Trivia / Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E6 "The Schizoid Man"

• Creator Backlash: Maurice Hurley was not fond of the finished episode:
  That was science fiction bullshit that didn't work for me, basically for one reason. We talk about Gene [Roddenberry] saying he didn't want to be deceitful with Moriarty. My problem with "Schizoid Man" is that once you take Data out of character and allow him to be somebody else, we really hurt the character. He was injured in that episode. To see him playing somebody else really damaged the character, for me. You can do that with a lot of characters, but Data is ingenuous, and this took some of that shine off of it. It's the little 14 year old girl and all of a sudden she's giving some guy a French kiss. Something's just a little bit off. There's that incredible innocence of Data that gets damaged.
• Development Gag: Patrick McGoohan was supposed to guest-star. The title of the episode is the same as that of an episode from his famous series The Prisoner (1967). Even though McGoohan did not appear in the episode, the title remained unchanged as a tribute.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Along with the Shout-Out title, Patrick McGoohan (who was the Prisoner on the show of the same name) was approached for the role of Ira Graves, but he declined. No reason is on record, but from what we know of McGoohan, it's very probable that he didn't approve of Graves' blatant misogyny overall, notably the creepy way in which Graves greets Troi, along with the inappropriate fixation on his very young assistant Kareen. It is also possible that he didn't see much sense in a role for which he would have only about five minutes of actual screen time (part of which was a body in a casket).^note Patrick McGoohan had a strict no-touching policy when it came to women who were not his wife.
  • Dr. Selar was originally intended to be a recurring character and would develop a romance with Worf, since there was a drought of Vulcans on the show and pairing one up with a Klingon sounded interesting. But this was scuttled when K'Ehleyr was introduced later the same season. Incidentally, both characters have similar names (seriously, try sounding them out) and were played by Statuesque Stunner Suzie Plakson.
  • In a scene removed from the script, Data was to have a bald head, mimicking Picard, after his Riker-esque beard proved unpopular.
  • The fatal disease that Dr. Graves is suffering from was named "Varnay's Disease" in the script. It was changed to "Darnay's Disease" during filming, probably so that audiences wouldn't end up thinking that Graves was suffering from a disease that would eventually turn him into Ernest P. Worrell.
  • In the original scripted climax, Data/Graves was to hold the bridge crew including La Forge, Troi, and Wesley hostage with a phaser. After Data/Graves orders them to evacuate, Picard would confront him in the deserted bridge with Data/Graves choking Picard until Brianon intervenes and convinces Data/Graves to vacate the android body. After Graves relocates to the computer, Picard laments that the real Graves never left the planet.
• Working Title: "Core Dump."

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