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that "Court Martial" features a mathematical error when it is stated that the ship's auditory sensors can amplify the sounds on board by "one to the fourth power", as 1*1*1*1=1, meaning that the sounds wouldn't actually be amplified at all?
that Brannon Braga created and produced a show called Threshold that premiered in 2005, which ironically had the same title as "Threshold", an episode authored by Braga that he calls the worst he ever wrote and which is considered by many, including staff members of Paramount Pictures, to be apocryphal?
that the episode "Deja Q" was originally about a looming Klingon-Federationwar that was caused by Q, who had "faked" his loss of powers, only to later come in to become the hero?
that in the script for "Broken Bow", the two Teneebian moons were originally to be two Andorianmoons, but were changed because the writers wanted to introduce the Andorians over the course of the series?
that 1994's "Genesis" was the first episode of Star Trek to be directed by a female cast member?The episode was directed by Gates McFadden; the next episode would be Roxann Dawson's "Riddles".
that the Ferengi were originally created for The Next Generation to be the main antagonist to the Federation, replacing the Klingons from The Original Series, but were perceived to be so nonthreatening that eventually the Borg were devised, and would play the villain role with much greater success?
that the teaser trailer for Star Trek: First Contact contains very little actual footage from the film? To launch the promotion on time, it needed to be released long before the film was completed. The score from several Trek films was used, mainly Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, along with footage from TNG and DS9 episodes. Curiously, even the USS Voyager appears in the trailer, in what appears to be an altered scene of the USS Enterprise-D attacking the Borg cube from "The Best of Both Worlds".
that unbeknownst to the rest of the production staff, Hal Sutherland, the director of Star Trek: The Animated Series, was colorblind? To him, pink was indistinguishable from light gray, therefore many images that were meant to be gray were unintentionally colored pink.
the final season of Star Trek: Enterprise was shot almost exclusively on Sony 900 digital cameras, thus making it the first Trek series to be photographed on digital video instead of film. The only scene in the entire season that wasn't shot on digital video was the teaser of "In a Mirror, Darkly", which was shot on 35mm film to better intercut with stock footage from the 1996 movie Star Trek: First Contact.
that the original version of the script for "Conspiracy" did not feature alien parasites? The 'conspiracy' in question was simply a military coup within Starfleet, but Gene Roddenberry vehemently opposed such an idea, since he believed Starfleet would never stoop to such methods; thus the alien angle was introduced at his insistence.
that for "Friendship One", the producers made a list of recurring characters they could kill off, finally deciding on Joe Carey? Other possibilities that were heavily considered included Vorik and Samantha Wildman.
that while Morn's headpiece's mouth was designed to be able to move and talk, and every time it was applied to the actor it was capable of doing so, he never spoke a single word throughout the entire run of Deep Space Nine?
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