Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we profile Commander Williams, a recurring character on Enterprise who works with Admiral Maxwell Forrest.
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Commander Marcus Williams shows up once per season during the run of the Enterprise show, with the first of these being in the pilot Broken Bow. Williams agrees with Captain Archer about objecting to the Vulcans subverting Admiral Forrest and Starfleet from making their own independent decisions regarding a Klingon that crash landed on Earth.
Williams also takes the same side as Forrest and Archer when Vulcan Ambassador Soval accuses Archer of disobeying orders and kidnapping Subcommander T'Pol. More than anything, he is a strong advocate for Starfleet and the men on the leading edge like Captain Archer.
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Admiral Leonard: He's a Kling-ot.
Tos: A Kling-on.
Archer: Where'd he come from?
Commander Williams: Oklahoma.
Williams is next seen placing a bet with an archaeologist named Drake as to whether a crashed spaceship exists in the Arctic Circle, with the stakes being a bottle of scotch. Drake finds the debris field but his team ends up assimilated by the alien survivors. Williams and Admiral Forrest end up sending Captain Archer on a pursuit of Drake's vessel, which had been taken over by the aforementioned aliens. On the bright side, Williams got to keep his scotch.
Williams was named after the original series actor William Shatner. The novel that confirms his first name Marcus also implies that his daughter has a romantic relationship with a Samuel Kirk, who happens to be the great-great grandfather of James T. Kirk. Thus, this character is the ancestor of the character whose actor Williams is named after, in a weird twist of fiction fate.
Commander Williams is played by Jim Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick appeared in small roles in movies like Armageddon and in many popular soap operas like All My Children. He continues to act today with upcoming movies called Soulmates and The Deposition.
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