Lively's first acting appearance came in the 1986 motion picture Night of the Creeps. TNG and DS9 guest star Dick Miller also starred in the movie. She was one of several Star Trek stars to appear in the 1992 television movie Grand Tour: Disaster in Time. Others included George Murdock, Nicholas Guest, Emilia Crow, Time Winters, and Mimi Craven. In 1998, Lively appeared in Free Enterprise. William Shatner starred, as did Thomas Hobson, who played the young Jake Sisko in "Emissary" .