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[Captain Kirk] These are the voyages
of the starship Enterprise.
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[Gates McFadden]
By the mid '80s,
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Gene Roddenberry's
original wagon train to the stars
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was still rumbling along
on syndicated TV.
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The ratings are actually better,
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and people are watching the show now
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for the third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh time.
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[McFadden] Star Trek was no longer
simply a cancelled TV show on loop.
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Three lucrative movies
had transformed the franchise
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into a blockbuster.
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[groans]
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Star Trek II, III, and IV
are just really great movies.
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[McFadden] But when it came
to this wagon train,
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Gene had already fallen off.
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[Marc Cushman] He had been screwed over.
He wasn't getting any ownership money.
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Paramount was rejecting his scripts.
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They saw him as the enemy.
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[McFadden] Relegated to the sidelines,
Gene could only join the growing audience
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and watch as Star Trek
took off without him.
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So beam aboard and hold on tight
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as we boldly go into the depths
of Star Trek.
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And you can see it all from here
in The Center Seat.
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Take us home.
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1986, Voyage Home is a huge hit.
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[Kirk]
Everybody remember where we parked.
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Star Trek was heating up.
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Star Trek is the most profitable property
that Paramount has.
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[McFadden] It may have been profitable,
but Paramount wasn't admitting it.
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At least, not to Gene.
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Gene Roddenberry
owned 20% of Star Trek,
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and Shatner owned 5%.
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[McFadden]
Which sounds like more than a little...
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[cash register dings]
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But in fact...
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Neither of them had gotten a penny.
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[McFadden] Paramount's excuse?
Star Trek was penniless.
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[Cushman]
Paramount said it's in the red.
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It's the most successful show in reruns.
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It's now out on home video.
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It's in the red?
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[McFadden]
Gene knew Star Trek was a gold mine.
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And if he needed any confirmation,
it came to him one day on the golf course.
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[David Gerrold] Gene was golfing one day
with one of the studio lawyers,
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and the lawyer said,
"Let's make the next whole interesting."
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Gene says, "I tell you what,
let's make it really interesting.
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How about my royalties on Star Trek?"
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And they both laughed,
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and Gene said, "What do you think
those royalties would really be worth?"
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And the lawyer looks one way
and looks the other way.
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He says, "Probably about 30 million."
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[McFadden]
And more was to come
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because Paramount
wanted to bring Star Trek
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back to the small screen
with a new show.
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[Lucie Salhany] The stations
were pushing to bring it back,
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and we had tried to relaunch it
in '81, '82, '83,
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but it never really happened.
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So for the next few years,
they're going back and forth.
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"We wanna bring Star Trek back."
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[McFadden]
The next generation of Star Trek
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was going to require
the next generation of executives.
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My name is Lucie Salhany.
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[McFadden] Lucie and her colleagues had
an idea that had never been tried before.
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Let us syndicate.
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[McFadden] Selling a brand-new Star Trek
straight into syndication.
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[Salhany] That means selling a show
station by station.
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We will sell the original 79,
and we will sell them the new Star Trek.
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[McFadden]
Local stations got their new Star Trek,
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and Paramount kept a share of advertising.
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We took half of their advertising time
within that 60 minutes.
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So we kept seven minutes.
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The stations got seven minutes,
and those seven minutes would be
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three to four times more valuable
than any programming
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they would be running
in that time period,
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if the show worked.
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[McFadden]
Which was a big if.
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It was a gamble those stations took.
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[McFadden]
And it was all about the numbers.
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So we'll have this foundation of money
from the original TV show
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and the advertising revenue
from the new Star Trek.
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And that's how we paid for the show.
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[whistles]
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Incredible.
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[McFadden]
A new television business model
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would enable
the next generation of Star Trek.
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Star Trek broke the mold again.
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[McFadden] But what would they call
this next generation?
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We just kept talking
about this next generation.
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I don't even know how it came up,
but that's how we named the show.
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It was Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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[McFadden]
The colon never made it to screen,
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but Star Trek: The Next Generation
was heading back into space.
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We believed in Star Trek.
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We believed it was the time,
we believed space was going to be
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an important part of what
people were thinking and talking about,
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and we believed in Gene Roddenberry.
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[McFadden]
But Gene no longer believed in Paramount.
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So when it came to agreeing
for a new show,
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before signing up, Gene lawyered up.
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[Cushman] He realized that
Paramount needed Star Trek
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and he needed a strong lawyer.
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[McFadden] Gene's lawyer
was a lot more than just strong.
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Gene's lawyer was, to put it politely,
one of the most despicable, detestable,
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vile human beings I have ever,
ever had to deal with in any way.
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I could not say
enough evil things about him.
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When he came down with a brain tumor,
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I wanted to send a get-well card
to the tumor.
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[McFadden] But there was one
very notable thing about Gene's lawyer.
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He knew how to work a deal.
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Gene and his lawyer, Leonard Maizlish,
had negotiated a deal.
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[McFadden]
Not just any deal.
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[Cushman]
He wrote a contract that said
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Roddenberry would get
a percentage of the ownership,
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that he would get paid by specific dates,
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and that he would get
to inspect the books.
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"What are we gonna call
this new series, Gene?"
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"Oh, just put down 'Star Trek.'"
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[Cushman]
So Leonard writes the contract.
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The president of Paramount
signs it and everything else.
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And he said, "Congratulations.
Good to have you back in the family."
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Gene says...
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"By the way, I'm gonna have my accountant
call next week to look at the books."
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"Excuse me?"
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He says, "No, really."
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"We're gonna audit Star Trek."
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"No, Gene, there aren't any books.
We haven't started doing the show yet."
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And Gene says, "Look at my contract."
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"You just gave me the right.
The new contract has auditing rights."
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Leonard Maizlish didn't put
"Star Trek: The Next Generation."
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He put "Star Trek,"
and they signed it.
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So Gene now had the right to inspect
the books from the original Star Trek.
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[McFadden] Paramount knew all too well
the story those books could tell.
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And suddenly,
instead of a penniless Star Trek,
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-it was pennies from heaven for Gene.
-[cash register dings]
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" We'll give you a million-dollar payout
right now."
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A Rolls-Royce was delivered to his office
at Paramount.
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[horn honks]
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Hands him the keys,
a brand-new Rolls-Royce.
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Hands him a check.
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[ Gerrold]
"A bonus for signing with Star Trek,
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and then we'll pay you an enormous amount
of money each week."
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That's what Leonard Maizlish
was able to do for Gene Roddenberry.
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[McFadden]
So thanks to Gene's lawyer...
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[Gerrold] He was getting
an enormous amount of money.
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I don't know how much,
but it was a lot.
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[McFadden]
More than that...
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Gene Roddenberry is running the show.
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He's running it more than he's gotten
to do any of the recent movies.
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[Cushman]
And as a result,
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Gene Roddenberry was always
indebted to Leonard Maizlish
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and gave him a lot of power.
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[McFadden] But since Leonard the lawyer
had no power over creative matters,
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and with Gene a bit under the weather...
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He was having health issues.
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His best years were behind him.
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[McFadden] And so he asked
his two most trusted writers
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from the original series for help.
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He asked Dorothy and he asked
David Gerrold to prepare the bible.
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[McFadden] This was the perfect
opportunity to reimagine Star Trek.
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"Oh, great. We can fix the stardates.
We can fix the warp speed.
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We can fix all of the stuff
that was inconsistent."
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A manifest.
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Yes, sir.
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[McFadden]
If he was going to write the show bible,
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David was going to write a new testament.
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[Gerrold] "Let's have an older,
more thoughtful captain
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who doesn't beam down
and put himself in danger."
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The away team's ready, sir.
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Energizing.
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Gene says, "Oh, I like that."
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And Gene says, "Well,
we need a Spock character."
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That is wise.
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"Well, we can't have a Vulcan."
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I am an android,
though anatomically I am a male.
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Ha.
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[Gerrold]
"Let's do the opposite."
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I seem to have reached
an odd functional impasse.
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"Let's have an android who wants
to learn how to be human."
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Intriguing.
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I just, you know, took a shot
and did my best,
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and happy to have a job.
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[McFadden]
Some of David's ideas were truly radical.
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And I said, "We could have
a Klingon on the bridge."
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[laughs]
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-Gene said no.
-Impossible.
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[McFadden]
But Gene was clinging on to the past.
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[Gerrold]
Dorothy came along later,
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she said,
"Let's have a Klingon on the crew."
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Gene said no.
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[McFadden]
So Gene had doubled down on no Klingons,
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but he did want original series writing
legend D.C. Fontana's way with words.
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He asked me would I please
write the pilot script,
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"Encounter at Farpoint."
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And I said, "Fine."
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This Farpoint station
will be an excellent test.
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We were telling people, "Don't suggest
putting a Klingon on the ship.
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Gene said no."
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When we get to "Encounter at Farpoint,"
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and Dorothy writes it
where Tasha Yar is in command...
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Yar here.
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And Gene rewrites it
and introduces the character of Worf.
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I am Lt. Worf.
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So he won't have to have a woman
in the command chair.
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[McFadden]
And suddenly, David and Fontana
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had their Klingon on the bridge,
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but Gene had burned a bridge
in the process.
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She added to my pilot script,
and that was the first thing
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that was a little disappointing.
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I see. I see.
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[D.C. Fontana] He added all the stuff
that had to do with Q.
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We call ourselves the Q.
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[Gerrold] Gene took her script
and he adds the character of Q,
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who is now testing the Enterprise.
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Gene only had one story.
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"We meet God
and we beat the crap out of him."
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The same old story all over again.
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[McFadden] Gene had a long history
of playing God with the scripts.
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Which I didn't particularly care for,
but it's not my choice.
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[McFadden] This time,
Gene was not just rewriting the script,
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he was rewriting the deal.
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I had to share
that script credit with him.
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[Gerrold] He said,
"The studio wants my name on it."
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And this is Leonard Maizlish's doing.
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Dorothy was furious.
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Gene had lied to her,
and he now was getting half the credit
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and half the money on this script.
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[McFadden]
Having been pushed aside on her own pilot,
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Gene threw Fontana
a small but lucrative bone.
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And this is where it gets really ugly.
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[McFadden]
She could write the story as she saw fit,
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but not for TV, for a book.
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Publishing was gonna give $30,000
for the novelization.
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[McFadden] Dorothy promptly wrote
the novelization of her own episode.
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And Dorothy had written the novelization,
she was done with it.
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[McFadden] But no matter how evil
her own villain in the book,
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it was nothing compared to what
Leonard the lawyer had planned.
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[Gerrold] She was gonna turn it in,
and Leonard Mazelis says,
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"We're taking the novelization
away from you."
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And he comes to me and says,
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"Would you like to do the novelization
of 'Encounter at Farpoint'?"
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So I said, "Yeah, I can do that."
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[McFadden] But Leonard Maizlish
was about to hit a roadblock
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made of solid loyalty.
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And its name was David Gerrold.
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And then I go to Dorothy very privately.
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I said, "I know you finished the book
and I know what Leonard has done.
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Give me your book.
I'll turn it in and give you the money."
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I would do anything for Dorothy Fontana.
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And you know, if Leonard is gonna
screw her, he has to go through me.
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[McFadden] Eighteen Earth years
since its last primetime adventure,
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Star Trek was finally launching
a new mission.
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Gene Roddenberry wanted to make
a Star Trek that was different
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from what he had done in the '60s.
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Break us out of orbit
and continue to our next assignment.
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[McFadden]
But this next-generation Star Trek
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posed a next-level challenge.
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We must proceed in our own way.
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[McFadden] How to reshape the franchise
for a new generation
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without losing touch
with Star Trek's roots.
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Every Star Trek begins with,
"How do we make it exactly like the others
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except totally different?"
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[Michael Okuda]
Gene was very proud of what
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he had done on the original series,
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but he wasn't afraid to shake things up.
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[McFadden]
Everything was up for renegotiation.
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[David Livingston]
The set design, the costumes,
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the makeup, the hair design...
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Everything had to be created new
and invented.
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[McFadden]
Including a new and redesigned Enterprise.
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It seemed like everything was new.
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Gene had a very definite directive to me.
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"No pistols."
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These phasers have been retuned.
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[McFadden]
Which led to a few new questions.
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How do you hold an energy weapon
if it's not like a gun?
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Well, then it's like a flashlight.
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Hold it right there!
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I think the first time
I pulled out my phaser, I went...
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[buzzes]
You know, like, I made a noise.
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[McFadden]
Actually, Denise was on the right track.
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We redid the entire sound library
with modern sound.
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Everything had to be familiar enough
and yet new enough.
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[laser sound]
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[McFadden] Ships and guns were one thing,
but what about the people to control them?
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Star Trek had to find a new leader,
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and that person
had some big boots to fill.
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You're from outer space.
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No, I'm from Iowa.
I only work in outer space.
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Gene wanted to have
everything be not original series,
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and so what's the totally opposite
you can be of an Iowa farm boy
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is a French guy.
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I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard
of the USS Enterprise.
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[McFadden]
But it's a long way from Iowa to Paris.
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[Salhany]
Well, we were used to Shatner.
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The expectation is,
you're gonna get somebody like him.
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[McFadden]
A far bigger problem was who should play
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this aristocratic Frenchman.
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What the devil am I doing here?
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"How many French actors
are we gonna read?"
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[McFadden]
The answer was obvious.
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Oh, great.
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[McFadden]
An Englishman, of course.
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When they came up with it,
we went, "Oh, my God."
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[McFadden]
Gene Roddenberry was unconvinced.
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Gene didn't want Patrick Stewart.
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[McFadden] He felt there was
something missing about Patrick Stewart.
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[Cushman] Gene didn't like the fact
that he was hairless.
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Gene wanted it to be somebody who looked
like Jeffrey Hunter or William Shatner,
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that standard American leading man.
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[McFadden] Gene felt Star Trek
would be losing touch with its roots
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if it cast a captain that didn't have any,
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but he was abundant with something else.
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He had a gravitas.
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All right!
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Gene was so impressed by his acting,
he said okay.
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[McFadden]
But if Gene loved Patrick's smooth acting,
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he still wasn't a fan of his smooth head.
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Damn.
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[Livingston] This bald guy shows up
looking for the hair department.
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With his very proper English accent,
he says, "Hi, I'm Patrick Stewart,"
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and he has this box.
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In the box were wigs for a hair test.
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Because, Gene Roddenberry,
he was not about to have a bald captain.
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[McFadden]
Who's to say
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whether Patrick Stewart
passed or failed the hair test?
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It was a little bit of a shocker.
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[McFadden]
But then someone had a bright idea.
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[Cushman]
"Why not let him just be what he is?
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It won't be compared
to the original Star Trek."
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As simple as that.
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[McFadden]
Of course.
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What Patrick Stewart lacked
was not a problem, it was the solution.
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If they try to get somebody like Shatner,
it's gonna kill the show.
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We need somebody different
that people will talk about.
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[McFadden]
Patrick Stewart's skull
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was the least
of Star Trek's casting problems.
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Creating that ensemble, it's a...
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85% of the success
of your show is your casting.
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[McFadden]
But not to worry because...
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[Gerrold] Gene had a superpower,
and it was casting.
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He would go with his gut feeling.
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He will triumph who knows when to fight.
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[Gerrold] With the men,
he looked for people
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who were capable of heroic deeds.
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[McFadden]
And for the women...
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Gene was always looking for women
who had a certain presence.
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And you can see it with Marina Sirtis
and Gates McFadden.
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Their presence is compelling.
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Dr. Crusher.
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Captain.
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[McFadden] As for my presence,
yes, that's me.
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I almost wasn't even present
at my audition.
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I had come out to LA for something else,
and I was on my way back to the airport
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when my agent said,
"Please go to Paramount and audition."
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"Well, what's the part?"
She said, "Oh, just go, just go."
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I went there and they said,
"Yeah, any of the women's roles."
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00:15:26,217 --> 00:15:27,297
Doctor, all I've got is--
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Is an order to report to sickbay
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from the only person aboard this ship
who can give you an order.
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Gene made it very clear that
I was a high-ranking officer,
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that Riker and Crusher
had the same rank,
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and that if I felt that the captain,
something was off
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psychologically, medically,
I could ask him to step down.
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I thought it was a big step forward
for women in command positions,
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the fact that she was a mother and had
to deal with her child on the ship.
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Mom, could you get me
a look at the bridge?
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All of those things were why
I ultimately said yes.
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Mr. Crusher.
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[McFadden]
Star Trek's first single mom
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would bring with her Star Trek's
first series regular teenager.
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I'm with Starfleet.
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Gene really wanted a character
that kids could relate to.
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Breathe.
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Gotta remember to breathe.
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[Wil Wheaton]
I was a super weird kid.
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I was shy,
and I just felt so seen by Star Trek.
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So when I had an opportunity
to become part of Star Trek,
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I was so nervous that I went in there
and I just sucked.
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I wasn't prepared at all.
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I just blew it and I left, and I was like,
"Well, I just lost that job."
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Do you judge your condition good?
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I judge it excellent, sir.
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[McFadden] Denise Crosby
entered through the backdoor,
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thanks to a last-minute brainstorm
and a trip to the movies.
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We had seen Aliens, and we
were so impressed with Vasquez.
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[McFadden] The hard-hitting heroine
played by Jenette Goldstein.
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"We need a strong woman like that,"
Gene said.
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So I created--
I called her Macha Hernandez.
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He said, "Oh, we can't name her Macha,
that means 'lesbian.'"
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"Yeah, what's your point?"
390
00:17:06,151 --> 00:17:08,111
All right, so they changed the name
to Tasha Yar.
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00:17:08,194 --> 00:17:12,164
Originally, I was reading
for the part of Counselor Troi.
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I came in and read for Rick Berman
and Gene Roddenberry,
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and Gene said, "Would you mind
reading the part of Tasha Yar?"
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As security chief,
I can't just stand here and let--
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Yes, you can, Lt. Yar.
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And Gene said,
"I see it suddenly differently."
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[Captain Picard] Wesley.
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I haven't stepped one foot
on your bridge, Captain.
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[McFadden] And for Wil Wheaton,
the door didn't shut.
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[Wheaton] Casting had called and said,
"Just wasn't what we know he can be.
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We just want him to come back
and take another swing at it."
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00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:41,940
Sit down over there, young man.
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00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:45,110
[Wheaton] I went back and I didn't suck.
That never happens.
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00:17:45,190 --> 00:17:47,030
I'm really lucky and really grateful.
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00:17:47,108 --> 00:17:50,648
Generosity has always been by weakness.
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00:17:50,737 --> 00:17:52,857
[McFadden]
John de Lancie's casting as Q
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came from the unlikely combination
of daytime TV, heart surgery,
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and a lawyer
pretending to be someone else.
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00:18:00,163 --> 00:18:03,293
A guy walks out,
he said, "I'm one of the producers."
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00:18:03,374 --> 00:18:05,794
He actually wasn't.
He was Gene's lawyer.
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[McFadden]
Leonard the lawyer was back.
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-[horn honks]
-As a producer?
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[John de Lancie]
And he said, "This is a payback.
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Four or five years ago,
I was flat on my back
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with a quadruple bypass operation.
416
00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:18,005
Every day, I would watch you."
417
00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:19,927
I had been on a soap opera.
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00:18:20,016 --> 00:18:23,056
You should have seen
the smile on her face.
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00:18:23,144 --> 00:18:26,364
"And you made me laugh
when I thought I was gonna die."
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00:18:26,439 --> 00:18:29,649
Leonard Maizlish brought me in,
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00:18:29,734 --> 00:18:31,954
and I was there at 6:00
in the morning on Monday.
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Another brilliant suggestion.
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[McFadden] The question
for the producers was,
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how would all of this play
in the kingdom of fandom?
425
00:18:38,952 --> 00:18:41,832
There was an actual protest
about The Next Generation.
426
00:18:41,913 --> 00:18:43,753
"You're never going
to replace Kirk and Spock!
427
00:18:43,832 --> 00:18:46,542
You can't wipe away Kirk
and Spock and McCoy for us!"
428
00:18:46,626 --> 00:18:50,416
You know, the fans, they just thought
we were killing the sacred cow.
429
00:18:50,505 --> 00:18:52,505
[Brent Spiner]
Leonard Nimoy said that, you know,
430
00:18:52,590 --> 00:18:54,630
"How many times
can you create lightning in a bottle?"
431
00:18:54,717 --> 00:18:58,217
It was unlikely that
we were going to be a success.
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It is possible.
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00:19:00,014 --> 00:19:02,274
But absolutely no margin for error.
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00:19:02,350 --> 00:19:04,020
[McFadden]
Lightning or not,
435
00:19:04,102 --> 00:19:06,732
things did get a little rattled
come opening night.
436
00:19:06,813 --> 00:19:11,153
[de Lancie] When the show aired,
when I saw that crane shot,
437
00:19:11,234 --> 00:19:13,534
and it came in like this...
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00:19:14,529 --> 00:19:15,909
[laughs]
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00:19:15,989 --> 00:19:17,239
I went, "Oh, dear."
440
00:19:17,323 --> 00:19:18,323
[grunting]
441
00:19:19,534 --> 00:19:21,954
[stammers]
It was out of a great comedy.
442
00:19:22,036 --> 00:19:23,786
I mean, you just couldn't make that up.
443
00:19:23,872 --> 00:19:26,542
[laughs]
"This show isn't gonna go anywhere."
444
00:19:26,624 --> 00:19:28,964
[McFadden] The first episode,
"Encounter at Farpoint,"
445
00:19:29,043 --> 00:19:33,633
went shakily into the unknown
on September 28th, 1987.
446
00:19:33,715 --> 00:19:36,335
"Encounter at Farpoint," to me,
is a strange hybrid.
447
00:19:36,426 --> 00:19:38,256
It's way too long.
448
00:19:38,344 --> 00:19:41,144
It's a two-hour, and it's really
only got enough story for an hour.
449
00:19:41,222 --> 00:19:44,682
It's kind of undisciplined
and loose-limbed.
450
00:19:44,767 --> 00:19:46,347
It kind of flops around a bit.
451
00:19:46,436 --> 00:19:49,106
I don't see no points on your ears, boy.
452
00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:51,768
But you sound like a Vulcan.
453
00:19:51,858 --> 00:19:55,568
[McFadden] But something about this
loose-limbed, ill-disciplined behemoth
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struck a chord.
455
00:19:56,779 --> 00:19:58,949
[Salhany]
The early returns were phenomenal,
456
00:19:59,032 --> 00:20:01,992
far beyond what anybody
thought they would be,
457
00:20:02,076 --> 00:20:04,366
and we knew we had
a major hit on our hands.
458
00:20:04,454 --> 00:20:07,464
A feeling of great joy.
459
00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:09,130
[McFadden]
It sure was.
460
00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:10,498
And gratitude.
461
00:20:10,585 --> 00:20:12,205
[McFadden]
But not for long.
462
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[McFadden]
Despite a shaky debut,
463
00:20:16,966 --> 00:20:19,426
Star Trek: The Next Generation
was an instant hit.
464
00:20:19,510 --> 00:20:21,550
I feel strange but also good.
465
00:20:21,638 --> 00:20:24,388
[McFadden] This brand-new chapter
was a breath of fresh air
466
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for Gene Roddenberry's
aging franchise.
467
00:20:27,602 --> 00:20:29,352
Hello, stranger.
468
00:20:29,437 --> 00:20:31,357
[McFadden]
But then the air went stale.
469
00:20:31,439 --> 00:20:35,439
The third episode was the one, I think,
where, as a viewer, I stopped watching.
470
00:20:35,526 --> 00:20:37,196
The dreaded "Code of Honor."
471
00:20:37,278 --> 00:20:41,028
[McFadden] Episode three arrived
with a storyline so loaded,
472
00:20:41,115 --> 00:20:44,365
it looked like unexploded ordnance
from another time.
473
00:20:44,452 --> 00:20:49,622
We go to the all-Black planet
and I've gotta fight the woman.
474
00:20:49,707 --> 00:20:51,917
[grunting]
475
00:20:52,001 --> 00:20:55,341
He's gonna take the white woman
as his new wife.
476
00:20:55,421 --> 00:20:57,511
We were like,
"Are we really doing this?"
477
00:20:57,590 --> 00:20:59,090
[McFadden]
Yep, they did.
478
00:20:59,175 --> 00:21:01,005
There is no excuse for that episode.
479
00:21:01,094 --> 00:21:06,434
It should be burned in a magnesium fire
and never aired again.
480
00:21:06,516 --> 00:21:09,766
Star Trek... up in a really,
really, really bad way.
481
00:21:09,852 --> 00:21:12,482
There is no doubt in my mind
that the cast would have pushed back
482
00:21:12,563 --> 00:21:13,773
if it was later in the run.
483
00:21:13,856 --> 00:21:16,316
Some of the people
who could have made a difference
484
00:21:16,401 --> 00:21:17,901
would have just refused to go to work.
485
00:21:17,986 --> 00:21:20,906
It's the same kind
of pompous, strutting charades
486
00:21:20,989 --> 00:21:23,279
that endangered our own species
a few centuries ago.
487
00:21:23,366 --> 00:21:24,946
[Denise Crosby]
I was scratching my head, thinking,
488
00:21:25,034 --> 00:21:27,334
"There's no way
this is gonna get on the air.
489
00:21:27,412 --> 00:21:28,252
There's no way."
490
00:21:29,038 --> 00:21:33,708
If they had not had a guarantee
of two seasons,
491
00:21:33,793 --> 00:21:37,463
this show would not
have gotten past the first season.
492
00:21:37,547 --> 00:21:42,047
We were, like, trying to find our way,
and there were a lot of bad episodes.
493
00:21:42,135 --> 00:21:45,135
I am programmed in multiple techniques,
494
00:21:45,221 --> 00:21:47,061
a broad variety of pleasuring.
495
00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:49,600
That first season was all over the map.
496
00:21:49,684 --> 00:21:50,694
[all screaming]
497
00:21:50,768 --> 00:21:51,598
[laughs]
498
00:21:51,686 --> 00:21:52,596
[Ronald D. Moore]
The show is trying to figure out
499
00:21:52,687 --> 00:21:54,977
what it is on a very basic level.
500
00:21:55,064 --> 00:21:57,444
"How close to the original series
should we be,
501
00:21:57,525 --> 00:21:59,235
and how different should we be?"
502
00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:01,738
It's almost just like they're
throwing things at the wall
503
00:22:01,821 --> 00:22:02,911
and seeing what'll stick.
504
00:22:02,989 --> 00:22:04,569
[Geordi La Forge]
Coordinates set in, Captain.
505
00:22:06,284 --> 00:22:08,294
Speed, warp five.
506
00:22:08,369 --> 00:22:09,409
[McFadden]
For the actors,
507
00:22:09,495 --> 00:22:12,035
the only thing more uncomfortable
than the storylines
508
00:22:12,123 --> 00:22:13,543
were the costumes.
509
00:22:13,624 --> 00:22:14,794
Nice suit.
510
00:22:14,876 --> 00:22:15,706
Thank you.
511
00:22:15,793 --> 00:22:21,223
There are some costume choices where I go,
"Oh, my God, it's just terrible!"
512
00:22:21,299 --> 00:22:22,629
Splendid! Splendid!
513
00:22:22,717 --> 00:22:27,137
This looks like something that one would
come up with for Halloween or something.
514
00:22:27,221 --> 00:22:28,971
We finished our ski lesson, sir.
515
00:22:29,057 --> 00:22:30,847
[Wheaton]
I hated Wesley's sweaters.
516
00:22:30,933 --> 00:22:33,273
I hated the colors.
They were baggy.
517
00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:36,982
They were weird.
Like, I just felt awkward.
518
00:22:37,065 --> 00:22:38,815
The gray spacesuit,
519
00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:42,450
wardrobe built a big muscle suit
that I had to wear underneath.
520
00:22:42,528 --> 00:22:44,948
I hated that thing so much.
It was so uncomfortable.
521
00:22:45,031 --> 00:22:46,491
It was always too tight.
522
00:22:47,492 --> 00:22:49,542
[McFadden]
But some costumes were ill-fitting
523
00:22:49,619 --> 00:22:51,749
in ways wardrobe couldn't fix.
524
00:22:51,829 --> 00:22:52,709
What do you think?
525
00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:57,789
Gene brought Bill Tice,
his original Star Trek designer.
526
00:22:58,961 --> 00:23:00,301
Bill Tice was a lovely man.
527
00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:01,759
But you look at his costumes,
528
00:23:01,839 --> 00:23:04,259
you think you're looking
at the original series.
529
00:23:04,342 --> 00:23:07,552
These costumes hadn't really evolved.
530
00:23:07,637 --> 00:23:08,967
[Data]
You should get into uniform.
531
00:23:09,097 --> 00:23:11,557
[McFadden] Even the standard issue
was so problematic,
532
00:23:11,641 --> 00:23:14,311
it was affecting actors' performances.
533
00:23:14,393 --> 00:23:16,483
The tail was wagging the dog.
534
00:23:16,562 --> 00:23:18,112
[Livingston]
The costumes for the permanent cast
535
00:23:18,189 --> 00:23:22,149
on The Next Generation
were Lycra one-piece suits,
536
00:23:22,235 --> 00:23:24,815
and they wreaked havoc on the cast
537
00:23:24,904 --> 00:23:27,244
because they would pull
on their body
538
00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:30,033
and force the actors
into a hunched position.
539
00:23:30,118 --> 00:23:33,788
[Wheaton] When you sit down
in that spacesuit, the tunic rides up.
540
00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:36,171
Patrick started
dramatically tucking it down,
541
00:23:36,249 --> 00:23:37,459
and they call it "The Picard Maneuver."
542
00:23:37,542 --> 00:23:40,002
[McFadden]
Costume designer Bob Blackman
543
00:23:40,086 --> 00:23:43,836
came to the rescue in season two
with a new two-piece number
544
00:23:43,923 --> 00:23:47,393
that saw Star Trek
returning to its military themes.
545
00:23:47,468 --> 00:23:49,928
I looked at the Second World War
and saw Dwight Eisenhower
546
00:23:50,012 --> 00:23:52,312
in his little jacket
that was fashioned just for him,
547
00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:54,641
and I said, "Let me take that silhouette
and work with that."
548
00:23:54,725 --> 00:23:57,095
And that's how we came up
with the two-piecer.
549
00:23:57,186 --> 00:23:59,266
The cast was most grateful for that.
550
00:23:59,355 --> 00:24:00,895
[McFadden]
Over in the writers' room,
551
00:24:00,982 --> 00:24:03,822
another generational battle
was playing out,
552
00:24:03,901 --> 00:24:06,741
and the disagreements
were over more than style.
553
00:24:06,821 --> 00:24:09,321
Gene ran it
in a very hodgepodge kind of way.
554
00:24:09,407 --> 00:24:10,777
People would bring him stories.
555
00:24:10,867 --> 00:24:14,197
He would give it then to everybody
to get notes, and it was very odd.
556
00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:17,917
[McFadden] Even stranger
was who Gene brought in as script doctor.
557
00:24:17,999 --> 00:24:20,999
[Cushman] Leonard Maizlish, his attorney,
was doing a lot of the writing.
558
00:24:21,085 --> 00:24:21,915
[horn honks]
559
00:24:22,003 --> 00:24:24,593
They didn't like Leonard Maizlish at all.
560
00:24:24,672 --> 00:24:26,592
And they didn't want him
rewriting their scripts.
561
00:24:26,674 --> 00:24:29,434
[McFadden] Gene's lawyer had proved
he knew how to write a contract.
562
00:24:29,510 --> 00:24:32,430
But when it came to scripts,
he'd already lost the room.
563
00:24:32,513 --> 00:24:35,563
Everybody hated Maizlish
except Gene Roddenberry.
564
00:24:35,641 --> 00:24:39,151
[McFadden] And Gene's
lawyer/producer/writer
565
00:24:39,228 --> 00:24:41,978
was stepping on
some very esteemed toes.
566
00:24:42,064 --> 00:24:44,944
As the story editor,
I was not terribly well-treated.
567
00:24:45,026 --> 00:24:47,696
Things went over my head
that I could have had input in.
568
00:24:47,778 --> 00:24:50,198
Dorothy Fontana has written
a lot of great scripts,
569
00:24:50,281 --> 00:24:51,661
and she should have been a producer.
570
00:24:51,741 --> 00:24:54,241
[McFadden] Dorothy wasn't
the only high-ranking woman
571
00:24:54,327 --> 00:24:55,287
feeling overlooked.
572
00:24:55,369 --> 00:24:57,659
-Is that an order, Doctor?
-Yes.
573
00:24:57,747 --> 00:25:00,877
I often felt very lost
and very out of place.
574
00:25:00,958 --> 00:25:02,708
I thought I was captain of this starship.
575
00:25:02,793 --> 00:25:05,173
-Of course you are, but I--
-Thank you for the confirmation, Doctor.
576
00:25:05,254 --> 00:25:08,474
Star Trek in that era,
in the late '80s, early '90s,
577
00:25:08,549 --> 00:25:09,589
was a boys' club.
578
00:25:09,675 --> 00:25:12,345
[McFadden] As for the girls' club,
well, there wasn't one.
579
00:25:12,428 --> 00:25:15,508
[Crosby] It was never like
the women just got together
580
00:25:15,598 --> 00:25:17,478
because we never had a scene together.
581
00:25:17,558 --> 00:25:18,518
[McFadden]
And if we did...
582
00:25:18,601 --> 00:25:20,601
It would always be something
almost comical.
583
00:25:20,686 --> 00:25:23,766
Like, we would be hitting
someone on the head with a pot.
584
00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:25,066
[groans]
585
00:25:27,318 --> 00:25:28,568
[groans]
586
00:25:28,653 --> 00:25:31,453
You're gonna put somebody
in a position of power
587
00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:36,160
and then not give them
anything powerful, right, to do.
588
00:25:36,244 --> 00:25:38,374
[McFadden]
The power struggle on set
589
00:25:38,454 --> 00:25:41,624
mirrored the turf war
raging among the producers
590
00:25:41,707 --> 00:25:43,667
as Gene fought to retain control.
591
00:25:43,751 --> 00:25:46,051
That is to say, his lawyer did.
592
00:25:46,128 --> 00:25:50,088
The studio execs, every time they would
tell Gene how much they liked my work,
593
00:25:50,174 --> 00:25:51,804
the lawyer would panic.
594
00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:54,474
"Oh, my God, they're gonna fire Gene
and put in David Gerrold."
595
00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:57,223
And so Gene would end up
bawling me out.
596
00:25:57,306 --> 00:25:59,426
The one I feel bad for is David Gerrold
597
00:25:59,517 --> 00:26:01,687
because he never even got
his name on the screen.
598
00:26:01,769 --> 00:26:03,019
I mean, he wrote the bible.
599
00:26:03,104 --> 00:26:04,774
He came up with some of those characters.
600
00:26:04,855 --> 00:26:06,475
They asked me,
"Do you want the credit or the money?"
601
00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:07,855
I said, "I'll take the money."
602
00:26:07,942 --> 00:26:09,942
[McFadden]
Others chose to take the exit.
603
00:26:10,027 --> 00:26:12,777
I stayed for the first 13 episodes,
and then I left.
604
00:26:12,863 --> 00:26:15,283
It was not a terribly happy experience.
605
00:26:15,366 --> 00:26:17,946
Gene should have hired
me and Dorothy as producers,
606
00:26:18,035 --> 00:26:20,955
and instead his despicable lawyer
brought in a lot of people
607
00:26:21,038 --> 00:26:22,918
who didn't know what Star Trek was at all.
608
00:26:22,999 --> 00:26:27,379
[McFadden] But in the end, David knew
the rules better than Gene's lawyer,
609
00:26:27,461 --> 00:26:29,551
and so the writer-turned-lawyer...
610
00:26:29,630 --> 00:26:34,720
Leonard was doing producer-level work
on the show when he wasn't qualified,
611
00:26:34,802 --> 00:26:36,892
and this was a violation
of Writers Guild rules.
612
00:26:36,971 --> 00:26:40,181
[McFadden] The Writers Guild
went directly to Paramount's top brass.
613
00:26:40,266 --> 00:26:45,226
[Gerrold] Within 15 minutes, studio guards
had packed up Leonard's entire office
614
00:26:45,313 --> 00:26:47,323
and escorted him from the lot.
615
00:26:47,398 --> 00:26:49,438
He was banned from the lot.
616
00:26:53,404 --> 00:26:55,784
[McFadden]
With this Star Trek villain vanquished,
617
00:26:55,865 --> 00:27:00,325
Star Trek: The Next Generation
continued its syndicated success.
618
00:27:00,411 --> 00:27:04,621
However, some members of the crew
were on their last legs.
619
00:27:04,707 --> 00:27:09,047
I actually asked them,
"Could you make a mock-up of my legs?"
620
00:27:10,046 --> 00:27:11,876
[McFadden]
And the reason for such a request...
621
00:27:11,964 --> 00:27:14,384
"You're always on Patrick
and these guys down here,
622
00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:18,297
so you just really see my legs up there.
I can go home."
623
00:27:18,387 --> 00:27:20,717
[McFadden]
Denise decided it was time for home
624
00:27:20,806 --> 00:27:24,346
after her request
for better Tasha Yar stories was rebuffed.
625
00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:28,435
[Crosby] Gene, he was the one
who really said to me,
626
00:27:28,522 --> 00:27:33,442
"The stories are gonna focus on
the captain, the first officer, and Data.
627
00:27:33,527 --> 00:27:37,237
It's, you know,
Shatner, Spock, Bones."
628
00:27:37,323 --> 00:27:39,033
When in Rome,
we'll do as the Romans do.
629
00:27:39,116 --> 00:27:40,026
[comm whistles]
630
00:27:40,117 --> 00:27:43,617
"It's a formula that works,
and I'm gonna stick with that."
631
00:27:43,704 --> 00:27:47,294
[McFadden] So Gene made firm plans
to dispense with Tasha Yar.
632
00:27:47,375 --> 00:27:51,045
[Crosby] He said, "I want
this character to be killed.
633
00:27:51,128 --> 00:27:53,918
I've never done it," and he said,
"The only problem is,
634
00:27:54,006 --> 00:27:55,716
you won't be able to come back."
635
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,680
I warn you.
636
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:58,800
I said, "Yeah, go for it."
637
00:27:58,886 --> 00:28:02,556
[McFadden] And so finally, Tasha Yar
got to be the center of attention.
638
00:28:05,017 --> 00:28:06,767
As she lay dying...
639
00:28:06,852 --> 00:28:08,732
[Captain Picard]
What's Lt. Yar's condition?
640
00:28:08,813 --> 00:28:11,693
You know, it was such an anti-climactic,
you know, death.
641
00:28:11,774 --> 00:28:13,114
[Captain Picard]
Dr. Crusher, report.
642
00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:14,856
She's dead.
643
00:28:14,944 --> 00:28:16,244
[McFadden]
That, by the way,
644
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,120
was just making my character
look like an unlicensed doctor.
645
00:28:20,199 --> 00:28:23,159
There were so many people
who died on my table.
646
00:28:23,244 --> 00:28:25,294
[sighs]
647
00:28:25,371 --> 00:28:28,921
I remember Patrick saying,
"Don't let her touch you.
648
00:28:28,999 --> 00:28:31,249
Her patients die."
[laughs]
649
00:28:31,335 --> 00:28:32,415
How's your patient, Doctor?
650
00:28:32,503 --> 00:28:34,093
Not good.
651
00:28:34,171 --> 00:28:35,131
It's a running joke.
652
00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:38,054
You know, it's like, "I don't know
about Crusher, how good she was."
653
00:28:38,134 --> 00:28:41,854
You are here now watching
this image of me because I've died.
654
00:28:41,929 --> 00:28:43,929
[McFadden]
But Tasha Yar's final moments
655
00:28:44,014 --> 00:28:46,894
would not be Denise's
final moments on set.
656
00:28:46,976 --> 00:28:50,646
So "Symbiosis"
was the last script that I shot,
657
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:52,149
and obviously they reversed them.
658
00:28:53,441 --> 00:28:55,151
[McFadden]
For that, she prepared an Easter egg.
659
00:28:55,234 --> 00:28:57,534
-[bell dings]
-And laid it right on camera.
660
00:28:57,611 --> 00:29:02,451
I waved goodbye in the camera.
I'm waving goodbye to the fans.
661
00:29:02,533 --> 00:29:03,873
[McFadden]
The fans and everyone.
662
00:29:03,951 --> 00:29:05,201
There she is.
663
00:29:05,286 --> 00:29:08,656
But Denise wasn't alone
in wanting more for her character.
664
00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,577
[Wesley Crusher]
Hey, Mom, look what I can do.
665
00:29:10,666 --> 00:29:13,836
[McFadden] I thought we were gonna have
some really great development
666
00:29:13,919 --> 00:29:16,589
between Wesley Crusher
and Doctor Crusher
667
00:29:16,672 --> 00:29:19,972
because she was a scientist,
he was this genius.
668
00:29:20,050 --> 00:29:22,640
You never seemed that interested
in warp theory before.
669
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:27,850
Wesley was very often an idea
670
00:29:27,933 --> 00:29:31,233
and not a fully realized character.
671
00:29:32,438 --> 00:29:38,148
And it always broke my heart
that we didn't get to have those scenes.
672
00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:40,985
It was a difficult part to write for, Wes,
673
00:29:41,071 --> 00:29:44,491
and I think we all
sort of backed off from it,
674
00:29:44,575 --> 00:29:47,905
didn't want to because
his role was uncertain.
675
00:29:47,995 --> 00:29:53,205
You know, it was not clear by any means
what his position was there
676
00:29:53,292 --> 00:29:56,052
and what his relationship
to the others were.
677
00:29:56,128 --> 00:30:00,468
[McFadden] Second season head writer
Maurice Hurley wanted more action too,
678
00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:02,679
but not for his female characters.
679
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:03,590
What do you want?
680
00:30:03,677 --> 00:30:07,717
[Taylor] He wanted the big adventure,
the big conflict,
681
00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:13,436
not so much interested
in human dynamics, characterization,
682
00:30:13,521 --> 00:30:14,401
that kind of thing.
683
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,020
[Mark A. Altman]
Maurice Hurley, you know,
684
00:30:16,106 --> 00:30:19,026
that old-school,
cigar-chomping TV writer,
685
00:30:19,109 --> 00:30:21,819
the bottom line is, he was very sexist.
686
00:30:21,904 --> 00:30:25,954
He wrote women in lazy, tropy ways.
687
00:30:26,033 --> 00:30:28,703
[McFadden] I argued a lot about it
with Maurice Hurley,
688
00:30:28,786 --> 00:30:31,206
and I think I was not very diplomatic.
689
00:30:31,288 --> 00:30:34,498
You know, he just was not...
not happy with her.
690
00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:36,963
[McFadden]
I think I really, really upset him.
691
00:30:37,044 --> 00:30:42,344
And I remember at the closing party
of the first season,
692
00:30:42,424 --> 00:30:45,514
I had been told by my agents
how popular my character was.
693
00:30:45,594 --> 00:30:48,434
I remember
I was saying hello to everybody,
694
00:30:48,514 --> 00:30:52,644
and Maurice Hurley looked at me
with a look that I will never forget.
695
00:30:52,726 --> 00:30:57,016
Like, "Okay, you will see.
You're gonna be surprised."
696
00:30:57,106 --> 00:31:01,276
And I heard later that he said,
"Either she goes or I go,"
697
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,610
and then it was like a week later
that I was told
698
00:31:03,696 --> 00:31:05,696
by my agent that I was,
you know, fired.
699
00:31:06,615 --> 00:31:08,905
You are excused, Doctor.
700
00:31:08,993 --> 00:31:11,003
[McFadden]
And so it was Dr. Crusher
701
00:31:11,078 --> 00:31:14,328
who was put into the transporter
to nowhere.
702
00:31:14,415 --> 00:31:18,495
He was a producer-writer, so obviously
the actor could be easily replaced.
703
00:31:18,586 --> 00:31:20,376
Nobody was cool with it.
704
00:31:20,462 --> 00:31:22,722
I recall the cast being angry about it.
705
00:31:22,798 --> 00:31:24,758
[McFadden]
So having killed the doctor,
706
00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:26,183
producers sent for the doctor.
707
00:31:26,260 --> 00:31:27,090
Doctor! Doctor!
708
00:31:27,177 --> 00:31:28,047
[McFadden]
This doctor...
709
00:31:28,137 --> 00:31:29,757
Dr. Katherine Pulaski.
710
00:31:29,847 --> 00:31:31,427
[Diana Muldaur]
I just got the call and went in,
711
00:31:31,515 --> 00:31:33,055
talked to Gene, and he said,
712
00:31:33,142 --> 00:31:36,232
"Would you be interested in playing
a doctor on The Next Generation?"
713
00:31:36,312 --> 00:31:37,152
And I said yes.
714
00:31:37,229 --> 00:31:38,189
[McFadden]
Well, that was easy.
715
00:31:38,272 --> 00:31:39,112
I like to help.
716
00:31:39,189 --> 00:31:42,739
I only agreed to do it 'cause
I was doing a totally different character.
717
00:31:42,818 --> 00:31:44,528
I'm Dr. Jones.
718
00:31:44,612 --> 00:31:47,162
[McFadden] Different to the doctor
she played way back when,
719
00:31:47,239 --> 00:31:50,659
when a female doctor on TV
was something to get excited about.
720
00:31:50,743 --> 00:31:53,703
Of course, Dr. McCoy.
Please don't worry about me.
721
00:31:53,787 --> 00:31:56,037
[McFadden]
And not just for Bones.
722
00:31:56,123 --> 00:31:58,923
I based my character on Bones.
723
00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:00,291
Well, what do you know?
724
00:32:00,377 --> 00:32:02,087
And a lot of fans picked up on that.
725
00:32:02,171 --> 00:32:04,131
Close but different.
726
00:32:04,214 --> 00:32:05,884
[McFadden]
While that satisfied the true fans,
727
00:32:05,966 --> 00:32:09,926
Star Trek was about to receive
a fan request like no other.
728
00:32:10,012 --> 00:32:11,932
Well, everyone's very curious about you.
729
00:32:12,014 --> 00:32:13,604
Yes, I'll bet they are.
730
00:32:13,682 --> 00:32:15,812
Got a call from Whoopi Goldberg
saying that she wanted
731
00:32:15,893 --> 00:32:19,233
to be considered take Denise's role
as the head of security.
732
00:32:19,313 --> 00:32:22,863
[McFadden] But with a chance to have
a big Hollywood star in their show,
733
00:32:22,941 --> 00:32:24,991
they had other plans for Whoopi.
734
00:32:25,069 --> 00:32:27,279
Whoopi wasn't really
the head-of-security type for us.
735
00:32:27,363 --> 00:32:30,663
And Gene and I sat down
and we discussed it and thought,
736
00:32:30,741 --> 00:32:33,661
"What a great idea to have a bartender."
737
00:32:33,744 --> 00:32:35,454
-Guinan.
-Captain.
738
00:32:35,537 --> 00:32:37,367
[McFadden]
But even as a humble bartender,
739
00:32:37,456 --> 00:32:41,456
Whoopi 's megastar power
was quietly saving Star Trek.
740
00:32:41,543 --> 00:32:42,963
With experience.
741
00:32:43,045 --> 00:32:47,165
[Spiner] A major movie star at the peak
of her career decided to do this show.
742
00:32:47,257 --> 00:32:51,137
I think we became legit
when Whoopi came on the show.
743
00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:52,970
It could have been your timing.
744
00:32:53,055 --> 00:32:54,965
My timing is digital.
745
00:32:55,057 --> 00:32:55,887
[chuckles]
746
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,894
[McFadden]
Others would soon be departing.
747
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:01,856
[Muldaur] I was very happy at the end
of the year to say bye-bye.
748
00:33:01,939 --> 00:33:03,479
I would not have stayed for more.
749
00:33:03,565 --> 00:33:05,565
-[man] Can I ask why?
-No.
750
00:33:07,194 --> 00:33:09,114
I don't need to hear
what you don't need to say.
751
00:33:09,196 --> 00:33:12,616
[McFadden] Star Trek's doctors were
going down faster than their patients,
752
00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:15,950
and fans were clamoring
for the return of Dr. Crusher,
753
00:33:16,036 --> 00:33:18,286
so that's where I come in... again.
754
00:33:18,372 --> 00:33:23,422
I was at Starfleet Medical for a year.
I missed about two inches of him.
755
00:33:23,502 --> 00:33:26,842
[McFadden] It took some convincing,
but when the captain calls...
756
00:33:26,922 --> 00:33:31,182
I got a call from Patrick, he asked me
if I would please consider coming back.
757
00:33:31,260 --> 00:33:33,140
[McFadden]
The return of Dr. Crusher
758
00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:35,760
was a bone crusher
for head writer Maurice Hurley,
759
00:33:35,848 --> 00:33:37,388
who had previously said...
760
00:33:37,474 --> 00:33:38,564
"Either she goes or I go."
761
00:33:38,642 --> 00:33:40,982
[Altman]
Maurice, at the end of the second season,
762
00:33:41,061 --> 00:33:42,901
he voluntarily left the show.
763
00:33:42,980 --> 00:33:45,400
One of the first things that happened
at the beginning of the third season was,
764
00:33:45,482 --> 00:33:49,032
"Let's bring Gates back,"
and Diana was never spoken of again.
765
00:33:49,111 --> 00:33:51,911
[McFadden] But just as the ship
began to steady on screen,
766
00:33:51,989 --> 00:33:54,739
Star Trek: The Next Generation
was forced to undergo
767
00:33:54,825 --> 00:33:56,655
a changing of the guard at the top.
768
00:33:57,619 --> 00:34:00,999
[Livingston] Gene realized that
the day-to-day running of the show
769
00:34:01,081 --> 00:34:03,791
needed to be turned
to the next generation,
770
00:34:03,876 --> 00:34:04,956
and that was Rick Berman.
771
00:34:05,043 --> 00:34:06,673
It happened slowly.
772
00:34:06,754 --> 00:34:11,344
He got less and less involved
as his illness took over.
773
00:34:11,425 --> 00:34:15,595
Rick Berman was a studio executive
who had a lot in common with Gene.
774
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:17,099
You know, Gene felt he could trust him.
775
00:34:17,181 --> 00:34:20,481
[Rick Berman]
Gene's optimistic attitude of the future,
776
00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:23,559
I always felt, was somewhat unrealistic,
777
00:34:23,645 --> 00:34:24,855
but it was his attitude,
778
00:34:24,938 --> 00:34:30,108
and I felt it was my responsibility
to keep Gene's optimism alive.
779
00:34:30,194 --> 00:34:32,914
[McFadden] But the long shadow
of Star Trek's creator
780
00:34:32,988 --> 00:34:35,738
was putting the next generation
in the shade.
781
00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:39,834
We'd have these very acrimonious fights
with Rick about what Star Trek was.
782
00:34:39,912 --> 00:34:42,162
"Gene would never do this
in a million years," he would say.
783
00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:44,957
Rick was going to defend
to his dying breath
784
00:34:45,042 --> 00:34:47,502
what he thought
Gene wanted Star Trek to be.
785
00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:50,586
Rick ran the show
as he thought it should be run.
786
00:34:50,672 --> 00:34:53,842
If that rubbed certain people
the wrong way, so be it.
787
00:34:53,926 --> 00:34:56,346
[McFadden]
While Rick defended Gene's vision,
788
00:34:56,428 --> 00:34:59,558
there was one subject matter
Gene was willing to explore
789
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,060
that Rick wasn't.
790
00:35:01,141 --> 00:35:02,891
At some point, Gene mentions
that we're gonna have to have
791
00:35:02,976 --> 00:35:03,806
a gay crew member.
792
00:35:03,894 --> 00:35:07,064
[McFadden] And so
in an episode called "Blood and Fire"...
793
00:35:07,147 --> 00:35:08,767
[Gerrold]
There's a scene in "Blood and Fire"
794
00:35:08,857 --> 00:35:11,277
where someone turns
to the gay crew member and says,
795
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,490
"How long have you and Freeman
been together?"
796
00:35:13,570 --> 00:35:14,400
That was it.
797
00:35:14,488 --> 00:35:15,738
Rick Berman wrote a memo.
798
00:35:15,823 --> 00:35:18,533
"We can't have gay characters
on Star Trek
799
00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:20,327
because mommies will write letters."
800
00:35:20,410 --> 00:35:22,080
And I wrote a memo which says,
801
00:35:22,162 --> 00:35:27,632
"Gene promised gay crew members
on this Enterprise. If not now, when?"
802
00:35:27,709 --> 00:35:29,749
One of the producers
sticks his head in my office and says,
803
00:35:29,837 --> 00:35:32,047
"Great memo. You still have
to take the characters out."
804
00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:36,130
[McFadden] David's groundbreaking script
was lost to history,
805
00:35:36,218 --> 00:35:39,468
and with it went one
of Star Trek's most faithful servants.
806
00:35:39,555 --> 00:35:43,135
That was the reason why I quit
because this is hypocrisy.
807
00:35:43,225 --> 00:35:46,515
I was emotionally beaten down.
808
00:35:50,232 --> 00:35:51,652
[McFadden]
Star Trek: The Next Generation
809
00:35:51,733 --> 00:35:54,613
had been on a merry-go-round
of casting chaos.
810
00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:56,525
Well, it's nice to be together again.
811
00:35:56,613 --> 00:35:59,703
[McFadden] The balance of power
was shifting behind the scenes too.
812
00:35:59,783 --> 00:36:02,083
It was a switch
at the top of the writing staff.
813
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,540
You know, Maurice Hurley had left,
and Michael Piller came in.
814
00:36:05,622 --> 00:36:09,082
Things really took a turn and seemed
to start going in the right direction.
815
00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:11,417
Can it be possible
they know what they're doing?
816
00:36:11,503 --> 00:36:15,673
[McFadden] Well, by the show's third year,
maybe, yes.
817
00:36:15,757 --> 00:36:17,047
[Andre Bormanis]
God bless Michael Piller.
818
00:36:17,134 --> 00:36:19,474
When he took the reins,
he really understood
819
00:36:19,553 --> 00:36:21,143
the potential of the show
820
00:36:21,221 --> 00:36:24,431
and understood storytelling
in science fiction.
821
00:36:24,516 --> 00:36:29,896
And Michael's edict was, "We're gonna tell
stories about the Enterprise characters."
822
00:36:29,980 --> 00:36:31,860
[Tenuto]
The show is not about the ship.
823
00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:35,320
This show is about Riker
and Picard and the characters.
824
00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:37,572
It's about people.
825
00:36:37,654 --> 00:36:40,454
[McFadden]
But good characters need good stories,
826
00:36:40,532 --> 00:36:42,282
and halfway through
season three,
827
00:36:42,367 --> 00:36:45,867
the only action the writers' room
had seen was industrial.
828
00:36:45,954 --> 00:36:49,254
The writers' strike had just ended.
There was not a full staff.
829
00:36:49,333 --> 00:36:51,253
There was a point
where we had nothing.
830
00:36:51,335 --> 00:36:53,625
Once you start shooting,
it never stops,
831
00:36:53,712 --> 00:36:55,962
and something shooting tomorrow
and then a day after that.
832
00:36:56,048 --> 00:36:58,048
It has to be a sense of clockwork to it.
833
00:36:58,216 --> 00:37:00,046
And if you don't have
enough scripts in development
834
00:37:00,135 --> 00:37:01,795
and they're not in good enough shape,
835
00:37:01,887 --> 00:37:03,927
then it becomes an emergency.
836
00:37:04,014 --> 00:37:07,734
[McFadden] But one thing
Star Trek still had was its fans,
837
00:37:07,809 --> 00:37:10,849
and Trekkers themselves were
about to intervene in a way
838
00:37:10,938 --> 00:37:15,228
that would restore the show they loved
and ultimately set a new direction.
839
00:37:15,317 --> 00:37:20,987
We invited absolute unknowns and newcomers
to come in and pitch story ideas.
840
00:37:21,073 --> 00:37:23,163
It's like, "Why don't we leverage
that fan base out there?"
841
00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:26,411
If you wrote an actual script,
you could send it to Paramount
842
00:37:26,495 --> 00:37:27,865
and somebody would read it.
843
00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:31,205
Part of that job fell in my department
as the script coordinator.
844
00:37:31,291 --> 00:37:34,541
My office was just piled
with scripts everywhere.
845
00:37:34,628 --> 00:37:35,548
It was insane.
846
00:37:35,629 --> 00:37:37,459
[McFadden]
One fan script caught the attention
847
00:37:37,547 --> 00:37:39,587
of production assistant Eric Stillwell.
848
00:37:39,675 --> 00:37:43,465
Trent Ganino's script
involved an Enterprise from the past.
849
00:37:43,553 --> 00:37:45,643
[McFadden]
That script didn't make it to screen.
850
00:37:45,722 --> 00:37:49,312
We had gone up to Trent's hometown
for a Star Trek convention
851
00:37:49,393 --> 00:37:52,233
where Denise Crosby was the guest.
852
00:37:52,312 --> 00:37:54,902
We were speaking to her
in the autograph line
853
00:37:54,982 --> 00:37:58,902
and she said, You should write
an episode and bring me back."
854
00:37:58,986 --> 00:38:01,026
-Tasha.
-Yeah.
855
00:38:01,113 --> 00:38:04,493
[McFadden] But there was one small issue
to do with her being, um...
856
00:38:04,574 --> 00:38:05,414
What's the word?
857
00:38:05,492 --> 00:38:06,452
Dead.
858
00:38:06,535 --> 00:38:07,535
[McFadden]
That's it.
859
00:38:07,619 --> 00:38:08,699
You know, I died. We know that.
860
00:38:08,787 --> 00:38:10,867
[McFadden]
Of course, everyone knew that.
861
00:38:10,956 --> 00:38:12,666
I'm not supposed to be here, sir.
862
00:38:12,749 --> 00:38:15,669
So Trent and I together
started hashing out
863
00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:19,012
how could we bring Tasha back
'cause she's dead.
864
00:38:19,089 --> 00:38:21,469
[McFadden]
Well, there was one way.
865
00:38:21,591 --> 00:38:23,341
Time travel, of course.
866
00:38:23,427 --> 00:38:25,597
So Eric traveled across the hall.
867
00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:28,809
Yeah, I ran across the hall,
started just cold pitching.
868
00:38:28,890 --> 00:38:30,180
[McFadden]
And Michael Piller said...
869
00:38:30,267 --> 00:38:31,557
Make it so.
We'll give you cover.
870
00:38:31,643 --> 00:38:34,103
[McFadden]
But it was still a very basic idea.
871
00:38:34,187 --> 00:38:37,267
They turned it over to Ron Moore
to polish the story.
872
00:38:37,357 --> 00:38:38,937
I took "Yesterday's Enterprise."
873
00:38:39,026 --> 00:38:41,566
I really liked the idea
of the alternate timeline,
874
00:38:41,653 --> 00:38:44,953
and there was a mention of, like,
they had been at war with the Klingons.
875
00:38:46,533 --> 00:38:48,743
But it wasn't front and center
of the story and I just thought,
876
00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:50,657
"Oh, that's the coolest part
is that they're at war when--
877
00:38:50,746 --> 00:38:53,166
Oh, well, that would make it
a darker universe,
878
00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:55,498
and, like, everything
would be more war-like and militarized."
879
00:38:55,584 --> 00:38:56,754
What's the matter with the bridge?
880
00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:58,705
This is not a ship of war.
881
00:38:59,921 --> 00:39:01,381
This is a ship of peace.
882
00:39:01,465 --> 00:39:03,875
[McFadden]
Now the story had become serious enough
883
00:39:03,967 --> 00:39:06,047
that Captain Picard had to whisper.
884
00:39:06,219 --> 00:39:08,309
[whispering] The war is going very badly
for the Federation.
885
00:39:08,388 --> 00:39:11,978
[Moore] They're not just at war,
but the Federation's actually losing.
886
00:39:12,059 --> 00:39:14,809
The good guys are losing
and it's all gonna come crashing down.
887
00:39:14,895 --> 00:39:17,475
And that gave this episode
this sense of stakes
888
00:39:17,564 --> 00:39:19,484
and it made it a bit of a tragedy.
889
00:39:19,566 --> 00:39:22,356
You know, there's a doomed sense
to the world that you were in.
890
00:39:22,444 --> 00:39:26,034
The Federation has lost more
than half of Starfleet to the Klingons.
891
00:39:26,114 --> 00:39:28,034
[McFadden]
And now with the fleshed-out outline,
892
00:39:28,116 --> 00:39:31,406
the stage was set for
a beloved character to come back.
893
00:39:31,495 --> 00:39:32,405
In the flesh.
894
00:39:32,496 --> 00:39:35,166
And there was a sense
that Tasha didn't go out
895
00:39:35,248 --> 00:39:36,628
with the episode she deserved.
896
00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:39,708
So when we were talking
about bringing her back,
897
00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:41,165
everyone was excited by the idea.
898
00:39:41,254 --> 00:39:44,174
Didn't know if Denise Crosby
would be willing to do it.
899
00:39:44,257 --> 00:39:46,927
[Crosby] And of course,
I read it and went, "This is fabulous.
900
00:39:47,010 --> 00:39:48,600
This is great."
901
00:39:48,678 --> 00:39:49,548
And I said, "I'm on board."
902
00:39:49,638 --> 00:39:51,178
Where am I supposed to be?
903
00:39:52,599 --> 00:39:53,599
Dead.
904
00:39:53,683 --> 00:39:58,443
[McFadden] Producers now had their idea
and the actress ready to play Lazarus.
905
00:39:58,522 --> 00:40:01,612
But days from shooting,
there was still something missing.
906
00:40:01,691 --> 00:40:02,571
We had no script.
907
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:08,123
[McFadden] Scrambling to put together
an ambitious episode...
908
00:40:08,198 --> 00:40:10,368
There was just an outline
of what the thing was.
909
00:40:10,450 --> 00:40:12,080
This was seven days before we shot.
910
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,660
There was no time for any one writer
to do a complete draft.
911
00:40:15,747 --> 00:40:20,167
[McFadden] This crowdsourced idea
needed a crowdsourced script.
912
00:40:20,252 --> 00:40:22,752
They take Thanksgiving,
their Thanksgiving holiday,
913
00:40:22,838 --> 00:40:25,298
and all the writers
are writing at home an act.
914
00:40:25,382 --> 00:40:26,472
They all take an act.
915
00:40:26,550 --> 00:40:29,680
They all come back on Monday
after losing Thanksgiving
916
00:40:29,761 --> 00:40:30,971
and put it together.
917
00:40:31,054 --> 00:40:34,104
We all wrote separately
and then stitched them together.
918
00:40:34,182 --> 00:40:36,892
Everybody thought it was crazy.
It was insane.
919
00:40:36,977 --> 00:40:38,557
It's a real mess down here, sir.
920
00:40:38,645 --> 00:40:43,185
[Eric Stillwell] Everybody was convinced
that it was just gonna be this hodgepodge,
921
00:40:43,275 --> 00:40:47,065
horrible episode that they had
thrown together at the last minute.
922
00:40:47,154 --> 00:40:48,784
What ship is this, Captain?
923
00:40:48,864 --> 00:40:50,414
You're aboard the Enterprise.
924
00:40:50,490 --> 00:40:52,240
[McFadden]
In the rush, the writers managed
925
00:40:52,325 --> 00:40:54,365
to smuggle in some Star Trek firsts.
926
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:57,082
Rachel Garrett.
How's my ship?
927
00:40:57,164 --> 00:40:59,004
[McFadden]
Rachel Garrett was breaking new ground
928
00:40:59,082 --> 00:41:01,502
as the Enterprise's first female captain.
929
00:41:01,668 --> 00:41:03,458
[Moore]
In the script, it wasn't a woman.
930
00:41:03,545 --> 00:41:06,625
I remember thinking at the time,
"It's weird that I'm the one doing this."
931
00:41:06,715 --> 00:41:09,125
It's like, "How is this the first time
this has been done?"
932
00:41:09,217 --> 00:41:11,427
We'll make it one for the history books.
933
00:41:11,511 --> 00:41:14,471
[Moore] I wanted her to be
every bit as brave and heroic.
934
00:41:14,556 --> 00:41:17,096
She had to be worthy of Picard and Kirk.
935
00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:19,635
Captain, I would be lying to you
if I told you
936
00:41:19,728 --> 00:41:22,768
there was a chance in hell
of coming out of this alive.
937
00:41:23,398 --> 00:41:26,778
[McFadden] Captain Garrett broke through
Star Trek's glass ceiling,
938
00:41:26,860 --> 00:41:29,530
but unfortunately also broke her head.
939
00:41:29,613 --> 00:41:35,043
The detail of how Trisha died
was really, really important,
940
00:41:35,118 --> 00:41:39,918
the kind of shockingness
I wanted to get as part of the war.
941
00:41:39,998 --> 00:41:45,338
So it became harsher and nastier
than sometimes deaths were.
942
00:41:45,420 --> 00:41:47,170
This is Lt. Yar, sir.
943
00:41:47,255 --> 00:41:48,585
Captain Garrett is dead.
944
00:41:48,673 --> 00:41:53,353
[McFadden] For the character of Tasha Yar,
it was an unlikely win.
945
00:41:53,428 --> 00:41:57,058
[Crosby] "Yesterday's Enterprise"
became a redeeming episode
946
00:41:57,140 --> 00:41:59,680
for Tasha's senseless death.
947
00:41:59,768 --> 00:42:01,648
A death without purpose.
948
00:42:01,728 --> 00:42:04,228
She even addresses this very thing.
949
00:42:04,314 --> 00:42:06,904
I'd like my death to count for something.
950
00:42:06,983 --> 00:42:10,953
I always make the joke,
"I had to die to get a good script."
951
00:42:11,029 --> 00:42:13,279
This isn't a joke, Natasha.
952
00:42:13,365 --> 00:42:17,575
[McFadden] Just as this fansourced
episode reanimated Tasha Yar,
953
00:42:17,661 --> 00:42:20,041
it reinvigorated The Next Generation.
954
00:42:20,121 --> 00:42:22,331
[Moore] "Yesterday's Enterprise"
is a very risky episode
955
00:42:22,415 --> 00:42:24,535
that could have gone south
a thousand different ways,
956
00:42:24,626 --> 00:42:25,456
but it worked.
957
00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:26,883
You're not part of my crew.
958
00:42:26,962 --> 00:42:30,012
I am now. Captain Picard
approved my request for transfer.
959
00:42:30,090 --> 00:42:34,760
It was the first, in my opinion,
truly great episode of Next Generation.
960
00:42:34,844 --> 00:42:39,024
And I think it really raised
the profile of Next Generation.
961
00:42:39,099 --> 00:42:43,689
I think people sat up, took note,
and took the show more seriously.
962
00:42:43,770 --> 00:42:44,900
Welcome aboard.
963
00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:47,520
[McFadden] It seemed that
Star Trek: The Next Generation
964
00:42:47,607 --> 00:42:50,397
had finally found its place
in the universe.
965
00:42:50,485 --> 00:42:54,275
[Captain Picard]
Space: the final frontier.
966
00:42:54,364 --> 00:42:58,124
These are the voyages
of the starship Enterprise.
967
00:42:58,201 --> 00:43:00,201
[McFadden] With the steady hands
of Michael Piller
968
00:43:00,287 --> 00:43:01,907
and Rick Berman steering the ship,
969
00:43:01,997 --> 00:43:05,247
Star Trek: The Next Generation
had successfully extended
970
00:43:05,333 --> 00:43:06,673
the franchise's mission.
971
00:43:06,751 --> 00:43:10,211
[Captain Picard] To boldly go
where no one has gone before.
972
00:43:10,297 --> 00:43:11,627
[McFadden]
But behind the scenes,
973
00:43:11,715 --> 00:43:14,375
personnel issues
were only getting more personal.
974
00:43:14,467 --> 00:43:16,177
[Captain Picard]
Mr. Crusher, report to the bridge.
975
00:43:16,261 --> 00:43:20,021
I had this terrific opportunity
to go work in a feature film,
976
00:43:20,098 --> 00:43:23,768
and Rick Berman said, "This is
a really important Wesley episode.
977
00:43:23,852 --> 00:43:27,192
I have personally written
an extremely important scene.
978
00:43:27,272 --> 00:43:28,652
It's a really important part of the show.
979
00:43:28,732 --> 00:43:31,442
Our hands are tied.
He has to pass on the film."
980
00:43:31,526 --> 00:43:33,356
You're not involved in this decision, boy.
981
00:43:33,445 --> 00:43:36,525
[Wheaton] After I had passed on the film
and the film had been recast,
982
00:43:36,614 --> 00:43:38,784
he wrote me out
of the episode completely,
983
00:43:38,867 --> 00:43:40,787
and I was furious.
984
00:43:40,869 --> 00:43:44,079
Look, I have done everything
that everyone has asked of me and more.
985
00:43:44,164 --> 00:43:46,544
It hurt so much.
986
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:49,094
And after that happened,
I said to my agent,
987
00:43:49,169 --> 00:43:51,089
"Get me out of this contract.
Get me off the show.
988
00:43:51,171 --> 00:43:52,921
I don't wanna work
for this person anymore."
989
00:43:53,006 --> 00:43:55,626
[McFadden]
It was another unwelcomed departure.
990
00:43:55,717 --> 00:43:58,887
But then came the news
of an even more significant loss.
991
00:43:58,970 --> 00:44:03,100
It was during the fifth season
of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
992
00:44:03,183 --> 00:44:05,853
Sorry to interrupt. We're receiving
an emergency distress signal.
993
00:44:05,935 --> 00:44:07,395
I'm on my way.
994
00:44:07,479 --> 00:44:09,479
[McFadden]
The producers received some news
995
00:44:09,564 --> 00:44:12,034
that would stop them in their tracks.
996
00:44:12,108 --> 00:44:13,358
[Jeri Taylor]
Rick got a phone call.
997
00:44:13,443 --> 00:44:15,403
He took it and didn't say much,
998
00:44:15,487 --> 00:44:17,987
and then he came back
and sat down with us and told us.
999
00:44:19,366 --> 00:44:20,366
And...
1000
00:44:22,702 --> 00:44:24,792
Gene, he passed away.
1001
00:44:24,871 --> 00:44:27,121
[Taylor] One of the most
significant individuals
1002
00:44:27,207 --> 00:44:30,787
ever to impact television
was now gone.
1003
00:44:30,877 --> 00:44:35,967
[McFadden] Gene Roddenberry
died suddenly on October 24th, 1991,
1004
00:44:36,049 --> 00:44:39,389
25 years after the launch of Star Trek.
1005
00:44:39,469 --> 00:44:42,009
His memorial service,
it was a perfect send-off to him:
1006
00:44:42,097 --> 00:44:44,177
hundreds and hundreds of people,
1007
00:44:44,265 --> 00:44:46,475
they had the Blue Angels
fly over at the end.
1008
00:44:47,519 --> 00:44:53,109
A handful of people actually create
something that lasts 55 years, you know.
1009
00:44:53,191 --> 00:44:56,281
[Gerrold]
He managed to create this iconic thing
1010
00:44:56,361 --> 00:44:59,321
that defines
the best part of the 20th century,
1011
00:44:59,406 --> 00:45:02,406
a vision of hope,
a vision of what could be a way
1012
00:45:02,492 --> 00:45:05,832
to ask questions about who we are
and what we're up to in the world.
1013
00:45:05,912 --> 00:45:08,462
[McFadden]
But even still, Star Trek without Gene?
1014
00:45:08,540 --> 00:45:09,620
It's heartbreaking.
1015
00:45:09,707 --> 00:45:15,377
It was a big deal for the Star Trek family
that he was gone.
1016
00:45:15,463 --> 00:45:18,433
[McFadden] Without its creator,
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1017
00:45:18,508 --> 00:45:21,718
continued for
another two and a half years.
1018
00:45:21,803 --> 00:45:25,433
I think in the 6th and 7th seasons
in particular,
1019
00:45:25,515 --> 00:45:31,015
we were on such a roll as the cast
was just going so well together.
1020
00:45:31,104 --> 00:45:33,024
The writing was phenomenal,
1021
00:45:33,106 --> 00:45:35,146
and it just seemed
to get better and better.
1022
00:45:35,233 --> 00:45:37,903
[McFadden] The series wrapped
with a two-part extravaganza
1023
00:45:37,986 --> 00:45:40,446
that Gene no doubt
would have been proud of.
1024
00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:43,240
The series finale
really brought us full circle
1025
00:45:43,324 --> 00:45:45,794
to some of the issues and themes
that were brought up
1026
00:45:45,869 --> 00:45:47,159
in "Encounter at Farpoint."
1027
00:45:47,245 --> 00:45:50,865
It's time to put an end
to your trek through the stars.
1028
00:45:50,957 --> 00:45:53,627
I thought it was
a sensational double episode at the end.
1029
00:45:53,710 --> 00:45:54,880
Captain Picard.
1030
00:45:54,961 --> 00:45:55,961
-Yes?
-Yes?
1031
00:45:56,045 --> 00:45:58,665
There was nothing that I felt
I could have asked for more
1032
00:45:58,756 --> 00:46:03,256
than the way they explored
where our characters go or have gone.
1033
00:46:03,344 --> 00:46:05,354
[Moore] The whole final episode
was a love letter
1034
00:46:05,430 --> 00:46:06,930
to the series and to the fans.
1035
00:46:07,015 --> 00:46:09,425
It didn't feel right
to just go up onto the bridge
1036
00:46:09,517 --> 00:46:11,097
and press engage one more time.
1037
00:46:11,186 --> 00:46:13,606
It was really about them
and how much they loved each other.
1038
00:46:13,688 --> 00:46:15,188
Yes. Yes!
1039
00:46:15,273 --> 00:46:18,783
[Moore] Yes, we knew we wanted
to end the show with a poker game,
1040
00:46:18,860 --> 00:46:21,700
and the key was that Picard
never joined the poker game.
1041
00:46:21,779 --> 00:46:24,699
I, uh...
I just thought that I might, um...
1042
00:46:25,783 --> 00:46:26,833
I might join you this evening.
1043
00:46:26,910 --> 00:46:29,250
[Moore] So we wanted
to gather the family together,
1044
00:46:29,329 --> 00:46:31,249
just loving each other's company.
1045
00:46:31,331 --> 00:46:34,131
I should have done this a long time ago.
1046
00:46:34,209 --> 00:46:36,749
"What's the last line gonna be?"
It had to be a poker line, you know.
1047
00:46:36,836 --> 00:46:39,086
And I think it might have been
Jeri Taylor who came up with it.
1048
00:46:39,172 --> 00:46:40,972
[Captain Picard]
And the sky is the limit.
1049
00:46:41,132 --> 00:46:43,302
[Taylor]
It was a very sad time for me
1050
00:46:43,384 --> 00:46:46,804
and a sad episode
just because it was over.
1051
00:46:46,888 --> 00:46:50,268
It turned out to be
one of the great episodes.
1052
00:46:50,350 --> 00:46:52,350
[McFadden]
Paramount's risky experiment
1053
00:46:52,435 --> 00:46:56,105
and direct-to-syndication television
had paid off.
1054
00:46:56,189 --> 00:46:59,569
You've saved humanity once again.
1055
00:46:59,651 --> 00:47:01,191
[McFadden]
And not just commercially.
1056
00:47:01,277 --> 00:47:03,317
[Larry Nemecek]
1994 was peak Trek.
1057
00:47:03,404 --> 00:47:06,074
You have Next Generation
ending with an Emmy nomination.
1058
00:47:06,157 --> 00:47:09,827
[McFadden] But on the other side
of every peak is a descent.
1059
00:47:09,911 --> 00:47:12,211
And emboldened by its success,
1060
00:47:12,288 --> 00:47:16,168
Star Trek was about to descend
once more into chaos.
1061
00:47:16,251 --> 00:47:17,711
In deep space.
1062
00:47:17,794 --> 00:47:21,264
This was the show
that they aren't that pleased with.
1063
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:25,339
You're obviously a prisoner
of Federation dogma and human prejudice.
1064
00:47:25,426 --> 00:47:27,636
[McFadden]
And ultimately, deep trouble.
1065
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,680
There were a lot of people
who didn't like the way it was going,
1066
00:47:30,765 --> 00:47:31,925
the fact that it was serialized.
1067
00:47:32,016 --> 00:47:34,226
A lot of the audience gave up.
1068
00:47:34,310 --> 00:47:35,940
Paramount just threw up their hands.
1069
00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:38,110
[theme music playing]
1070
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:42,710
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