Miles and Keiko O’Brien must be incredibly proud and perhaps just a tad confused as well. That’s because Molly O’Brien, their daughter, won an Academy Award a couple of weeks ago. We kid you not! The night’s winners during the 97th Academy Awards ceremony not only included Mikey Madison, Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, and Zoe Saldana -- who plays Uhura in the Kelvin Timeline Star Trek movies -- but Molly O’Brien, who shared the award for Documentary Short Film with Lisa Remington.
O’Brien and Remington took home golden statuettes for The Only Girl in the Orchestra, which, according to Netflix, “celebrates trailblazing double bassist Orin O’Brien, the first woman to become a full-time member of the New York Philharmonic.” Molly O’Brien directed The Only Girl in the Orchestra and produced it along with Remington. The 35-minute short, which is available now on Netflix, previously was named Best Short Documentary by the Critics Choice Documentary Awards.
While it’s fun to pretend that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character Molly O’Brien won the award, problem number one is that the character won’t be born until 2368. Problem number two is that she’s a fictional character who was played by the actresses Hana Hatae and Michelle Krusiec, as well as by the twins Angela and Angelica Tedeski. Hatae portrayed the character in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” and also in 11 episodes of Deep Space Nine. Krusiec stepped into the role for the Deep Space Nine episode “Time’s Orphan,” which depicted Molly as an 18-year-old. And the Tedeski twins appeared as the infant Molly in the Next Generation episodes “Disaster” and “Power Play.”
For anyone wondering about what Hatae is up to lately, she is now 36 years old, married, still makes the occasional Star Trek convention guest appearance, and has her own interior design company called Hana Hatae Design.
As for Star Trek characters we’d like to see win Oscars in the future, our picks include Khan Noonien Singh, Lwaxana Troi, Kathryn Janeway, Murf, Geordi LaForge, Lon Suder, Hikaru Sulu, Harry Kim, Janet Reno, Morn, The Salt Vampire, Winn Adami, and, of course, Armus.