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Ron Moore liked this show,
although never felt particularly close to the story -
"He wanders into the
medieval village, is befriended by the little girl, and
villagers come out and chase him with torches!" |
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Winrich Kolbe felt this episode gave him a chance to
improve on TNG's other "little girl show", season 2's "Pen
Pals" -
"I felt we had more character in there and didn't veer off
into tech talk." |
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Ron Moore on
Troi's promotion -
"The action
was an amalgam of both: if she became a bridge officer
after the test, they'd also give her the promotion." |
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A cut opening
line had Troi returning from a class reunion of the Carvin
Institute for Psychological Studies. |
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Construction
Coordinator Al Smutko recalled that the Barkon IV village
cost $104,000 to put together, although it was later
revamped for appearances in "Journey's
End", "Firstborn",
"Preemptive
Strike" and DS9's "Shadowplay". |
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Jonathan
Frakes requested that the line where he refers to Troi in
Act II as "ship's counselor" be rewritten to "Imzadi".
This would be the last time the phrase was heard in the
series. |
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Cut lines
included a mention that Troi passed her bridge test on her
fourth try and that the name "Jayden" comes from an
ancient folktale where a handsome nobleman is transformed
to an ugly frog by a demon's spell. |
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Patrick
Stewart was only given one line in this show, his briefest
appearance in the whole series, in order to allow him to
perform in the "A Christmas Carol" production in London,
England. |
