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This episode was
originally designed to be another Geordi romance story.
Jeri Taylor recalls
"We now portray the 24th Century as being full of
single people. We lost the O'Briens and everybody else is
footloose and fancy free. It seems to me that's not the
only comment we should be making - that marriage and
serious relationships do survive into the 24th Century.
But how to tell a love story with a Sci-Fi spin on it?" |
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Keith Rocha was named by
Ron Moore for one of his high school friends. |
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The main
problem the writers had with this episode was the
"whodunit" factor, at one point considering Aquiel herself
for the role. Ron Moore recalls
"At one point we finally said 'Why not the dog?'. He
had always been in the script; we had meant to leave him
with Geordi from that time on." |
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Jeri Taylor
was very pleased with actress Renee Jones (Aquiel), but
didn't feel she fell into the Star Trek genre -
"Star Trek sometimes does to actors what it does to
writers - people who are very effective in one kind of
thing feel very exposed, so I don't think this was quite
her cup of tea." |
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Relay Station
47 was a redress of the cryogenic capsule in "The
Neutral Zone". |
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Brannon Braga
and Ron Moore's preferred title for this episode was
"Murder, My Pet!" |
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The original
closing scene had Data in Geordi's quarters commenting in
a matter of fact was that "Spot doesn't do that" when
Geordi discovers the newly chewed boots and soiled
carpets. Finally, when the dog comes over and drools on
Data's boots, Data delivers the deadpan line "Geordi, I
think I am a cat person!". |
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Jim Mees had
an ongoing grudge against the cost of producing detailed
interiors of wall consoles -
"Ron Moore and I have had a long standing running
joke. Every show he ever wrote they always ended up going
into a panel and fixing something. And I said to him 'Ron,
do you know we're not on a real ship here? Do you know
that if they pull that metal thing off there isn't
anything there? It costs money to do it, it takes time to
design these things!' So they now call them the Mees
panels, cause I've bitched and moaned so much!" |
