Trivia / Star Trek: The Next Generation S4E18 "Identity Crisis"

• What Could Have Been:
  • The original spec script submitted by Timothy DeHaas involved two non-regular crew members undergoing the transformation. Michael Piller recalled, "It was a very tough script to solve...It was very heavy on point of view and stylistic devices we didn't want to do."
  • According to Brannon Braga, early versions of the script had a romantic relationship between Geordi and Susanna, but it was felt that the engineer deserved "a break" from failed romances after "Booby Trap" and "Galaxy's Child".
  • Braga's first draft was much more horrific, with many more aliens on the surface. In this version, Geordi was not transformed. However, to make the show work, Braga felt it was necessary to include Geordi in the change and reduce the terror to a "restrained and psychoanalytical" level.

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