Episode Behind the Scenes

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Maurice Hurley put this script together in a day and a half.
   

The story was originally designed to unite the Federation and the Romulan governments against the newly found threat of the Borg.
   

The 20th Century Human subplot came from fan writers Deborah McIntyre and Mona Glee.
   

You may notice a longer than usual shot of a Female Sciences Officer in skant clothing leaving a turbolift - that's Susan Sackett, writer and Gene Roddenberry's PA since 1974.
   

The Romulan Warbird and indeed the Romulans make their first TNG appearance here.
   

The shot of both vessels hanging in space was enhanced by Robert Legato's first moving-camera effects shot which allowed two objects to move in relation to one another, instead of both remaining static.

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