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Star Trek The Motion Picture : Remembering Persis Khambatta and Lt. Ilia
Trekweb ^ | 02/23/10 | GustavoLeao

Posted on 02/24/2010 6:24:41 PM PST by KevinDavis

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Continuing our retrospective on the 30th anniversary of Star Trek The Motion Picture, TrekWeb presents excerpts of a rare interview with the late actress and former Miss India Persis Khambatta, who played Deltan navigator Lt. Ilia in the 1979 Star Trek movie directed by Robert Wise.

The interview was published in the now cancelled Star Trek Communicator magazine, issue Issue 120. (Dec 1998/Jan 1999) and it is presented here as part of our "Archives Interviews" series of articles.

Here are excerpts of the last interview with Ms Khambatta, who died on August 18 1998 at the age of 49 from a massive heart attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at trekweb.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: scifi; startrek
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1 posted on 02/24/2010 6:24:41 PM PST by KevinDavis
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To: Ronin; HeartlandOfAmerica; Bob J; SilvieWaldorfMD; mowowie; Bender2; TheVitaminPress; ...


A big thanks goes to Visualops for the Banner!!


2 posted on 02/24/2010 6:25:17 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ad Astra Per Aspera!!!)
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I had no idea she died.


3 posted on 02/24/2010 6:26:48 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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Nor did I.. A shame..


4 posted on 02/24/2010 6:27:33 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ad Astra Per Aspera!!!)
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To: KevinDavis

She was the last good female role in the Trek movies that I can think of. Was that the “Veega” one? Lame movie but she was good in it. RIP.


5 posted on 02/24/2010 6:35:02 PM PST by circlecity
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That was the V’Ger one.. I agree it was a lame movie, but she was good...


6 posted on 02/24/2010 6:36:24 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ad Astra Per Aspera!!!)
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To: KevinDavis

May God bless those who loved her with comfort and peace.


7 posted on 02/24/2010 6:36:26 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: circlecity

Vjer.. she was the Deltan navigator.


8 posted on 02/24/2010 6:37:25 PM PST by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: KevinDavis; fieldmarshaldj

9 posted on 02/24/2010 6:37:26 PM PST by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")
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To: KevinDavis

I thought she died of cancer.


10 posted on 02/24/2010 6:37:46 PM PST by rabidralph ("Precedenting" is a lot tougher than community organizing.)
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To: Mmogamer

Right V’ger my bad.


11 posted on 02/24/2010 6:37:51 PM PST by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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I just did an wiki search on her.. Her ex boyfriend thinks may have died of foul play..


12 posted on 02/24/2010 6:39:08 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ad Astra Per Aspera!!!)
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To: KevinDavis; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP
Trekkie time


13 posted on 02/24/2010 6:42:02 PM PST by potlatch (- What a co-inky-stink!)
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For what it's worth...

Personal life

Khambatta dated Sylvester Stallone, Henry Kissinger, Ted Kennedy, Rutger Hauer and Edward Lozzi at various times.

She also had a relationship with Kabir Bedi.[5]

[edit] Death

In 1998, Khambatta was taken to the Marine Hospital in south Mumbai complaining of chest pains. She died that Wednesday of a heart attack. Her funeral was held in Mumbai, 19 August 1998. She was 49. However, not all have accepted Persis Khambatta's death as being from natural causes. Edward Lozzi, the Beverly Hills public relations executive and a former boyfriend of Khambatta in 1985-86, sent a letter of concern to the authorities in India about the threats to her life he witnessed in the United States from political fanatics in India. Khambatta had been a strong supporter of Indira Gandhi and even campaigned for her before her assassination. Lozzi hired a private investigator in Bombay (now Mumbai) to investigate the autopsy, the body, the death certificate and to interview the hospital officials where she supposedly died. None of this was made public to anyone except that her body was cremated. Lozzi's media company shortly thereafter sent out a press release announcing his fears that Persis Khambatta's death was due to foul play. [2]

14 posted on 02/24/2010 6:43:44 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Mmogamer

Warmed over Nomad plot.


15 posted on 02/24/2010 6:43:50 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: KevinDavis

I remember she did a Sylvester Stallone movie sometime after Star Trek, and then I never saw her again.


16 posted on 02/24/2010 6:44:08 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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To: potlatch

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LOL!

Very different potlatch!


17 posted on 02/24/2010 6:45:00 PM PST by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . Obama-Riggging the USA in any way possible . . . . . . .)
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To: KevinDavis

I was surprised to learn she was from India. I had always thought she was Iranian, I guess because Persis sounds like Persian.


18 posted on 02/24/2010 6:45:14 PM PST by yarddog
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I think she was a Zoroastrian..


19 posted on 02/24/2010 6:46:57 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ad Astra Per Aspera!!!)
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To: devolve

Thanks, I think! LOL
Found the photo long ago and put in the spaceships fighting.


20 posted on 02/24/2010 6:48:25 PM PST by potlatch (- What a co-inky-stink!)
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