Some fans thought the Big Giant Head from "The Nth Degree", at the centre of the galaxy, may be related to the fake-God Blue Giant Head, also at the centre of the galaxy, from STV: TFF.
Any reference of V in VI?
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I must have missed that. What was the Evolutions reference?
I was watching the second episode of VOY last night, and Paris says something to the effect that he may have to get out and push. I wonder if that was influenced by what Scotty said in TFF.
It's during the scene where Data is discussing a number of critical systems-failures aboard the Enterprise with Picard and Riker, and alludes to the events of the fifth movie:
"Evolutions" was the third-season premiere episode of TNG, and aired during the week of September 25, 1989 -- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was released just a couple of months earlier in theaters, and would've come out right when the TNG writer's room under Michael Piller was revving up for the new season, and undoubtedly the movie would've been fresh on the minds of Piller and the writing staff right at that moment, so it looks like he worked a little "nod" to the events of the (then-) new film into the first episode of the new season.
And, of course, he would make another reference to TFF in "Family," the second episode of TNG season 4, and the epilogue to the Borg-storyline from "The Best of Both Worlds," but this ended up getting trimmed from the episode right before broadcast (but can be found on the Blu-Ray in the deleted-scenes section).
That's cool! I wish I could see that deleted scene.
Yeah, TUC largely ignores TFF, much like TWOK ignored TMP. The only carry over was the Enterprise (with some sets that had some minor alterations) and props. Also, I noticed Cliff Eidelman used the same heartbeat musical cue during Spock's forced mind meld of Valeris as Sybok's 'forced' mindmelds of the people he melded with.
TUC takes place, about what, 7 years after TFF, so storywise it probably wasn't necessary to reference anything from TFF anyway. It's pretty far removed.
Re: the publicity photo from TFF, I think part of the reason they used it was it was the last photo to feature the entire original crew on the Enterprise bridge (remember Sulu was on the Excelsior in TUC).
TUC takes place, about what, 7 years after TFF, so storywise it probably wasn't necessary to reference anything from TFF anyway. It's pretty far removed.
Re: the publicity photo from TFF, I think part of the reason they used it was it was the last photo to feature the entire original crew on the Enterprise bridge (remember Sulu was on the Excelsior in TUC).
I think what they wanted was something in universe, or in 'canon' if you will. Sulu was never on the Enterprise in TUC.
Plus TFF picture is a nice picture of the crew, regardless of the popularity of the movie. I thought it was a perfect photo for someone to keep as a remembrance. That's probably the main reason they used it more than anything else.
Also the background of the bridge it looks quite futuristic. Which must've been taken into account in relation to the JJcrew
That really annoyed me and took me right out of the book.
And Frakes reprised his transporter double on D.S.9.. As well as Data and Julian getting friendly. Also, Q made and appearance on D.S.9. and Voyager.
As well as Barclay becoming a semi regular on Voyager. This also brought Troi back into the picture briefly.
And, of course, the deleted Quark scene from one of the TNG films (I think Insurrection, a film that also referenced Ketrcel White).
In Star Trek 2, he was Klaa who had been surgically altered to appear human for an undercover mission into the Federation.
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My other pet hypothesis is that every single David Warner role in Trek was actually the same character in various undercover disguises... St. John Talbot, Intergalactic Man of Mystery.
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But of course! And he was apparently quite the escape artist, since he appeared to be on the Klingon and Romulan ships at the moments of their destruction.
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Was that before or after he escaped from that intergalactic mirror that needed to be fed blood?
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