Inter-Season Changes.

[Doug Otte]

I still can't spot any difference in Crusher's hair. The length, color and shape seem perfectly identical, and the many loose ends in the former only disappear from the latter because she's out of focus...

It just looks a little fuller in the 4th season shot, as if it was brushed a little more thoroughly.

As for uniform color, though, weren't the blues notorious for changing with each laundering?

..and I'd bet any slight change in lighting would affect the color as well.

On the nipple issue, I remember hearing the studio insisted on padded bras to avoid any hint of the protrusions. Whether the female uniforms had a seam at that particular location for "extension" purposes, I don't know - the wrinkles there could equally well be an artifact of McFadden's bra, the straps of which prominently show through the thin fabric.

Timo Saloniemi

They should have had Spiner wear a padded bra w/ his first- and second-season uniforms!

Doug

 

[Red Ranger]

There's more of a difference in Wesley's face and build between parts one and two, as I recall. If someone can do a screen cap of Wesley from both parts, you'll see what I'm talking about. -- RR

 

[Alrik]

They didn't even write them at once. Michael Piller has freely admitted he had no idea how BoBW was going to end, and since he was considering leaving the show the idea was to leave it up to the luckless new guy.

That, and I remember the rumors flying that Patrick Stewart might not be returning either. That cliff hanger made for a very looooooong summer..

 

[Red Ranger]

^From what I understand, the cliff-hanger also reflected the fact that Patrick Stewart almost didn't come back for season four. He and the studio were apparently negotiating over his salary, so it was possible he'd be killed off and have Jonathan Frakes take over as Captain Riker. It would've been a different show with Frakes in the center seat. Don't know if Shelby would've been added to the crew as the new number one, but if so, it would've been good to eventually move Data up to first officer to further develop his quest for humanity. -- RR

 

[Alrik]

^
That's pretty much what I thought. Glad to see the ol' memory still works......for the most part. Yeah, if Stewart had left, TNG would have been very different. I'm pleased that he didn't, but still, it would be interesting to know how things would have played out.

 

[Red Ranger]

^Yep. When I get that alternate world transporter, I'll beam up the DVDs of TNG with Jonathan Frakes as Captain Riker! -- RR

 

[childofdarkness]

So, presumably, centuries from now, women still have to endure the same uncomfortable underwear. Why am I not surprised? :-)

 

[Alrik]

^

So you're saying they need to come up with some kind of waistband embedded anti grav boob holder with built in nipple suppression? Sounds complicated.



Hey RR, when you get the Alt copies, I'd like to borrow them.

 

[Red Ranger]

^Word! -- RR

 

[Thestral]

^ That could make a fantastic "Myriad Universes" story for TrekLit... what if Picard died as Locutus...

 

[Alrik]

^

Don't get me wrong, because TNG is neck and neck with TOS as my favorite of the franchise, and while season 2 was good and 3 much better, most of the best eps came from season 4 on. But man, just think of the possibilities!

Riker at Captain and who at Number One? Does Shelby stay, or does she go to Borg deffence R&D as she did in the prime U? Does Data step in, or because of the nature of the loss of Picard make Riker lean towards Worf as First Officer? It's enough to make a fanboy make a mess of himself.

 

[Thestral]

Personally I say Shelby stays at Number One. But I liked Shelby, so that might be part of it. Let a certain officer who lost his wife on Saratoga handle Borg R&D...

Where things get more interesting is down the road. With no Picard, what happens when the Klingon Civil War breaks out? How will Captain Riker handle those events, not to meniton Ambassador Spock's movement on Romulus and the appearance of Sela?

What about when tensions ease between the Federation and the Cardassians, how will Captain Riker respond to Captain Maxwell? Or to the Dorvan V situation and the rise of the Maquis? Will Ro Laren be brought on board in the first place?

And when the Cardassians withdraw from Terok Nor... and so on...

 

[mattyhugh]

Personally I say Shelby stays at Number One. But I liked Shelby, so that might be part of it. Let a certain officer who lost his wife on Saratoga handle Borg R&D...

Where things get more interesting is down the road. With no Picard, what happens when the Klingon Civil War breaks out? How will Captain Riker handle those events, not to meniton Ambassador Spock's movement on Romulus and the appearance of Sela?

What about when tensions ease between the Federation and the Cardassians, how will Captain Riker respond to Captain Maxwell? Or to the Dorvan V situation and the rise of the Maquis? Will Ro Laren be brought on board in the first place?

And when the Cardassians withdraw from Terok Nor... and so on...

Oh the possibilities...

 

[WillsBabe]

Personally I say Shelby stays at Number One. But I liked Shelby, so that might be part of it. Let a certain officer who lost his wife on Saratoga handle Borg R&D...

Where things get more interesting is down the road. With no Picard, what happens when the Klingon Civil War breaks out? How will Captain Riker handle those events, not to meniton Ambassador Spock's movement on Romulus and the appearance of Sela?

What about when tensions ease between the Federation and the Cardassians, how will Captain Riker respond to Captain Maxwell? Or to the Dorvan V situation and the rise of the Maquis? Will Ro Laren be brought on board in the first place?

And when the Cardassians withdraw from Terok Nor... and so on...

All good questions. Riker and Worf were pretty close in earlier seasons and it was a pity that he didn't ask Riker to be his chadich. I remember people commenting at the time that it might have been more appropriate to ask Riker than Picard. If he had then it would be interesting to see how that would play out with Riker dealing with the Klingons, espcially given he served on the Klingon ship in the exchange programme. Something tells me Riker's approach would have been less diplomtic than Picard's.

Ro and Riker would still be interesting, and even more interesing if he was captain. But I'm not sure she'd happen if Shelby was first officer.

The truth is, that the stories would have been written and themes developed to match the remaining characters, so who knows where the stories would have gone. For instance, in Parallels, there's a nice moment where Captain Riker speaks to Captain Picard on the viewscreen. Riker is obviously moved to speak to Picard. If Picard had become Locutus, that might have been a nice theme running through TNG, of Riker's loss of his mentor, for example. Locutus might have become a recurring vilian if Patrick Stewart had wanted to do some guest spots.

 

[AntonyF]

Her hair is quite clearly different.

On a similar note, between V the Finall Battle and V the series, an entire character disappeared in a scene. The same with West Wing season one to two.

 

[MikeS]

...The actress playing Jennifer changes when you watch Back to the Future II directly after Back to the Future ...

I'm sure we could find hundreds of inconsistincies. I think we need to have a certain suspension of disbelief when watching fiction.

The bridge changes between AGT and Generations. The director and writing staff said they "hope fans will realise this was how the bridge was always intended to look". Changes happen due to budjet constraints etc etc. Shouldn't distract from the enjoyment.

 

[WillsBabe]

^I'm skeptical that the bridge was always intended to look the way it did in Generations. In any case, even if it were, I still prefer the way it looked in the series. It seems far too crowded to me in Gens.

 

[Tom Riley]

^ I can totally see that as true. When you think about it, TOS and VOY both had way more computer stations on the bridge than TNG did. Considering how many people there are on the bridges of Navy ships nowadays, I'd think that they'd need a lot of people to monitor and control the goings on of a ship as big as the Enterprise...

 

[DonIago]

...except that one of the original points of TNG was that technology had advanced to the point where you -didn't- need a lot of people to monitor everything because...that's what the computers were for.

That being said, I preferred the look of the GEN bridge...shame the D didn't make it past that movie.

 

[WillsBabe]

Considering how many people there are on the bridges of Navy ships nowadays, I'd think that they'd need a lot of people to monitor and control the goings on of a ship as big as the Enterprise...

I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree on this. I always thought there were too many people on the Enterprise. Always struck me that they could just send the computers out there to do the exploring, and that the people were just along for the experience.