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- Acting for Two:
- Santiago Cabrera plays Rios and the five holograms based on him.
- Isa Briones has played four androids who share her face and Kore Soong.
- Brent Spiner plays Dr. Altan Soong, Data, Adam Soong, Lore and Daystrom Android M-5-10.
- Ascended Fanon: Confirms the decades old theory that Picard and Seven would instantly know each other on sight due to both having been assimilated. Though it does joss the theory that Picard wouldn't like Seven due to her being a former Borg. As a former Borg himself, he's incredibly sympathetic to her.
- Creator Breakdown: Having not acted in over a decade, Jonathan Frakes (Riker) admitted to having an anxiety attack before he was due to film his Season 1 scenes. His fears proved unfounded.
- Executive Meddling: Much of the Federation's isolationist attitude was going to be explained through overt references to the Dominion War but the higher-ups asked that this be dialed back for fear of Continuity Lock Out. Clearly though it wasn't an issue by Season 3.
- Fan Nickname: "Old Man Picard."
- I Knew It!: How would the production team get around John de Lancie's aging when Q is an immortal, ageless being? Like everyone thought, he just ages himself up to troll Picard.
- In Memoriam: "The Next Generation", and its aftershow, is dedicated to Annie Wersching; who played both Liana in Star Trek: Enterprise and the Borg Queen in Season 2; who died of cancer just under two months before Season 3 premiered. She even got the USS Wersching named after her.
- The Other Darrin:
- John Ales takes over the role of Bruce Maddox from Brian Brophy.
- Annie Wersching, and later Alison Pill, take over the role of the Borg Queen in Season 2.
- Though original Borg Queen Alice Krige voices the main timeline Borg Queen in Season 3, the physical performance is done by Jane Edwina Seymour. Garth Kemp provides the voice for the Queen when she's talking to Vadic.
- Reality Subtext:
- A lot of Season 1 is inspired by Patrick Stewart being touched at how many people looked up to Picard and saw him as still having something to offer to the world.
- Season 2 is inspired by Stewart, who had famously regarded his father as a Domestic Abuser, coming to terms that his father was actually a Shell-Shocked Veteran who took out his undiagnosed PTSD on his wife. And sure enough, Season 2 has Picard understand that his father wasn't the villain he had viewed him as during TNG.
- Role Reprisal: The entirety of the main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, bar Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar, reprised their roles in the show.
- Jeri Ryan returns as Seven of Nine. Fellow Star Trek: Voyager alum Tim Russ returns as Tuvok in "The Last Generation".
- Jonathan Del Arco reprises his role as Hugh from the TNG episode "I, Borg".
- Kirk Thatcher returns as the punk on the bus from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
- Prop Recycling: A lot of background ships from the first two seasons are recycled, or kit-bashed, from Star Trek: Discovery's ship models. The general fanon is that either some designs have proved their worth, like how the Excelsior-class managed to last for over a century, or older ships were brought out of storage to aid in the Romulan evacuation and/or were needed after the attack on Utopia Planitia.
- What Could Have Been: The parasites from the TNG episode "Conspiracy" were originally supposed to be the infiltrators from Season 3 but since this would mean anyone who'd been replaced had to 100% be Killed Off for Real and Deader Than Dead, the writers brought in the rogue Changelings instead.
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