"You want perimeter scaffolding?" "When it`s the cargo hold, I thought it`d be a good area." "To a long and successful voyage." " The new crew of the Enterprise." " Live long and prosper." "We couldn`t do it with the old cast." "They were doing movies." "You couldn`t afford them." "I don`t think there`s much difference except that we have a larger cast now, and we have different characters playing different roles." "On the original Star Trek, I practically lost my family, from working so many 12-hour days, 14-hour days, seven days a week." "I said, you can`t pay me enough." "l`ve known Gene... since about 1964." "We worked together on the first Star Trek pilot." "lt`s like I went home one night in 1968, and came back to work the next morning in 1986." "Then they said, "Suppose we did it in a way they call syndication, where we don`t have a network, or all those people."" "Paramount said to me," ""We guaranteed to you that you will be in charge of this show."" "What Star Trek is about, what the series is about, is about morality, and that hasn`t changed one bit since the early days back in 1965 and 1966 when we first started making the original series." "Captain`s log, stardate 4 1153. 7." "Our destination is planet Deneb iv, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy." "My first encounter with Star Trek was during one of those first seasons at Stratford." "l`d rented a cottage several miles out in the country, and my wife, who`d been on tour, came home on Saturdays, and I would scuttle back after a matinee... of Henry Iv Part l, or Hamlet, or whatever we were doing," "and we would have toast and marmalade and tea, and Star Trek." "What the hell?" "Children are not allowed on the bridge." "Dr Crusher?" "Captain." "When I got the job on Star Trek:" "The Next Generation I didn`t even know the names of any characters." "I knew there was a captain and a doctor, but I didn`t know, actually, ... their names." "I really..." "I was a virgin." "Paramount had an idea for a syndicated show, but it was really... more or less a group of space cadets... running an Enterprise." "I said I couldn`t do that, but let me think about it." "Then I began to draw out a list of characters, which later came in the "bible", calling at the same time on friends and associates." ""What do you think?"" "And gradually, we came up with The Next Generation." "Lt Yar, Security, sir." "Capt Picard will see you on the battle bridge." "Can you imagine walking onto a set like this with lights flickering, and computerised panels and these hallways, and this futuristic thing." "I mean, we were establishing it." "Whatever we were doing would then be recorded as the way it was done." "It was extraordinary to get familiar with this thing and with each other." "It was..." "It would never be like that again." "My title is Production Designer." "l`m an art director who is in charge of everything you see on the screen except the actors." "My department provides the designs from which the model makers build the miniatures of the spacecraft, and any miniatures of planets, cities on the planets, that kind of thing." " Alright." " OK, here we go." "Rolling." "50." "OK, great." "Alrighty." "We`re having to show the new max stretch technique that will allow us to do a new warp drive for the Enterprise." "You can`t see much, but when we finish shooting, each frame will scan across the ship like this, and we`ll have an exposure of the entire ship, and it will give you the new warp-drive effect." "This effect is going to last for about a second, and it takes us about two days to shoot." "But that second still lasts in your mind." "lt`s going to have a good impression." "Normally on a feature, we would have anywhere from... two, three months just to do preproduction art and to plan shots, to talk with the director about the nature of the work, the look of it." "We like to have two or three months on a feature." "We`ll start with smoke, then have flame coming in, and then a second... I think it was fine what we just saw." "We would have had more smoke come in." "With this, we were still talking to Paramount the week before we began on just what work we would get." "We had less than a week to prepare how we were going to do all this before we began shooting." "lt`s a more complicated show today." "The state of the art, with respect to opticals and effects, we`ve progressed so far from those primitive days, that we certainly can`t get by doing the sort of things we used to do." "In the first Star Trek series, we treated such things as mixed races aboard the spaceship, and whether women could be in charge of anything, and so on." "And we shocked the audience by saying yes to those questions." "The Trekkies loved the original cast, and cared for each one of them, and felt slightly betrayed by the fact that they weren`t coming back." "In the new series, with new characters and new attitudes, we get to deal with still more important questions, questions of the `80s and the `90s." "Trekkies are..." "forward-looking people." "And once you get over that initial dismay, you start thinking about," ""What`ll the new one be like?"" "l`ve been asked the question," ""After doing all those episodes, are there new things to do?"" "My God, yes." "The basis of our series is the galaxy." "There`s quite a few stories out there." "Gene wanted the pilot of The Next Generation to be one hour long." "Encounter At Farpoint dealt with the Farpoint Station and the whole story line of a station that was a living object, that had turned itself into a space station at the edge of the universe." "Then the studio came and said, "We want this to be a two-hour."" "And Gene said, ... "Go to hell." "lt`s going to be a one-hour."" "The studio said, "You don`t understand." "We want two hours."" "Eventually, Gene gave in." "And when he did, he agreed to create another story line to integrate into the one-hour story line that he`d created." "That story line had to do with a character named Q." "Thou art notified that thy kind have infiltrated the galaxy too far already." "Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately." "Would you mind identifying what you are?" "We call ourselves the Q." "l`ve been involved in a number of first projects, or kick-off projects." "lt`s more exciting." "You`ve got a lot of people putting all their attention on the show." "Nothing`s been figured out yet, in terms of the run-of-the-mill "how things work"." "So there`s a lot of attention, and you feel it, and you give the show..." "You do your best, too." " Tasha, no." " l must." "I grew up in a world that allowed things like this court." "It was people like these that saved me from it." "When I first came in to audition for Star Trek I was given the part of Troi." "The character breakdown, the description for Troi described Denise." "You know, European, svelte, tall." "And the breakdown for Tasha described me." "Smaller and tougher, and built." "And darker, more exotic." "But characteristically, we were... we didn`t fit." "I read for Junie Lowry, the casting director, and she brought me back again to read the second time as Troi." "For three auditions, I read for Tasha." "When we got into the final reading with Gene, he thought that..." "He loved the both of us as actresses, individually, but didn`t like us for the parts." "And then they switched us around." "They said it was because they felt I had an empathy as Marina that Troi needed." "Counsellor?" "What is it?" " Do you want it described here?" " Yes." "No secrets here if we`re to be friends." "Agreed?" "We have nothing to hide." "Of course." "Pain." "Terrible loneliness." "l`m not sensing the Groppler, sir, or any of his people." "But it`s something very close to us here." "Patrick was a fortunate happenstance." "He first encountered me as part of a formal lecture." "My first thought was," ""l can`t put a bald-headed man in the captain`s chair."" "I happened to see him during an evening at UCLA when he was reading some Shakespeare comedies and some Noel Coward." "It bears out the theatrical adage of "You never know who`s out there."" "I was helping a friend by doing some readings, and Bob saw it." "As I got to know him and watch him, and ran the films he had done, I saw that that has nothing to do with acting and quality and strength." "He was so astonishing that I knew he had to be the captain." "Soon after that, I met with Bob and Gene." "I should say now that one of the most fortunate things I did was to ask him to play Capt Picard." "Mr Data has agreed to join me on the away team." "Very good, Commander." "Sir, maybe I should get something to wipe this water up." "Good idea." "Patrick I really want to impress." "I really want to show him that I can do good." "I don`t know why." "Just because... I look up to him because he`s such an incredible actor, and because he`s the Captain." "lsn`t this great?" "This is one of the simple patterns." " They have thousands more." " Careful." "The next rock is loose." "Wesley!" "I thought we`d do a year and go home, because, after all, no one can do another Star Trek." "That was my feeling, and many of the fans shared that feeling." "But... somehow we got a second season, and then a third season, and a seventh season, ..." "and I was wrong." "Your rank of Lieutenant Commander is honorary?" "Starfleet class of `78, honours in probability mechanics and ex obiology." " But your file says you`re a..." " Machine." "Does that trouble you?" "To be honest, a little." "Understood, sir." "Prejudice is very human." "That troubles me." "Do you consider yourself superior to us?" "I am superior, sir, in many ways." "But I would give it up to be human." "Nice to meet you,..." "Pinocchio." "I would come to Paramount for my appointment and be sent to Gene first." "Gene would essentially coach me, and talk to me about Riker, his mind, and about the 24th century." "His basic underlying theory, I feel, is that we`ve gone beyond just shoot `em up." "I learned a great deal, not only about Star Trek, but about his ideas of what Star Trek should be." "His ideas of what stories should be, and what the 24th century should be." "We`ve gone beyond dealing with others in a violent way, where if something`s different, you kill it." "In a situation where you can talk or fight, you talk." "He said one day, in the 24th century, there will be no hunger, and there will be no greed." "He believed it, and made me believe it." "lt`s one of the philosophies of the show that I think made it popular." "There`s a part of our psychological make-up that I think is noble, and is really..." "interested in growing and developing in the progression Roddenberry has taken us." "He`s taken who we are and he`s said," ""This is how we`ve progressed, step by step, until we are here, and this is what our universe is like."" "We relate to that." "Part of us likes to believe that that is in fact where we are heading as a species." "Star Trek, whether it`s Deep Space Nine, or Next Generation, or Voyager, is not about my idea of the future." "lt`s about Gene`s idea of the future, and that`s what we do." "No show l`ve ever made is everything I want it to be, but it`s like lightning has hit twice." "We have a marvellous cast." "They`re truly professional and talented people, and I feel like a man blessed by two families." "My first one has gone on." "I love and I miss them, but... the second family`s something, too." "Let`s see what`s out there." "Engage."