Welcome to Gates McFadden Files, your online resource dedicated to the amazing Gates McFadden. Actress, director and choreographer, you may better remember Gates for her role of Doctor Beverly Crusher in the Star Trek franchise. But her career also dives into other projects on screen such as Marker, Franklin & Bash, Mad About You, Make the Yuletide Gay, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and on stage with Cloud 9, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, Voices in the Dark. This fansite is comprehensive of an extensive photo gallery with events, magazines, screencaps, an updated press library for articles and written interviews, and a video section for recorded interviews, sneak peeks, trailers. We are absolutely respectful of her privacy and proudly a paparazzi-free site!!!

The Trek Talks online marathon has become a yearly highlight, always featuring a variety of panels with Star Trek luminaries from behind and in front of the camera, deep dive episode discussions, and a fascinating combinations of guests. Plus, it’s all to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition. This year, the Trek Talks 5 day-long event will be on Saturday, March 28, once again streaming on YouTube. Today, we have some of the first panel announcements.

First guest announcements — sneak peek

Trek Talks is produced by Trek Geeks, the SyFy Sistas, Roddenberry Podcasts, and TrekMovie. The marathon is cohosted by John Billingsley (Star Trek: Enterprise‘s Dr. Phlox) and Bonnie Gordon (the voice of the computer on Star Trek: Prodigy). Planning is still underway, but the first two panels were just confirmed:

From the VO booth to the writers room

Gates McFadden talks with Tawny Newsome about her journey from voicing Lower Decks’ Mariner to a seat in the writers room of Starfleet Academy as she reflects on her own struggles getting her voice heard in the TNG writers room… and how things have changed for the better.

Spread the word!

Keep checking the Trek Talks site for updates and watch the show live on YouTube on March 28, starting at 9:45 AM PT.

Claudia January 24, 2026