ENT s4e22 "These are the Voyages" aka "Nope, didn't happen and Trip lived happily ever after"
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Scott Bakula: "The line I was suppose to say was, 'Here's to Star Trek The Animated Series.' but I adlibbed it to shake things up a little."
Frakes just showed up on set the last day of filming. What was I supposed to tell him? Go home?
So I just let him film his scenes and we recut the finale to what we have now.
"Here's to a whole new Original Series of events!"
"Here's to a new age, of Discovery."
:)
Here's the thing. What we watched wasn't the "real world" events of Star Trek, it was a holodeck recreation. So we've already got built-in plausible deniability of the accuracy of those events!
Yeah, in the actual historical record Shran wasn't calling humans pink skins.
It was way worse.
We have slurs for robots now, do we have slurs for humans yet?
I like to imagine some weird historian who insisted on pen accidentally flipped the '9' in '2191', and that error just happened to end up in the Enterprise D's historical database; the holodeck just went along with the error, and Riker was none the wiser, having gotten a C- in Early Federation History at the Academy and having frequently gone to the bathroom "for legitimate reasons" during his high school Earth history class. It was only in mid-2380 that he finally discovered his misconception.
Although it'd still be a bit dismal that trip only lived to 70.
Scott Bakula: "The line I was suppose to say was, 'Here's to Star Trek The Animated Series.' but I adlibbed it to shake things up a little."
Frakes just showed up on set the last day of filming. What was I supposed to tell him? Go home?
So I just let him film his scenes and we recut the finale to what we have now.
"Here's to a whole new Original Series of events!"
"Here's to a new age, of Discovery."
:)