Episode Behind the Scenes

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The Data/Sarjenka relationship was to take a much deeper tone, but the producers had to limit the two actors' contact as actress Nikki Cox's orange makeup smudged so easily.
   

The outdoor horse-riding scene was filmed at a ranch near the LA suburb of Thousand Oaks.
   

The art department's love of "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" takes another twist hear where the "spectral analyser" used by the geologists is actually the "oscillation overthruster" seen in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension".

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