Many of the worst moments in Trek were fought against strongly by the cast.
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00:00Because Star Trek's characters are beloved by so many people, some of the actors have
00:04gotten very attached to who they play on the show, and rightly so, but often actors'
00:09visions for their characters have been overshadowed by the vision of the writers and the studio
00:14of executives.
00:15This has actually caused a lot of drama behind the scenes that audiences aren't typically
00:19aware of.
00:20A number of issues like plot lines that come out of nowhere and alien concepts that make
00:24no logical sense could have been avoided if the people in charge had been more open to
00:28feedback from the cast.
00:30Others simply suffered from bad writing and a lack of character development.
00:34Whatever their reasons, here are 8 scenes from Star Trek that the actors absolutely
00:38hated shooting.
00:408.
00:41The first appearance of the Ferengi
00:43Many fans don't know this, but one of the first Ferengi ever seen on Star Trek in the
00:47Next Generation episode, The Last Outpost, was actually played by Armin Schimmermann,
00:52the actor who went on to play Quark in Deep Space Nine.
00:55Unfortunately for Schimmermann, this performance went on to haunt him.
00:59As he explained to GameSpot at the time, the Ferengi were not yet fully developed into
01:04the species we know today.
01:05During the early episodes of The Next Generation, they were originally intended to be more menacing,
01:10scary and actual enemies of the Federation, but Schimmermann played up to the evil factor
01:14perhaps a bit too much, and as a result, ended up portraying the Ferengi as incredibly one-dimensional
01:20and a bit silly during his first appearance.
01:24When Deep Space Nine began and the studio was looking for someone to play their new
01:27recurring Ferengi character, Quark, Schimmermann auditioned three times before getting the
01:32role.
01:33And even though we eventually got to see more of the Ferengi and their culture throughout
01:37Deep Space Nine, it's fair to say that he set the tone.
01:417.
01:42Dr. Bashir's secret being revealed
01:44In the episode, Dr. Bashir, I presume, from season 5 of Deep Space Nine, it was revealed
01:50that Dr. Julian Bashir was genetically modified by his parents when he was about 7 years old
01:55to have superior physical and mental abilities.
01:58We learn that Bashir struggled with learning at a young age, quickly falling behind all
02:02of his peers at school, so his parents gave him illegal genetic enhancements, hoping to
02:07give him a chance at a brighter future, but had to keep it a secret as genetic manipulation
02:12was banned in the Federation.
02:14It was a big surprise and many fans saw it as fun and interesting, a new direction for
02:19Bashir's character even, because prior to this, audiences had criticised him for
02:23being an annoying know-it-all, always hitting on Dax and, you know, I think learning this
02:27secret about him made him seem a little bit more human and all of his behaviour a little
02:31bit more justified maybe.
02:32However, Alexander Siddig, who played the doctor, disagreed.
02:36Siddig only learned of Bashir's secret mere days before filming began on the episode,
02:41and he was devastated that the writers would include such an important reveal for his character
02:45without even consulting him once.
02:47To get back at the execs, he said he purposefully put minimal effort into the recording of the
02:51episode and protested for Bashir's genetic modifications to be largely ignored afterwards,
02:56though they do occasionally come into play in the later series.
03:006.
03:01Jadzia's death scene
03:03When Star Trek Deep Space Nine neared the end of its sixth season and the show was coming
03:07to a close, Terry Farrell, who played Jadzia Dax on nearly every episode thus far, requested
03:13to have her appearance made less frequent on the show so she could have time to pursue
03:17other roles.
03:18Unsurprisingly, the producers denied this request and gave Farrell only two options.
03:22Jadzia remains as a lead character, or she gets kittled off.
03:27Farrell chose the latter, which resulted in an RKO-style death scene where Jadzia is killed
03:32by the parwraith-possessed Gol Dukat in the episode, Tears of the Prophets.
03:36Admittedly, this was a shocking surprise and led to many interesting stories with Dax's
03:41new host, Ezri, which I found progressive in some ways, but Terry Farrell was disappointed
03:46that her character had to die so abruptly.
03:48It's likely that the writers had already thought about Dax having a symbiote move to
03:51a new host, as throughout the whole series we've been learning about her past lives
03:55and we always knew that one day she would transfer to somebody else.
03:595.
04:00Chakotay and Seven of Nine's romance
04:03During season seven of Star Trek Voyager, Seven of Nine really made progress on regaining
04:08her humanity.
04:09As the series came to a close, Seven began forming strong friendships and even experimenting
04:14with romance on the holodeck in that episode called Human Error.
04:17This episode, and the one that followed, Natural Law, started toying with the idea of Seven
04:22and Chakotay developing feelings for each other.
04:24But when Jerry Ryan, who played Seven of Nine, asked the producers if they were going to
04:28include a romance between the two characters, they responded, absolutely not.
04:33So of course, it annoyed Ryan when she was surprised by a sudden random scene that was
04:37included at the beginning of Voyager's finale, Endgame, in which Seven and Chakotay were
04:41seen to be like dating out of the blue, presumably madly in love with each other.
04:46Ryan was told specifically not to play into the romance between her character and Robert
04:50Beltran, but the producers still went ahead and included it.
04:53Likely they were just trying to add some tactless conclusion to Seven's story.
04:57Luckily though, in the first season of Picard, we get to see a more human version of Seven
05:01without her need of a forced romance to prove it.
05:044.
05:05The dance from Move Along Home
05:07Deep Space Nine, like most other Trek shows, started off with a rather lacklustre first
05:12season.
05:13But you know, things get going after a little while.
05:15However, no episode fully encapsulates the show's early failings as much as Move Along
05:21Home.
05:22In the episode, an alien delegation from the Gamma Quadrant visited the station and brought
05:26aboard this mysterious game which they eventually convinced Quark to play.
05:30Quark didn't realise however, that Sisko, Dax, Bashir and Kira were kidnapped from the
05:34station and put into this simulation game.
05:37They were also controlled by his choices in the game.
05:39Eventually, he learned that they were taken and saw that failure in the game could lead
05:43to their deaths.
05:44This was a really cool idea for a story and definitely one of the most unique episodes
05:48of season one, but it was executed in a way that was just… weird.
05:52In 2013, Avery Brooks said that he particularly disliked the weird alien dance he and the
05:57others were forced to do inside the game.
05:59All whilst hopping around and singing that ridiculous song…
06:02Alamare, count to four…
06:05Alamare, count to four…
06:07Alamare, count to four…
06:09Alamare, count to four…
06:11And I've remixed it, haven't I?
06:13I've made it into an Afro beat song, but…
06:15Alamare, count to four…
06:18Alamare, count to four…
06:19Number 3.
06:20Dr. Crusher's Weird Ghost Romance.
06:22Gates McFadden who played Dr. Crusher hated the Next Generation episode, Sub Rosa.
06:27Well, most people found it peculiar, at least.
06:31This episode was so ridiculous, I mean, she f***s a ghost.
06:35Wait, you know what, I'm getting ahead of myself.
06:37Let's roll this back a bit.
06:38Dr. Crusher gets a family heirloom from her recently deceased grandmother.
06:42The small candlelight device then activates when she's alone and releases an alien entity
06:47known as Ronin, who Crusher, well, she f***s him.
06:50She does.
06:51I mean, she has romantic relations with him, if you want to put it in a better sense of
06:56words.
06:57Those portraying their intimacy were hilariously overacted by McFadden, who, of course, realised
07:01how profoundly absurd the plot was for this episode.
07:04It gets even worse.
07:05Later in the episode, her grandmother's dead body is possessed by Ronin, and we learn
07:08that this same alien entity has been seducing people in her family for generations.
07:13The scenes between Crusher and Ronin are awkward, hilarious, and painful to watch, and McFadden
07:18has talked often in the past about how laughable she found them at the time.
07:22Number 2.
07:23The holodeck scenes in Star Trek Enterprise finale.
07:26When Star Trek Enterprise was cancelled in 2005, the cast, as well as the audiences,
07:31hoped that the show would at least, at least, get a good conclusion for some of the main
07:35plotlines that were set up over the series.
07:38By the last series, we had things going on like the Temporal Cold War, the Zindi War,
07:43and all of the side stories, and they all had to hastily be completed.
07:47A few of my Trek mates would say that the early cancellation of a show is what prevented
07:50it from ever really taking off as much as other Star Trek instalments over the years.
07:55If they were given more time, the plotlines could have been resolved more elegantly.
07:58The final episode made things even worse, particularly with the prevalence of Jonathan
08:02Frakes, who returns as our good old chair-hopping Riker, watching a historical holodeck programme
08:08about the end of Archer's journey with the First Enterprise.
08:11It's good to see Riker, Troi, and the old Enterprise D again, but having Riker interject
08:15with commentary or just stare at the Enterprise characters as they go through some of the
08:18most emotional moments for them in the series was presumably seen as insulting by Bakula,
08:24who never voiced his concern, but according to Bran and Braga, was very displeased by
08:28the finale.
08:29Frakes has gone on to say that he believes his presence in the finale took away from
08:32the main cast moment.
08:331. Captain Kirk's Death Scene
08:36One scene that most fans will find hard to watch for one reason or another is Captain
08:41Kirk's death scene in Star Trek Generations.
08:44James T. Kirk is one of the most renowned Starfleet officers in history, both in lore
08:48and in the eyes of us fans.
08:50Unfortunately, through his death in the seventh Star Trek film, it was hardly the send-off
08:54that the character deserved.
08:56In Generations, Kirk was lost in a timeless dimension of pure happiness known as the Nexus,
09:01and is pulled back into reality by Picard, and killed by falling to his death by fighting
09:07Tolian Soren, a man who Kirk has never met and has no history with.
09:12Not to mention, Picard could have re-emerged from the Nexus at any point in time, even
09:16days before the battle with Saran, which made Kirk's death scene completely avoidable.
09:20It shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that William Shatner was also not happy with his
09:23character's unceremonious death.
09:25Shatner explained to TrekMovie.com that the only reason he agreed to perform this scene
09:30was because the creative leads told him the only options were to do this scene like they
09:33wanted or to make it happen off-screen.
09:36It was definitely cool to see Kirk and Picard teaming up for the first time, but Kirk's
09:40death should have been more personal to his character, not a quick torch pass to the next
09:43generation.
09:44So there you have it, 8 Star Trek scenes that the actors hated shooting.
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