But does it?
That photo is reprinted in the book as the Season SIX cast photo... (pick pick pick pick pick pick)
Will they update it for "Insurrection" and (later) "Nemesis"?
I wonder as well Sven. I also wonder if they will spell bat'leth right if they do.
They will indeed update it for those movies. The update is currently scheduled for January 2003.
(Personally, I want them to re-do the whole thing to be a massive object like the Deep Space Nine Companion. But that's probably just me... (Not that I don't like this one as is, of course!))
I think that would be a good idea as well, Ratbat. It would be a good thing to show some input and insight from the people behind the project. As I understand it, the DS9 companion turned out to be a wholly different beast to both the TNG Companion and indeed the Star Trek Compendium (which charted the original series and first six movies) - but I'm not sure the crew or indeed the cast would appreciate being pestered by yet another archivist/reporter/interviewer about some silly thing that was done fifteen years ago!
The NextGen Companion is actually fairly close in format to the The Classic Compendium - season overview, plot synopses/notes, new season, repeat. All rather generic.
Well, the NextGen Companion has the same type of material as the DS9 Companion. The DS9 Companion simply has a lot more of it per episode. I'm just guessing here, but this may be because it was researched or documented as the series was being produced, which yielded more information.
Well, here's to the third edition!
I thought I saw this before, but. . .the notes for "Manhunt" say "This show. . .was also the last for prolific director Rob Bowman until season four's "Brothers". Of course, a few pages later the notes for "Shades of Gray" explicitly mention that Rob Bowman was the director!
There's an enigmatic statement in the notes for "Pen Pals": ". . .the writers had to limit the two characters' [Data and Sarjenka's] closeness, because Nikki Cox's orange makeup became smudged so easily on contact." First of all, I'm not sure how much of an impact this would have---after all, it's not as if Data were kissing or punching Sarjenka. The broader question is---why is this the writers' problem? It's up to the makeup department to come up with alien effects that work with the script they are given. If the makeup was later discovered to be fragile, it would be the director's problem to work around that. Were the writers really still scripting scenes after the Sarjenka makeup was finalized (i.e., after shooting began)? If so, why didn't the notes mention that this episode had such production problems?
The notes for "Up the Long Ladder" feature an odd comment: "Right-to-life advocates objected to the pro-choice 'I'm in charge of my body' sentiment espoused by Riker (intended) in denying the Mariposan [sic] permission to use his body for cloning". So the pro-lifers were upset by Riker's "sentiment", but not by the fact that he phasered a clone to death? Really?
The notes for "Hollow Pursuits" mention "Dwight Schultz---remembered by many as 'Mad Dog' Murdoch, the manic pilot from The A Team". The A-Team (note the hyphen) that I remember had Schultz as H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock.
I think that the problem with Riker is not a "Pro-choice" issue, but a "Killing your own clone" issue, which is stated in DS9's "A Man Alone" to be murder. I'm EXTREMELY pro-life, and that's the only thing that bothered me.
I have the final edition, which goes up to Nemesis.