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TNG Season 2

• 3.1 Production
• 3.2 Cast and characters
• 3.3 Settings
• 4.3.1 Production companies
• 4.3.2 Remastered crew
• 6 External links

Episodes [ ]

Summary [ ].

Season 2 saw the departure of Dr. Beverly Crusher to head Starfleet Medical and her subsequent replacement by Dr. Katherine Pulaski . A number of stories focus on the development of Data , introducing him to his " grandfather ," revealing his interest in Sherlock Holmes , determining his status as a living being, and revealing to him the moral implications of the Prime Directive . He also clashes several times with Dr. Pulaski, who does not initially regard him as a living being.

Commander William T. Riker is also a focus of this season, settling his differences with his estranged father , deciding to give up an offer for his own ship to command so that he can remain on the USS Enterprise -D , becoming the first Starfleet officer to serve on a Klingon vessel, and nearly dying after becoming infected by a deadly alien parasite.

Lieutenant junior grade Worf becomes Chief of security and meets his mate, K'Ehleyr , and their son, Alexander , is conceived. Geordi La Forge is promoted to full Lieutenant and becomes Chief Engineer . Miles O'Brien is assigned as Transporter chief . Guinan comes on board the Enterprise -D to serve as bartender in Ten Forward , and significantly, Q introduces the crew of the Enterprise -D to the Borg , their most dangerous adversary yet.

Background information [ ]

Production [ ].

Michael Dorn with Emmanuel Lewis in Webster

• Due to the Writers Guild of America Strike in 1988, Season 2 only contained 22 episodes, rather than the usual 26 episodes. The season premiere, " The Child ", aired initially in late November 1988 , and the script was adapted from one of the scripts for the aborted Star Trek: Phase II due to the strike. The season began with Patrick Stewart hosting The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation To The Next which filled two hours left absent by the abridged season. The special was the first time that " The Cage " was aired on television.
• Showrunner Maurice Hurley planned to introduce the new villains, the Borg , in a cliffhanger which began in the first season finale, " The Neutral Zone ", with the Romulans having their bases destroyed by an unknown force, and concluding in the second season premiere. However, the strike prevented this from happening, and introduction of the Borg was postponed until much later in the season, in " Q Who ".
• Additionally, as a result of budget overruns in earlier episodes, the finale episode " Shades of Gray " was required by Paramount to have a three-day shoot to recover costs. As a result, the episode was written as a " clip show ", and was composed chiefly of clips from the previous 47 episodes. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages )
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was filmed and released during the run of this season. It was the first time a Star Trek feature film was shot simultaneously with a television series on adjoining sound stages. The same was true of every subsequent Star Trek film up to and including Star Trek Nemesis .
• During the second season, Michael Dorn , Lorine Mendell , James G. Becker , and Dexter Clay reprised their Trek roles for the series finale of the Paramount Pictures television series Webster , titled " Webtrek ". In the episode, Webster, played by Emmanuel Lewis , was transported aboard the Enterprise -D through his video game joystick, which was fixed by the Enterprise -D crew at the end of the episode.

Cast and characters [ ]

• In the second season, Lieutenant, J.G. Worf serves as permanent chief security officer, begins wearing a gold uniform, and transfers from Emergency Manual Override aft bridge station to the tactical station. His rank is still Lieutenant Junior Grade and he will not be promoted to full Lieutenant until the beginning of Season 3. Actor Michael Dorn now has a different prosthetic forehead and different sash as part of his costume for Worf. Also, La Forge is promoted to full Lieutenant and chief engineer during the break between Seasons 1 and 2 and begins wearing a gold uniform in "The Child". The Ten Forward set appears with Whoopi Goldberg in the recurring role of Guinan ; Riker starts wearing a beard; also, during this season, Diana Muldaur as Dr. Katherine Pulaski replaces Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher . Out of all seven seasons of The Next Generation , this is the only one in which Gates McFadden does not appear, other than through "flashback" footage from Season 1 in " Shades of Gray ".
• Guest star Diana Muldaur is generally considered a regular cast member, as her character appears in all but two episodes and otherwise fulfills the role of a main character. The actress was offered a place in the opening credit sequence, but declined and was listed instead as a Special Guest star. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , 2nd ed., p. 64)
• During the hiatus between the first two seasons, which was longer than a usual hiatus due to the writer's strike, Jonathan Frakes grew a beard, mainly because he dislikes shaving. According to the Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book , Gene Roddenberry liked it – Frakes recalled at a convention that Roddenberry said it had an appropriately "nautical" look – and the beard became a permanent part of Riker's character. The executives had some reservations, however. According to Frakes, they told him to shave off "eighteen percent" of the beard." The only explanation behind a number of such bizarre precision is that each executive chose a percentage (ten, twenty, twenty-five, etc.) and the average number was chosen. Frakes would not be seen beardless again until Star Trek: Insurrection , though he was seen wearing only a circle beard or moutee, a type of goatee , in " Defiant " while playing Thomas Riker and would have has beard regrown for Star Trek Nemesis . "Growing the Beard" has since become a term for when a show turns "good," a reverse of "Jumping the Shark," in reference to this. [1]
• No characters from the original Star Trek " crossover " to The Next Generation in this season.

Settings [ ]

• The Enterprise bridge set was modified for the second season. The access panels in the port and starboard sections were changed from wood to beige fabric. These panels would then be changed to grey fabric on Season 3. In addition, all three of the command chairs were replaced with new versions. Picard's new chair had the panels on the armrests permanently opened, and the two additional small seats added on the sides of Riker's and Troi's chairs were removed, in favor of a transparent bench. The conn and ops station chairs are replaced with new swiveling chairs. Some of the aft computer terminals were reassigned. Worf's previous station "Emergency Manual Override" and "Environment" are now maintained under the names "Mission Operations" and "Engineering." [2]
• A new sickbay set was constructed featuring portions of the set from the first season combined with a new intensive care ward, freeing up the portion of the set that also doubled as the observation lounge.
• The Ten Forward lounge makes its debut this season, being the last TNG set designed by Herman Zimmerman before he left for Star Trek V . He was replaced by Richard James .
• The observation lounge got two big viewscreens installed on the walls.

Credits [ ]

• Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
• Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
• LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Geordi La Forge ("The Child" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man" – "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary" – "Shades of Gray")
• Michael Dorn as Lieutenant junior grade Worf ("The Child" – "Peak Performance")
• Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi ("The Child" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man" – "Shades of Gray")
• Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data
• Wil Wheaton as Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher ("The Child" – "Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona" – "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor" – "Samaritan Snare", "Manhunt" – "Peak Performance")
• Gene Roddenberry

Line Producer

• David Livingston
• Burton Armus ("The Child" – "Time Squared")
• John Mason ("The Child" – "Time Squared")
• Mike Gray ("The Child" – "Time Squared")
• Robert L. McCullough ("Time Squared" – "Shades of Gray")

Co-Executive Producers

• Maurice Hurley
• Rick Berman

Executive Producer

Associate Producer

• Peter Lauritson

Executive Script Consultants

• Hans Beimler ("Pen Pals" – "Shades of Gray")
• Richard Manning ("Pen Pals" – "Shades of Gray")

Story Editors

• Leonard Mlodinow ("The Outrageous Okona" – "The Royale")
• Scott Rubenstein ("The Outrageous Okona" – "The Royale")
• Melinda M. Snodgrass ("The Measure Of A Man" – "Shades of Gray")

Creative Consultant

• Tracy Tormé (credited as Tracy Torme on the first three episodes)
• Junie Lowry
• Dennis McCarthy ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Schizoid Man" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man" – "Contagion", "Time Squared", "Pen Pals", "Samaritan Snare", "Manhunt", "Peak Performance")
• Ron Jones ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona" – "Loud As A Whisper", A Matter Of Honor", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")

Main Title Theme by

• Jerry Goldsmith
• Alexander Courage

Director of Photography

• Edward R. Brown , A.S.C.

Production Designer

• Richard D. James
• Tom Benko ("The Child", "The Outrageous Okona", "Unnatural Selection", "The Dauphin", "Time Squared", "Manhunt", "Shades of Gray")
• William Hoy ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Schizoid Man", "A Matter Of Honor", "Contagion")
• Bob Lederman ("Elementary, Dear Data", "Loud As A Whisper", "The Measure Of A Man", "The Royale", "Pen Pals", Up The Long Ladder", "Peak Performance")
• Jon Koslowsky ("The Icarus Factor", "Samaritan Snare", "The Emissary")
• Monty De Graff ("Q Who")

Unit Production Manager

• Sam Freedle

First Assistant Directors

• Les Landau ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data")
• Merri D. Howard ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona" – "Loud As A Whisper", "A Matter Of Honor", "The Dauphin", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")
• Robert J. Metoyer ("The Schizoid Man" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion", "Time Squared", "PenPals", "Samaritan Snare", "Manhunt", "Peak Performance")

Second Assistant Directors

• Robert J. Metoyer ("The Child" – "Elementary, Dear Data")
• Adele G. Simmons ("The Outrageous Okona" – "Shades of Gray")

Costume Designer

• Durinda Rice Wood

Starfleet Uniforms Created by

• William Ware Theiss

Original Set Design

• Herman Zimmerman

Visual Effects Supervisors

• Robert Legato ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Schizoid Man" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion", "Time Squared", "Pen Pals", "Samaritan Snare", "Peak Performance")
• Dan Curry ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona" – "Loud As A Whisper", "A Matter Of Honor", "The Dauphin", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")

Visual Effects Coordinator

• Gary Hutzel ("Manhunt")

Post Production Supervisor

• Wendy Neuss

Set Decorator

Script Supervisor

• Cosmo Genovese

Special Effects

• Dick Brownfield

Property Master

• Joe Longo ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Schizoid Man", "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion", "Time Squared", "Pen Pals", "Samaritan Snare", "Manhunt", "Peak Performance")
• Alan Sims ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona", "Loud As A Whisper", "A Matter Of Honor", "The Dauphin", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")

Make-Up Supervisor

• Michael Westmore

Make-Up Artists

• Gerald Quist
• Sue Forrest-Chambers ("The Child" – "Unnatural Selection")
• Janna Phillips ("A Matter Of Honor" – "Shades of Gray")

Hair Designer

• Richard Sabre

Hair Stylists

• Carolyn Ferguson ("The Child" – "Loud As A Whisper")
• Georgina Williams ("Unnatural Selection" – "The Measure Of A Man", "The Royale" – "Shades of Gray")
• Shirley Crawford ("The Dauphin")

Production Associate

• Susan Sackett

Senior Illustrator

• Rick Sternbach

Scenic Artist

• Michael Okuda

Set Designer

• Richard McKenzie

Construction Coordinator

Sound Mixer

• Alan Bernard , C.A.S.

Chief Lighting Technician

• Richard Cronn

First Company Grip

• Brian Mills

Costume Supervisor

• Janet Stout

Key Costumer/Costumer

• Cha Blevins ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data" – "Unnatural Selection", "Pen Pals", "Up The Long Ladder")
• Alison Gail Bixby ("Where Silence Has Lease")
• Amanda Chamberlin ("A Matter Of Honor", "Contagion", "Time Squared", "Shades of Gray")
• Charmaine Nash Simmons ("The Measure Of A Man", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Manhunt")
• Kimberley J. Thompson ("The Dauphin", "The Emissary")
• Carol Kunz ("Samaritan Snare", "Peak Performance")

Music Editor

• Gerry Sackman

Supervising Sound Editor

• Bill Wistrom

Sound Editors

• James Wolvington
• Mace Matiosian
• Wilson Dyer

Post Production Sound by

• Modern Sound

Casting Executive

• Helen Mossler

Production Coordinator

• Diane Overdiek

Casting Associate

• Elisa Goodman
• Eric A. Stillwell ("Shades of Gray")

Computer Monitors by

• Sony Corp. of America ("The Schizoid Man" – "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion" – "Shades of Gray")

Editing Facilities

• Unitel Video

Lenses and Panaflex ® Cameras by

Special Visual Effects by

• Industrial Light & Magic , A Division of Lucasfilm, Ltd.

Additional Motion Control Facilities

Video Optical Effects by

• The Post Group

Special Video Compositing

• Composite Image Systems

"Entity" Animation Sequence by

• Stokes/Kohne Associates, Inc. ("The Child")

Uncredited [ ]

• Ackerman – Property Lead Person ("The Schizoid Man")
• Allan A. Apone – Makeup Artist: Mick Fleetwood ("Manhunt")
• Burton Armus – Co-writer ("The Icarus Factor")
• Kim Bailey – Model Maker ("Q Who")
• Daryl Baskin – Editorial Department ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Benson – Special Effects Technician ("The Schizoid Man")
• David Bernard – Sound Cable Person ("The Schizoid Man")
• Alison Gail Bixby – Set Costumer ("The Schizoid Man")
• Edward Brown, Jr. – First Assistant Camera Operator ("The Schizoid Man")
• John Earl Burnett – First Assistant Camera Operator: Additional Photography/VFX Unit ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Schizoid Man" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion", "Time Squared", "Pen Pals", "Samaritan Snare", "Peak Performance")
• Lloyd A. Buswell – Construction Foreman
• Carter – DGA Trainee ("The Schizoid Man")
• Amanda Chamberlin – Set Costumer ("The Schizoid Man")
• Jesse Chavez – Crab Dolly Grip ("The Schizoid Man")
• Ray Clarke – DFX Paint FX Artist: The Post Group
• Cox – Lamp Operator ("The Schizoid Man")
• James Crawford – Set Security ("The Schizoid Man")
• Dan Curry – Matte Artist ("Contagion")
• Dick D'Angelo – Swing Gang ("The Schizoid Man")
• Monty de Graff – Editorial Department ("The Outrageous Okona")
• A. Conan Doyle – Character writer ("Elementary, Dear Data")
• Syd Dutton – Matte Artist ("Unnatural Selection", "Q Who")
• Epstein – Special Effects Technician ("The Schizoid Man")
• Brian Faul – DGA Trainee ("Samaritan Snare")
• Alfred T. Ferrante – ADR/Foley Mixer ("Time Squared" – "Shades of Gray")
• Sharyl Fickas – Production Assistant ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Marian Fife – Studio Teacher ("The Schizoid Man")
• Wilbur Finks – Swing Gang ("The Schizoid Man")
• David Fisher – Costume illustrator: Borg ("Q Who")
• Hala Gabriel – Production Accountant
• Adam Glick – Lamp Operator ("The Schizoid Man")
• David Heilman – Model Maker ("Q Who")
• Dennis Hoerter – Motion Control Technician ("The Child" – "Shades of Gray")
• Merri D. Howard – First Assistant Director ("The Schizoid Man")
• Gary Hutzel – Visual Effects Coordinator ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Nancy J. Hvasta Leonardi – Makeup Artist ("The Child" – "Shades of Gray")
• Martin Jedlicka – DGA Trainee ("The Schizoid Man")
• Gregory Jein – Model Maker ("The Child" – "Shades of Gray")
• Heidi Julian – Production Assistant ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Alan Kaminsky – Driver Generator Operator ("The Child" – "Elementary, Dear Data")
• Stan Kellam – Visual Effects Editor: The Post Group
• Jon Koslowsky – Editorial Department ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Gere LaDue – Second Assistant Director ("The Schizoid Man")
• Stephen Lebed – Model Maker ("A Matter Of Honor")
• Scott Leva – Stunt Coordinator ("Unnatural Selection")
• David Le Vey – Costume illustrator: Borg ("Q Who")
• Scott Luhrsen – Camera and Electrical Department ("Samaritan Snare")
• Greg Luntzel – Second Assistant Camera Operator ("The Schizoid Man")
• Jill MacKay – Jewelry Designer
• Dennis Madalone – Stunt Coordinator ("A Matter Of Honor")
• Terri Martinez – Production Assistant ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Gary Maynard – Special Effects Technician: Image "G"
• McKane – Lamp Operator ("The Schizoid Man")
• Robert J. Metoyer – Second Assistant Director ("The Schizoid Man")
• Ronald B. Moore – Visual Effects Coordinator ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Richard L. Morrison – Re-Recording Mixer ("Q Who")
• Peter W. Moyer – Visual Effects Editor: The Post Group ("Q Who")
• John Nesterowicz – Craft Service ("The Schizoid Man")
• Ernie Over – Assistant to Gene Roddenberry ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Lowell Peterson – Camera Operator ("The Child" – "Shades of Gray")
• Steve Price – Visual Effects Animator/Quantel Harry Artist: The Post Group ("The Dauphin", "Q Who")
• Ed Reilly – Assistant Chief Lighting Technician ("The Schizoid Man")
• Malcolm "Mel" Rennings – Mike Operator ("The Schizoid Man")
• Gene Rizzardi – Model Maker ("Q Who")
• Charlie Russo – Assistant Property Master ("The Schizoid Man")
• Stewart Satterfield – Transportation Coordinator ("The Schizoid Man")
• Schiavone – Extra Grip ("The Schizoid Man")
• Michael Schoenbrun – Production Staff ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Fernando Sepulveda – Swing Gang ("The Schizoid Man")
• Charmaine Nash Simmons – Set Costumer ("The Schizoid Man")
• Nova Spivack – Production Assistant
• Eric Stillwell – Production Assistant ("The Child" – "Shades of Gray")
• Greg R. Stone – Special Effects Technician ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona", "The Schizoid Man", "A Matter of Honor", "The Dauphin", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")
• George Stuart, Jr. – Painter ("The Schizoid Man")
• David Takemura – Visual Effects Associate ("The Outrageous Okona")
• Kimberley J. Thompson – Costumer ("The Schizoid Man")
• Wil Thoms – Special Effects Technician ("The Schizoid Man")
• Guy Tsujimoto – Sound Editor ("Q Who")
• Guy Vardaman – Research Consultant ("The Schizoid Man" – "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor" – "Shades of Gray")
• Elaina M. Vescio – Set Security ("The Schizoid Man")
• Jana Wallace – Secretary to Gene Roddenberry /Script typist
• L.Z. Ward – Set Security
• Wedow – Second Grip ("The Schizoid Man")
• Dana White – Pre-Production Associate/Art Department Associate
• Jack White – Extra Grip ("The Schizoid Man")
• Murphy Wiltz – Lamp Operator ("The Schizoid Man")
• Unknown – Stunt Coordinator ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Schizoid Man", "The Dauphin" – "Samaritan Snare", "The Emissary")

Production companies [ ]

• Central Casting – Extras Casting
• Starlight Effects – Production company created the Borg cube ("Q Who")

Remastered crew [ ]

• Jayme Wing – Digital Compositor ("The Emissary", "Peak Performance", "Shades of Gray")

See also [ ]

• TNG Season 2 performers
• TNG Season 2 UK VHS
• TNG Season 2 US VHS
• TNG Season 2 DVD
• TNG Season 2 Blu-ray

External links [ ]

• Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2 at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• The Next Generation Season 2 episode reviews  at Ex Astris Scientia
• 1 Daniels (Crewman)

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Showrunner Explains Why They Reopened A TNG Mystery To Start Season 5

| April 6, 2024 | By: Anthony Pascale 64 comments so far

The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery debuted on Thursday with two episodes that dove into the season’s big story, linking directly back to Star Trek: The Next Generation . TrekMovie spoke to co-showrunner Michelle Paradise about why they got to the big mystery right away. The executive producer also talked about how this TNG episode helps build on the season’s themes and gives it a structure.

SPOILERS WARNING

Not waiting to open up the mystery box

In previous seasons Star Trek: Discovery has tended to draw out big mysteries, such as the source of “The Burn” in season 3 or who was behind the DMA in season 4. But as part of the stated plan to pivot the show with a new sense of adventure in season 5, the producers chose to make a big reveal in episode 1. They even seemed to be hanging a lantern on the show’s previous penchant for “mystery box” storytelling by making the McGuffin in the season premiere a literal puzzle box, which was opened about halfway through the episode by an eccentric old Soong-type android named Fred.

Speaking to TrekMovie at the SXSW premiere of season 5, Michelle Paradise explained why they didn’t wait to open that puzzle box:

“Because we’re sending our heroes on a quest this season, we wanted to make sure that by the end of the first episode the audience understood exactly what that question was, exactly what our heroes were after, exactly what we were going to be following. There are of course, some other mysteries to solve and some cards to turn over as we go into the next few episodes. But it was really important to just be upfront—this this is what we’re doing with this season, and we have our audience go along for the ride.”

Fred opens up the Romulan puzzle box in “Red Directive”

Return to “The Chase”

The box contained the diary of a 24th-century Romulan scientist called Vellek, giving a name to what was a background character in the season 6 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “ The Chase .” By the end of “Red Directive,” Kovich put all the pieces together, revealing the quest for this season: to discover the source of the power of the ancient beings who revealed themselves (via an ancient recording) to Captain Jean-Luc Picard and representatives from other species.

In “Red Directive,” Kovich briefs Captain Burnham with a shot from “The Chase”

At SXSW, Paradise talked about why this TNG episode from 1993 was a perfect fit for their plans for season 5:

“‘The Chase’ is an episode that had stuck with many of us because it addresses such huge ideas and huge themes. Where do we come from? The creation of life. And then it was this one episode, and then then that was it. And then they had another episode after that. And it just felt like that was something that just left us with many, many questions. What happened after that? What if? And so when we were thinking about this season in particular, and what we were going to be doing thematically and our characters looking at questions of meaning questions of purpose, it felt like that was a really great place to go back to as a launching point for this adventure, and that it was thematically resonant.”

Star Trek: The Next Generation was designed to be episodic, so naturally, the show did move on to other stories. But introducing the notion that a single race (the Progenitors) seeded the galaxy with what became sentient humanoid life like Humans, Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, and beyond is quite intriguing. The Progenitors were explored in the (non-canon) extended Star Trek Universe, but now Discovery is picking up the story and using it as the basis for the fifth and final season.

In “Under the Twin Moons,” Captain Burnham views a Progenitor from “The Chase”

“The Chase” is the starting point

At the WonderCon early screening of the season premiere, Paradise talked about how they have been thinking about the Progenitors for a while:

“We had been talking about the Progenitors, actually, in season 4, and it wasn’t something that ended up playing out. But the episode ‘The Chase’ is an episode that had stuck with many of us because it explores such big ideas and big themes and yet at the end of the episode, they’re just done and they’re going to go on another mission. And it was it was something that felt like it was something that we could expand on when we were coming into this season… it felt like just a really interesting place to explore for the missions themselves. It felt very rich, this idea of life itself and meaning and using that as a starting point for this adventure.”

In “Red Directive,” Kovich identifies Dr. Vellek from “The Chase”

So “The Chase” is on again. This time Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery are racing against former couriers Moll and L’ak who could be looking to sell the Progenitor technology to the highest bidder. The first two episodes already name-dropped some potential threats to the Federation, including the Breen, the Tholians, and the Orions.

A 24th-century recording of Dr. Vellek restarts “The Chase” in Discovery season 5

The fifth and final season of  Discovery  debuted with two episodes on Thursday, April 4 exclusively on  Paramount+  in the U.S., the UK, Switzerland, South Korea, Latin America, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, and Austria.  Discovery  will also premiere on April 4 on Paramount+ in Canada and will be broadcast on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel in Canada. The rest of the 10-episode final season will be available to stream weekly on Thursdays. Season 5 debuts on SkyShowtime in select European countries on April 5.

Keep up with news about the  Star Trek Universe at TrekMovie.com .

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So I hope this will be a fun chat about what all of this season will end up being!

So far… This seems like it’s going to be the “fetch quest” of Rise of Skywalker used as filler for multiple episodes.

Beyond that, there’s two things about this that make little sense.

1) What is the value/threat of this tech? The Dominion had the ability to create entire species genetically engineered to act as their servants while hardcorded to serve specific functions and a tendency towards obedience because of an ingrained belief the Changelings were living gods.The Ancient Humanoids seeded worlds over huge timescales to produce humanoid species (unless we’re going to retcon TNG’s “The Chase”).

2) The implication from Kovich is this information has been classified for centuries under a “Red Directive” and wasn’t released to the public. I just CANNOT see Picard going along with a coverup of this entire thing. The same guy that berated Wesley for how wearing a Starfleet uniform means a commitment to personal truth and scientific truth went along with a coverup that hid the origin of humanoid life? That just doesn’t seem consistent with Picard’s character or feel like it jives with everything we’ve been shown pre- Discovery .

I made a similar argument about the Genesis device from Khan. In that case tho, the device could create entire new worlds and life, but no one ever said anything about sentient beings.

As for the Founders, well, maybe they did have the tech but they were lost over time as well. I know everyone hates me pointing this out, but Salome Jens played both the OG Progenitor as well as the female changeling. And both had the same makeup. It’s quickly becoming my head canon that the founders are the descendants of the Progenitors.

Picard has flat out lied to Moriarty, his ethics definitely can float as circumstances dictate.

I wonder if this was as much inspired by the engineer race in prometheus as by the progenitors, just minus the former’s malevolent jerkfulness.

Did Picard really lie? When Barkaly brought Moriarty back he said that the Federations best minds were working on a way to free him but had not solved anything. What else was he supposed to do?

He said holo matter couldn’t leave the holodeck, yet the note Data took him was holo-matter and it left the deck.

That sounds more like a mistake with the writing staff than it does Picard’s issue. Even the Doctor from Voyager had the same issue without his emitter. So that would have to mean that Janeway and B’elanna and everyone else was lying too.

The director of the episode, Rob Bowman, was on record in CINEFANTASTIQUE over this, kinda freaking out over Picard lying while also admitting that Moriarty is the baddest MF in space.

Hmmm, interesting, ,

you can assume that inanimate matter made on the holodeck is no different than replicated meals or food or other physical stuff. you can take it with you. it’s just the people that cant leave. if you were shot on the holodeck with the safety off, the bullet is still there when you get to sickbay. the arch would act as a replicator

I’m not sure that is true tho. If you get shot on the holodeck, the bullet hole would still be there but have we ever seen an instance where the actual bullet was?

You make an excellent point about replicators vs holodecks. And I can’t think of a reason to refute it except to say those are just the laws of treknology and their canon is canon.

I didn’t realize the arch did anything except function as a control panel and EXIT signpost.

I think the TNG writer’s guide that had all the tech stuff in it (around season 4 anyway, which is when I got one) denoted a difference between the levels of resolution (reality?) on replifood versus holomatter. I won’t swear to that, but wherever I came by the info, it actually wound up influencing one of my pitches rather heavily, called THE HOLLOW MEN, where a principal in the origin of the holodeck comes aboard and almost does some serious damage when he decides to intercede in a PD situation and send down a mobilized repli-army to stop the fighting. (Best of intentions and all that, but we know from TOS how that usually works out.)

It doesn’t sound like much (and out of the stories I pitched, I think it was next to last), but it did have a runner/c-plot — the only thing in my pitches Jeri Taylor liked as I recall — about Picard trying to get off the ship to avoid a birthday party. I remember the holo-army looked kind of like Easter Island faces, and that at the end there’s supposed to be an intentionally humorous moment when they are reprogrammed to sing ‘happy birthday’ to the captain, which I thought would look scarily funny, sort of like Max-Headroom-gone-Kabuki.

I’ve always thought this was how holodecks worked as well. Anything you could feel, touch, and taste was replicated matter (animated by tractor beams like marionettes in the case of “living” things,) while everything out of reach was a hologram.

Otherwise… could you imagine going on a holodeck, gorging yourself on a meal (and how would a hologram project taste into your closed mouth?) and then leaving only to have the holographic meal “disappear” from your stomach the moment you walked out?

I’m just picturing all the eating disorders people would have in the future!

Why would you assume Picard knew? Just because he is pivotal to the episode of the Chase. It sounds like Intelligence found that the Romulans had found something more. If so why on Earth would we assume Picard had any knowledge whatsoever about it.

I interpreted the coverup not to be of the origins of life, but that the power source had been identified. There’s no on-screen evidence that Picard knew of that, or participated in any sort of cover-up.

I 100% loved the episode. Super excited about the season. Poor Fred!!!!!

LOL Fred should have chosen to take after Data instead of Lore :-P

A lot of people think they will find a way to bring Fred back. I hope so.

And it’s the 32nd century it can’t be that hard lol.

A thought about Coppelius androids….aren’t they conceived as twins?

To be honest, I find the first two Discovery episodes to be pretty decent–neither bad nor great–but fun, IMHO. More power to those who loved them more than I do, yet more power to those who were like “Curse that junk! I’m sticking with Star Trek classics from 1966 to 2005.” I’m still more hyped about season two of Prodigy, but I’m ready to see how things do with the Discovery heroes.

I think that’s a fair assessment. People do seem to be liking the season overall but I seen plenty of people who still think it’s just more of the same from Discovery and wasn’t impressed at all.

I am currently in the former camp and I see a lot of potential here. But yes of it just falls into more melodrama, filler episodes or something lame like someone wearing a Section 31 time travel suit or a crying Kelpian kid causing the Burn then I will be deeply disappointed… again.

But I do think the premise has intrigued most people at least.

And I’m more excited for Prodigy as well!

I think this was a brilliant idea to do. The Chase was always one of those stories they could’ve done much more with but the nature of the show made it difficult.

And that’s the crazy thing about Star Trek, it really does go for these grand ideas but because they are encountering so many of them it really does feel like just another day at the office. Everyone goes ‘wow cool, OK, let’s send the report to Starfleet we just uncovered the origins of humanoid life in the galaxy but we’re late for the Cetis III conference to discuss agriculture trade and I hear they are passing out T-shirts for everyone who attends. Step on it Mr. Data we don’t want to miss out.”

Now is it just more nostalgia bait and a way to get more TNG fans onboard, of course; but I don’t look at it as a negative the way I do as yet another version of TWOK the movies constantly do. This is as Trek as you can get and a great reminder why we love this franchise so much to tackle big themes like this.

So I am generally excited and really did like the first two episodes. But same time I been here basically every season with this show and it always shows a lot of promise in the beginning just to fall flat by the end. I’m really really hoping this sticks to landing this time since this is the last time they can get it right.

We’ll see.

The t-shirt at Cetis III joke had me laughing out loud! It truly described how TNG approached stories. So thanks for that!

I do like the creative decision to expand on the concept rather than try to remake it. It’s helping keep the story fresh. Although, I will say I haven’t seen any big discussions about the tech. We know the Federation classified it as a red directive, but the main characters haven’t actually discussed the implications of it. Then again, there are quite a few episodes left to go, so maybe this will pop up in the future.

Lol you’re welcome! But yes true.

And yeah I like that it feels more like a sequel, just one set 800 years later lol. That’s what makes Star Trek unique and these stories can be revisited literally centuries later like the MU episodes on DS9 or the Borg showing up in Enterprise.

It is odd no one has bothered to tell us what a Red Directive even means..I guess they will explain it eventually but I’m guessing it’s tech related and obviously dangerous.

Truth be told I think every trek that came after TOS was a bit of nostalgia bait. But there is nothing wrong with that. People care about nostalgia for a reason because we are finite and like being reminded me have ties to our past and it isn’t gone if we remember it (Just IMHO)

True but I do agree NuTrek probably does it a bit TOO much at times but we’ve had that discussion more times to count.

I don’t mind it as long as it fits into the story well and not feel too shoe horned like other stories in the past .

Yeah that’s true too. TBH I don’t think this is just a Trek problem but a problem in all of Hollywood. Heck, even beyond Hollywood in business.

Discovery relies too much on its past.

Star Trek 14 can’t get made because, let’s be real here, they tried something new and after 3 movies it failed and they have no clue what to do next except rehash the past.

I could say the same of the Law and Order franchise (welcome back Stabler) or the now cancelled Quantum Leap show (OMGOMGOMG when is Bakula coming back!) or pretty much anything else I can think of.

Beyond even Hollywood, when was the last time we had a revolutionary new invention like the iPhone that changed the world.

Frankly those that are the creatives of the world, whether they be inventors or writers, have just become complacent. It’s sad but IMHO that’s where we are.

Oh yeah I have said this myself many times, it’s not a Star Trek issue but a Hollywood franchise issue. Everyone seems to know this but the complaints about legacy characters and appeasing old fans continues. But Kurtzman made it clear in that recently Vanity Fair article, they know Trek needs new fans to grow also know turning their back on the old fans would be detrimental to say the least.

And while I don’t think the Kelvin movies did that and really did try to appeal to old fans (with mixed results) they also proved it’s just not easy to get new fans invested on a deeper level or those movies should’ve been bigger hits and seen with a wider lens but I digress.

As for the shows my guess is the fan service aspect will probably never go away for one simple reason and every time they do it, the response is usually beyond positive and always met with great fanfare. Look at Discovery season 2. SNW and Picard season 3. Picard in general had huge fanfare just having Picard himself back but marred by the first two seasons.

As long as fans keep reacting positively to it why would they stop? It’s exactly why I’m 100% confident a Legacy show will eventually happen because it’s everything they know the fan base wants.

Yeah it sucks Quantum Leap got cancelled but I bet if Bakula returnned even just in a smaller guest star role the ratings would’ve been so much higher. I think his absence really felt too much of a hole for a lot of older fans to accept. Just proves the point again and again.

Yuppers about everything you said. Don’t get me wrong, I would like a Legacy show myself because I don’t think nostalgia is a bad thing. The problem is when you have to ONLY rely on nostalgia and the past to ironically try to move forward you are spinning your wheels. If we need the old to keep some people remembering their childhoods so be it but we can’t be stuck there. We have to move forward.

And ya about Quantum I would bet anything if Bakula was even remotely interested in returning we’d get a season 3. But if you look across the net and such SO MANY people are like when is Sam coming back and everyone else keeps saying stop asking Scott already said no and IMHO it just created negative attention and hurt ratings.

Bakula’s involvement wouldn’t change the ratings. i mean , he was NEVER going to be the lead again. \

Perhaps but if the old fans who never ended up tuning in did so because he was going to be there it might have given them a chance to like the show.

I don’t know if I completely agree with that. I’m certain interest would’ve spiked higher if he was announced to show up this season even in just a guest star role. For most QL fans, Bakula is the show even if they liked the new cast.

But that said I still don’t know if the ratings would’ve been high enough to save the show so you may have still been right in the end.

I’m waiting until the end of the season to decide whether to watch it or not. I find that your views on Discovery usually mirror mine, so will be following your reviews as a metric to decide whether it is worth a 10 hour investment.

Wow I appreciate that! 😊

HOPEFULLY you’ll be reading a lot more positive reviews from me through the finale. But if it ends up going south I won’t sugarcoat it either.

But honestly I wish I had your will power. And before we heard the show was cancelled I did consider just waiting to binge this season too. I probably would’ve just watched it though especially with no new Trek on for this long now.

Normally I would do the same but there has been too much of a breadth of Trek lately and I will take what I can get. Having said that I am enjoying what I have seen thus far.

Well, I was pleasantly surprised in the best way possible by the end of season four, I don’t trust this production team in this writing staff to handle philosophical big issues in a meaningful or resonant way.

The quotes here are so generic. Big ideas, huge themes… could you say something more specific? Something more intriguing?

The Chase is on of my favorite episodes of TNG. I’m not sure it was crying out for a sequel.

I love the idea of a treasure hunt with deep philosophical ideas. But I’m afraid it will be more philosophmorical

Agreed! Not every good idea needs a sequel, let alone a reboot, reimagining, or remake.

Honestly I haven’t seen yet how this season is a reboot, reimagine or remake but simply a continuance. If they undo cannon in some way then, hey, I am the first one to always call that out. But the best continuances in history (Wrath of Khan, Emipre) prove that the ideas work.

I mistyped. Apologies. I meant to include “sequelized” but forgot.

All of my old man on a porch griping aside, I’m curious where they’re going with this, hoping beyond all hope they don’t tie it into the Dominion.

I don’t think the dominion will be involved but my thoughts (which are always wrong) are that this will somehow bring them back to the 23rd century and reset the Temporal Cold War and this version of the 32nd century, burn included.

Hmmmmm…..

“The Chase” is one of those TNG stories that really should have been set aside for a feature film. I can understand that at the time of “Yesterday’s Enterprise” they weren’t thinking that far ahead, but by the time of “The Chase” (and “Relics” ) they should have realized it had big screen potential. The origin of all humanoid life in the galaxy, you don’t get much bigger than that!

Totally. A story that epic in scope deserved to be explored and I am happy DISCO is doing it, as long as they do not screw it up.

I’m with the Klingon. “That’s it?!”

If she weren’t already dead, I would kill her.

That guy was a lot of fun.

I think TPTB realized it had potential as a feature, or at the very least a season-ender, but they were totally strapped for shootable scripts and had to put it into the pipeline immediately. That’s how it was reported in CINEFANTASTIQUE volume 24 issue 3/4 anyway.

Re Yesterdays Enterprise as a feature , they could’ve simply used a similar scenario but reversed the ships for ‘Generations’ and had the Ent D going back in time to the 23rd Century encountering the Ent A .Basically ‘Tomorrow’s Enterprise’ with the two casts (the ToS films frequently pillaged episodes for plots TMP, TVH, TFF, so it’d have been no different), but ZOMG how could they ever afford them all?! Both casts on screen, at the same time?! Why it would cost BILLIONS! Shatner & Nimoys favored nation clause alone for them to share the screen with Stewart/Spiner would surely eat up the entire budget! And ILM’s fees to have the all important Enterprises locked in combat (to go on the 27×40 one sheet ) would be so astronomical it’d cause Rick Berman to fall out of his chair with a heart attack!

The Star Trek: Generations budget was $35 million and that included two Enterprises (B and D.) They tried to get Nimoy but he didn’t like the script and said no. Yesterday was a much, much stronger story. Add a few million more for the rest of the TOS cast and proceed. Star Trek: Yesterday’s Enterprise coming to theaters, June 1995. Box Office goodness!

Certainly, it’s a legit move. Very happy to see they’re picked this thread up again. In TNG, they basically found the ultimate key to the question of our existence and never bothered to stick it in the lock.

The Chase was Star Trek V done right. Picard found the actual God that created life in the universe. Not through divine abilities, but through actual science.

Now, how do the Progenitors link with the origin of life on Earth as seen in All Good Things and, for that matter, WHERE were they when Q took Picard to the moment life was first created on Earth? Were they watching from orbit in their ship or something?

I think in episode 2 there has been some loose language thrown around about “the creators of all life” or something similar. But that is not what The Chase established. Note the words of the hologram of the Ur-humanoid (not then called “Progenitor”) in The Chase:

Our scientists seeded the primordial oceans of many worlds, where life was in its infancy. These seed codes directed your evolution toward a physical form resembling ours — this body you see before you.

This is consistent with Q’s messing around with the primordial “goop” in All Good Things.

As others have observed, no mention was made in The Chase about some sort of mind-boggling, let alone destructive, technology the Progenitors possessed, though presumably they were extremely advanced having a million-year-head start and being able to do what they claimed to have done. We’ll see how this develops as the season unfolds.

I hope they link it all up.

Agree totally!

FINGERS CROSSED!

This is what I alluded to elsewhere in the thread when I mentioned PROMETHEUS, where you see an actual seeding of the oceans with DNA and whatever other genetic stew.

Of course, also known as “The Preservers” in The Paradise Syndrome. I am Kirok!

I kept thinking that progenitors were probably Sargon’s people (who I guess could also be the preservers, now that I think about it again.) Sargon’s backstory with them coming to believe they were gods and it being their undoing would have dovetailed better with the potentially destructive technology of this new storyline, plus it could have paid off as being more related to intellect and emotion than to gadgetry (or that it was a consciousness-emboldening gadget a la FORBIDDEN PLANET, which kind of gets me excited further thinking about it.)

Actually, finding some other consciousness-in-a-ball containing one of The Sargon Bunch could be the basis for something cool in a new series. Though I don’t think current acting styles would allow for the spirited debate about sharing consciousness the way TOS’ ‘risk is our business’ does, which is a way I initially found cringe-worthy but grew to admire — in spite of the melodramatic excess of both performance and underscore — as a different but equally valid form of Pure Kirk, which I typically think of as s1 understated, like CHARLIE X and BALANCE OF TERROR.

That’s an interesting idea. You’ll recall that Sargon kept calling the Enterprise folks “my children” or “my child.” — But then so did Apollo, I think :-)

But it was definitely not because they were short for other ideas.

The whole thing about WHEN to open up the mystery box is really a biggie with Trek. It’s the suspense vs. surprise thing that Bennett talks about in THE MAKING OF STAR TREK II book by Allan Asherman (or maybe it is the same author’s THE STAR TREK INTERVIEW BOOK.)

I mean, before TMP became TMP, when it was the IN THY IMAGE tv pilot, they figure out what vger is just past the midpoint in the film (which to me works better and avoids the letdown, which was voiced by a disappointed friend of mine in the theater opening day as ‘it’s a dish .’)

Bennett was right to push the ‘search for God’ aspect of TFF back to the end of act 2, because otherwise it is unsustainable.

It might be that the ideal way to reveal stuff is in TWOK, because you hear about Genesis off&on, get hints about what it does and potential badassedness of it, and then find out about it fully right before the first big shootout, which puts it and everything at risk, and then leads to his getting hold of it. And then you actually get a payoff where it is deployed rather than just serve as a macguffin.

I actually like the idea of opening the box early on this season of the series (though I doubt I’ll watch it, been too disappointed to even watch s3 and 4 at all outside of a couple youtube clips), because then it gives you time to get a sense of wonder about possibilities inherent (sort of like the middle part of THE CHASE, when there’s an overwhelming sense of intellectual excitement being voiced.)

So now they follow up on The Progenitors. I was genuine surprised about that.

I don’t have a problem Discovery picking up the plot thread from The Chase. It’s not a bad idea at all.

I wonder what they will do with it? Is there going to be any amazing revelation or will the technology or whatever just be destroyed at the end?

For what it’s worth, I really enjoyed the season 4 ending. I felt like they stuck the landing there, whereas the Burn ending for season 3 just failed.

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When the planet of Delta IV is attacked, the citizens find themselves converted into both Borg and Cybermen. Meanwhile, the TARDIS crew, which at this time consists of the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory , materializes in what they think is 1940s San Franciso but, in reality, is the Holodeck of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's  Enterprise .

The crew of the Enterprise initially mistakes the time travelers for rogue computer elements but are shocked to discover their true nature. The Doctor is next to be shocked when he realizes he knows what a Klingon is -- because he knows he shouldn't. Captain Picard is skeptical of the strangers, however his concerns are eased by Deanna Troi who senses no ill intent from them. However, these introductions are interrupted when they get the news of Delta IV and both the Doctor and Picard recognize their respective adversaries.

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As the Enterprise crew search for any information on the Cybermen, the Doctor experiences a memory he shouldn't have. The art style changes as the focus switch to the adventures of James T. Kirk and the original Enterprise. They meet the Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker , and encounter the 1970s-style Cybermen. The Eleventh Doctor remembers this adventure but also remembers not remembering it.

When Picard takes the Doctor to meet Guinan, the two recognize each other, although both know they shouldn't. Picard seems confused but they explain how they are both time-sensitive beings, meaning they can sense that elements of this universe are being altered by elements of the Doctor's and the imminent danger that presents.

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The Doctor, Amy and Rory, along with an Enterprise strike force, take the TARDIS to the heart of the Cybermen fleet before they can fully convert the Borg Homeworld. Worf's team manages to disable the engines, allowing the Enterprise to catch up and disable the Cybermen with a gold-infused particle beam.

Conduit tries to assimilate the TARDIS, but the heart of the TARDIS retreats into Data and immobilizes Conduit. Worf and Rory throw Conduit into the time vortex , ending their troubles with assimilation. After the smoke from their adventures clears, the Doctor, Amy and Rory leave the Enterprise,  returning to their own universe.

Whilst the series showed how similar the Cybermen and Borg were, it made clear that two races both dedicated to faceless assimilation will still disagree on how that assimilation should play out. Both the Enterprise and the Doctor put an emphasis on exploring strange new worlds, Picard's stance in the crossover also highlighted the military leanings of Starfleet, which contrast sharply to the Doctor's philosophy.  Still, this crossover ultimately underscores how similar these two universes are by putting some of the most beloved incarnations of their characters together for the first time.

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Doctor Beverly Crusher : If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe there's something wrong with the universe.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : What is the primary mission of the Starship Enterprise?

Computer : To explore the galaxy.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Do I have the necessary skills to complete that mission alone?

Computer : Negative.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Then why am I the only crew member?

[the computer makes error-sounds] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Aha. Got you there.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : I'd like Lieutenant Worf to program on-board sensors to monitor all personnel. If we can catch the mom...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I'm sorry - whom did you say?

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Worf. Chief of Security. - The big guy who never smiles?

[everyone looks at her blankly] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : The Klingon!

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Starbase 133, this is the Enterprise... Starbase 133, this is the Enterprise. Please acknowledge... Viewscreen on.

[viewscreen activates, but shows only a field of bluish mist instead of stars] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : It's not just people. *Everything* is disappearing. Computer, what is that mist I'm seeing?

Computer : Sensors indicate it to be a mass-energy field 705 meters in diameter.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : It surrounds the ship?

Computer : Affirmative.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe there's something wrong with the universe. Computer, what is beyond the mass-energy field?

Computer : Sensors cannot penetrate the field.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Here's a question you shouldn't be able to answer. Computer, what is the nature of the universe?

Computer : The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Computer, read the entire crew roster for the Enterprise.

Computer : Dr. Beverly Crusher.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Have I always been the only member of the crew of the Starship Enterprise?

Doctor Beverly Crusher : If this was a bad dream, would you tell me?

Computer : That is not a valid question.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Like hell it's not.

[continues down the corridor, looking into every room she passes] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : What date did I report on board?

Computer : Stardate 41154. Fourteen hundred hours, three minutes.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : That sounds about right. Computer, is there more than one USS Enterprise?

Computer : This vessel is the fifth starship to bear the name USS Enterprise. It is currently the only one in service.

[computer makes error sounds] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : [trying to remind Picard of his 'former' staff]  Will Riker, your First Officer! He's... he's *very* good at playing poker, loves to cook; he-he listens to jazz music, plays the trombone. -... - Commander Data, the android who sits at Ops. *Dreams* of being human. Never gets the punch line of a joke. -... - Deanna Troi, your ship's counselor, half-Betazoid, loves chocolate; the arrival of her mother makes you shudder. O'Brien, Geordi, Worf. Wesley, my son! They all have been the living, breathing heart of this crew for over three years! They deserve more than to be shrugged off... brushed aside, just pinched out of existence like that. They all do. They deserve so much more.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : They're all gone? Riker, Troi, Data? Wait a minute - let me guess: you never heard of any of them.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : I didn't just conjure up one of my best friends from a test tube.

[a little later] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Are all the members of the crew accounted for?

Lt. Commander Data : Yes, Doctor.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : How many are there?

Lt. Commander Data : There are 114 people on the Enterprise.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : I've delivered babies that no longer exist. No one else remembers them. Yet I can close my eyes and see their faces clearly as I see yours now.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : I'm sorry I lost my temper. You do remember that?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Vividly. But if I have forgotten my closest friends and comrades, as you say, then I deserved every word.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : I won't forget. I won't forget any of you.

[last lines] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Jean-Luc, if I might ask, how many people are there on board?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : 1,014 - including your guest, Dr. Quaice.

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Is there something wrong with that count, Doctor?

Doctor Beverly Crusher : [relieved]  No. That's the exact number there should be.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Click my heels together three times and I'm back in Kansas - can it be that simple?

[Dr. Crusher asks O'Brien if he doesn't remember beaming her friend Dr. Quaice on board] 

Chief Miles O'Brien : I'm sorry. I-I remember you being here for a short while. But you were alone.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : [dumbfounded]  W-wa... was he invisible? Did I carry on a conversation with thin air?

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Deanna - I need you to tell me if I've gone completely mad.

Counselor Deanna Troi : If you can ask the question, I'd say no.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Don't evade the question.

Counselor Deanna Troi : Well, then ask me one I can answer.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Sickbay is totally empty. Apparently I no longer have any staff.

Commander William T. Riker : And that surprises you, Doctor?

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Surprises me? I'll say it surprises me. There should be at least four members of my staff on duty at all times!

Lt. Commander Data : I am afraid ship's records do not concur, Doctor.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : What are you talking about?

Lt. Commander Data : You do not have a staff.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : You're telling me I'm the sole medical officer on a ship with over a thousand people on board?

Lt. Commander Data : Excuse me, Doctor, but the entire ship's complement is 230.

[the bridge shakes briefly and Beverly hears a distant explosion] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Computer, what's happening?

Computer : Explosive decompression decks 5 through 14. Sealing off forward sections.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Cause?

Computer : A flaw in the ship's design.

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Show me.

[the computer displays a diagram of the Enterprise with the front of the saucer section missing] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : Analysis?

Computer : No ship's structures exist forward of bulkhead 342.

[first lines] 

Doctor Beverly Crusher : [voiceover]  Chief Medical Officer's log, stardate 44161.2. We are docking at Starbase 133 for scheduled crew rotation. I look forward to welcoming aboard my mentor and dear friend, Doctor Dalen Quaice, who will be travelling with us to his home planet, Kenda 2.

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• Star Trek Series | 2364 - 2378
• Star Trek: The Next Generation

How would you change or Re-Write TNG?

• Thread starter CarnelianClout
• Start date Jul 16, 2022

CarnelianClout

Lieutenant commander.

• Jul 16, 2022

Rear Admiral

Unlike some other Treks, I feel like TNG had their shit together. I'd just make adjustments to specific episodes, like a different director for Code of Honor, a less draconian interpretation of the prime directive in Pen Pals and especially Homeward, Picard not being like "Why'd you save these losers?!?" in Neutral Zone...  

THE CHARACTERS: I'd probably would have had Worf as chief of security from the start, Yar as chief engineer, and Data officially as science officer (since he was basically serving in that role unofficially anyway). Troi would be the chief contact officer and would lead all away teams that aren't of a tactical nature (that'd still be Riker's gig). Yar would still die in season one, but it would be during an incident on the Enterprise where she sacrificed herself to save the ship. LaForge would take over as acting chief engineer until he landed the position permanently at the start of season two. THE LOOK: The Starfleet uniforms would have a design pattern similar to those seen in early DS9/VOY, but would be two piece and more like today's combat fatigues. The formal uniforms would be evocative of those in TWOK, except in the early DS9/VOY pattern and minus the shoulder and sleeve straps. Tricorders would remain relatively unchanged, but phasers would be a more advanced form of those we saw in the last TOS movie and still resemble pistols. The Enterprise bridge would stay mostly the same, with the exception of the ops station, which would be redesignated sciences-1 and a little less beige overall on the set. THE STORIES: As far as the actual meat and potatoes of the series itself, there would be no further Borg stories after "Best of Both Worlds, part 2," but there would be signs of the Borg's handiwork in various subsequent episodes (ala "The Neutral Zone") and a growing fear that they're secretly planning something big. Everything else would unfold pretty much the same, including the events in "All Good Things..."  

• Jul 17, 2022

My changes More TOS-style exploration shows, especially in the later seasons I'd reintroduce something that TNG lacks to a great degree, which is the wonder and mystery of space and the feeling that there is so much more out there to discover. Fewer guest stars that take the focus away from the main crew Much less Lwaxana No ship counselor position (and even if I included a position like that, it wouldn't be a bridge position and it certainly wouldn't be a position that by simply passing a test would allow you to be in a command bridge position and outrank someone like Data) Less Q Less Borg (I also would have sent Hugh back with Geordi's virus to hopefully destroy them) The Ferengi would not have been turned into a mostly comic relief race. I think I'd also do something with The Gorn and the Tholians. Episode story ideas like Liaisons, Dark Page, Interface, Attached, Homeward, Sub Rosa, Eye of the Beholder, Bloodlines, Realm of Fear, Man of the People, True Q, Rascals, Aquiel, Lessons, Suspicions, Hero Worship, Violations, Conundrum, The Outcast, The Perfect Mate, and many others would be rejected . I know some will read what I just typed and say are you out of your mind? Maybe I am but episodes like those and others exemplify to me where TNG went wrong in the later seasons. As the series progressed it started to produce sappy dramatic stories that with a few tweaks could have been scripts written for non-sci-fi shows. To me, that's not Star Trek. I'm not saying they shouldn't have done some stories like those, just not nearly as many as they did. Even TOS had some stories in that vein but if they had replaced even half of the episodes I listed above with more space exploration stories, it would have made those seasons much better  

• Turtletrekker

I would have had more continuity between episodes and character arcs, much in the way that Strange New Worlds is currently doing it. BermaTrek was too in love with completely standalone episodes.  

I would really want to not make a lot of changes, not mess it up. I think my only changes would be having Selar appear more often, maybe have a few more recurring engineering or security officers, maybe Data starting out at a lower rank and yes having a little more continuity references, especially Worf and Data facing some more long-lasting consequences for some of their controversial decisions and actions.  

Herbert said: My changes More TOS-style exploration shows, especially in the later seasons I'd reintroduce something that TNG lacks to a great degree, which is the wonder and mystery of space and the feeling that there is so much more out there to discover. Fewer guest stars that take the focus away from the main crew Much less Lwaxana No ship counselor position (and even if I included a position like that, it wouldn't be a bridge position and it certainly wouldn't be a position that by simply passing a test would allow you to be in a command bridge position and outrank someone like Data) Less Q Less Borg (I also would have sent Hugh back with Geordi's virus to hopefully destroy them) The Ferengi would not have been turned into a mostly comic relief race. I think I'd also do something with The Gorn and the Tholians. Episode story ideas like Liaisons, Dark Page, Interface, Attached, Homeward, Sub Rosa, Eye of the Beholder, Bloodlines, Realm of Fear, Man of the People, True Q, Rascals, Aquiel, Lessons, Suspicions, Hero Worship, Violations, Conundrum, The Outcast, The Perfect Mate, and many others would be rejected . I know some will read what I just typed and say are you out of your mind? Maybe I am but episodes like those and others exemplify to me where TNG went wrong in the later seasons. As the series progressed it started to produce sappy dramatic stories that with a few tweaks could have been scripts written for non-sci-fi shows. To me, that's not Star Trek. I'm not saying they shouldn't have done some stories like those, just not nearly as many as they did. Even TOS had some stories in that vein but if they had replaced even half of the episodes I listed above with more space exploration stories, it would have made those seasons much better Click to expand...

Turtletrekker said: I would have had more continuity between episodes and character arcs, much in the way that Strange New Worlds is currently doing it. BermaTrek was too in love with completely standalone episodes. Click to expand...

WhisperingWinds said: Uniforms would look something like this although I would have more colors. Red for Command. Yellow for Engineering. Grey for Security. Blue for Science. Click to expand...

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• Jul 18, 2022

TNG definitely had its mojo in seasons 2-4. Finding the ideal style is one thing, inevitably changing it to try to keep the show as fresh is another. I'd make the roles of Yar and Worf less interchangeable. Worf is security chief and Yar be a chief geologist or botanist; maybe the latter as alien plantlife seems to be more varied than a bunch of rocks, what with recent scientific discoveries of Rover's photographic abilities proving that "Doctor Who" had it almost right all along with filming on location in quarries to show vistas of alien planet surfaces, which look more realistic than any of Trek's plastic rock sets. Avoid the "Chief Engineer Merry-Go-Round", as that role seemed to be an impressive afterthought as season 1 started filming. Replace the plastic warp core with something that doesn't look as cheap. They reused TMP sets elsewhere, why not augment the engine core prop from TMP? (It got reused, with few alterations, for VOY anyhow...) Seasons 5-7 switched gears to a revised storytelling format that often (IMHO) hasn't held up as well. Nor sure what the biggest issue was... maybe the music? I'd also opine to keep Ron Jones but to tone down the style again; later years did have his style getting louder and almost too much in a couple cases, but the complete change in incidental music to something so bland and even antithetical - as those boring scenes where big bad enemies go pew-pew on each other or when the stomp around having taken control of the ship was like a huge case of whiplash coupled with an ACME piano dropping from the sky inexplicably - remains a headscratcher to this day. So many episodes manage to lose all atmosphere by little more than the brown noise from the frog fart symphony orchestra.  

I was actually talking about this on the "contraversial opinions" thread. I would change ... absolutely everything. I really like the above uniforms, though, and could totally adapt them into my re-imagining. Basically, I would scrap the entire 24th century setting. I would put the show on board the "A", immediately after The Voyage Home. It would have all the new style TNG technology, holodecks, etc, but maintain aesthetics slightly more with the movie ship. (This whole concept started because I think its a shame we never got to see the gorgeous refit model in a weekly series.) I would keep a big chunk of the TNG characters, but would dump Picard and Crusher right away. I would bring in Pulaski right at the beginning, so no drama there, and make her a relative of McCoy's, facilitating his guest appearances and explaining some of her demeanor without being a complete retread. Shatner would be the regular Captain. He was still doing steady tv after this point, so I don't see why he couldn't still do a Trek show in '87 after Hooker ended.) Chekov and Uhura would come along as Head of Security and Second Officer. (I thought about making her XO, but I would want the Kirk/Riker conflict over who leaves the ship and what not.) I would go back to the original plan, of using Riker and Troi (Decker/Ilia.) Data would be of his original "alien" origin, and there would be running jokes of Shatner testing him with logic puzzles. Data can not figure out how Kirk keeps beating him at chess. Like V'Ger and Nomad before him, he would be on a quest for his creator. Geordi would still start out as the blind pilot, but end up as Scotty's protege, and eventual replacement. Worf would still be human-raised, and exploring his heritage as Weapons Officer. Chekov and Worf would have lots of banter about the glories of Russia vs Kronos. Wesley (Leslie?) and the families on board would add to Kirk's angst, so close to losing David and Peter Preston. The series would start with the return of Trelane, and officially make him a Q. Delancie could still play the character, with a snap of his fingers, anyways. A couple seasons in, when the Borg are introduced, they would completely be a product of the Decker/Ilia/V'Ger fusion. Ilia would be the Borg Queen. The first couple seasons would continue the conflict with the Klingons where the movies ended up, but we would be exploring the other side of the issue from Worf's point of view. Eventually, after the Borg show up, the alliance finally happens, sort of like the Kaylons causing the Krill and the Union to work together more on the Orville. Nimoy would guest star once or twice a year, and could still be working on reconciliation with the Romulans. Takei could guest as another starship's Captain. I think it would be a really fun show, and I could happily trade the entire 24th century for a little bit more time with the TOS characters, and build on the world as it was in '87, rather than forgetting the past, jumping 80 years and reinventing the wheel.  

Phoenix219 said: I was actually talking about this on the "contraversial opinions" thread. I would change ... absolutely everything. I really like the above uniforms, though, and could totally adapt them into my re-imagining. Basically, I would scrap the entire 24th century setting. I would put the show on board the "A", immediately after The Voyage Home. It would have all the new style TNG technology, holodecks, etc, but maintain aesthetics slightly more with the movie ship. (This whole concept started because I think its a shame we never got to see the gorgeous refit model in a weekly series.) I would keep a big chunk of the TNG characters, but would dump Picard and Crusher right away. I would bring in Pulaski right at the beginning, so no drama there, and make her a relative of McCoy's, facilitating his guest appearances and explaining some of her demeanor without being a complete retread. Shatner would be the regular Captain. He was still doing steady tv after this point, so I don't see why he couldn't still do a Trek show in '87 after Hooker ended.) Chekov and Uhura would come along as Head of Security and Second Officer. (I thought about making her XO, but I would want the Kirk/Riker conflict over who leaves the ship and what not.) I would go back to the original plan, of using Riker and Troi (Decker/Ilia.) Data would be of his original "alien" origin, and there would be running jokes of Shatner testing him with logic puzzles. Data can not figure out how Kirk keeps beating him at chess. Like V'Ger and Nomad before him, he would be on a quest for his creator. Geordi would still start out as the blind pilot, but end up as Scotty's protege, and eventual replacement. Worf would still be human-raised, and exploring his heritage as Weapons Officer. Chekov and Worf would have lots of banter about the glories of Russia vs Kronos. Wesley (Leslie?) and the families on board would add to Kirk's angst, so close to losing David and Peter Preston. The series would start with the return of Trelane, and officially make him a Q. Delancie could still play the character, with a snap of his fingers, anyways. A couple seasons in, when the Borg are introduced, they would completely be a product of the Decker/Ilia/V'Ger fusion. Ilia would be the Borg Queen. The first couple seasons would continue the conflict with the Klingons where the movies ended up, but we would be exploring the other side of the issue from Worf's point of view. Eventually, after the Borg show up, the alliance finally happens, sort of like the Kaylons causing the Krill and the Union to work together more on the Orville. Nimoy would guest star once or twice a year, and could still be working on reconciliation with the Romulans. Takei could guest as another starship's Captain. I think it would be a really fun show, and I could happily trade the entire 24th century for a little bit more time with the TOS characters, and build on the world as it was in '87, rather than forgetting the past, jumping 80 years and reinventing the wheel. Click to expand...

How is it not a TNG rewrite, when its based in probably 70% TNG characters and concepts, and begins the exact same time TNG started in '87? I think disconnecting itself from the entire franchise was a major disservice to TNG. I think the "D" is one of the ugliest starships ever, and the chance to get the "A" and Captain Kirk again for another few years in the late 80s / early 90s would be worth it. Who knows, maybe he stays a Borg after Season 3, and we get Riker as Captain at that point. It would have guest appearances from Spock and McCoy, and give long awaited screen time to Chekov and Uhura, and one more round with Shatner. I don't think any of the cast mixings i've suggested would be anything but pure gold. But, to each their own.  

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For start, I would remove children aboard the Enterprise. It doesn't make sense considering the Enterprise is often on dangerous missions. Besides, we wouldn't have any Worf and Alexander soap opera and episodes involving bad child actors.  

Pikirk_Janesisko said: For start, I would remove children aboard the Enterprise. It doesn't make sense considering the Enterprise is often on dangerous missions. Besides, we wouldn't have any Worf and Alexander soap opera and episodes involving bad child actors. Click to expand...

Qonundrum said: I think/believe the idea of 1701-D being a ship for families stemmed in part from military bases that families lived on? Click to expand...

I wouldn't change much...I'd just make it far less pretentious and self-important, and I'd allow it to have more fun and adventure. TNG, upon doing a full re-watch recently, is dreadfully slow and dull compared to pretty much all of the other series in the franchise. Having also done recent watch-throughs of ENT, DS9 and VOY, it sticks out even more how slow the show really is at times.  

Some of this is pretty radical, and I've already said my peace, but one thing I absolutely loved from Picard was the bridge-seats. Seat belts, people! How many years did that take? The ships shake like a damn carnival ride at least once per episode, and you have everyone standing up? Also, I think SNW went way too futuristic with their ship - don't get me wrong, I love the way it looks, just not for THAT show. But for a TNG reboot? Those large stand-up display panels make so much sense. I was just reminded of all this because I was looking at that bridge pic above (and put the toilets and double-turbolifts back!) I was just watching an old movie the other day I never saw when it came out (I don't even remember it, which is odd), called Flight of the Navigator , and while it was the usual Disney schlock-take on space (starring a kid), there was one thing that Disney got right and was a fantastic idea. When the kid complained about the captain's chair being too big for him, it changed to accommodate him (seat lifted, arm-rests came in, etc.). Why the heck don't ST seats do that? Tucker tried to build Archer the 'ultimate chair' in one episode, with all sorts of bells & whistles that sounded cool, but it never got done. Captains need cool chairs that adjust to them, especially in a universe where lots of different lifeforms could be a Federation captain! Now I have to wonder how that 3-legged dude in TAS sat in his Helmsman's chair. Oh, and if its a TNG-era reboot, more use of holdeck technology day-to-day. NO, I do not want more death-deck holodeck episodes, I am talking about the interesting ways holo-tech has been used since TNG, like with the Doctor in Voyager, and later in Picard. Hell, if you have holo-emitters all over a ship (like the experimental ship in that one episode of Voyager the Doctor visited), then you can even have Holo-chairs that do what I said above. Of course, when you lose power, that could make for some awkward problems. Still, how many times would using a holo-crewman in a dangerous situation have saved lives? Just about every episode where the warp core was about to breach? (happens at least twice a week, from what I gather LOL). In other words, I want almost NO episodes where the holodeck is a playground, and plenty of situations where that tech is used as a tool, because it certainly would be. Imagine how many times B'lanna could have used a room full of Geordi LaForge's to give her a hand?  

• Jul 20, 2022

WhisperingWinds said: For those of you who would wish to make changes or even a full Re-Write, what would you change? Click to expand...

• There would be no feature length version of "Best of Both Worlds Part 1 and 2". The best thing about "Best of Both Worlds" is the cliffhanger at the end - in the feature length version it falls completely flat as the story just rolls on and the cliffhanger is completely destroyed! It's a crime against Trek in my view, and someone should be put in the brig and made to wear one of Wesley's sweaters for a week.
• Likewise, I would make it easier to get "All Good Things" as two episodes. I don't think I've ever seen this as two episodes (is it possible to see this...? Is there any cut of this as two episodes at all...?) Since it aired as a feature length movie, this is more a matter of taste, but just as "Encounter at Farpoint" got two separate episodes for syndication, despite airing as a movie-length double, I want this for "All Good Things". If anyone knows of such a thing, please do let me know as I don't think I've ever seen it as two separate episodes and I'd love to do so.

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• The cut scene would have shown Lwaxana and Nechayev as friends, potentially affecting Admiral Nechayev's relationship with Captain Picard.
• The deleted line about Lwaxana and Nechayev's friendship could have added depth to their characters, showcasing a more relaxed side of Admiral Nechayev.

Deleted dialog from an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine would have drastically changed how viewers perceived two previously unconnected Star Trek: The Next Generation characters. As a spinoff from TNG , it was understandable that DS9 featured many crossover appearances from characters like Q (John de Lancie) and Thomas Riker (Jonathan Frakes). The addition of Michael Dorn to the cast of Deep Space Nine in season 4 further solidified the show's links to TNG and pushed the character of Lt. Commander Worf in new and interesting directions, and allowed TNG characters like Chancellor Gowron to recur.

With the exception of series regular Chief O'Brien (Colm Meaney), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine only featured Star Trek: The Next Generation characters in guest spots before Worf turned up. Two semiregular TNG guest characters were Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett) and Admiral Nechayev (Natalia Nogulich), who each appeared in a handful of episodes of DS9 . Troi and Nechayev never shared a scene , but information cut from DS9 season 3, episode 10, "Fascination", directed by Avery Brooks , would have revealed a hitherto unknown link between them.

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Star Trek: DS9 Almost Revealed TNGs Lwaxana Troi & Admiral Nechayev Were Friends

"...the sister i never had.".

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 3, episode 10, "Fascination" is the first Lwaxana Troi episode since the Federation entered into the Cold War with the Dominion. In the episode, Lwaxana is attending the Bajoran Gratitude Festival, but is really there to comfort Odo (Rene Auberjonois) after he discovered his people were the Founders of the Dominion. The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion reveals that dialog cut from the shooting script would have explained how Lwaxana came to learn about the Changelings. In the broadcast episode, Odo and Lwaxana's interaction plays out like this:

LWAXANA : Officially I'm here as the Betazoid representative to the Gratitude Festival. But the truth is, I came to see you, you poor sweet tortured man. ODO : Excuse me? LWAXANA : I know the torment you must be going through. To spend your whole life searching for your people only to discover that they're the leaders of that awful Dominion. ODO : You heard about that? LWAXANA : Odo, don't worry. I'm here to help you.

In the shooting script, however, there was a line of dialog about Lwaxana Troi having friends in high places. One of these friends was Admiral Nechayev, whom Lwaxana Troi describes as " the sister I never had. " Although it's a throwaway gag that never made it into the finished episode, the concept of Lwaxana and Nechayev being friends dramatically changes how you see Star Trek: The Next Generation 's Admiral.

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"there has been a certain amount of tension between us in the past.".

In each of her Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine appearances, Admiral Nechayev is always portrayed as a tough, no-nonsense authority figure. So much so that in Star Trek: TNG season 7, episode 20, "Journey's End", Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is desperately trying to repair their working relationship. If DS9 had revealed that Nechayev and Lwaxana Troi were "sisters" then it would shed new light on her antagonistic relationship with Captain Picard. Perhaps Admiral Nechayev is so stern with Captain Picard because of how he had previously spurned Lwaxana Troi's advances.

Despite her initial ambivalence toward him in her first Star Trek: The Next Generation appearance, Lwaxana Troi pursued Picard in "Manhunt", forcing him to take refuge in the holodeck. It's easy to imagine, therefore, that Lwaxana would recount Picard's cowardly behavior over drinks with Admiral Nechayev, coloring her opinion of the Enterprise captain as a result. In many ways, it's a shame that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine cut the line about Lwaxana and Nechayev's friendship as it reveals that, stern as she may be, TNG 's admiral clearly knows how to let her hair down.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Cast Terry Farrell, Cirroc Lofton, Rene Auberjonois, Nicole de Boer, Michael Dorn, Andrew Robinson, Nana Visitor, Avery Brooks, Colm Meaney, Armin Shimerman, Alexander Siddig

Release Date January 3, 1993

Writers Ira Steven Behr, Michael Piller, Ronald D. Moore

Showrunner Ira Steven Behr, Michael Piller

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Cast Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden

Release Date September 28, 1987

Writers Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore

Showrunner Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Rick Berman