In the opening sequence showing life in the Ba'ku village, the "alien" knife used to cut bread dough is actually an Alaskan Ulu knife.
The manual control column that Riker uses to steer the Enterprise is a modified Gravis Thunderbird PC joystick.
Anthony Zerbe's character is stretched to death. In License to Kill, his character expands to death (inside a decompression chamber).
So far, this is the only Star Trek movie in which absolutely no scenes take place on or near Earth.
The Enterprise-E crew quarters, transporter room, and sickbay were redressed forms of the sets used on "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995). The quarters had originally been built for "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), and portions of sickbay date back to Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). In addition, the bay where Picard and the Baku are held by the Son'a, is a redress of Voyager's cargo bay, and the shuttlecraft used by Picard and Worf is a redress of the Runabout set from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993). Data's shuttle interior in this film is a redress of the Voyager shuttlecraft interior.
The Son'a's plastic-surgery room was recycled into the Museum of Kyrian Heritage in the TV episode "Star Trek: Voyager: Living Witness (#4.23)" (1998).
First Star Trek movie where all the space shots are computer-generated.
Many of the shots used in the Teaser Trailer, such as when the crew are grabbing the phaser rifles, and when the Enterprise E is making a turn to engage, and when other ships are lining up to fight, the Enterprise is firing quantum torpedoes, are shots used for Star Trek: First Contact (1996). There is also a shot of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek Generations during this trailer, from the scene in that movie when it is being attacked.
Its network television premiere had been scheduled for September 16, 2001 on NBC, but was scrapped because of the September 11th attacks.
The character Gallatin was named for Gallatin county Montana, where the town of Bozeman is located, birth place of Star Trek writer Brannon Braga.
The scene where Data walks into the lake was shot at Convict Lake in Mammouth Lakes Park (very close to Mammouth, CA).
In the original ending to the film Ad'har Ru'afo was to escape in a craft that fell into the rings that surrounded the planet, where he would get younger and younger. After it was changed the director sent F. Murray Abraham a tape of the original ending to see how it had turned out anyway.
One of the sound effects used during the "skin stretching" scenes is that of a recharging camera flash.
All the Ba'ku buildings were created using a foam-like material cut by computer.
When Data is malfunctioning, Picard gets him to recite Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore". In the Isaac Asimov story "Runaround" a malfunctioning robot recites Gilbert and Sullivan while evading capture by his human masters. Much of Data's character is taken from Asimov's writings (such as Data's "Positronic Net", adapted from Asimov's "Positronic" brains).
Scenes involving Quark (Armin Shimerman) from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) were filmed, but cut.
Captain Picard:
Do you remember when we used to be explorers?
Captain Picard:
Ru'afo, we're getting too old for this.
Ad'har Ru'afo:
After today, that won't be a problem... for either of us.
Data:
I feel obliged to point out that the environmental anomalies may have stimulated certain rebellious instincts common to youth, which could affect everyone's judgment... Except mine of course.
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher:
Okay Data. What do *you* think we should do?
Data:
Saddle up, lock and load!
Commander Riker:
You think it's possible for two people to go back in time, undo a mistake they've made?
Counselor Deanna Troi:
On this ship? Anything's possible...
Captain Picard:
If a court-martial is the only way to tell the Federation what is happening here, Admiral... I welcome it.
[Referring to his clean-shaven face]
Commander Riker:
Smooth as an android's bottom.
Ad'har Ru'afo:
I'm going to miss these flesh-stretching sessions, my dear.
Data:
In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to act as a flotation device.
Geordi La Forge:
I've never seen a sunrise. Not the way you see it.
[to Deanna]
Commander Riker:
I kiss you and you say "yuck"?
Admiral Matthew Dougherty:
Jean-Luc, we're only moving 600 people.
Captain Picard:
How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? Hmm? A thousand, fifty thousand, a million? How many people does it take, Admiral?
Commander Riker:
Our guests have arrived. They're eating the floral arrangements.
Counselor Deanna Troi:
Oh my God, are they vegetarian? That's not in the book!
Captain Picard:
Have the chef whip up a light balsamic vinaigrette. Something that goes well with chrysanthemums.
Data:
I seem to be missing several memory engrams.
[Geordi shows him several microchips he is holding in his hand]
Data:
There they are.
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher:
You either need a bigger suit or a smaller neck.
Captain Picard:
My collar size is the same as it was in the Academy.
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher:
Of course.
Lieutenant Commander Worf:
The Son'a wish to negotiate a cease-fire. It may have to do with the fact that we only have three minutes of air left.
Captain Picard:
We're going to stop by Sector 441 on our way to the Goran system.
Geordi La Forge:
They *are* in opposite directions.
[there is a blemish on Worf's face]
Captain Picard:
Have you been in a fight, Mr Worf?
Lieutenant Commander Worf:
[sighs] No sir... it is a "gorch".
Captain Picard:
Gorch?
Data:
[whispers] Pimple, sir.
Captain Picard:
Oh... it's hardly noticeable.
[about Worf's pimple]
Commander Riker:
Klingons never do anything small, do you?
Captain Picard:
I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.
Anij:
It took us centuries to learn that it doesn't have to take centuries to learn.
Captain Picard:
Mr. Worf, do you know Gilbert and Sullivan?
Lieutenant Commander Worf:
No sir, I have not had a chance to meet all the new crew members since I have been back.
[to 300-year-old Anij]
Captain Picard:
I should warn you - I've always been attracted to older women.
Captain Picard:
In 300 years, you never learned to swim?
Anij:
I just haven't got around to it yet.
Lieutenant Commander Worf:
[after disabling a drone with his phaser-compression rifle] Definitely feeling aggressive tendency, sir!
Ad'har Ru'afo:
Admiral Dougherty will not be joining us for dinner. Activate the collector.
Admiral Matthew Dougherty:
It was for the Federation... it was all for the Federation!
Captain Picard:
Data, what's the last thing you remember?
Data:
[singing] His nose should pant, and his lip should curl...
Captain Picard:
From the mission.
Captain Picard:
Don't panic!
Anij:
I've been shot at, thrown into the lake out of a ship that's come to abduct us - what's there to panic about?
Anij:
Have you ever experienced, a perfect moment in time?
Captain Picard:
A perfect moment?
Anij:
When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live, in that moment.
Captain Picard:
Seeing my home planet from space, for the first time.
Counselor Deanna Troi:
Have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up?
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher:
[notices Data, embarrassed] Not that we care about that in this day and age...
[to Data]
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher:
Uh huh... Thank you, Data.
Data:
[walks over to Worf]
Lieutenant Commander Worf:
I'm feeling the urge to drink the blood of a live Kolar beast.
Data:
And have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up? Not that we care about that in this day and age.
Captain Picard:
Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?
Captain Picard:
[to Worf] Straighten your baldric.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Picard sings "heart" instead of "foot" in the second chorus of "A British Tar", despite having the lyrics displayed in front of him on his computer. Considering the stress he's under, he does an excellent job.
Continuity: When Anij slows down time (the water falls very slowly, the bird's wings flap slowly) she picks a flower and then blows the spores off of it. She's slowed down time, but when she picks the flower the other flowers next to the one she picks move back and forth at full speed.
Revealing mistakes: In the beginning, when Data is being chased into the village, the stone bridge shakes and flexes like a wooden prop as the children run across it.
Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of equipment visible on the cave wall, just before Picard goes through the hole he has blasted in the wall.
Continuity: When he discovers the holoship hidden in the lake, Data opens a dam and lowers the water level. But when he boards the raft with Picard and Anij, the pier is still at the correct height for the normal water level.
Continuity: When blasting through the cave wall, a tree falls over at the side and Picard and Data both look at it. It is standing up again in the next scene.
Revealing mistakes: Early in the film a woman is knocked backwards, the man standing behind her goes to catch her well before she starts falling.
Revealing mistakes: When Picard shoots the Son'a guard on the holoship, a crash mat can be seen when he falls off the roof.
Continuity: During the phaer fight in the holoship, A Son'a soldier is shot and rolls off the roof of the hut, and when Picard ends the simulation, the soldier is not lying on the floor stunned when we see the full holodeck revealed, unless he was a hologram too.
Factual errors: During Data and Picard's phaser fight inside the holoship, the disruptor shots from the Son'a weapon do not disrupt the holograms as we see the Son'a Commander do later in the movie to reveal that was fooled. In fact, they chip walls and splash water.
Continuity: When Picard, Data, and Anij are paddling out to the holoship, Data and Picard switch sides on the raft between shots.
Continuity: When Data and Picard beam back up to the Enterprise after jumping into the Ba'ku lake, Data's uniform is dry while Picard's is still soaked.
Revealing mistakes: When Picard is first meeting with the Baku, there are children playing a hacky-sack type game in the background. During two short shots, the children can be seen making kicking motions but there are no hacky-sacks to be seen.
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Picard meets the Ba'Ku for the first time, he introduces Counselor Troi as Dr. Crusher and Dr. Crusher as Counselor Troi. Both actresses nod to the wrong names as well.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ru'afo socks Dougherty in the face, he obviously misses, yet we hear a punch effect.
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While singing "A British Tar", Data, who supposedly has perfect recall, sings the wrong notes for part of the song.
Continuity: When Picard is beamed on to the collector ship before facing Ru'afo, he is beamed from another Son'a ship, but he materializes with a Federation transporter effect, not a Son'a one.
Crew or equipment visible: After Picard rescues Anij from the water, Data says, "In the event of an emergency, my body can be used as a flotation device." Data then "rises" above the water as if he is inflating. The platform that raises Brent Spiner higher in the water is visible through the water underneath him.
Follows
"Star Trek" (1966)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Followed by
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Star Trek (2008)
References
Song of the South (1946)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Lost Horizon (1973)
Brazil (1985)
Highlander (1986)
Platoon (1986)
- Data says "Saddle up, lock and load" just like Barnes does at the beginning of Platoon.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)
Referenced in
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Spoofed in
Films That Suck (1999)
That's Easy for You to Say! (2005) (V)
- Brandon sees himself as the Captain of the starship in his dream