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I was browsing through a few websites and thought id throw together a few bits of trivia and goofs from the TNG movies. Im sure youve already heard of allot of them but incase you havent here are a few.
Star Trek Generations
1. William Shatner has said that his line "Who am I to argue with the Captain of the Enterprise?" from this movie was the hardest line he ever had to deliver.
2. The horse that William Shatner rides is his, as are the home and farm where the sequence takes place.
3. Toys based on the popular "Aliens" toy line are apparently still around and doing well in the 24th century. In the scene where Picard enjoys Christmas with his Nexus family, one of his children is playing with his Christmas gift - a slightly modified Aliens "Evac Fighter."
4. In the opening scenes on board the Enterprise-B, three different news networks (each with a reporter and a cameraperson) are represented. They are: the Federation News Network, Starfleet Broadcasting, and the Earth Broadcasting Service.
5. The redesigned bridge of the Enterprise-D that is used in in this film was inspired by the "alternate-history" bridge of the Enterprise-D from the TV episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Yesterday's Enterprise (1990).
6. The Enterprise-B bridge is a redress of the Enterprise-A bridge as seen in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). After filming, it was heavily modified to become the Armagosa Observatory control center.
7. In the holodeck scene, Troi (when she goes to help Picard) hands over the sailing ship's helm to an elderly man. This man is, in real life, the captain of the boat (the Lady Washington, owned by Grays Harbor Historical Seaport in Aberdeen, Washington) which was used in filming this scene.
8. One of the reasons for destroying the Enterprise-D was that it was designed for the narrow aspect ratio and low resolution of televisions. Destroying the ship allowed the creation of a theater-friendly ship for subsequent movies.
9. Fifty days before shooting began, the captain's chair on the bridge set was stolen. A new one had to be used, one made of fiberglass around foam on an old first season frame.
10. Original versions of the script called for Kirk to take command of the battle bridge of the Enterprise and lead it into combat against the Klingons, thus dying onboard the Enterprise.
11. Many of the recording devices used by the news crews on the Enterprise B are actually hand-held video games.
12. Kirk's death scenes were re-shot after preview audiences reacted badly to the original version, wanting a more "heroic" death. Kirk originally died after being shot in the back by Soran.
13. James T. Kirk's final two words, "Oh, my..." are a spontaneous ad lib made by William Shatner. Shatner later explained it was Kirk's reaction to eternity and truly going where Kirk had never gone before.
14. Although Data is the owner of Spot, the cat, Brent Spiner who plays Data in fact hates cats and objected to the scene where Data finds Spot in the wreckage of the Enterprise, saying "Does he have to find the cat? Can't he find, like, Geordi or something?"
15. The Enterprise-B's hull has outcroppings on either side of the main deflector, indicative of a modified Excelsior-class design. However, these outcroppings are not present as it warps past on its way to the Lakul and the Nexus energy ribbon. (This is actually a reused shot from Star Trek VI where the Excelsior was charging to the Enterprise's rescue)
Star Trek: First Contact
1. The Borg makeup and suits had to be constantly touched up. Several of the Borg actors lost a considerable amount of weight while in costume due to the heat of the sets and temperature in L.A. during the shooting.
2. The deflector dish is labeled AE35, the name of a component of a satellite dish in 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. [Ronald D. Moore The screenwriter appears in the holodeck club scene.
4. Ronnie Rondell Jr. The film's stunt coordinator appears in the Holodeck nightclub scene as the man who warns Picard that he is about to take his actions personally.
5. Brannon Braga The screenwriter appears in the holodeck club scene.
6. The eyepieces of the Borg flash the Morse code of the names of people associated with the production.
7. All the scenes filmed inside the silo and of the "Phoenix" were taken at the "Titan Missile Museum", located in Green Valley, 20 miles South of Tucson, Arizona. This site is the only Intercontinental Missile (ICBM) silo complex in the world that is open to the public. The 110 foot tall Titan II rocket has been "de-militarized" (no fuel or nuclear payload) and, per the SALT treaty and SMART (Strategic Missile Arms Reduction Treaty), one of the two silo doors must remain blocked open for Russian satellite verification.
8. Actor Michael Zaslow, the first actor to have been killed off in the Star Trek universe, has an uncredited appearance as Eddie, the bartender
9. Once the creative team decided they were going to make a time travel movie two of the time periods they considered the Enterprise and her crew visiting included The American Civil War and Medieval Europe (which gives the alternate title "Renaissance" more meaning), and would have included a castle that would have partially been assimilated by the Borg.
10. The Norway-class starship is seen for the first (and only) time in this film; the CGI "model" of the ship was subsequently lost due to a computer glitch, and so the class never appeared again in any other Trek show or film.
11. 5 April 2063 (First Contact) will be a Thursday.
12. Dwight Schultz (Reg Barclay) was three hours late when arriving to the set because he got lost and a crew member had to come get him.
Star Trek: Insurrection
1. The character Gallatin was named for Gallatin county Montana, where the town of Bozeman is located, birth place of Star Trek writer Brannon Braga.
2. One of the sound effects used during the "skin stretching" scenes is that of a recharging camera flash.
3. In the beginning, when Data is being chased into the village, the stone bridge shakes and flexes like a wooden prop as the children run across it.
4. When Picard shoots the Son'a guard on the holoship, a crash mat can be seen when he falls off the roof.
5. During the phaer fight in the holoship, A Son'a soldier is shot and rolls off the roof of the hut, and when Picard ends the simulation, the soldier is not lying on the floor stunned when we see the full holodeck revealed, unless he was a hologram too.
6. When Data and Picard beam back up to the Enterprise after jumping into the Ba'ku lake, Data's uniform is dry while Picard's is still soaked.
7. When Picard meets the Ba'Ku for the first time, he introduces Counselor Troi as Dr. Crusher and Dr. Crusher as Counselor Troi. Both actresses nod to the wrong names as well.
8. When Picard is beamed on to the collector ship before facing Ru'afo, he is beamed from another Son'a ship, but he materializes with a Federation transporter effect, not a Son'a one.
9. After Picard rescues Anij from the water, Data says, "In the event of an emergency, my body can be used as a flotation device." Data then "rises" above the water as if he is inflating. The platform that raises Brent Spiner higher in the water is visible through the water underneath him.
Star Trek: Nemesis
1. Is the lowest grossing "Star Trek" film in the history of the franchise.
2. Denise Crosby discussed with executive producer Rick Berman the possibility of using her "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) character Sela in the film, but they could not work out a way to properly fit the character into the movie
3. This film was originally slated to be a direct sequel to Star Trek: Insurrection.
4. Midway during shooting, the captain's chair from the bridge set disappeared, apparently stolen. While the film crew scrambled to find a way to work around the problem, the "Enterprise" (2001) cast and crew shooting in the soundstages next door decided to have a little fun at their franchise-mate's expense: Scott Bakula visited Patrick Stewart's trailer to present him with a makeshift wooden "replacement" chair with the letters K-A-P-T-I-N painted on it.
5. The flowers behind Picard at the wedding party are stargazer lilies. Captain Picard's first command was the USS Stargazer.
6. The farewell scene in Picard's ready room, near the end of the movie, had to be re-shot after Patrick Stewart unintentionally started crying.
7. Jonathan Frakes refused to shave his back for the love scene turned rape with Troi. The hair on his back was digitally removed by an effects house.
8. In order to get the job of directing the film, Stuart Baird did uncredited re-editing work on two other Paramount films, Mission: Impossible II (2000) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
9. When the front of the Enterprise bridge is blown out the crewman at the Navigator's station is thrown completely over his console. The harness lifting him out of his chair can clearly be seen before the camera cuts away.
10. When Data and Picard are trying to escape from the Remen ship for the first time, Picard places his back to part of the wall in order to avoid being shot. When he jumps out to return fire, the wall visibly bends back into shape where his body was forcing it out of alignment.
11. When Shinzon makes his final lunge at Picard, the piece of ship Picard uses to impale Shinzon can be seen to shift laterally across Shinzon's chest, an impossibility if it had impaled him through the chest.
I was browsing through a few websites and thought id throw together a few bits of trivia and goofs from the TNG movies. Im sure youve already heard of allot of them but incase you havent here are a few.
Star Trek Generations
1. William Shatner has said that his line "Who am I to argue with the Captain of the Enterprise?" from this movie was the hardest line he ever had to deliver.
2. The horse that William Shatner rides is his, as are the home and farm where the sequence takes place.
3. Toys based on the popular "Aliens" toy line are apparently still around and doing well in the 24th century. In the scene where Picard enjoys Christmas with his Nexus family, one of his children is playing with his Christmas gift - a slightly modified Aliens "Evac Fighter."
4. In the opening scenes on board the Enterprise-B, three different news networks (each with a reporter and a cameraperson) are represented. They are: the Federation News Network, Starfleet Broadcasting, and the Earth Broadcasting Service.
5. The redesigned bridge of the Enterprise-D that is used in in this film was inspired by the "alternate-history" bridge of the Enterprise-D from the TV episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Yesterday's Enterprise (1990).
6. The Enterprise-B bridge is a redress of the Enterprise-A bridge as seen in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). After filming, it was heavily modified to become the Armagosa Observatory control center.
7. In the holodeck scene, Troi (when she goes to help Picard) hands over the sailing ship's helm to an elderly man. This man is, in real life, the captain of the boat (the Lady Washington, owned by Grays Harbor Historical Seaport in Aberdeen, Washington) which was used in filming this scene.
8. One of the reasons for destroying the Enterprise-D was that it was designed for the narrow aspect ratio and low resolution of televisions. Destroying the ship allowed the creation of a theater-friendly ship for subsequent movies.
9. Fifty days before shooting began, the captain's chair on the bridge set was stolen. A new one had to be used, one made of fiberglass around foam on an old first season frame.
10. Original versions of the script called for Kirk to take command of the battle bridge of the Enterprise and lead it into combat against the Klingons, thus dying onboard the Enterprise.
11. Many of the recording devices used by the news crews on the Enterprise B are actually hand-held video games.
12. Kirk's death scenes were re-shot after preview audiences reacted badly to the original version, wanting a more "heroic" death. Kirk originally died after being shot in the back by Soran.
13. James T. Kirk's final two words, "Oh, my..." are a spontaneous ad lib made by William Shatner. Shatner later explained it was Kirk's reaction to eternity and truly going where Kirk had never gone before.
14. Although Data is the owner of Spot, the cat, Brent Spiner who plays Data in fact hates cats and objected to the scene where Data finds Spot in the wreckage of the Enterprise, saying "Does he have to find the cat? Can't he find, like, Geordi or something?"
15. The Enterprise-B's hull has outcroppings on either side of the main deflector, indicative of a modified Excelsior-class design. However, these outcroppings are not present as it warps past on its way to the Lakul and the Nexus energy ribbon. (This is actually a reused shot from Star Trek VI where the Excelsior was charging to the Enterprise's rescue)
Star Trek: First Contact
1. The Borg makeup and suits had to be constantly touched up. Several of the Borg actors lost a considerable amount of weight while in costume due to the heat of the sets and temperature in L.A. during the shooting.
2. The deflector dish is labeled AE35, the name of a component of a satellite dish in 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. [Ronald D. Moore The screenwriter appears in the holodeck club scene.
4. Ronnie Rondell Jr. The film's stunt coordinator appears in the Holodeck nightclub scene as the man who warns Picard that he is about to take his actions personally.
5. Brannon Braga The screenwriter appears in the holodeck club scene.
6. The eyepieces of the Borg flash the Morse code of the names of people associated with the production.
7. All the scenes filmed inside the silo and of the "Phoenix" were taken at the "Titan Missile Museum", located in Green Valley, 20 miles South of Tucson, Arizona. This site is the only Intercontinental Missile (ICBM) silo complex in the world that is open to the public. The 110 foot tall Titan II rocket has been "de-militarized" (no fuel or nuclear payload) and, per the SALT treaty and SMART (Strategic Missile Arms Reduction Treaty), one of the two silo doors must remain blocked open for Russian satellite verification.
8. Actor Michael Zaslow, the first actor to have been killed off in the Star Trek universe, has an uncredited appearance as Eddie, the bartender
9. Once the creative team decided they were going to make a time travel movie two of the time periods they considered the Enterprise and her crew visiting included The American Civil War and Medieval Europe (which gives the alternate title "Renaissance" more meaning), and would have included a castle that would have partially been assimilated by the Borg.
10. The Norway-class starship is seen for the first (and only) time in this film; the CGI "model" of the ship was subsequently lost due to a computer glitch, and so the class never appeared again in any other Trek show or film.
11. 5 April 2063 (First Contact) will be a Thursday.
12. Dwight Schultz (Reg Barclay) was three hours late when arriving to the set because he got lost and a crew member had to come get him.
Star Trek: Insurrection
1. The character Gallatin was named for Gallatin county Montana, where the town of Bozeman is located, birth place of Star Trek writer Brannon Braga.
2. One of the sound effects used during the "skin stretching" scenes is that of a recharging camera flash.
3. In the beginning, when Data is being chased into the village, the stone bridge shakes and flexes like a wooden prop as the children run across it.
4. When Picard shoots the Son'a guard on the holoship, a crash mat can be seen when he falls off the roof.
5. During the phaer fight in the holoship, A Son'a soldier is shot and rolls off the roof of the hut, and when Picard ends the simulation, the soldier is not lying on the floor stunned when we see the full holodeck revealed, unless he was a hologram too.
6. When Data and Picard beam back up to the Enterprise after jumping into the Ba'ku lake, Data's uniform is dry while Picard's is still soaked.
7. When Picard meets the Ba'Ku for the first time, he introduces Counselor Troi as Dr. Crusher and Dr. Crusher as Counselor Troi. Both actresses nod to the wrong names as well.
8. When Picard is beamed on to the collector ship before facing Ru'afo, he is beamed from another Son'a ship, but he materializes with a Federation transporter effect, not a Son'a one.
9. After Picard rescues Anij from the water, Data says, "In the event of an emergency, my body can be used as a flotation device." Data then "rises" above the water as if he is inflating. The platform that raises Brent Spiner higher in the water is visible through the water underneath him.
Star Trek: Nemesis
1. Is the lowest grossing "Star Trek" film in the history of the franchise.
2. Denise Crosby discussed with executive producer Rick Berman the possibility of using her "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) character Sela in the film, but they could not work out a way to properly fit the character into the movie
3. This film was originally slated to be a direct sequel to Star Trek: Insurrection.
4. Midway during shooting, the captain's chair from the bridge set disappeared, apparently stolen. While the film crew scrambled to find a way to work around the problem, the "Enterprise" (2001) cast and crew shooting in the soundstages next door decided to have a little fun at their franchise-mate's expense: Scott Bakula visited Patrick Stewart's trailer to present him with a makeshift wooden "replacement" chair with the letters K-A-P-T-I-N painted on it.
5. The flowers behind Picard at the wedding party are stargazer lilies. Captain Picard's first command was the USS Stargazer.
6. The farewell scene in Picard's ready room, near the end of the movie, had to be re-shot after Patrick Stewart unintentionally started crying.
7. Jonathan Frakes refused to shave his back for the love scene turned rape with Troi. The hair on his back was digitally removed by an effects house.
8. In order to get the job of directing the film, Stuart Baird did uncredited re-editing work on two other Paramount films, Mission: Impossible II (2000) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
9. When the front of the Enterprise bridge is blown out the crewman at the Navigator's station is thrown completely over his console. The harness lifting him out of his chair can clearly be seen before the camera cuts away.
10. When Data and Picard are trying to escape from the Remen ship for the first time, Picard places his back to part of the wall in order to avoid being shot. When he jumps out to return fire, the wall visibly bends back into shape where his body was forcing it out of alignment.
11. When Shinzon makes his final lunge at Picard, the piece of ship Picard uses to impale Shinzon can be seen to shift laterally across Shinzon's chest, an impossibility if it had impaled him through the chest.
