{"id":10219,"date":"2010-09-14T11:59:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2010-09-14T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T18:59:54","slug":"williams-crosby-as-the-klingon-vixis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/09\/williams-crosby-as-the-klingon-vixis\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams-Crosby As The Klingon Vixis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The actress who played Vixis, the first officer aboard Captain Klaa&#8217;s Klingon Bird-of-Prey in <em>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<\/em>, wanted to turn down the role at first.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spice Williams-Crosby<\/em> was disappointed when she found out that she was not going to play the love interest of Captain Kirk as she had hoped. &#8220;I was so excited because I just knew that I was finally going to play Capt Kirk&#8217;s love interest,&#8221; said Williams-Crosby. &#8220;Once I got the script I asked the casting director, &#8216;Could you please tell me a little bit about Vixis?&#8217; <strong>Bill Shepard<\/strong>, the casting director said, &#8216;Well, Vixis is the first office Klingon on the Bird of Prey.&#8217;\u00a0 I gasped! Oh no, not a Klingon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Vixis091410.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10220\" title=\"Vixis091410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Vixis091410.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The actress then went and called her agent to explain that she couldn&#8217;t play the part. &#8220;Carmella, I can&#8217;t play this part,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Vixis is a Klingon and Klingons hate Captain Kirk!&#8221; After &#8220;many choice words,&#8221; her agent told Williams-Crosby to &#8220;put my head back on and go learn the lines!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams-Crosby got down to work, which included rehearsals with <strong>Todd Bryant<\/strong>, who played Captain Klaa. &#8220;Todd and I immediately hit it off and he came to my house three days a week to rehearse,&#8221; said Williams-Crosby. &#8220;Well, I bribed him by making him lunch when he came over! Such a Vixis thing to do! Anyway, Todd was and still is amazing! We became best friends and we are like brother and sister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some scenes were cut from the movie, and Williams-Crosby would love to see a restored and remastered <em>Star Trek V<\/em> which would include some of those cut scenes. &#8220;Well, this would be a dream come true,&#8221; she said. &#8220;First of all, <strong>Bill<\/strong> [<strong>Shatner<\/strong>] was an amazing director and had the same creative visions as myself and Todd Bryant had. There were some wonderful scenes between myself and Todd (Vixis &amp; Klaa) that wound up on the floor of the editing room and someone dropped the ball on the SFX along with other things that should have been in that film.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actress who played Vixis, the first officer aboard Captain Klaa&#8217;s Klingon Bird-of-Prey in Star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2972],"tags":[3381,3380,3379],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","tag-star-trek-vi-the-final-frontier","tag-vixis","tag-williams-crosby"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-movies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Movies<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Movies","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10221,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions\/10221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}