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Adam Nimoy (son of
Leonard Nimoy - 'Spock') previously directed "Rascals". |
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Rick Berman on Adam Nimoy -
"At the end of Rascals, we told Adam Nimoy, 'We Owe you
one with grown-ups!'"
Adam Nimoy on directing -
"The joke was, my next one would be all animals!" |
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This episode
took eight and a half days to shoot. |
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The planned
story for this episode fell through, so Brannon Braga
stepped in to complete the script, and skipped the story
outline stage to save time. |
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Brannon Braga
on "Timescape" -
"I wanted to
do this as 'man against nature', or 'man against time'.
What 'The Abyss' was to deep sea diving, this would be to
'deep-time diving'". |
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Coincidentally, Deep Time was going to be the title of
this episode. |
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The aft
compartment of the runabout vessel created for DS9 was
built on TNG's budget to help out its sister show. |
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The cockpit
took seven weeks to create over on DS9, but Jim Mees only
had nine days to design and build the living quarters. |
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Michael
Bofshever (Romulan/Alien) played Minister Toran in spinoff
DS9's "The Storyteller" and an Excelsior engineer in Star
Trek VI. |
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Two of the
conference speakers, Wagner and Vassbinger, come from a
date and high school teacher of Brannon Braga. |