He's...gone!

[RobertScorpio]

When BEST OF BOTH WORLDS ended at part one, and Picard was turned into Locutus...and we were all left hanging, what did you honestly think would happen. I remember reading some article over the summer that Patrick was thinking about leaving, or they couldn't sign him, whatever, and that the cliffhanger was a way to set up his departure and later return if need be...

So my friends and I thought that was going to happen..Riker would take over, Shelby would be #1..and the show would have gone on without Patrick..anyone else think that was going to happen???

Rob

 

[Rÿcher]

Back then, and I remember this clearly like it was yesterday, I thought it was a ruse because Picard still had his accent a bit when he said, "your life as it has been is over". Emphasis on the "been" and "over" as "bean" and "ova". I thought he was going to take them down from the inside.

 

[WillsBabe]

Honestly? I thought Patrick Stewart and Picard would be back. Didn't really doubt it. My main concern was "how" not "if". Didn't make the waiting any easier, mind.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Honestly? I thought Patrick Stewart and Picard would be back. Didn't really doubt it. My main concern was "how" not "if". Didn't make the waiting any easier, mind.

As much as a DS9 fan as I am, I like it more than TNG, no other TREK cliffhanger was as good as BOBW...whether or not you liked part two is, as I have seen, up to each viewer to decide. But the waiting and waiting and waiting..well..TOOK FOREVER!!!

Rob

 

[Lindley]

I have to wonder, are you capable of starting a thread that doesn't have "..." or a word in ALL CAPS in the title?

 

[ndcarlin]

I remember watching this with my girlfriend at that time down in her basement. She and I looked at one another and said "I don't think he's coming back!" I liked Shelby and didn't think she would have gotten the amount of buildup she got for a one shot. Remember, this was the days before ready internet access etc. We had a big party for Pt 2.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I remember watching this with my girlfriend at that time down in her basement. She and I looked at one another and said "I don't think he's coming back!" I liked Shelby and didn't think she would have gotten the amount of buildup she got for a one shot. Remember, this was the days before ready internet access etc. We had a big party for Pt 2.

So did we...and yes, I thought they spent a lot of time on her for just a one shot deal...I think it was something they setup incase Patrick didn't come back...

Rob

 

[Thirishar]

I have to wonder, are you capable of starting a thread that doesn't have "..." or a word in ALL CAPS in the title?

"WHAT'S ALL CAPS?"

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

"The Best Of Both Worlds" was conceived as a means of addressing the possible exit of either Stewart or Spiner from the series after the third season; the Borg were introduced into it initially because an early treatment called for the Collective to capture both Picard and Data and combine them experimentally into a single creature. The cliffhanger, at that point, would have consisted of Beverly Crusher announcing that "I can save one of them, but only one."

Spiner re-upped with TNG before Stewart did.

 

[RobertScorpio]

"The Best Of Both Worlds" was conceived as a means of addressing the possible exit of either Stewart or Spiner from the series after the third season; the Borg were introduced into it initially because an early treatment called for the Collective to capture both Picard and Data and combine them experimentally into a single creature. The cliffhanger, at that point, would have consisted of Beverly Crusher announcing that "I can save one of them, but only one."

Spiner re-upped with TNG before Stewart did.

thanks for the info..I knew I read something like that back then.

Rob

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Sometime during the Summer(?) of 1990 I was left alone in the TNG script coordinator's office for ten minutes with 1) my empty briefcase and 2) a stack of scripts with the title "Best Of Both Worlds - Part II" emblazoned on them.

I didn't even peek under the cover of the script on the top of the stack - I really wanted to work for the show.

 

[DeeEss57]

"The Best Of Both Worlds" was conceived as a means of addressing the possible exit of either Stewart or Spiner from the series after the third season; the Borg were introduced into it initially because an early treatment called for the Collective to capture both Picard and Data and combine them experimentally into a single creature. The cliffhanger, at that point, would have consisted of Beverly Crusher announcing that "I can save one of them, but only one."

Spiner re-upped with TNG before Stewart did.

Spiner only re-upped before Stewart because the latter was in England the whole summer and didn't come back to the US until shortly before the season started filming. Otherwise, Stewart probably woulda signed his contract a little sooner.


DES

 

[Kestra]

This is one of the things that really makes me wish I had watched TNG during it's original run on television. As it was, there was no cliffhanger for me by the time I happened on BoBW because I was watching things out of order in reruns.

 

[RoJoHen]

Back then, and I remember this clearly like it was yesterday, I thought it was a ruse because Picard still had his accent a bit when he said, "your life as it has been is over". Emphasis on the "been" and "over" as "bean" and "ova". I thought he was going to take them down from the inside.

Because, what, the Borg are only allowed speak with an American accent?

 

[Plecostomus]

Back then, and I remember this clearly like it was yesterday, I thought it was a ruse because Picard still had his accent a bit when he said, "your life as it has been is over". Emphasis on the "been" and "over" as "bean" and "ova". I thought he was going to take them down from the inside.

Because, what, the Borg are only allowed speak with an American accent?

Technically accent is irrelevant they should speak without one at all.

 

[RoJoHen]

Back then, and I remember this clearly like it was yesterday, I thought it was a ruse because Picard still had his accent a bit when he said, "your life as it has been is over". Emphasis on the "been" and "over" as "bean" and "ova". I thought he was going to take them down from the inside.

Because, what, the Borg are only allowed speak with an American accent?

Technically accent is irrelevant they should speak without one at all.

And what exactly does "no accent" sound like?

Everybody has some kind of accent!

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Back then, and I remember this clearly like it was yesterday, I thought it was a ruse because Picard still had his accent a bit when he said, "your life as it has been is over". Emphasis on the "been" and "over" as "bean" and "ova". I thought he was going to take them down from the inside.

Because, what, the Borg are only allowed speak with an American accent?

Technically accent is irrelevant they should speak without one at all.

Ahh, but from whose point of view? From a British point of view, WE are the ones with accents.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Spiner only re-upped before Stewart because the latter was in England the whole summer and didn't come back to the US until shortly before the season started filming. Otherwise, Stewart probably woulda signed his contract a little sooner.

Remarkably enough, this kind of business was being successfully and routinely conducted on a daily basis across national boundaries and intercontinental distances even in 1990.

Aside from which, of course, the time period we're talking about was during the early spring of 1990 before production on year three had wrapped, not the summer between 3 and 4.

 

[Squiggy]

This is one of the things that really makes me wish I had watched TNG during it's original run on television. As it was, there was no cliffhanger for me by the time I happened on BoBW because I was watching things out of order in reruns.

Hm. I don't think I've ever seen TNG air "out of order". They've always been sequential, IIRC.

 

[Kestra]

I was watching them randomly; not every day.