American actress, born in 1960 and best known as Vasquez in Aliens, who played the science officer of the Enterprise-B in the opening sequence of Star Trek Generations.
Jenette Goldstein is an American actress closely associated with the films of James Cameron: she was Private Vasquez in Aliens, John Connor's foster mother in Terminator 2 and an Irish emigrant mother in Titanic.
In Star Trek Generations (1994) she played the science officer on the bridge of the USS Enterprise-B during its ill-prepared maiden voyage. She reports on the gravimetric distortions of the energy ribbon that has trapped two transport ships and on the damage as the Enterprise itself is caught.
Her character is unnamed in the film. Goldstein's other genre credits include Near Dark and Lethal Weapon 2.