Make up a fake bit of Trek trivia!

FACT: Spock was originally envisioned as a giant slug-like creature but the model makers couldn't find the right shade of paint. As a result, they cast Leonard Nimoy after picking his name out of a hat.

 

On TUC, the make up department accidentally spilled all the prepared "Klingon blood" on the day it was supposed to be used on the set. They quickly sent one of the interns down to a local drug store to purchase a dozen large bottles of Pepto Bismol as a substitute.

They were sure the fans wouldn't notice.

 

transwarp was originally going to be reused in the movies and star trek 4 would've seen the enterprise exploring the Andromeda galaxy, but because they needed a way to get rid of the Excelsior, it was decided to drop it.

 

FACT: The original idea of "These Are The Voyages" was that Riker had constructed a holodeck program that was a completely hypothetical recreation of an imagined pre-Constitution Class starship, the NX-01. The original captain of the first Enterprise was actually Captain Robert April. The commander, Jonathan Archer, and his crew never really existed. The entire series that aired was a holodeck program written primarily by Riker. But the idea was scrapped when it was decided that the fanbase would become highly irate, feeling completely duped for four seasons. So they re-tuned the idea to be a revisit within the confines of Captain Archer's final mission, to help Riker solve a nagging command decision.

 

Wil Wheaton attacked elderly guest star Lawrence Tierney (described by the entire cast as the nicest man in Hollywood) with a baseball bat on the set of "The Big Goodbye," and repeatedly called him a fat fucker, and told him that he was fired.

 

Best. Post. Yet.

 

joolene blalock's boobs were named T'itone and t'ittwo

 

harry kim's boobs were nicknamed timothy, susan and juan.

 

FACT: Braga wrote a script where Data had a sensual dream where Tasha came back and told him how much he really meant to him. Gene nixed it because he felt that too many fans wouldn't remember the events of The Naked Now.

 

Her ass, OTOH, is named LeBron James, because it can't be found when you need it the most.

 

Not far from the truth, as it turned out.

 

Armus was intended to be revisited in DS9, and it would have been revealed that the race that shed "him" was the changelings.

 

Patrick Stewart's scenes were all filmed in England against a blue screen. The rest of the cast were CGI animatronics with voice overs by third rate actors.

 

I like this one. I wonder how it would have played out.

Ben Cross (Sarek) was the actor the writers had in mind to play Nero in ST '09 when the character was a Romulan admiral named Deridex - as in the warbird. Abrams put the kibosh on the idea when he found out they already did it with Admiral Valdore on ENT, and rethought the character as a working man.

Time travel, and therefor future Spock, was not originally in the story. They did want to include one of TOS actors in the film, and threw around the idea of doing a cameo with Leonard Nimoy playing Sarek with some minor prosthetics.

 

FACT: It was going to be revealed that Ezri was a dominion imposter pretending to be the incumbent host of the Dax symbiont.

FACT: Times Arrow was originally going to be set in the 1930's and Charlie Chaplin would have replaced Samuel Clements.

FACT: Kate Mulgrew's "coolness" around Jeri Ryan was due to Ryan taking some 'pictures' on the set of the Voyager bridge

FACT: Brent Spiner was actually pretty wasted during most of his scenes in The Naked Now

FACT: Jolene Blalock also developed an addiction to Trellium D

 

This was going to be revealed in the last few second of "What You Leave Behind," just as the screen fades to black.

Fact: Every third episode of Voyager was to depict yet another in a series of mutinies, as control of the ship constantly shifted from Starfleet to the Marquis and back again.

 

^wish they'd done that last one...

 

It would have gotten old and campy if they kept doing that for seven years. There would have been threads here on Voyager forum asking why Berman and Braga kept having control changing hands for seven years.

FACT: Colm Meaney turned down the Malcolm role on Jurassic Park to do Deep Space Nine.

FACT: Kate Mulgrew considered becoming Jack O'Neill's new love interest on Stargate in case Janeway would be killed during the events of The Equinox.

FACT: Gates McFadden wanted to have Corey Feldman on the show as Wesley's fraternal twin.

 

FACT: Colm Meaney turned down the Malcolm role on Firefly to do Deep Space Nine.

 

FACT: The term M-class planet was used in GRA because M stood for Majel (according to Gene Roddenberry), not Minshara (as T'Pol would have us believe).

(Not fake. Sorry.)