TNG changes to TOS

[The Old Mixer]

^This. In-universe, Picard, Riker, and company had a lot more missions of various starships to be passingly familiar with. They didn't spend 20 years studying the same 79 missions by the same crew over and over and over again.

Confession: I once realized that I had McCoy in two places at once, down in sickbay where he belonged AND up on the bridge during a crisis. I ended up having to rewrite the bridge scenes and give McCoy's dialogue to another character.

Might have been a good opportunity to establish Kirk's HeadMcCoy....

The weirdest one for me being Deanna Troi in "Yesterday's Enterprise". She's actually present on the bridge scenes capping both ends of the alternate reality, but she doesn't so much as get a single line of dialogue or even a close-up shot. She's just there, presumably because the actress was still being paid regardless. It's almost like she wasn't even written into the script, but they just happened to have Marina hanging about on the stage that day, so they said 'Yeah, sure, why not? Get yourself down to costume, and then we'll put you on the bridge anyway'.

She was arguably there to underscore the difference between the two timelines...no therapist on the bridge in the other one.

 

[MakeshiftPython]

IIRC the point being made in The Naked Now was simply that one mission out of thousands that were carried out by multiple Enterprise's over the years is hardly going to be talked about with a degree of remembrance. It always seemed quite naturalistic for Riker to not immediately recall where he'd heard of people showering in their clothes before. It's one of those random things where the fact itself would be more memorable than the context of the whys, wheres, and to whom it originally happened.

Of course, later Trek shows only fanned the flames of the this silly "Kirk's crew was legendary in-universe as well" rhetoric by making his missions something that every good Cadet knows off by heart.

I think stuff like Sisko knowing about the fight with the Gorn is pretty believable, given how extraordinary the circumstances were. Heck, in that same episode, the Defiant crew actually have to be briefed on what exactly that whole Tribble affair was about. I do like the gag with O'Brien thinking he saw Kirk, when he actually spotted Shatner's stunt double.

 

[InklingStar]

IIRC the point being made in The Naked Now was simply that one mission out of thousands that were carried out by multiple Enterprise's over the years is hardly going to be talked about with a degree of remembrance. It always seemed quite naturalistic for Riker to not immediately recall where he'd heard of people showering in their clothes before. It's one of those random things where the fact itself would be more memorable than the context of the whys, wheres, and to whom it originally happened.

Of course, later Trek shows only fanned the flames of the this silly "Kirk's crew was legendary in-universe as well" rhetoric by making his missions something that every good Cadet knows off by heart.

I think stuff like Sisko knowing about the fight with the Gorn is pretty believable, given how extraordinary the circumstances were. Heck, in that same episode, the Defiant crew actually have to be briefed on what exactly that whole Tribble affair was about. I do like the gag with O'Brien thinking he saw Kirk, when he actually spotted Shatner's stunt double.

Sisko's future brother-in-law lived on Cestus III, so he is more familiar with the history of that place than he might be otherwise.

Remember in the TMP novelization that Gene Roddenberry himself wrote about how the Enterprise crew became huge celebrities upon returning from the five year mission. So this legendarization of the TOS crew goes back to 1979 at least.

 

[Christopher]

Remember in the TMP novelization that Gene Roddenberry himself wrote about how the Enterprise crew became huge celebrities upon returning from the five year mission. So this legendarization of the TOS crew goes back to 1979 at least.

I think that was just part of his conceit that TOS had been an inaccurate, exaggerated dramatization, whereas TMP (film and novel) was closer to the reality. The fame of Kirk and his crew was necessary to explain why they were the ones to get a show made of their exploits.