Trivia / Star Trek: The Next Generation S1 E10 "Haven"

• Creator Backlash: Rick Berman really hated this episode's soundtrack, feeling it was too melodramatic and overbearing, to the point of threatening to fire composer Dennis McCarthy if he ever produced anything like it again.
• First Appearance: Of Lwaxana Troi.
• Out of Order: Despite being the fourth episode of the series in filming order, it was the tenth episode of the series to be aired, partly due to unspecified troubles during editing, and also because the executives saw the return of Majel Barrett in a live-action role as a big deal, and didn't want to air it too early in the season.
• Recycled Script: As with a lot of other early TNG episodes, many plot elements are recycled almost verbatim from TOS episodes. In this case, one of the main characters being betrothed to a childhood friend who ends up deciding they want to be with someone else is taken from "Amok Time", while said main character's parent(s) coming on-board and showing us just how fraught their relationship is was taken from "Journey to Babel", making this the first of many times that the franchise would recycle plot elements from that episode (albeit "Lonely Among Us", which re-used "Journey to Babel"'s other main plot element of feuding alien delegates, ended up airing before this episode).
• Working Title: "Eye of the Beholder" (which was eventually used for a season 7 episode), "Love Beyond Time and Space".
• You Look Familiar:
  • Majel Barrett had been a semi-regular on Star Trek: The Original Series as Nurse Chapel.
  • Armin Shimerman plays the Betazoid gift box. This was his first Star Trek appearance, although audiences first saw him in "The Last Outpost", as that episode aired earlier.
  • Robert Ellenstein, who plays Steven Miller, also played the Federation President in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

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