Barbara March Barbara March is the stage , film , and television actress who portrayed the recurring Klingon Lursa , one of the Duras sisters , in the episodes , , and . She also portrayed Lursa in the first season episode and in the seventh " Star Trek " film . In March provided her voice for Lursa in the video game " " . March filmed her first " Star Trek " episode " Redemption " on Monday and Thursday on Paramount Stage 16 . For the episode " Redemption II " , March filmed her scenes on Monday and Wednesday on Paramount Stage 9 and 16 . Following her appearance in " Generations " , March appeared on several trading cards , book marks , posters , and standups for display . In 1994 there was also an action figure of her character from the movie , released by Playmates Toys . Her costume from the episode " Past Prologue " was later worn by actress Peggy Jo Jacobs in the episode and was sold off at the Christie ' s auction in New York . March was interviewed by Ian Spelling for the " Star Trek Generations - Official Movie Souvenir Magazine " for the article " Barbara March & Gwynyth Walsh : Lursa and B ' Etor " , p . 72 in , for the , , article " The Klingon Way : Lursa " , and by Ian Spelling for the article " Double Trouble " in in . Together with fellow on - screen sister and Canadian Gwynyth Walsh , March is a frequent guest at " Star Trek " - related conventions such as Trek Expo 2008 and the Creation Las Vegas Star Trek Conventions 2010 and 2011 , also appearing in Klingon makeup and costume . Personal and stage work . March was born on 9 October 1953 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada as child to Polish parents . She graduated from the University of Windsor with a BFA in Dramatic Arts and started to work as a stage actress at Canada ' s Stratford Shakespeare Festival , where she also met her future husband Alan Scarfe , who later guest starred in two episode of " Star Trek : The Next Generation " and an episode of VOY . The two married in August 1979 and March became stepmother to actor from Alan Scarfe ' s previous marriage with actress Sara Botsford . The couple has also a daughter , musician and composer Antonia " Tosia " Scarfe . A well known stage actress in Canada , March toured several theaters in the early 1980s . She played roles such as Desdemona in " Othello " , Jenny in " Neil Simon ' s Chapter Two " , Ruth in " The Homecoming " , Joanna in " Present Laughter " , Lady Macduff in " Macbeth " , and Rowena in " The Gayden Chronicles " . In 1985 she returned to Canada ' s Stratford Shakespeare Festival to portray Isabella in " Measure for Measure " and Maria in " Twelfth Night " . In 1986 she moved to New York to play Lady Macbeth on Broadway and Off - Broadway and in 1989 she was invited to play the title role in the Guthrie Theatre version of the play " The Duchess of Malfi " in Minneapolis . Beside her work on stage and in front of the camera , March also wrote several screenplays and treatments for television and worked as story editor and an original episode writer for the Canadian television series " Mysterious Island " in 1995 , starring her husband . The couple relocated to Canada in 2000 where Scarfe worked on the science fiction series " Seven Days " . Since then , March wrote the play " The Razing of Charlotte Bronte " and several novels such as " The Copper People " . Film and television . March made her film debut in the 1983 Canadian independent drama " Deserters " on which she worked with her husband . For her role of Val Manufort she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1984 . In 1987 she was cast in a guest role in the Canadian drama series " Night Heat " with Allan Royal followed by the drama " Kingsgate " ( 1989 , with Christopher Plummer and her husband ) . After March and Scarfe moved to Los Angeles , California , she worked on the television horror film " Blood Ties " ( 1991 , with Nicholas Kepros , Robert Miano , Marilyn Rockafellow , and Harley Venton ) , the television western " The Gambler Returns : The Luck of the Draw " ( 1991 , with Dion Anderson , Juliana Donald , Brian Keith , Dell Yount , Jorge Cervera , Jr . , Ann Gillespie , Norman Large , Max Grodénchik , John Fleck , and Tory Christopher ) , the drama " The Portrait " ( 1992 , with her husband and Gwynyth Walsh ) , and the " L . A . Law " episode " Beauty and the Breast " ( 1992 , with Corbin Bernsen , Larry Drake , Michael Cumpsty , Becky Ann Baker , George De La Peña , Terry O ' Quinn , and Harley Venton ) . Following her connection with " Star Trek " , March played Helen Dieboldt in the " Total Security " episode " Who ' s Poppa ? " in 1997 , with Michael Bofshever , Randy Oglesby , Tony Plana , and Kristin Bauer .