Episode Behind the Scenes

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The story to Rascals was left over from last season, and dubbed by Michael Piller "The Year of the Child".
   
Although everyone was bothered by the fact that the Ferengi overcame the Enterprise's defenses so quickly, Jeri Taylor counted by saying "Would you believe four little kids could retake it from the Cardassians?"
   
Son of Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Adam quite his career choice of attorney to assist Nick Meyer on Star Trek VI - "The day we wrapped that feature, I was in Rick Berman's office about observing directors on TNG."
   
Michael Snyder, Mike Gomez and Tracey Walter had all played Ferengi before (see "The Perfect Mate" and "The Last Outpost").
   
Isis Jones repeated her childhood vision of Whoopi Goldberg in the 1992 film "Sister Act".
   
Jeri Taylor and the staff toyed with the idea of not having Ro return to adulthood - "Where else but on Star Trek could you do something like that? [...] But it seemed too drastic for us, and we were sort of squelched on that."
   
The Professor Langford Picard mentions was named for a woman Ronald Moore was dating at the time - "She wasn't a fan and we stopped going out soon after, so I don't think she ever saw it!"
   
In a blooper, the kids' computer screen is labeled Classroom 7 while the room is actually Schoolroom 8.

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