Layla Sarakalo has exactly one (1) credit on her IMDb page.
In Leonard Nimoy’s 1986 film “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” she played a passer-by on the street who stopped briefly to talk to Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), who sought the location of nuclear vessels parked in Alameda, California.
The scene sticks out in the memory because of Keonig’s notorious pronunciation of “vessels” as “wessels.” Koenig, as one might predict, has been asked to say “wessels” at multiple Star Trek conventions over the years, and is quite likely very sick of it.
Keonig turns 87 in September, so please stop asking. Sarakalo, however, only ever appeared in this one scene in “Star Trek” and hasn’t acted before or since.
According to her IMDb page, Sarakalo landed the role as an extra through a stroke of bad luck.
In order to clear the San Francisco streets for the scene in question,…
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