The tumor may develop within the auditory canal, where the vestibulocochlear nerve which supplies the inner ear penetrates the skull (intracanalicular neuroma) or outside the canal (extra-canalicular neuroma). The vestibulocochlear nerve has two components, the auditory and vestibular portions.
STAR TREK. Long before she played Dr. Katherine Pulaski in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Diana Muldaur did two guest appearances in Star Trek: The Original Series. Her first role in Star Trek: TOS, Dr. Ann Mulhall, served as an astrobiologist aboard the USS Enterprise. Diana's second role in TOS, Dr. Miranda Jones, was a blind telepath.
Rainn Wilson assumed the role of a slightly younger Mudd for Star Trek: Discovery, where he first appears as a prisoner of the Klingons early in the first season of the prequel series. According to editorial comments in the early DC Comics run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, there had been consideration for an episode of TNG featuring Mudd, awakening from cryogenic suspension to find himself aboard the Enterprise-D.