Ron Moore on "Journey's End" - "There were things in my life pointing me in that direction that I wasn't paying attention to, sort of like Wesley. I just thought that everything about this character said he did not belong in Starfleet... It always seemed he was just doing things that were expected of him."
	Jeri Taylor on "Journey's End" - "There was a lot of concern that this character, whom Gene created with his middle name, who WAS Gene Roddenberry - that it was doing him a disservice to have Wesley leave Starfleet."
	Originally, Wesley's aimlessness was to lead him into TNG's debut mention of the Maquis, named from the French World War II resistance cell. Eventually, the Maquis theme turned into the Native American Colony which Jeri Taylor was hoping to imply was the home of Voyager's American Indian First Officer Chakotay.
	Originally, a direct reference was made to the Hopi Indians and Tribes, with Picard's ancestor being Corporal Everett Picard who had been with Kit Carson in 1875, destroying a Rio Grande Village. However, the tribes involved asked not to be depicted for fear of misrepresentation, so all terms were generalised.
	The Indian Village was adapted from the Barkon settlement of "Thine Own Self". Jim Mees recalls - "Nothing could have any real life Indian indications, which immediately means that you can't rent anything."
	The Tribal Council chairs were repainted from those of the Romulan Warbird's wardroom.
	The Bularian Canapés were made from odd crackers with Cheez-Whiz and olives.
	Originally, Wesley's vision was to have been an eagle, but Alan Sims recalled that the only trainable eagle for rent, an endangered Batalor eagle, was already booked.
	Initially, Ron Moore intended Admiral Nechayev to resist Picard's overtures of detente in the episode, but later agreed with Michael Piller that Picard actually could get through to her.
	In a scene cut for time, Picard mentions he almost washed out in his sophomore Academy year after his father's death.
	Other cut scenes had Picard waking a sleeping Wesley who'd turned away from Boothby in irritation, and the Indians criticising artificial weather modification.

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