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* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/GeneRoddenberry initially didn't want to do a CourtroomEpisode, as in his vision of 24th century humanity no-one ever committed any crimes, and thus there would be no need for a formal legal system. Melinda Snodgrass won him over by pointing out that even if there really wasn't any crime in the show's setting, some form of legal system would need to exist to deal with things such as arbitrating civil disputes or dealing with situations that have no legal precedent.
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* ReferencedBy: ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "An Ugly Car, an Affair and Some Kickass Football", as they watch this episode, Sheldon explains to Wayne that Data is an android who wants to be human. Not that Wayne cares one way or the other.
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* {{Blooper}}: Whoopi Goldberg had a memorable one from this episode; in the speech where she alerts Picard to the possibility of future artificial intelligences being enslaved:
-->Consider that in the history of many worlds, there have been creatures who are disposable. They are the people who forget...what the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] they're talking about...
-->Consider that in the history of many worlds, there have been creatures who are disposable. They are the people who forget...what the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] they're talking about...
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* EditedForSyndication: When this episode is shown on BBC America, it ends with Data formally refusing to undergo Maddox's procedure. Cue triumphant music -- and forget Maddox's CharacterDevelopment, as well as the reconciliation scene between Riker and Data.
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, no CPU that's currently available for most customers can reach 300 TFLOPS, much less 60.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Data, when asked, states that he can process 60 trillion operations a second, which was surely highly impressive at the time, but, as of 2018, you can buy a CPU for your computer that runs five times that fast off the shelf.
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* MissingEpisode: Narrowly averted with the extended edition. Writer Melinda Snodgrass had a tape of it, and was ''the only recording in existence''. It has since become available on the Blu-Ray release.
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* MissingEpisode: Narrowly averted with the KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Season 2 Blu-Ray release has [[https://holodeck3.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/the-extended-version-of-star-trek-tng-the-measure-of-a-man/ an extended edition. Writer version]] thanks to writer Melinda Snodgrass had a tape of it, and was having ''the only recording in existence''. It has since become available on existence'' of these extra scenes from a tape of a rough cut of the Blu-Ray release.episode.
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* RecycledSet: The courtroom set was a redress of the battle bridge set. The set featured a map of the galaxy previously seen in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E24Conspiracy}} Conspiracy]]" and a chart showing the current location of twenty-four starships.
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* RecycledSet: The courtroom set was a redress of the battle bridge set.set (which itself was a redress of the ''Enterprise'' bridge from the first four movies). The set featured a map of the galaxy previously seen in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E24Conspiracy}} Conspiracy]]" and a chart showing the current location of twenty-four starships.
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* PropRecycling: The model of Starbase 173 was a reuse of a model best known as space lab Regula I from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
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** It's probably no surprise that Brent Spiner also picked this as his favorite as well.
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Per Wikipedia, AMD Ryzen 7 1800k runs at over 300,000 mips (million instructions per second). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second#MIPS
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode:
** Marina Sirtis cited this as her favorite, commenting, "It was perfect ''Star Trek''. A riveting story, great performances and a moral issue to think about".
** Rick Berman cited this as one of his favourites.
** Michael Piller named this as one of his favorite TNG episodes, "because they had remarkable emotional impacts. And they genuinely explored the Human condition, which this franchise does better than any other when it does it well."
* PropRecycling: The model of Starbase 173 was a reuse of a model best known as space lab Regula I from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
* RecycledSet: The courtroom set was a redress of the battle bridge set. The set featured a map of the galaxy previously seen in "Conspiracy" and a chart showing the current location of twenty-four starships.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Writer Melinda Snodgrass drew from her own experience as an attorney in writing the episode.
** Marina Sirtis cited this as her favorite, commenting, "It was perfect ''Star Trek''. A riveting story, great performances and a moral issue to think about".
** Rick Berman cited this as one of his favourites.
** Michael Piller named this as one of his favorite TNG episodes, "because they had remarkable emotional impacts. And they genuinely explored the Human condition, which this franchise does better than any other when it does it well."
* PropRecycling: The model of Starbase 173 was a reuse of a model best known as space lab Regula I from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
* RecycledSet: The courtroom set was a redress of the battle bridge set. The set featured a map of the galaxy previously seen in "Conspiracy" and a chart showing the current location of twenty-four starships.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Writer Melinda Snodgrass drew from her own experience as an attorney in writing the episode.
