Did "make it so" develop consciously or organically?

[indolover]

Did Sir Patrick Stewart ask the producers to have this in the scripts, or did the writers just write it in without initial thought and it just stuck after that?

 

[CaptainStoner]

I think they just decided to make it so.

 

[Destructor]

I think it was in the pilot and Patrick Stewart totally rocked it so the writers all shoved it in to every scene they could think of.

 

[Shatnertage]

I rewatched "Best of Both Worlds" Part II last night, and noticed that Riker used the phrase to the crew. Didn't see him tugging on his shirt before sitting down, though.

It would have been eerie if Locutus had used the phrase, wouldn't it?

I watched this after "Sarek," and it was interesting to see two characters who were not Picard yet were, to different extents, composed of parts of his mind, call Riker "Number One." Are there any other times in the series when this happens? I wouldn't count BabyPicard and his "number one dad."

 

[sbk1234]

Locutus called him "Number One." That was VERY eerie.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

In the first season, various members of the crew refer to Riker as "Number One." The one I recall off-hand is Beverly in either "Lonely Among Us" or "The Battle."

 

[LOKAI of CHERON]

...and as I'm sure everyone knows, but just in case, Number One harks back to Majel Barrett's character in the first TOS pilot "The Cage".

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

I remember there being an interview with Patrick Stewart, some time around First Contact coming out, and he said that "Make it so crept up on us in the series". So it probably wasn't something that was intentional at first. Some of the writers must have just latched on to it.

 

[HGN2001]

Admiral Jameson called Riker "Number One" in "Too Short A Season."

Harry