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Denise Crosby's
dissatisfaction with her role as Yar was well known with
the media of the time. Crosby preferred to bow out on
friendly terms with her colleagues, enabling her to pursue
a film career. |
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The death scene was
originally slated to occur much earlier in the episode,
with the rest of the hour focusing on Armus, and none of
the farewell scenes included, but Gene Roddenberry
overruled. |
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It was
originally planned that the away team would kill Armus in
the end, but Roddenberry thought it was not befitting of
24th Century humans to kill just for the sake of revenge. |
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Director Joe
Scanlon famously said to the special effects team "If we
don't make this monster believable, we're in deep shit". |
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A Grave-size
pit 10 feet deep had to be dug on the show's Planet Hell
set and a hydraulic lift inserted to facilitate the rising
of Armus. The black goo mix included Metamucil which
weighed so heavy on actor Mart McChesney's costume that it
disintegrated and a new one had to be constructed. |
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Marina Sirtis
began sobbing uncontrollably during the filming of Yar's
farewell scene leading to several reshoots. |
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Crosby later
regretted leaving the series, saying that if more scenes
like those between her and Worf at the start of the
episode were written, she would have stayed. Crosby later
made several reappearances through some very bizarre plot
lines. |
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During
the scene where Commander Riker is pulled into Armus' tar
pit, actor Jonathan Frakes was actually submerged in a
pool of printer's ink |