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What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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To be fair, some of the best episodes in the franchise were made under severe time constraints and duress.
"Yesterday's Enterprise" immediately springs to mind.
Time constraints are ones I get. The first Pirates of the Caribbean film was rather stressful and short production. But, the "gun to the head" manual checklist mentality is not one I generally ascribe to in art. But, I'm also not able writer; just married to one who hates deadlines.
Deadlines are understandable in that business. In that situation, there are a LOT of things that are dependant on having things done by a certain time. (Set building/repurposing, casting guest roles for parts with dialogue, scheduling filming days, etc. And that's before we get to any post production work that has to be done by in time for airdate slots.)
It IS still a business, and deadlines are part of any business.
I don't disagree. I think adding the "read the ducking manual" as part of the checklist and additional burden
"A Matter of Time(TNG)" was written specifically for Robin Williams so that he'd make his Star Trek debut, but Robin - as much as he wanted so badly to be in Trek - had to decline because of the time constraints of filming Hook, so a Robin Williams-focused time traveler script had to be slightly retooled at the last minute for Matt Frewer. And you can sort of see where the Berlinghoff Rasmussen story would work better with Robin Williams in the role, but with some slight modifications and with time constraints before the episode needed to be aired they got the story as good as it was going to be.
And Matt Frewer's a talented comic actor in addition to his sci-fi and horror street cred, so it all worked out despite the changes that needed to be made.
And Matt Frewer's a talented comic actor in addition to his sci-fi and horror street cred, so it all worked out despite the changes that needed to be made.
I find that story poor so I don't think Robin could have helped it .
I'm picturing Robin flirting with Beverly in Sickbay and coming off as oily and obnoxious, and I think he could have pulled it off, but the manic energy would have been SO much greater than even Frewer gave us.
I've always like it. Frewer gave the show a little bit of personality, which it sorely needed because it was getting bland.
Frewer is great. His performance couldn't save the story.
Well, yes and no. I mean, I would like it if they were all consistent. But I forgive a technical inconsistency in an otherwise excellent episode more easily than a mediocre episode that is totally consistent with established tech.
Dorn was the last person to be cast. They had already begun filming by the time Dorn arrived on set. Dorn tells the story that most in the cast had never seen him out of make up, so when he showed up out of make up they didn't know who he was.
I've never understood why TNG never tried to get Robin on the show again after that.
True. Robin even walked up to a VOY cast member on the Paramount lot and told them how much they loved their series, so it's not like they couldn't have found some way and the time to put Robin in another Trek project even if it wasn't TNG.
It was one of only two solo writing efforts of Rick Berman during TNG. I think Berman gets unfairly blamed for a lot of negatives in Trek, but I also acknowledge that writing was not really his strong suit.
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