Trivia / Star Trek: The Next Generation S3E18 "Allegiance"

• Creator's Favorite Episode: This was Winrich Kolbe's favorite episode out of the ones he directed.
  I like it because we did something stylistically interesting in the lit room where the four people were incarcerated. It was Patrick's show and I always know when it's going to be Patrick's show it's going to be a good one because he's so damn good in everything that he does... I liked the look of it and what Marvin Rush was able to do, and Richard James the set designer. What you have to consider in directing any kind of entertainment concept is time and money. We were so far behind after the first two days that basically the whole hierarchy of Paramount was camping out on my set. Then we went into the new set, the octagonal chamber and suddenly we were taking off. We came in under budget and under time. It was a set that was terrific to shoot in and I could put the camera anywhere I wanted to.
• Recycled Script: This show also bears much resemblance to the TOS episode "The Empath". In both episodes the Enterprise's captain is abducted by a pair of aliens as part of an experiment. In the end both Kirk and Picard show their captors the errors of their ways. The TOS Vians even look a good deal like the aliens seen in this TNG episode.
• Science Marches On: Real-world studies conducted after the episode was produced place the upper limit on masses of pulsars at 3 and later 2.17 solar masses. The Lonka pulsar, stated to have 4.356 solar masses, greatly exceeds the limit.

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