History Trivia / StarTrekGenerations

** By that same token, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols wouldn't come back either, with the former outright refusing when they planned to make him the ''Enterprise''-B's helmsman[[note]]He had been aghast against staying the helmsman for the previous four films prior to ''The Undiscovered Country'', and didn't want Sulu to take a step back in his career[[/note]]. Walther Koenig and James Doohan did agree to return for the opening sequence, but things between them and William Shatner were...tense to say the least. Shatner had only learned recently that his costars despised his prima donna antics during ''TOS'' and the six major films, and the three days for which they were on set made it difficult (though to Shatner's credit, he did admit that their time on set helped break the ice between him and Doohan, allowing them to reconcile just before Doohan's passing).

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The demise of the ''Enterprise-''D was a foregone conclusion; the aging ''Next Generation'' sets, built for television, were simply not up to big-screen standards. That's one reason that the bridge scenes are fairly dark. Rather than rebuild them, they opted for the ''Enterprise-''E and brand-new sets for the next films.

* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/TimRuss plays one of the bridge officers on the ''Enterprise''-B several months before playing Tuvok on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Hilariously, the Voyager episode "Flashback" would show that Tuvok was serving on the USS ''Excelsior'' during the events of ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''.

** The Enterprise-B model was a redress and repaint of the Excelsior first seen in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''. ILM attached several break-away panels near the deflector dish which they could use to show damage without harming the model itself. They believed that they could remove the additions and restore the model for future use, however, they found that they could not remove the new parts without harming the base model. This is why the USS Lakota which appears in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS4E12ParadiseLost}} Paradise Lost]]” resembles the Enterprise-B instead of the Excelsior. In the episode the describe the Lakota as having been upgraded.

** Riker wears his DS9-style uniform with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows. This was because Creator/JonathanFrakes was wearing Creator/AveryBrooks' costume and is both taller than Brooks and long-limbed. The sleeves being rolled up hid the fact that the cuffs only came to Frakes' forearms.

* TheCastShowoff: This is the entire reason for the horseback riding scene. Creator/WilliamShatner is an expert at horseback riding, and having his horse ''walk sideways to join Stewart'' is pure showing off. He even taught Creator/PatrickStewart how to ride properly, Stewart having spent very little time on a horse (despite Capt. Picard's love of it), including teaching Stewart to wear pantyhose under his uniform (they prevent chafing). The fact that Paramount had to pay Shatner union-mandated rates to rent the horses was also certainly a plus.

* RealitySubtext: Kirk and Scotty are a little… tense with each other, with the reality that Shatner knew full well by now that Doohan thought he was awful. (Though they did make up towards the end of Doohan’s life and Shatner credits their work on this film in helping to thaw relations between them.)

** William Shatner liked Kirk's death at the time, but later came to believe it flew in the face of what Kirk had said in ''Star Trek V'', that Kirk had always felt he would die alone.

* TheCastShowoff: This is the entire reason for the horseback riding scene. Creator/WilliamShatner is an expert at horseback riding, and having his horse ''walk sideways to join Stewart'' is pure showing off. He even taught Creator/PatrickStewart how to ride properly, Stewart having spent very little time on a horse (despite Capt. Picard's love of it). The fact that Paramount had to pay Shatner union-mandated rates to rent the horses was also certainly a plus.

** The film was supposed to open with Kirk doing an orbital skydiving act, further implicating that he was not taking retirement well. The suit was reused in in Voyager where Torres was doing such in a holodeck simulation.

** Only Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner had their own [=DS9=]-style uniforms made for them. Jonathan Frakes (6'3") wore Avery Brooks' (6'1"), and [=LeVar=] Burton (5'7") wore Colm Meaney's (5'11") costume, resulting in Riker's uniform looking too small, and Geordi's uniform looking too big.

** Kirk's wide-eyed "Oh, my..." just before death was improvised by Creator/WilliamShatner. He deliberated for a while on how his character would approach death, and decided that Kirk would find it wondrous.

*** By that same token, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols wouldn't come back either, with the former outright refusing when they planned to make him the ''Enterprise''-B's helmsman[[note]]He had been aghast against staying the helmsman for the previous four films prior to ''The Undiscovered Country'', and didn't want Sulu to take a step back in his career[[/note]]. Walther Koenig and James Doohan did agree to return for the opening sequence, but things between them and William Shatner were...tense to say the least. Shatner had only learned recently that his costars despised his prima donna antics during ''TOS'' and the six major films, and the three days for which they were on set made it difficult (though to Shatner's credit, he did admit that their time on set did help break the ice between him and Doohan, allowing them to reconcile just before his passing).

*** The reshot ending could only use the outdoor catwalks because they were the only sets remaining after the original filming had ended. So the new ending had to take place there.

* RealitySubtext: Kirk and Scotty are a little… tense with each other, with the reality that Shatner knew full well by now that Doohan thought he was awful. (Though they did make up towards the end of Doohan’s life.)