Kathelin prepares for a 1999 theater production in Cairo, Egypt. Standing atop the Moquattam that borders Cairo on one side, she gazes towards the Great Pyramids of Giza, which lie beyond the vast old City of the Dead and the bustling New Cairo. The Moquattam is an ancient quarry that provided the stone to build the the Great Pyramids. Just beyond the Pyramids, the landscape is quite like the terrain of Mars, according to the great Egyptian geologist Farouk El-Baz, who was also the chief geologist for the Apollo mission to the moon. A space vehicle on Star Trek was named for him.