#Star trek tng sub rosa tv#
Just having Beverly basically writhing around having an orgasm at 6 o’clock on family TV was great. It just got bigger and broader and to the point of grandmother leaping out of the grave. The sets look great and everybody threw themselves into it. Ultimately I think it was worth doing because it was campy fun and the production values were wonderful. Every woman on the lot who read it was coming up to Brannon and patting him. “I can still reduce Brannon to shudders when I go into his office and say, ‘I can travel on the power transfer beam’. Even Rick Berman had said, ‘I can’t believe we’re doing this.’ I think they trimmed quite a bit out of the writhing sequences.“ Look, I scripted the first orgasm in “ The Game“. Are they gonna be able to pull this off?’ Thanks to Jonathan Frakes and Gates, it was not hokey. When I was writing the words, ‘She writhes around in the bed having invisible sex,’ I just thought, ‘Oh man, we’re asking for trouble. Picard catches Beverly masturbating for crying out loud! What a tough role to play. “ It was the best performance I’ve ever seen. It is a romance but we do have women in our audience and women do traditionally respond to romantic stories. It’s a different kind of story for Star Trek to tell. They considered it a romance novel in space and felt the possibility for embarrassment was monumental, but I just knew it would work. Rick and Michael were very distrustful of this story. First, from Jeri Taylor, the showrunner at the time:
And what I found most interesting about the Memory Alpha article were some quotes from the writers at the end. The producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation just didn’t care.
What I do find interesting is what this suggests about resource allocation: most of these plot holes would not have been at all hard to fix. When I was watching them as a teenager I would immediately call up a close friend and the two of us would nitpick the night’s episode for the better part of two hours, but I’ve gotten over that.
It did eventually murder someone, though there was no obvious reason that things got to that point.Īs I said, it’s not that I particularly care about the plot holes in TNG episodes, at least not any more. Why, then, it was supposed to be bad was completely unclear. It also, according to Beverly’s grandmother’s diary, kept them happy. This suggests that the anaphasic entity kept them healthy. Beverly came into contact with it because she was burying her grandmother at a very old age, and the Howard women were, if I recall correctly, generally described as hardy. (You could get around this by skipping a generation, going from grand-mother to grand-daughter, which happened in the case of Beverly Crusher but didn’t at any other time.) I bring this up not to nit-pick, but because it’s a good symbol of how much the TNG writers cared about plot holes: not very much.Ī bigger plot hole was that the anaphasic entity was supposed to be sinister, but it seemed to be symbiotic, not parasitic. Though like all TNG episodes, it had its share of plot holes.įor one thing, it was said to have lived symbiotically with the “Howard Women” for centuries, except that family names are patrilineal, not matrilineal, so they would have been Howard women for a single generation. Haunting isn’t quite the right word, as it seemed to live symbiotically with them. It was a (sort of) ghost story, centering about an “anaphasic entity” which had been haunting the women of Beverly Crusher’s family. It was an unusual episode, being described by Memory Alpha as a foray into gothic horror. I forget why, but I was recently reading about the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Sub Rosa.
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