Persis Kambatta died in 1998 ??? Had no idea.

I am a big fan of Star Trek, so I knew she had died way too young.

I remember reading how she was reluctant to have her head shaved for the role in STTMP. But she really looked beautiful without hair. Not very many women could pull off that look!

I would not go that far. She has the kind of beauty that is super plain, but very regular and pleasing to the eye. I think she looked better with her shaved head. It's a shame it did not help her career in movies, at least in the US market. All in all Star Trek the movie was not so great, as in my opinion all of the Star Trek movies were not good.

They were watchable, and very forgettable.

I always wonder why Star Trek did not transfer to the movie screen well. It could be they just waited too long, all the actors got old and fatner. But they also were not content with doing Star Trek style plots with good effects. They had to have a bigger Enterprise, then they had to destroy it in every movie.

Every movie now has to have a giant alien spaceship that hangs in the air over all the major cities of Earth. If you think about it, a spaceship that has to expend energy on the order of a star to be able to make relativistic jumps, if that is even possible, - why would it waste its energy hovering in the air?

The people who make Science fiction movies are idiots that do not understand Science Fiction.