Out of this world! Kim Cattrall is barely recognisable in film stills from Star Trek
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She enraptured a new generation of fans on hit television series Sex and the City.
But before she embodied the role of man-eater Samantha Jones, Kim Cattrall wooed movie audiences by boldly going where few women had gone before.
Stills from 1991 movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country show the actress in costume as Vulcan Lieutenant Valeris, with upswept eyebrows and pointed ears - barely recognisable from the star we know today.
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Ready for action: Kim Cattrall sported upswept eyebrows and pointed ears in a film still from 1991 movie StarTrek Vi: The Undiscovered Country
The British born actress, who turns 56 today, clutches a laser gun in one snap, peering at the camera from beneath her caterpillar eyebrows and raven bob.
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ShareAnother still shows the high commanding female officer in uniform with Spock (Leonard Nimoy), taking in what appears to be a dramatic scene out of view.
Is that you? Cattrall looks off camera joined by fellow Vulcan Spock (Leonard Nimoy)
The Enterprise crew is tasked in the sci-fi drama with helping Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) to escape prison after assassinating the Klingnon High Chancellor.
Together, the commanders attempt to thwart a conspiracy to sabotage plans for peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.
As filming completed, scandal is said to have erupted after Cattrall reportedly had a photographer shoot her nude - wearing only her Vulcan ears - on the set of the Enterprise bridge.
The star we know: Cattrall, who turns 56 today, is now better-known now for her role as Samantha Jones in former HBO hit Sex and the City
Nimoy is said to have had the film destroyed after finding out about the portrait session.
With several successful films behind her, including Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little CHina, and of course, Star Trek, it was not until seven years later that Cattrall's role as Samantha on HBO series Sex and the City in 1998 would finally turn her into an international star.
Still hard at work, the actress is currently starring as Cleopatra in the play Anthony and Cleopatra at the Chichester Festival Centre, which runs through September 29.
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