According to commentary on the Star Trek Generations DVD, one of the real world reasons for the Enterprise-D's destruction stems from a concept drawing of a saucer section landing, produced for the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.

The story involved the Enterprise-D's response to a crisis in the Golecian sector and the discovery of the Enterprise-C, which had been destroyed 18 years before.

Jean-Luc Picard inexplicably finds his mind jumping between the present ( stardate 47988 ) and the past just prior to the USS Enterprise-D's first mission seven years earlier at Farpoint Station ( in which Cmdr.

* Captain William T. Riker is a human male, who served as the Federation flagship Enterprise-D's first officer and second-in-command under Captain Jean Luc Picard.

Story editor David Gerrold saw the sketch and brought it to creator Gene Roddenberry's attention, who approved the sketch as a starting point for the Enterprise-D's design.

Eden FX's Gabriel Köerner built a new CGI LightWave model for the Enterprise-D's appearance in Star Trek: Enterprise < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s series finale, " These Are the Voyages ...".

According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, the three touch-sensitive light-up bars on the Enterprise-D's transporter console were an homage to the three sliders used on the duotronic transporter console on the original Enterprise in The Original Series.

Among the resulting set's features was a large central desk with video monitors that the production team nicknamed " the pool table "; the prop later became a fixture in USS Enterprise-D's engine room on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.

The new introduction, narrated by Patrick Stewart ( who played the Enterprise-D's captain, Jean-Luc Picard ), at the beginning of every episode of that series, was:

On Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise-D's bartender Guinan ( played by Whoopi Goldberg ) was named after Texas Guinan.

The dinner scene was shot in a revamped version of the Enterprise-D's observation lounge.

In this episode, the Federation Starfleet Starship USS Enterprise-D's Klingon Chief of Security, Lt. Worf, challenges the Klingon High Council's accusation that his father was a traitor.

In 2371, as depicted in Star Trek Generations, the Klingon Duras sisters obtain the phase modulation frequency of the Enterprise-D's shields, rendering them useless.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

But it could also be looked at from the other end of the spectrum.

It is also possible to utilize a pressure transducer, mounted at the end of a catheter which is inserted into the heart's left ventricle, to indicate the blood pressure in the heart itself.

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

Spectra were also obtained from a sample in a spherical container which was made by blowing a bubble on the end of a capillary glass tube.

Indeed, the failure of home-building as a whole to respond this year to somewhat greater availability of mortgage financing, and the increasing reports of pockets of unsold homes and rising vacancy rates in apartment buildings, may also signal in part that the lush days of big backlog demand for housing are reaching an end.

Several companies also saw possibilities in using the technique for extruding or molding vinyl products with a slight cellular core that would reduce costs yet would not affect physical properties of the end product to any great extent.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

But it also briefly suggested the possibility of a meeting with Mr. Khrushchev before the end of the year if the international climate were favorable and schedules permitted.

By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.

Mammalian axonal arborization ( the branching structure at the end of a nerve fiber ) also differs from one nerve fiber to the next.

The text also marked the end of his original scientific work.

It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

The war also marked a watershed in the geo-political history of the region, as together with the Lombard migration the following year, it signalled the end of six centuries of Germanic dominance in the Pannonian Basin.

There was also a tendency for the four meetings to be aggregated toward the end of each state month.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.

Tourism is also an important industry and the Annapolis Valley is known for its scenic farmland, although today some is threatened with suburban development in the eastern end, and a great deal has been abandoned.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

He also says: " From either end protrudes a blunt chin ; each is far from each other.

The term is also used in a generic sense to refer to any end of the world scenario.

The vertebra of the neck unite on nearly flat surfaces, the humerus had lost the foramen, or perforation, at the lower end, and the third trochanter to the femur may have also been wanting.

At the end of a shaft of light, the pews appeared to be broad stairs in a long dungeon.

Without further discussion he appeared the next morning with a pile of boards sticking over the end of his light truck and proceeded with the paneling, which he then stained and waxed according to his taste.

George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.

*(( Hollinshed )) in his oft fanciful history of England stated that at Alexander III's wedding, a horrible monster, mostly skeleton but with raw flesh, appeared at the end of the procession and caused the wedding to be hurriedly concluded.

Breweries appeared in Argentina at the end of the 1860s, started by Alsatian colonists.

The Luttrell Psalter, dating to around 1340, describes a grindstone rotated by two cranks, one at each end of its axle ; the geared hand-mill, operated either with one or two cranks, appeared later in the 15th century ;

Omniglot goes so far as to assert " Corsican first appeared in writing towards the end of the 19th century ...." Throughout the 19th and 18th century there was a steady stream of writers in Corsican, many of whom wrote also in other languages.

By the middle of the Devonian, several groups of plants had evolved leaves and true roots, and by the end of the period the first seed-bearing plants appeared.

During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.

His theories dominated psychiatry at the start of the twentieth century and, despite the later psychodynamic influence of Sigmund Freud and his disciples, appeared to enjoy a revival at century's end.

The first signs of a new literary movement had appeared at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578.

His daughter Sofia also appeared in all three ( the first two movies uncredited ): as the infant being baptized at the end of the first movie, as a young child on board ship in the second, and in a supporting role as Michael Corleone's daughter Mary in the third.

Certain designs of auto-loading pistol appeared beginning in the 1870s and had largely supplanted revolvers in military applications by the end of World War I.

Nevertheless, particular passages or words written with the Glagolitic alphabet appeared in Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscripts till the end of the 14 century.

By the end of the decade, Gumby and Pokey had appeared in commercials for Cheerios cereal, most notably Frosted Cheerios.

This version of Hera usually manifested as disembodied eyes throughout most of the made-for-TV films, but she eventually appeared in a human-like form near the end of the series ' run.

After the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War potential menaces to mainland France appeared considerably reduced.

By the beginning of 1992, several proposals appeared and by the end of 1992, the IETF announced a call for white papers.

He expected that at the end of the world, Rome would be destroyed, and partitioned among ten kingdoms before the little horn appeared.

The law, however, while containing commandments intended to promote the true fear of God, had other prescriptions of a purely pedagogic nature, which necessarily ceased when Christ, their end, appeared ; of such temporary and merely relative regulations were circumcision, animal sacrifices, the Sabbath, and the laws as to food.

Ancient Baltic peoples appeared during the second millennium BC and four distinct tribal realms in Latvia's territories were identifiable towards the end of the first millennium AD.

By the end of 1917, Trotsky was unquestionably the second man in the Bolshevik Party after Lenin, overshadowing the ambitious Zinoviev, who had been Lenin's top lieutenant over the previous decade, but whose star appeared to be fading.

Non-avian dinosaurs appeared in the Mid-Triassic and became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates early in the Jurassic, occupying this position for about 135 million years until their demise at the end of the Cretaceous.

Once the Persians eventually forced the other two out, it was not long before the Al Khalifa family appeared from nearby Qatar, to take control of the whole of the island at the end of the 18th century.

Mitchell's journalism career, which began in 1922, came to an end less than four years later ; her last article appeared on May 9, 1926.