Larry Nemecek - The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion

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This book is lovingly dedicated: To the memory of the man who dreamed he could fill us with wonder again, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry; To those involved at every turn in making sure that dream stays alive; and To those who most helped me achieve this dream by sacrificing a large part of our first year together: my own Janet and Andrew, Sarah and Nathan.

Fate protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise.

Riker, Contagion

As a work in progress rooted in its original circumstances, this second revised TNG Companion boasts even more thoughts of the Star Trek family, then and now. I have to straddle an entire, incredible decade to remember all those who have lent their time, energies, and memories to make this history as wide-ranging as it is.

Aside from those doing double duty from the TNG series, thanks during the movie era to Marty Hornstein, Jerry Goldsmith, John Eaves, Terry D. Frazee, and Bill Dolan; and, on Star Trek Generations, David Carson, John Alonzo, Carolyn Dahm, Victoria Wilson, Michelle Wright, Ron Wilkerson, and Liz Radley. For Star Trek First Contact: Neal McDonough, Matt Leonetti, Deborah Everton, Judi Brown, Jerry Fleck, Lolita Fatjo, Bob Gillan, Janet Nemecek, Ron Wilkinson, Shawn Baden, John Josselyn, Tony Bro, Tom Arp, Jake Garber, Brad Look, Sonny Burman, Scott Wheeler, Michael Westmore II, and Ben Betts. On Star Trek: Insurrection: Sanja Hayes, Geoffrey Mandell, Kurt Hanson, Monique Chambers, and Maril Davis. And for Star Trek Nemesis: John Logan, Stuart Baird, Tom Hardy, Ron Perlman, Dina Meyer, Bob Ringwood, Roland Sanchez, Cherie Baker, Shawn Baden, Monica Fedrick, Thomas Mahoney, Edwin Garcia, Ron Nomura, Jerry Moss, Drew Petrotta, Lyn McKissick, Glenn Cote, Jeffrey Kimball, Jackie Edwards, Joanna McMeikan, Gretel Twomblyplus Steve Johnson, Edge FX; Ron Jackson, ProTruck Racing Corp; and Rich Mingus, Baja Concepts. Special thanks to each film publicistDon Levy, Alex Worman, Sandy ONeill, and Michael Klastorinas well as Sonya Ede, Rikki Leigh Arnold, Tim Menke, Carol Sewell, and Kristine Gierthy throughout, plus photographers Elliot Marks and Sam Emerson.

At the visual effects houses, appreciation to John Knoll and ILM, with George Murphy, Alex Yaeger, Bill George, and Nagisa Yamamoto especially on Star Trek: First Contact; John Grower at Santa Barbara Studios, Shannon Gans with Hunter-Gratzner, and Jim Rygiel at BlueSky/VIFX for Insurrection; and Mark Forker, Todd Isroelit, and Kris Rich at Digital Domain on deadline for Nemesis.

From the series years, my appreciation goes to the many folks off-lot at Image G, Modern Sound, Composite Imaging Systems, Digital Magic, Rob Bloch and Karen Thomas-Kolakowski at Critters of the Cinema, Sid Dutton and Bill Taylor at Illusion Arts, artist Anthony Vergona, and Greg Jeins model shop. Most especially, the passage of time will never dim the original help of the late Ed Milkis, the feature art departments Penny Moneypenny Juday, and past Star Trek toilers Eric A. Stillwell, Richard Arnold, Rob Legato, and Bob Justman.

The input of those in and out of Paramount Pictures and the Star Trek offices, past and present, has been essential: in Viacom/Paramount Licensing, from Carla Mason and Karyn Folbe through John Van Citters and Paula Block now with Guy Vardaman, Harry Lang, Berndt Heidemann, and Lili Malkin in the archives; Junie Lowry-Johnsons casting office, with Ron Surma and J. R. Gonzalez; Gary Holland in Advertising and Promotion; Matt Timothy and later Megan Costello and Ann Foster in Paramount Research; and, finally, the largely unsung assistants and coordinators past and present (many of whom moved on or into production posts over the various series) who aided while holding the fort: Dawn Velazquez, Dave Rossi, Heidi Smothers, Terri Potts, Kim Fitzgerald, Zayra Cabot, Maggie Allen, April Rossi, Robbin Slocum, Sandra Sena, Jeanie King, Cheryl Gluckstern, Duffy Long, Kristine Fernandes, Joanna Fuller, and Lolita Fatjo.

Among those who contributed too were atmosphere and stand-ins Carl Banks, Pam Blackwell, Dennis Tracy, Lorine Mendell, Nora Leonhardt, Cameron Oppenheim, and Keith Rayve; series freelance writers Ron Wilkerson and Jean Louise Matthias, Nick Sagan, and Hilary Bader; directors Alexander Singer, Cliff Bole, Robert Wiemer, Rick Kolbe, Chip Chalmers, and Adam Nimoy; guest stars Jonathan del Arco, John de Lancie, Robert OReilly, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Patti Yasutake, Colm Meaney, Suzie Plakson, Michael Mack, Shannon Fill, Alex Enberg, James Horanand of course Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton, and Denise Crosby.

Lastly, my gratitude to those who breathed life into the 1701-D and took the time to tell me how: Philip Barberio, Joe Bauer, Michael Backauskas, Ira Steven Behr, Tom Benko, Bob Blackman, Andr Bormanis, Brannon Braga, Dick Brownfield, Dan Curry, Wendy Drapanas, Doug Drexler, John Dwyer, Ren Echevarria, J. P. Farrell, Peter Allan Fields, Anthony Frederickson, Cosmo Genovese, June Ashton Haymore, Merri Howard, Gary Hutzel, Richard James, Alan Kobayashi, Peter Lauritson, David Livingston, Joe Longo, Dennis Madalone, Jim Magdaleno, Jim Martin, Jim Mees, Ron B. Moore, Ron D. Moore, Andy Neskoromny, Wendy Neuss, Denise Okuda, Michael Okuda, Dick Rabjohn, Naren Shankar, Alan Sims, Al Smutko, Rick Sternbach, David Stipes, James van Over, Sandy Veneziano, Jonathan West, Michael Westmore, Eddie Williams, Herman Zimmerman, Joy Zapataand of course Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, and Rick Berman.

And, way back at the beginning, thanks to Geoffrey Mandel for that first college-age rush of cross-country collaboration on the Star Maps, when Trek backgrounding was all so much simpler; to my mom and dad, who helped get the Macintosh that made my return to Trek research a reality; and to all those fans at home and around the world for feedback on the earlier Companion, my old annual TNG and DS9 concordances, and everything since. Those who helped the crunch to get the original Companion written in just five months were Mike and Tamara Hodge, Mark Alfred, and my former Norman Transcript coworkers Jane Bryant, Ed Montgomery, Charles Stookey, Jan Burton, and Karen Dorrell. Finally, hats off to all my editors at Pocket Booksfrom Dave Stern, Scott Shannon, and Kevin Ryan to John Ordover and now Margaret Clark (we finally work together, Margaret!) for helping you the reader get the biggest bang for your buck within these covers. Still a great deal.

It is, as they say, dj vu all over again. Can it be only ten years ago that I crunched out the first five seasons worth of credits, history, insights, and trivia of the wildly popular Star Trek: The Next Generation and then, only two years later, raced ahead of a movie on deadline to get out a timely update soon after the movie premiered? Here in 2002, the race is with Star Trek Nemesis, not Star Trek Generations, but the coincidence points up how much has changed since then.

The world is certainly a different place, both in and out of Trekdom. As I predicted in 1992, the tome would not be the last of its kind; back then, only one other modern Star Trek reference was in print, the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, and the flood of magazines, books, multimedia, and Internet traffic was yet to be felt. This edition adds on the past three films, but as usual theres never enough room to get it all in! Still, this resource lives up to its aim of providing far more than a good grounding in the whys and hows as well as the whos of whats onscreen.