Trivia / Star Trek The Next Generation S 7 E 13 Sub Rosa

• Deleted Scene:
  • Crusher's eulogy to her grandmother was longer and made a mention of her favorite hobby being cooking and having fond memories of being in her kitchen, surrounded by the sounds of bubbling pots and wooden spoons, exotic tastes and smells. She continues that Felisa was in the middle of writing a cookbook when she died and reads off a recipe for "Nana's Gingerbread".
  • Following the funeral, Crusher and Troi have a much more extensive chat. Crusher comments that she'd forgotten how much Nana was loved. Troi asks if she came home often and she replies that, after she moved to Earth and married Jack, she didn't seem to get home very much.
  • After telling Crusher that the Howard house is haunted, Ned Quint warns her not to smile at him. He tells her that Felisa Howard smiled at his warning also. He states that she may fly around the galaxy in a starship and thinks she's smarter than the rest of them. She replies that she never said anything like it and he counters that she was thinking it, that he's just an old man with tales of ghosts and goblins. He tells her that he was born in the real Kilmarnock on Earth and saw things out on the moors at night that could not be explained by tricorders or fancy ships. She tells him that she grew up in the house and loves it. He replies that Felisa did too, and now she's dead. She asks if he's telling her that her grandmother didn't die of natural causes.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: It's often claimed that this episode was (deliberately or otherwise) a copy of the Anne Rice story "The Witching Hour," and that Jeanna F. Gallo, who is credited for the episode concept, is actually just a lawyer-mandated pseudonym for Rice. This is almost certainly untrue, however, as showrunner Jeri Taylor and co-writer Brannon Braga actually considered the episode an Homage to The Innocents, a film that was an adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. To that end, the characters of Ned Quint and Jessel Howard were references to the characters of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel in that film. In addition, Gallo has popped up on various Trek-related blogs and message boards and said that she wrote a very early version of what would eventually become the Voyager episode "Distant Origin" but was denied credit by the Writers' Guild of America, something which Taylor has confirmed to be true.
• You Look Familiar: Duncan Regehr (Ronin) later appeared on DS9 as Shakaar.

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