![]() “Everyone on in the original draft that I had, the crew, they all knew of the Enterprise-C and what happened to them, that they died in some incident,” Moore says. That draft Moore inherited did not include the two key elements that Moore would add that ultimately helped get the episode greenlit: The war with the Klingons and the arrival of the Enterprise-C altering the timeline. ![]() “It was my first year on staff,” Moore recalled, “and it was one of the first things Michael Piller handed to me and said: ‘See what you can do with this, it isn’t working, but I think there’s an episode in here.’ He gave me that and he gave me the episodes that became ‘Sins of the Father.’” (Before this draft, Moore recalled seeing another draft - one that “hovered somewhere around 90 pages or so” - from Ganino and another writer.) That Stillwell-Ganino draft is what Piller handed Moore to work with in early fall of 1989, as Moore was then brand new to the writing staff. “The original episode and pitch are very different from what we ended up writing,” says Moore.Ī Next Generation production staff member, Eric Stillwell, and his friend and writing partner, Trent Christopher Ganino, originally submitted the episode as a spec script via TNG’s famous “open door policy,” which was started by the then-showrunner, the late Michael Piller. Moore recently gave The Hollywood Reporter an oral history of sorts behind one of the greatest (and hardest) episodes they’ve ever made - one that would ultimately end up saving the series. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” co-writers Behr and Ronald D. While “Yesterday’s Enterprise” often ranks as an all-timer for both the franchise and science fiction in general, its development process was so convoluted and stressful that one of its co-writers, Ira Steven Behr ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The 4400), still can’t believe to this day how well-regarded the hour is. The only stakes as dire as those featured in the episode were those faced by the people that wrote it.
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