By GustavoLeao / 02:57, 25 November 2008 / General Star Trek

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The latest issue of Star Trek Magazine, out in the US and the UK, features a new interview with actress Joanne Linville, who played the Romulan Commander in the third season TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident", and here are few excerpts courtesy of Sci Fi Pulse.

"I wanted to say them with ease, so I started going through who the Romulan Commander was physically. She's a straight line, she's always direct. There's nothing in her that is devious of off centre. How do you play someone who is higher military than everyone else? She's a commander, after all. She doesn't talk down to you, she's direct and that made me care deeply about her. It gave her an inner light."

"When she changes her clothes for Spock, she letting him into her inner life and that's why she feels so betrayed by Spock at the ending. She's always told him the truth throughout the episode, and he lied to her. The idea of playing her sexy was not there: she feels sexy because she's in love with Mr Spock. She was connected with that, which gives her sexuality, but you can't play it sexy. The only way I could show that was with her sensitivity. I did not think it, it just happened. She's in love and being expressive with just her mind. At the end, she feels a terrible sense of betrayal. She exposed her emotions and he crushed her by betraying her."

"I found Bill Shatner to be a bad boy. It was a very hard, challenging role for me to play. I got very angry at Bill, who I usually adore - we had done two shows together, including a United States Steel Hour and a Western. Star Trek meant nothing to him when we were doing it: it was light to him compared to other stuff he had done. He saw this as some meaningless little thing he didn't take seriously. I took the Romulan Commander as seriously as if I was playing a Shakespeare character. Bill didn't take it that seriously and teased me about that - he said, ‘You're picking up Leonard's Cadence', but I wasn't. I was just trying to get the lines out! I should be thinking about the character, not thinking about ‘What's my next line?' Bill Shatner was so mischievous. He's a delicious bad boy and I love him very much! We made a lifetime connection on that and Bill Shatner's daughters are great."

The original report can be found at Sci Fi Pulse

The full article can be found on the latest issue of Star Trek Magazine, now on sale.