Kim Cattrall Almost Turned Down Valeris in The Star Trek Franchise

<img class="gallery-image " src="https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/why-kim-cattrall-almost-turned-down-the-role-of-valeris-in-the-star-trek-franchise/intro-1728943842.jpg" data-slide-url="https://www.slashfilm.com/1688182/why-kim-cattrall-almost-turned-down-valeris-star-trek/" data-post-id="1688182" data-slide-num="0" data-slide-title="Why Kim Cattrall Almost…turistic and retro at the same time. She also claims to have loved the ear tips she had to wear, often wanting to wear them home at the end of the day. It was terrible, she said, making phone calls with them on, however, as they would peel off and stick to the phone. And yes, the rumors are true: one night during filming, Cattrall snuck onto the Enterprise Bridge set and had a friend take photos of her wearing nothing but the ears. Reportedly, though, Leonard Nimoy found the photos and tore them up, not wanting them potentially leaked to the public and inviting scandal to Cattrall and to "Star Trek." 

Cattrall also noted that Valeris was a far more dynamic, interesting character than Saavik. The latter was a passive figure in her eyes. Valeris, meanwhile, had very clear goals. The actress said of Valeris: 

“She’s much more dimensional than just a beautiful woman with backswept hair who wears funny ears and a sexy top. She’s much more defined. She has more succinct desires and wants, and she’s ambitious. With the other Saaviks, it was very difficult to tell what they wanted: they were very ambivalent. There’s really nothing ambivalent about Lieutenant Valeris. She has a role in her life, and she wants to do well and fit in, sometimes a little too much. But she’s very defined, whereas I felt both Saaviks weren’t. They were just sort of carbon copies of Spock.” 

Which, some might say, is a fair assessment. Cattrall was fantastic in the role, and a welcome addition to “Star Trek.” Fun trivia: Cattrall clearly shot the Tony Maylam film “Split Second” immediately after her time on “Star Trek VI,” as she still has the same wild hairdo.