Mary Meinel-Newport
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Mary Meinel-Newport is an extra seen in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, playing a Bolian extra. She appeared throughout the first four years of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a Bolian extra, possibly Lysia Arlin. She can also be seen in Star Trek Generations as a Bolian Woman in Ten Forward.
Raised in Tucson, Arizona, both Mary and her husband, Jerry Newport, have Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. They have two sons, Stephen and Peter, along with two grandchildren. Mary and Jerry Newport's relationship was the subject of a 1995 LA Times article, which became the inspiration for a 2005 film called Mozart and the Whale – named after a book written by the Newports (along with Johnny Dodd) entitled Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story. They also wrote a book called Autism - Asperger's & Sexuality: Puberty and Beyond.
Mary Newport appeared on Babylon 5 as a Centauri female (a series that starred Bill Mumy and Andreas Katsulas), and was interviewed twice on 60 Minutes, in both 1996 and 2004.
[edit] Uncredited Star Trek appearances
[edit] Recurring appearance
- DS9:
- "Babel"
- "Captive Pursuit"
- "The Siege"
- "Rivals"
- "Shadowplay"
- "Playing God"
- "The Maquis, Part I"
- "The Wire"
- "The Collaborator"
- "Tribunal"
- "The Search, Part II"
- "Meridian"
- "Visionary"
- "The Way of the Warrior"
- "The Visitor"
- "Bar Association"
- "Hard Time"
- TNG: "Birthright, Part I"
- VOY: "Caretaker"
