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The story originally
started with the simple "Raise the Titanic" idea and was
later expanded to include the conflict-torn Riker
plotline, a similar story to that seen in "The
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Ron Moore jumped at the
chance at explaining the Federation's position on Cloaking
Devices - "I
thought, let's sew this up - not because it's the last
season but because I'm sick of that question at the
conventions! It's such a screamingly obvious thing to the
fans, and I was just tired of it and wanted to put it to
rest." |
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Ron Moore had
previous heard comments made to the effect
" 'The
Cloaking device hurts humans but not Vulcans and Romulans'
or 'It wouldn't work on Federation starships because of
their design'... or that the Federation wasn't smart
enough to figure it out! Somebody also said 'We don't
sneak around' - and I thought that was ridiculous too!" |
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Moore revealed
that instead of the Captain Picard Day scene, he'd
originally intended to show a rehearsal of Shaw's
"Pygmalion" performance shipboard, directed by Crusher
with Troi, Riker and Data as Eliza. On the original
beginning, Moore says
"After the
story break, Michael kinda frowned and said 'OK, I'll give
it a shot', but it was just insane - it didn't fit at
all." |
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Extra Joyce
Robinson got to utter an uncredited reply to Picard, a
line which was originally written for Data but was changed
when Spiner informed the producers that the helm and not
ops officer should carry out the "course plotted" order. |
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The
Enterprise-D is scene here illuminated with only its own
sources and spotlights here. |
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Rick Sternbach
produced sketches of a new starship based on the
Enterprise-C era design, but budget cuts forced a reuse of
the Grissom model from Star Trek III. |
