All Good Things - Alternate version or faulty memory?

[trekshark]

watching it now on BBC. Either it was edited out or it happens at a different part than I remember but Picard didn't mention O'Brien's model ship hobby to him in engineering when he needs O'Brien to fix the engines and there isn't a chief engineer on board

 

[Kor]

No doubt edited for time. BBC America has commercials, and TV today has more commercials in an hour than TV did a couple decades ago. This makes it necessary to make cuts.

Kor

 

[trekshark]

I also just noticed the lack of old Q with the ear trumpet
It's sad how many more commercials we have to sit through now, while paying higher and higher tv bills on top of it

 

[Kor]

Thank goodness for the blu-rays.

Kor

 

[Lance]

You narrowed in on exactly the ep where I agree -- that syndication edit of "Farpoint" is a real improvement on the feature length version. I was introduced to the cut-down edit first, and when I later was seeing the original, I could not believe how much more of a slog it felt. It's not really that much screentime and I don't even really know what's missing, but it makes a significant pacing difference somehow.

Exactly!

I had a big moment when I realized that TNG and the abortive Phase II series share a lot in common, and then that TMP and Encounter at Farpoint share certain similarities, not least is the pacing. TMP may have been produced as a movie but still exhibits all the hallmarks of being the pilot episode to an ongoing series. Farpoint hits many of the same kinds of beats. As a two hour movie there are moments where it lags where the 'introduce the characters' bits seem to stop the momentum of the adventure story, but as two parts these things are balanced out better. And unlike some of the other cut in two Trek pilots, the cuts to Farpoint are mostly acceptable. We don't need to see Worf actually schlep all the way down to engineering to know it happened. We don't need to see all of Riker's recap of the encounter with Q. And even the Picard/Beverly sickbay scene is superfluous. I can see that All Good Things cuts cream to fit it to two parts, but most of what gets cut from Farpoint are small bits that aren't crucial to the story but make significant differences to the pacing. I'd definitely argue I prefer it

 

[tomswift2002]

Apparently the Picard/Crusher sickbay scene and the LaForge/Crusher sickbay scene were scripted and added at the last minute because the pilot was running short due to how Corey Allen was shooting and compacting the action.

 

[JesterFace]

This might be a good place to ask...

Wasn't there some scenes written but not filmed? Or were they filmed but left out?
I remember something like before Picard leaves his bed on Enterprise-D in the future and goes into Ten Forward to tell Riker and the others about the paradox theory, he has a conversation with Q. Is there a scene like this somewhere? Or was it even in the script?

 

[Herbert]

No doubt edited for time. BBC America has commercials, and TV today has more commercials in an hour than TV did a couple decades ago. This makes it necessary to make cuts.

Kor

Well, BBC America has to endlessly plug their own shows IN EVERY FREAKIN' COMMERCIAL BREAK!!
Very annoying