I wish Discovery and Enterprise had remembered that. Maybe the holodecks those series featured weren't as advanced as TNG era holodecks, but the visuals still looked real enough. I don't mind that they had holodecks, but they should have made it look less advanced, not as real, to really show the advancement in holo-technology over the years until they reached the realistic visuals of TNG era.andersonh1 wrote:- everyone is genuinely amazed by the holodeck and the visuals it can create, which is refreshing to see.
Yeah, I have to say that's the only time I recall seeing that insignia. Would have been interesting to see where that would have gone had they stuck to it.- Q says at one point that the Federation conquered the Klingons. In Heart of Glory when Worf meets two Klingon fugitives, the captain of the Klingon ship that is hunting them has a Federation insignia with Klingon writing, something I don't think we ever saw again.
Its interesting he would be one of the first Ferengi we'd ever see. And he'd play another Ferengi in TNG episode "Peak Performance". It's also interesting the Ferengi were intended to be the new villain race like the Klingons had been for TOS.- Armin Shimerman (Quark from DS9) is in the first Ferengi episode. Man, the Ferengi are awful in that one.
Josh Clark was in TNG? Well what do you know... Be kinda cool if he was the same character.- Josh Clark (Joe Carey from Voyager) is in an episode, so one assumes Mr. Carey served on the Enterprise before he was on Voyager.
I saw an interview on Youtube with him not long ago where he was talking about the development of the character a bit. He said he tried to give the character an American accent at first but Rick Berman wanted him to use his natural accent. He also didn't know who O'Brien was the first time he saw the name on a script since he was just 'non-discript transporter chief' prior to getting an actual name, and obviously prior to that he wasn't even a transporter chief.- similarly, Colm Meany shows up a couple of times at conn or as security, and he's clearly not O'Brien yet.
I was curious as to why they didn't have a set chief engineer to start out the series. I know Gene Roddenberry didn't want to have a main engineering set because he didn't think it was necessary, although he was obviously overruled. I don't think it was until Geordi eventually took the position that they had a set chief engineer.- I'm not sure how many chief engineers we go through. Quite a few.
Denise Crosby wanted to leave the show because she wasn't happy with how they were developing (or lack of) the character. I think she regretted that decision, seeing how many times she would return as a guest star.- Tasha Yar is a character that deserved time to develop, and it's a shame they killed her off. She dies like a redshirt though, killed by the alien partway through an episode, as befits a security officer.
I never understood the hate for the character personally. I always liked Wesley, and I thought it was a shame they had him leave Starfleet (only to have him back in a Starfleet uniform for Nemesis). But yeah, they did have him save the ship a bit too often, but that had nothing to do with Wil Wheaton, that was the writing.- Wesley Crusher... everyone hated the boy who always saved the ship, but it's down to the writing. Wil Wheaton doesn't make the character particularly annoying, but there are a few too many episodes where the trained, professional, Starfleet explorer adults can't or won't see the danger, while the kid can. Datalore is a prime example.