Valkris (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

Valkris (Cathie Shirriff) is a Klingon spy and disposable mistress to a Klingon Commander. She has hired a group of mercenaries to help her in her ploy to steal the Genesis program.
In the previous movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Captain Kirk’s ex-wife Carol (Bibi Besch) and their son David (Merritt Butrick) had developed the Genesis program that would turn a lifeless planet into a Garden of Eden in a very short space of time. The Federation planned to use the Genesis device to create new liveable colonies throughout the galaxy, not realizing that Genesis could also be used to destroy existing eco-systems and replace them with new ones if it fell into the wrong hands.
==The Wrong Hands==
The wrong hands being those of the Klingons.
Valkris, like other Klingons, has a ridge going down the middle of her high forehead. She has arched eyebrows and is wearing a metallic V-neck gown with a high collar, padded shoulders, and ample cleavage all her own.
She is wearing a wide belt with two ornamental gold metallic weapons. She has on a feathered headdress like an Aztec warrior and has dark hair in a bouffant that obscures her pointed Klingon ears. Around her throat ser wears a metallic necklace that fits more like a collar.
Valkris who is working with a rag-tag team of English speaking human soldier of fortune misfits has somehow managed to steal the Genesis formula and now plan to sell it to the Klingons.
Valkris is a Klingon zealot, willing to give her life for the cause was never into it for the money.
We first meet Valkris on the bridge of a tiny Merchantman spaceship.
The elegant Valkris stands behind the unkempt Captain of the untidy ship.
They, at last, make contact with the Lord Kruge, the Klingon Commander, Valkris’s lover, and the archvillain in charge of the ploy to steal the Genesis formula.
CAPTAIN: Steady, ...steady boys. Keep scanning... I thought you people were reliable. ...Where the hell is he!
VALKRIS: He has been here for some time. Put me on the hailing frequency. Commander Kruge, this is Valkris. (in Klingonese) I have obtained the Federation data. Ready to transmit.
KRUGE: Well done, Valkris, ...well done.
CAPTAIN: Where the hell is...?
KRUGE: (in Klingonese) Disengage cloaking device!
At that moment the Klingon Bird of Prey becomes visible.
KRUGE: (in Klingonese) Transmit data. ...Now!
Valkris inserts what looks to be a 1970 eight-track tape into a slot. The transmission of the Genesis data begins.
VALKRIS: (in Klingonese) Transmission completed.
But then Valkris slips up accidentally informing her lover that she has seen the data.
Valkris ...You will find it useful.
KRUGE: (in Klingonese) Then you have seen it?
VALKRIS: (in Klingonese) I have, my lord.
KRUGE: (in Klingonese) Unfortunate.
Valkris is a true warrior and realizes that the data is top-secret, and anyone having seen it must be destroyed.
VALKRIS: (in Klingonese) Understood.
At Commander Kruge’s command, the Klingon ship engages thrusters and begins to leave.
CAPTAIN: What's the hell's going on? When do I get paid off?
Suddenly the Klingon ship then circles around.
VALKRIS: Soon, Captain, quite soon. (in Klingonese) Success, my lord ...and my love.
KRUGE: (in Klingonese) You will be remembered with honour. ...Fire!
The Merchantman is destroyed along with his former mistress the beautiful Valkris.
==Doomed Spy==
I can’t help but thinking that Commander Kruge could have saved his beautiful mistress if he had wanted to. He could have ignored Valkris infraction as she was extremely loyal. But perhaps he had planned that she was a Doomed Spy from the very beginning. Perhaps he knew when he first seduced her that she was to be just a pawn in his larger game and when she had served her purpose in the bedroom and in the field, he quickly got rid of her.
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