What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Bad Thoughts]

Brannon Braga explained the policy of no on set changes to the dialogue on an episode of Shuttlepod Show. The policy came from Roddenberry as a means of maintaining the timelessness of the script, and Berman embraced it because it would mean that there would always be clarity and concision in the complicated stories laced with fantasy technologies.

(That said, I think Picardo had some leeway, but I could be wrong.)

 

[Rahul]

A "no add-libbing" rule makes a ton of sense in speculative fiction to be honest.

Imagine someone saying "Jesus Christ" in Lord of the Rings. It's super easy to accidentally break continuity.

There's some famous stories about Harrison Ford changing some dialogue lines on Star Wars. Considering how small the changes & how big the stories are - it seems George Lucas didn't regularly allow any changes as well.

 

[Mage]

Didn't Frakes also comment on that? After the SNW/LDS cross over? How he remembered acting and directing in/for BermanBraga Trek and how things were set in stone, while there was a lot of addlib and free acting on SNW.

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[Richard S. Ta]

Dead letter perfect.

It wasn’t a writers guild thing. Definitely an in-house thing.

Interesting that there’s folks from several shows of the era there, and they all say the same thing.

I’m surprised that Shimmerman wasn’t an ad-libber TBH.