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• In the opening sequence showing life in the Ba'ku village, the "alien" knife used to cut bread dough is actually an Alaskan Ulu knife.
  
  
• The manual control column that Riker uses to steer the Enterprise is a modified Gravis Thunderbird PC joystick.
  
  
• So far, this is the only Star Trek movie in which absolutely no scenes take place on or near Earth.
  
  
• The Enterprise-E crew quarters, transporter room, and sickbay were redressed forms of the sets used on "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995). The quarters had originally been built for "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), and portions of sickbay date back to Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). In addition, the bay where Picard and the Baku are held by the Son'a, is a redress of Voyager's cargo bay, and the shuttlecraft used by Picard and Worf is a redress of the Runabout set from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993). Data's shuttle interior in this film is a redress of the Voyager shuttlecraft interior.
  
  
• In this movie, Capt. Picard and the crew use the Captain's Yacht to travel to the surface of the Ba'ku Homeworld. This is the only instance in either the TV series or the movies in which such a vessel is ever used, although at one point during the TV Episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Samaritan Snare (#2.17)" (1989), it was briefly suggested that the Captain's Yacht for the Enterprise-D be used to transport Capt. Picard to Starbase 515 for immediate heart surgery, but the producers decided to use a traditional shuttlecraft instead.
  
  
• The Son'a's plastic-surgery room was recycled into the Museum of Kyrian Heritage in the TV episode "Star Trek: Voyager: Living Witness (#4.23)" (1998).
  
  
• First Star Trek movie where all the space shots are computer-generated.
  
  
• Although several of the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) cast members have directed various episodes of the show, Jonathan Frakes is the only cast member from the show to direct any of the TNG-related movies. He directed this movie along with Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
  
  
• Many of the shots used in the Teaser Trailer, such as when the crew are grabbing the phaser rifles, and when the Enterprise E is making a turn to engage, and when other ships are lining up to fight, the Enterprise is firing quantum torpedoes, are shots used for Star Trek: First Contact (1996). There is also a shot of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek Generations during this trailer, from the scene in that movie when it is being attacked.
  
  
• Its network television premiere had been scheduled for September 16, 2001 on NBC, but was scrapped because of the September 11th attacks.
  
  
• The character Gallatin was named for Gallatin county Montana, where the town of Bozeman is located, birth place of Star Trek writer Brannon Braga.
  
  
• The scene where Data walks into the lake was shot at Convict Lake in Mammouth Lakes Park (very close to Mammouth, CA).
  
  
• In the original ending to the film Ad'har Ru'afo was to escape in a craft that fell into the rings that surrounded the planet, where he would get younger and younger. After it was changed the director sent F. Murray Abraham a tape of the original ending to see how it had turned out anyway.
  
  
• One of the sound effects used during the "skin stretching" scenes is that of a recharging camera flash.
  
  
• All the Ba'ku buildings were created using a foam-like material cut by computer.
  
  
• When Data is malfunctioning, Picard gets him to recite Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore". In the Isaac Asimov story "Runaround" a malfunctioning robot recites Gilbert and Sullivan while evading capture by his human masters. Much of Data's character is taken from Asimov's writings (such as Data's "Positronic Net", adapted from Asimov's "Positronic" brains).
  
  
• Scenes involving Quark (Armin Shimerman) from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) were filmed, but cut.
  
  
• On the VHS Commentary (which appears at the end of the VHS copy of the movie), Actor/Director Jonathan Frakes says that for the scene where Ru'afo (F. Murray Abraham) has his skin folded over his head, Producer Rick Berman and several of the make-up artists had visited a plastic surgery clinic and watched surgeries being performed to get ideas for that particular scene.
  
  
• Patrick Stewart wanted his lifelong friend Brian Blessed to play Admiral Dougherty.
  
  
• The Spanish well-known TV host Anne Igartiburu was invited to participate in the movie in a brief role like a beautiful alien in the Baku's village, but it was deleted in the final montage.
  
  
• Jerry Goldsmith wrote the soundtrack for Capricorn One (1977) as well as Star Trek: Insurrection (1998). If you listen to the Insurrection soundtrack at about 3:30-3:45 minutes, you will hear the distinct theme of Capricorn One.
  
  
• The only Star Trek movie to-date where a Stardate is never given nor displayed at any point throughout the entire course of the film.
  
  
• First appearance of the newer white Starfleet dress uniforms. They would also be worn several more times on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) and "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995).
  
  

• SPOILER: Anthony Zerbe's character is stretched to death. In Licence to Kill (1989), his character expands to death (inside a decompression chamber).
  
  

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