Patti Yasutake, Who Appeared in ‘Beef’ and ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 70

Patti Yasutake, who was a regular on “Beef” and played Nurse Alyssa Ogawa on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” died Aug. 5 in Santa Monica of cancer. She was 70. Her manager Kyle Fritz said that “Patti was my first client when I began over 30 years ago.