Prior to her appearance on Star Trek, Olson was featured in the crime thriller Internal Affairs (1990, with Victoria Dillard, Scott Lincoln, Marco Rodriguez, Valerie Wildman, Jimmy Ortega, and Jeff Bornstein), the television drama Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992, with Dennis Christopher, Joanna Miles, and David Paul Needles), and the action film Bloodfist IV: Die Trying (1992, with Gene LeBell and Stephen James Carver) and had guest roles in episodes of Generations (1990), Lifestories (1990, with Joanna Miles), Quantum Leap (1992, with Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Stephen Lee, Fran Bennett, Kimberly Cullum, Meg Foster, James Whitmore, Jr., James Greene, Parley Baer, and Lanier Edwards), and Sisters (1992, with Elizabeth Hoffman and Ashley Judd and directed by James A. C