1x24 We'll Always Have Paris - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

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Episode: 01x24
Title: We'll Always Have Paris
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 124
First Aired: May. 02, 1988

Season 1 » Episode #24 - We'll Always Have Paris

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 01x24 We'll Always Have Paris

Summary: Stardate: 41697.9 When Enterprise encounters a hiccup in time, they proceed to the possible source of the event after also receiving a distress signal close to the origin of the temporal rift. There, Capt. Picard finds a long lost love of his, now married to the scientist whose work on temporal mechanics may be the cause of the dimensional rift.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard	played by Patrick Stewart
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge	played by LeVar Burton
Lieutenant Tasha Yar	played by Denise Crosby
Doctor Beverly Crusher	played by Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi	played by Marina Sirtis
Lt. Commander Data	played by Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher	played by Wil Wheaton
Admiral Savar	played by Henry Darrow
Admiral Gregory Quinn	played by Ward Costello

	Season 1 / Episode 24: - We'll Always Have Paris Lt. Cmdr. Dexter Remmick: You don't understand... We mean you no harm. Lt. Cmdr. Dexter Remmick: We seek peaceful coexistence!
	Season 1 / Episode 24: - We'll Always Have Paris Captain Jean-Luc Picard: One does not beam down to Starfleet headquarters armed.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

PLOT: The beetlelike creatures allegedly stimulate human adrenal glands, but that would do nothing to stop a phaser beam on a kill setting, which burns the target. A pumped-up human body still burns.
CHAR: Worf is supposedly a great Klingon warrior, but after being thrown over the table he stays down.
FAKE: Plastic hands of stand-in dummy visible after Remmick's upper body is vaporized.
FAKE: When Data reviews all Starfleet decisions for the past six months, a camera angle shows all the information on his screen, including the image of a parrot. A parrot could have nothing do with command decisions.
CONT: After asking for the ETA to Pacifica, Riker orders LaForge to increase speed to "warp 6." LaForge replies with, "Aye sir. Full impulse."

TRIVIA

The original version of this episode made no mention of alien parasites; the conspiracy in question was a military coup within Starfleet. Gene Roddenberry bitterly opposed this, saying that Starfleet would never do such a thing, and the alien angle was introduced.
Close up shots of the Starfleet HQ banquet were live grub worms. The actors really ate Chinese chow mein noodles.
After arriving at Dytallix B, Data mentions that the Enterprise sensors had spotted Capt. Walker Keel's starship - the USS Horatio, and identified it as an Ambassador-class heavy cruiser". The Enterprise-C, which would appear later on in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) {Yesterday's Enterprise (#3.15)}, is also an Ambassador-class starship.
According to “Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages”, the parasites were originally intended to be working for the Borg. The destruction of the colonies in the following episode ("The Neutral Zone") would then have led into the Borg's introduction in the second season premiere. However, due to the writers' strike of 1988, the Borg storyline was pushed back several months, and divorced from any relationship to the "Conspiracy" storyline. There was no further on-screen connection or reference to the conspiracy until its mention in passing in The Drumhead in the fourth season.