One such example is a story advised to Volk-Weiss through Denise Crosby, the actor who played the Enterprise’s Chief Security Officer, Tasha Yar, in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Tasha Yar was exactly the kind of tricky, motion heroine personality that used to be meant to separate The Next Generation from its 60s forebear, but the first season noticed her character woefully underwritten.
Disappointed with the lack of construction her persona had received, Crosby had decided to leave the show, and Rodenberry noticed it as an opportunity to do one thing he had by no means done in the Original Series – kill off a member of the primary forged.
This came about in the episode ‘Skin of Evil’, and most Next Generation lovers will bear in mind seeing Tasha Yar knocked out by way of an evil tar pit earlier than loss of life on Doctor Crusher’s working table. But what you'll have neglected is what took place in the final episode Crosby actually filmed, which aired the week ahead of.
“I’ve observed that episode six or seven times and I never spotted that,” Volk-Weiss tells us. He recounts the tale as Crosby told it to him.
“She shot her penultimate episode, and before that she’d shot her loss of life. So, there’s a shot in her second-to-last episode where Picard and Deanna are strolling out of a giant shipment bay, and all the approach in the back, 500 to at least one,000 toes away, you see Denise jump up and wave.”
Episode 22 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is ‘Symbiosis‘, which is as natural a by-the-numbers ‘Picard agonises over whether or not to wreck the Prime Directive’ episode as you can get.
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