Episode Behind the Scenes

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Joe Menosky's warp drive environmental damage them was dropped from several stories in season six, including "Suspicions".
   
Writer Naren Shankar was somewhat disappointed with the episode after an appearance from Geordi's sister Ariana to confront his emotional denial of their mother's death was dropped - "It wasn't one of my finer moments".
   
Jeri Taylor on "Force of Nature" - "I've been on enough series and tried to do environmental issues to realise that they are so hard to dramatize, because you're talking about the ozone hole, and it's so, so hard to make it emotional and personal and give impact on that kind of level."
   
Naren Shankar on "Force of Nature" - "You oversimplify the issue, you oversimplify the solutions, and you end up with boilerplate and platitudes and nobody's happy."
   
Jeri Taylor praised Naren Shankar's attempts to deal with a 'doomed premise' - "Somewhere about Act III the story finally starts, and by that time I don't think anybody even cared."

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