace in Farpoint Station on Deneb IV. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")
She was accompanying Lutan, the ruler of Ligon II to the holodeck when Natasha Yar showed him the aikido program. (TNG: "Code of Honor")
She was affected by polywater intoxication like the rest of the crew. After working on the master systems display, she was seen kissing a male crewmember in main engineering. (TNG: "The Naked Now")
Later that year, she was present when Kosinski and The Traveler were conducting experiments in engineering aboard the Enterprise. (TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before")
She was manning an aft console of the bridge when Captain Jean-Luc Picard was under the control of a Ferengi thought maker and attacked the USS Enterprise with the USS Stargazer, (TNG: "The Battle") and again a little later when the crew encountered Q for the second time. (TNG: "Hide and Q")
Giddings was seen roaming the corridors when the Enterprise was in orbit of Haven and Torona IV. (TNG: "Haven", "The Big Goodbye")
Giddings was working in an overcrowded sickbay helping treat patients for a virus from Quazulu VIII that most of the crew had contracted while in orbit of Angel I. (TNG: "Angel One")
She walked through the corridors, close to one of the docking ports of the ship when the USS Enterprise-D was docked at Starbase 74, shortly before everyone had to abandon the ship because of a faked warp core breach simulated by the Bynars. (TNG: "11001001")
Harry Bernard nearly bumped into her in when running through a corridor. (TNG: "When The Bough Breaks")
She was on duty on the bridge and later in engineering when the microbrain from Velara III was brought aboard the Enterprise. (TNG: "Home Soil")
Wesley Crusher nearly ran into her in a corridor while he was trying to catch up with Jake Kurland; later she was working in engineering. (TNG: "Coming of Age")
She was working in engineering when Worf gave the Klingons Konmel and Korris a tour of the ship. (TNG: "Heart of Glory")
She was on duty on the bridge when the Enterprise was approaching the star Delos and shortly thereafter received a distress call from the Ornaran freighter Sanction. (TNG: "Symbiosis")
Giddings was also doing duty on the bridge when the ship experienced time loops in late 2364. (TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris")
She was just leaving the bridge when the Enterprise reached Earth in late 2364. She was also walking along a corridor when Admiral Gregory Quinn beamed aboard the ship. (TNG: "Conspiracy")
She was on the bridge shortly before the Enterprise made contact with the Romulans after decades of silence. (TNG: "The Neutral Zone")
[edit] 2365
By 2365 she had switched to the science department. (TNG: "The Child")
- In this episode she was seen for the first time not wearing the skirt uniform.
Early that year she was having a short affair with Thadiun Okona when he was aboard the Enterprise as his ship, the Erstwhile, was undergoing repairs. (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona")
She was seen in a corridor when Data was taken over by Doctor Ira Graves, (TNG: "The Schizoid Man") and when the ship was in orbit of Gagarin IV. (TNG: "Unnatural Selection")
Giddings was treating several wounded patients during the ships system problems in 2365. She was also present when Doctoir Pulaski chewed at Ensign Wright and helped a doctor who was helpless without the medical technology. (TNG: "Contagion")
When a crewmember of the Enterprise came down with the flu after a visit to Nasreldine, she helped Doctor Katherine Pulaski treat the patient. (TNG: "The Icarus Factor")
[edit] 2366
By 2366 she had been demoted to crewman. She was working in sickbay, treating a wounded Darien Wallace, when Doctor Paul Stubbs was conducting experiments with his egg probe. (TNG: "Evolution")
She was also on duty when the injured Mintakan Liko was treated in sickbay, and later, when the anthropologist Mary Warren died aboard the Enterprise. (TNG: "Who Watches The Watchers")
She was on duty shortly after Marla Aster was beamed dead to sickbay and helped treat the other wounded archaeologists. (TNG: "The Bonding")
She was working as a nurse in sickbay when a wounded Romulan, Patahk, was treated there. (TNG: "The Enemy")
Giddings was walking through a corridor towards sickbay where Seth Mendoza was treated, after he was infected by Ferengi pyrocytes and was greeted by Commander Riker. (TNG: "The Price")
She was chatting with Deanna Troi in a corridor shortly after Data was abducted by Kivas Fajo. (TNG: "The Most Toys")
[edit] 2367
She was seen passing by Jono's guest quarters aboard the Enterprise when Captain Picard was visiting the boy after he had been released from sickbay. (TNG: "Suddenly Human")
She walked through a corridor an a little later that year and passed Worf and Alexander Rozhenko, taking an extra look at the young Klingon. (TNG: "Reunion")
Giddings was walking along a corridor in mid 2367, smiling, when she saw Data who was in costume as Ebenezer Scrooge (TNG: "Devil's Due") and again walking along a corridor when Doctor Crusher told Captain Picard about strange occurences in sickbay, due to the Paxans erasing their memories of the preceding 24 hours. (TNG: "Clues")
She was sitting in Ten Forward, in civilian clothing, enjoying a drink with several other crewmembers shortly before a fight broke out in the bar due to a lack of REM sleep. (TNG: "Night Terrors")
She was in attendance of a concert of classical music in Ten Forward in late 2367 sitting at a table together with Miles O'Brien. (TNG: "In Theory")
[edit] 2368
She was a friend of Keiko O'Brien's. When Data, Miles O'Brien and Deanna Troi were taken over by Ux-Mal prisoners, she was taking care of the O'Briens' newborn baby, Molly, while Keiko was taken hostage by the Ux-Mal in 2368. (TNG: "Power Play")
She was on duty, carrying a small box of medical eqipment walking through a corridor, when the Enterprise entered the FGC-47 nebula in late 2368. (TNG: "Imaginary Friend")
Together with Ensign Martinez, Crewman Giddings was treating a patient in sickbay shortly after the Enterprise started to assist a Romulan science vessel with repairs. (TNG: "The Next Phase")
- For some unknown reason, Lorine Mendell wore a brown wig during this appearance.
[edit] 2369
Giddings was in the audience when the play Frame of Mind was performed in 2369. (TNG: "Frame of Mind")
When the Enterprise was stuck in time in a temporal fragment in 2369, Deanna Troi nearly ran into a frozen Diana Giddings in a corridor. (TNG: "Timescape")
[edit] 2370
Giddings was walking along a corridor, talking to another crewmember when the Iyaaran Loquel encountered a Human child, Eric Burton, for the first time. (TNG: "Liaisons")
She was playing terrace with another crewmmember in Ten Forward shortly after Worf returned from a bat'leth tournament on Forcas III. (TNG: "Parallels")
She was in Ten Forward, in civilian clothes, when the Boraalan Vorin stumbled into the bar. (TNG: "Homeward")
Giddings was present in Ten Forward when D'Arsay artifacts started to materialize all over the ship. (TNG: "Masks")
When the crew was beginning to feel the changes caused by Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome, Giddings, in civilian clothing, was having a drink in Ten Forward. (TNG: "Genesis")
She beamed down to Maranga IV, together with many other members of the crew of the Enterprise to attend the Kot'baval Festival. She later enjoyed a drink with a fellow crewmember in Ten Forward. (TNG: "Firstborn")
Giddings was on duty in sickbay when Jason Vigo suffered from a seisure and had to be taken to sickbay immediately. (TNG: "Bloodlines")
[edit] Background information
Diana Giddings was played by regular extra and stand-in Lorine Mendell. She was seen in many TNG episodes, in the first season usually wearing a skirt and working in engineering. Her name was never spoken in dialog (the script of TNG: "The Outrageous Okona" calls her "A well-endowed female crewmember"; in the script of TNG: "Power Play" she is called a "supernumerary"), but it was barely legible on her door sign. The Star Trek Encyclopedia gives her name as 'Dianna Giddings' but the sign on her door reads more like 'Diana'.
