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The London-born actress has been ever present in the Next Generation TV series and films, playing the half-human and half-Betazoid Commander Deanna Troi.
You're very different from your character. How do you remain very demure and meditative on screen?It's unusual to see Troi threatened directly, but in
this film there's a sex scene in which Troi is actually
violated in quite a sinister fashion...
It's not as
sinister as what we actually shot. That was really horrible -
it was more explicit. Tom [Hardy], Ron [Perlman] and I had to
really go for it and then leave it up to the editors to cut
out the bits that weren't suitable for children.
I gather most of the cuts made in the final edit of the
film were character-based stuff...
It's interesting, I
really loved the movie, but I think sometimes the movie-making
element of Star Trek forgets that the series was successful
because of the relationships between the characters - that's
what the audience loved. Fans always say "we like your show
the best because we can sense how much you love each other and
it comes across on the screen". They were the scenes that were
cut. This of all the Star Trek movies had the most time cut
out of it.
If this is your last Star Trek movie, what won't you
miss about the character?
The costumes. You wouldn't
choose to wear what any of the girls wear on Star Trek. The
only good thing about that series coming to an end after seven
years was I could finally breathe. People say, as a woman, did
it offend you to wear these skin-tight costumes? Absolutely
not, because our biggest demographic is men 18-49. What are
they going to put us in, a Hawaiian Muumuu?!