Besides her work on Star Trek, Hatae was also featured in an episode of the comedy series Family Matters in 1998 entitled "Polkapalooza", where she played "Steve Urkel #3". In 2010, Hatae appeared on the Fox television show Kitchen Nightmares in an episode involving her family's sushi restaurant Sushi-ko. As of that airing, she was working as a hostess and waitress. Her brother, mother, and father also appeared in that episode. Their family restaurant closed in August 2009. [1]