{"id":44858,"date":"2016-11-14T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=44858"},"modified":"2016-11-14T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T19:06:34","slug":"williams-in-liaisons-wanting-picards-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/11\/williams-in-liaisons-wanting-picards-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams In Liaisons: Wanting Picard&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> guest star <strong>Barbara Williams<\/strong> shares her experiences of working on the <em>Liaisons<\/em> episode.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Liaisons<\/em>, Williams played an Iyaaran ambassador Voval\/Anna, who is studying the emotion of love with Picard as an unwilling subject.<\/p>\n<p>Williams enjoyed working with <strong>Sir Patrick Stewart<\/strong>, who was &#8220;lovely.&#8221; The two &#8220;both had stage backgrounds&#8221; in common, and &#8220;and there was a Shakespearean quality to the episode. So, we indulged our theater chops to the max,&#8221; said Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The role was a good one for Williams. &#8220;Anna\/Voval did everything she could, with her limited understanding of human intimacy, to win Captain Picard&#8217;s affection,&#8221; said Williams. &#8220;She stages an accident. She disables him with a device. She nurses and coddles him, but he doesn&#8217;t respond to her in the way she thinks he should. Finally, she throws him to the ground, quite forcefully, and says &#8216;Why don\u2019t you love me?&#8217; That was so much fun. We did it several times because we kept breaking up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams liked the character so well, that she wishes that &#8220;they would have made my character permanent. I loved representing human femininity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams is currently penning a memoir, <em>The Hope in Leaving<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation guest star Barbara Williams shares her experiences of working on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[9079,9080,2931],"class_list":["post-44858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-liaisons","tag-voval","tag-williams"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Liaisons111416.jpg",580,225,false]},"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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858","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=44858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44860,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858\/revisions\/44860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}