5x26 Time's Arrow, Part I

Episode Quotes

Mistakes/Goofs

• Goof (factual errors): Jack London is working as a bellboy at the Hotel Brian in San Francisco and a newspaper that Data has picked up reveals the present date as Sunday, August 13, 1893. During that year London sailed to Japan and when he returned there was much labor unrest and a financial panic gripped the San Francisco - Oakland area.
• Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Though he says he's from New Orleans, Larouque's Southern accent is entirely out of place since the NOLA accent is more akin to Brooklyn than northern Louisiana, because of New Orleans' history as a center of immigration.
• Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When first arriving on Earth, Data & Picard are examining artifacts in the cave. Picard picks up a Colt revolver which Data incorrectly identifies as a Colt "double action" revolver when it is in fact a Colt "single action" revolver.
• Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): After discussing Data, Riker and Troi join Data in the turbolift, which continues on its way. However, neither of the two tells the turbolift where they want to go, as they ordinarily would, but exit with Data at his destination. While this is indeed an unusual procedure, it could be argued that Riker and Troi assumed correctly that Data was heading in their direction, i.e. the bridge, since all bridge officers had been called to their stations only moments earlier.

Trivia

• The beacons used to erect the large force field in the cavern were last seen in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) {Power Play (#5.15)}.
• This episode marks the last time Gene Roddenberry is credited as Executive Producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation, almost one year after his death.
• Marc Alaimo, later to play Gul Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, makes an appearance as one of the poker players that Data cleans out. It is his third and final Star Trek: The Next Generation appearance.
• Jerry Hardin had never played Mark Twain before, but he became so enamoured with the character after this that he created a one-man touring show about him.
• All the exterior scenes in San Francisco were shot on location, like the historic Pico house and along Olvera Street, the restored area near the first mission in old Los Angeles.