ESTATE SALE
The item listed here comes from the estate of my mother-in-law after she passed away. We're going through the items that she collected while she worked in the entertainment industry.
She started her career as a Page on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood, California in the mid-1990s. From there she worked in various departments such as the mail room, Special Events and Product Development (Licensing) where she had access to numerous one of a kind items like prototype collectables, scripts and behind the scenes images and details. She then moved on to other companies in the entertainment industry in positions both on and off production.
Over the years, she obtained an extensive collection of rare Hollywood items, especially from her favorite franchise "Star Trek". Scripts, crew gifts, screen used props, prototypes for collectables, rare discoveries at the Archive Building and much, much more.
This item up for bids would make a great addition to any Star Trek fan’s collection. It is a script from the show:
“Star Trek: The Next Generation”
“Power Play”
(FKA “Terror In Ten Forward”)
SEASON #5
SEASONAL EPISODE #15
SERIES EPISODE #115
From the writer's offices of "Star Trek - The Next Generation" in the Hart building on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood.
This version of the script is a RARE, EARLY DRAFT of the script that was still involved in the writing process - dated 7/18/91. The final draft was approvced on November 26, 1991.
It is not the final draft which ended up on screen.
Take a fascinating deep dive into what could have been!
See which plot points remained in the final version that was seen on screen, and what possibilities were initially proposed.
For more detail about this, please refer to the web site for
Set Hero as they have a detailed description of script handling on productions, or do a google search for the many articles that talk about script revisions. (Screen shot also attached in auction details for clarity.)
It is in near pristine condition with some slight discoloration due to age as well as some MINOR creases from use and age. It has been stored in a plastic storage bag with a cardboard backing ever since the season was completed.
This item is the real deal, not a copy of a copy of a copy like a lot of other auctions that you'll run into.
Always kept in a non-smokers house!
NO torn pages!
NO missing pages!
NO stains or other damage!
The script is 58 pages in length.
(59 physical pages including title, Cast List, Sets and Pronunciation Guide.)
Draft written on July 18, 1991
FINAL Draft written on November 26, 1991
First aired on February 17,1992
Background information quoted from the Memory Alpha web site:
Production history
Story and script
- According to the script, working titles for this episode included "The Invaders", "Terror in Ten-Forward", and "Feeling Poorly". "Power Play" was previously a working title for the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "This Side of Paradise".
- The basic story went through several treatments by freelancers before being assigned to Brannon Braga and Herbert J. Wright. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, 2nd ed., p. 192)
- Braga recalled "The first time I wrote it, I thought, bottle show: Ten-Forward, Picard and Troi talk. Mike Piller said don't be afraid to write seven or eight page scenes with Picard and Troi. I said, 'Okay, Mike, I won't.' Jesus! Seven or eight pages? I had a tough time writing that and when I turned it in, Piller said he felt that we'd taken it as far as it could go and we shouldn't produce it. If it had been produced as I had written it, the episode would have been a little too familiar as a hostage show. So what happened was Herb Wright had just come in and Mike said we need some new blood, and gave it to Herb. Together we came up with the twist of them claiming to be the ghosts and that's what I think brought the show level up and gave it a dimension of mystery and twists that it really needed." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 238)
- The shuttle Campbell was named after science fiction author John W. Campbell. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, 2nd ed., p. 193)
Production
- "Power Play" was filmed between Wednesday 27 November 1991 and Wednesday 11 December 1991 on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16. The company went on holiday on Thursday 28 November 1991 and Friday 29 November 1991, and the call sheet for 27 November 1991 featured the note "Company Holiday - Happy Turkey Day". Additional days of second unit filming were Thursday 12 December 1991 on Paramount Stage 16, Thursday 19 December 1991 on Paramount Stage 9, and Thursday 23 January 1992 on Paramount Stage 8.
- Director David Livingston recalled that the most enjoyable part of the episode "was taking three of our continuing characters and having them play something entirely different. It was a chance to work with them and create totally new characters, and that was a lot of fun. We came up with names for them on the set. Marina was Slash, Data was Buzz, and Colm was Slugger." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 238)
- Brent Spiner commented, "I always love to play another type of character. The challenge here was to make sure my character didn't sound or act like Lore, and I don't think he did. It's really fun to get those curves, because so much of Data is already defined. When you get to play someone else and let loose like Leonard Nimoy occasionally got to do in the old show, it's really rewarding." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 239)
- This episode was a rare example in which a camera crane was used (in common with second season opener "The Child"). (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 14)
- Livingston noted that the crew encountered difficulties while filming on the "Planet Hell" set on Paramount Stage 16. "It was tough because we had atmosphere and wind and lightning. One of those elements is hard enough. Just being on Stage 16 is enough. But we had all of those elements and eventually all the actors had to lie down in them. The stage floor had a sandy surface, so when you have the wind blowing, the sand starts blowing around and I was real concerned about it getting into people's eyes. In fact, Marina's make-up became so messed up that she had to have a complete redo before we could continue shooting that day. We had to go over to Stage 9 and wait for her make-up to be done. Not through any fault of hers, just the fact that she wasn't presentable on screen, because the sand had sandblasted her and she looked like a house after the guys come through with their hoses." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, pp. 238-239)
- In the scene where the crew is thrown backward by the force of the storm, Marina Sirtis (doing her own stunt) "flung [herself] back, onto [her] coccyx," breaking it. She was the only cast member in the scene to do the stunt herself, despite her face being barely visible in the finished shot. Marina later claimed, "It could have been Worf in Troi's costume and we wouldn't have known the difference." (Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation,)
- During second unit filming on Thursday 23 January 1992, the company also worked on a Trading Card photo shoot. (Call sheet)
- The release of this episode included on Star Trek: The Next Generation (Blu-ray) contains approximately 1 minute and 41 seconds of SD footage converted to HD.
Sets and props
Continuity
Reception
- Brannon Braga remarked, "In the end it turned into a really great action show. To me, it was a breath of fresh air. It had no pretensions. Instead of exploring some theme or idea, it was just action and phaser blasts. What are you going to do, deny that and say it's not fun?" (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 238)
- Michael Piller was not as pleased with the final result. "'Power Play' had the distinction of being one of the best directed episodes of the season, but only made me angry because it was empty [...] It was meant to be a show that was dark and brooding, and the shows I've always used as prototypes were Key Largo and The Petrified Forest. Very contained situations. We had a hard time making that work and making it interesting for five acts. It's not a difficult premise, it's been done on a lot of shows, a lot of times and television has found a way to make those premises kind of work [...] Ultimately it became a major action show and instead of helping us get even, knocked us into the stratosphere. I wasn't very fond of that show, but very fond of David's direction. If that show had any merit at all, it was because he directed it with an extraordinary sense of style. The three actors who were given the job of being the aliens carried it with wonderful performances [...] Brent, Marina and Colm really put together interesting performances, but I was not happy with the script." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 239)
- A mission report for this episode, by John Sayers, was published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 20, pp. 48-50.
Awards
- This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series.
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