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This sixth-season script
story came from Iowa college student Chris Hatton. |
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The episode broke Gene
Roddenberry's 30-year carpet ban on "space pirate"
stories. |
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Jeri Taylor on
"Gambit" -
"Rick has a
little bust of Gene Roddenberry on his desk, and he'd tied
a little red bandanna around Gene's eyes and said, 'Gene
always said he'd never do space pirates, and this is a
space pirate story, and I don't want Gene to see this, or
hear it!". |
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Rick Berman on
his Gene Roddenberry bust -
"I just
blindfolded it as a joke one day. Whenever they come up
with a story I don't think Gene would like I blindfold him
when we discuss the story... I take it on and off,
depending on who's in here." |
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Writer Naren
Shankar on "Gambit" -
"We say we'll
never do the 'rodeo' show and 'A Fistful of Datas' comes
along. To me, it's one of the classic television problems:
if you start off the show by saying the captain's dead, no
one's buying it... and you're just marking time until the
captain's revealed." |
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Chris Hatton's
original script had the episode from Picard's point of
view and didn't involve Riker. |
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Robin Curtis
appeared as Saavik in Star Trek III and IV. |
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Richard Lynch
previously played alongside Patrick Stewart onstage. |
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Sabrina
LeBeauf was in the long running 80s "The Cosby Show". |
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Caitlin Brown
played Ty Kajada in spinoff DS9's first season instalment
"The Passenger". |
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Bruce Gray
reprised his role of Admiral Chekote from DS9's "The
Circle". |
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Peter
Lauritson on the outdoor scope and Visual FX of "Gambit" -
"I was really
whipped after this one! Directing is a tough job, and I
really respect the guys who do a lot of it." |
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Jim Mees' team
had to haul real rocks to "build" the ruins on the planet
set. |
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This episode
featured the most extended phaser fight ever with over
seventy separate shots. |
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All the
explosions were added in post production due to the fire
season ban on live explosives at the location site of
Griffith Park's Cedar Grove. David Stipes recalled all the
burn damage had to be digitally painted on, as did the
fake rock blown in front of Geordi's face. |
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The Miradorn
raider from DS9's "Vortex" was used for the orbital shots. |
