10 Star Trek Nepo Babies

7. Melanie Shatner

Star Trek Melanie Shatner
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Melanie Shatner made her movie debut in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, though she received no credit for her role. She was the female jogger who is almost blown away when the cloaked Bird-of-Prey takes off. She would however return in the following film for a different role.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier sees Melanie play the captain's yeoman, standing ready with his jacket when Kirk arrives on the bridge. The film is famously directed by none other than William Shatner himself, who happens to be her father.

Since this appearance, she has gone on to appear in several more films and television productions. Several of these have featured other members of her family, with TekWar being one such example. In 1988, she appeared in an Oldsmobile Commercial where she advertised the car before her father beamed in to sit alongside her. 

She has since moved away from acting and in 2000, she opened her own store in Los Angeles. 

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