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Herb Wright thought up
the ghost angle to the episode after the script went
through several rewrites. |
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Brannon Braga on "Power
Play": "It was
supposed to be the ultimate bottle show, a tense
psychological drama between Picard and the possessed Troi
crammed into one room, but it became one of the costliest
of the year with the shuttle crash and the phaser fight.
It has no socially redeeming value, but it sure is
action-packed." |
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Michael Piller
praised David Livingston for his "wonderful directing" in
this episode, his second outing. |
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Marina Sirtis,
Brent Spiner and Colm Meaney thought up the nick-names
"Slugger", "Buzz" and "Slash" for their possessed
personae. |
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Planet Hell on
Stage 16 was once again used. |
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Sirtis got so
dirty from the blowing sand that she had to take a midday
shower and get made up again. |
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The crashed
shuttlepod was the Campbell, named for pioneering SF
author Joseph W. Campbell. |
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The 360 degree
rotating camera shot used in the interior crash scenes was
inspired from the movie "Cape Fear". |
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Marina was the
only one who did that stunt herself during the storm
scene. The rest of the cast had a stunt double. It took
two takes - the first take she fell back but rolled on her
hip, but the director didn't like that. The second take
she flung herself back and landed HARD on her back leaving
her unable to walk for 3 weeks. |
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The scenes in
sickbay AFTER the shock and at the time the hatch was
blown were right before she was off for three weeks. You
can tell the pain she was in by the way she walked. |
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At the end
when the entities leave Data, O'Brian, and Troi's bodies
and they all drop to the ground, Patrick Stewart caught
Marina because they were afraid the fall would hurt her
more. |
