Tasha Yar was to command saucer section in Farpoint in early draft

[Nerys Myk]

Three days after the season premiere, when many people were still excited, and four days before this episode was released, Matalas tweeted, that he had basically nothing to do with the rest of the season. "Akiva brilliantly captained the rest" "incredible". There is something not right.

Yes this is old news. Not sure why it’s controversial or unpleasant. He went to work on season three.

 

[Christopher]

Credits for three separate drafts for the story and two separate teleplays for one episode. And it's not even the season premier episode.

Nothing about that is even slightly unusual. Creative works are supposed to go through multiple drafts. That's how the process works.

I saw a social-media meme last night that sums it up, something like... "The first draft is to make the work exist. The second is to make it coherent. The third is to make it worthwhile." And even that's simplifying the process.

 

[Tomalak]

Have people even seen the writing credits for Yesterday's Enterprise?

Odd to single out Picard when we know the real 'Chaos on the Bridge' scenario was the first couple of seasons of Discovery, for understandable reasons. It's been relatively plain sailing since the third season, and there's not been much hint of drama on SNW or the animated shows.

 

[Mudd]

The TNG episode "First Contact" has five people listed under "teleplay by", including our own Dennis Bailey ( @Mudd )

per IMDB

Dennis Bailey ... (teleplay by) (as Dennis Russell Bailey) &
David Bischoff ... (teleplay by) and
Joe Menosky ... (teleplay by) &
Ronald D. Moore ... (teleplay by) and
Michael Piller ... (teleplay by) (showrunner)

Is there some controversy and unpleasantness there too, what with two "&s" and two "ands"?

No, "&" indicates two writers working together on a draft; "and" indicates additional drafts.

That's not a very clear explanation, but it works out to: Dave & I did a draft and Joe & Ron did a second version and Michael Piller did the final draft.

There wasn't anything competitive or "controversial" about it; Piller considered the episode very important to the series but finding an approach that worked within the show's format "rules" was challenging. I think that if he hadn't taken on the final rewrite himself and championed it, it would never have seen production.