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Does MA have any articles/info about production costs, budgets/money allotted per season/episode, production staff/actors' salaries for the TNG-era (and ENT) series? I've seen on the TOS pages specific dollar amounts allotted per episode – which incidentally dwindled as actors' salaries rose – but almost no mention of budgets for the other series. Only indirect references, such as comments from production staff that money constricted their ability to use guest actors, make visual effects, etc., seem to exist. Is this sort of info unavailable, or is it unsuitable for inclusion in MA? Other than the movie budgets and gross returns, which are usually known for most films, I can't find anything.

Maybe it's here, but my search terms are inadequate. ?

— Cepstrum ^(talk) 17:16, February 22, 2011 (UTC)

My personal opinion on this is that it would make nice background information in the episode articles themselves, that is if you were able to get ahold of this information with a valid source. I may be wrong (someone please correct me if I am!), but I do not believe there is an MA policy against inclusion of this information (other than, like all BG info, it just needs a valid source). --| TrekFan ^{Open a channel} 17:22, February 22, 2011 (UTC)

I don't see why budget or cost information wouldn't be valid Background information- we already identify bottle shows, which were designed to save money for other episodes- if exact budget figures are out there, it would certainly provide insight into the making of the episodes. I just don't know where such figures would be.--31dot 18:59, February 22, 2011 (UTC)

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 :My personal opinion on this is that it would make nice background information in the episode articles themselves, that is if you were able to get ahold of this information with a valid source. I may be wrong (someone please correct me if I am!), but I do not believe there is an MA policy against inclusion of this information (other than, like all BG info, it just needs a valid source). --|  [[User:TrekFan|TrekFan]] <sup>[[User Talk:TrekFan|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Open a channel</span>]]</sup> 17:22, February 22, 2011 (UTC)
+::I don't see why budget or cost information wouldn't be valid Background information- we already identify bottle shows, which were designed to save money for other episodes- if exact budget figures are out there, it would certainly provide insight into the making of the episodes.  I just don't know where such figures would be.--[[User:31dot|31dot]] 18:59, February 22, 2011 (UTC)