Fact: Nichelle Nichols was considering dropping out of Trek after the first season, but a chance encounter with demonic rabbit named frank who told her that in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds, the world will end. made her change her mind.
Fact: Enterprise DID run Seven seasons, just no one was left to watch after season 4.
Fact: Star Trek Nemesis was going to have a crazy romulan create a black hole inside vulcan and the whole planet was to be sucked into it. But it was tabled as "no one would watch that crap"
Fact: There was a proposal to have Wil Weaton shave his head into a receding hairline in "The First Duty" to hint on who his real dad was.
Fact: There was a proposal to get Kristy Alley back for Star Trek V, and that is where the fan dance comes in, however Alley asked for too much money, and it was left in....
Fact: The Original ending of Generations had Kirk holding off a shipful of badguys and pretending to lead a entire squad to let Picard save the day. It was cut for budget reasons and so they dropped a bridge on him.
The idea was later used in DS9 for the end of eddition.
Fact: Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer where booked to play vorta, but they realized that Sisko would kick there asses, and so they declined. We got Iggy Pop instead.
Fact: There nearly was a lawsuit on Voyager as Wang was not paid for Season 5, apparently, when he was listed as a actor, they said "Who?" and figured it was a typo.
Fact: They filmed a version where the Genocidal program was installed in the borg, and Picard giggling as he senses one borg ship after another shut down and blow up was thought to be too disturbing.
Fact: at the end of "Beyond the Stars" the director almost had to reshoot as he felt that Brooks underacted the "Its Real" bits.
Fact: Enterprise DID run Seven seasons, just no one was left to watch after season 4.
Fact: Star Trek Nemesis was going to have a crazy romulan create a black hole inside vulcan and the whole planet was to be sucked into it. But it was tabled as "no one would watch that crap"
Fact: There was a proposal to have Wil Weaton shave his head into a receding hairline in "The First Duty" to hint on who his real dad was.
Fact: There was a proposal to get Kristy Alley back for Star Trek V, and that is where the fan dance comes in, however Alley asked for too much money, and it was left in....
Fact: The Original ending of Generations had Kirk holding off a shipful of badguys and pretending to lead a entire squad to let Picard save the day. It was cut for budget reasons and so they dropped a bridge on him.
The idea was later used in DS9 for the end of eddition.
Fact: Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer where booked to play vorta, but they realized that Sisko would kick there asses, and so they declined. We got Iggy Pop instead.
Fact: There nearly was a lawsuit on Voyager as Wang was not paid for Season 5, apparently, when he was listed as a actor, they said "Who?" and figured it was a typo.
Fact: They filmed a version where the Genocidal program was installed in the borg, and Picard giggling as he senses one borg ship after another shut down and blow up was thought to be too disturbing.
Fact: at the end of "Beyond the Stars" the director almost had to reshoot as he felt that Brooks underacted the "Its Real" bits.
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