Austrian-born American actress who played Dr. Carol Marcus, creator of the Genesis Device, in The Wrath of Khan.
Bibi Besch (1942–1996) was an Austrian-born American actress of film, television and stage whose other films include Who's That Girl.
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Besch played Dr. Carol Marcus, the scientist who leads the Genesis Project from the Regula I space laboratory. Carol is a former love of Kirk and the mother of his son, David Marcus, and the Genesis Device she designed becomes the object of Khan's attack and the source of the planet on which Spock is later reborn.