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Bibi Besch Now

Bibi Besch was best known for her role as molecular biologist Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. She made her onscreen acting debut on the soap opera The Secret Storm in 1966 and appeared in numerous television shows and movies in her decades long career.

Bibi Besch did not feel comfortable playing the role of Dr. Carol Marcus. According to The Making of the Trek Films, she stated that: “I tried to make it as Human as possible rather than trying to fit into something that already was because this character hadn’t existed before, and I didn’t really feel that I had to do that [….] It’s difficult to play a woman who has had a relationship with someone that everybody knows. So I tried to make it believable for myself. I fantasized about an early affair [between Kirk and Carol Marcus] and why it turned out the way it did. What kind of people we both became, how I got to be where I was, not just as a scientist but as a woman who wouldn’t have told Kirk for all those years that he had a son.”