Trivia / Star Trek: Voyager S2E15 "Threshold"

• Creator Backlash: The crew and cast did not overall look fondly back at this episode.
  • Writer Brannon Braga famously called the episode "a royal, steaming stinker" on the DVD set.
  • Series co-creator Jeri Taylor admitted hating the episode thanks to the amount of criticism she got from her family and friends over it; half of them just thought the episode's concept was stupid, while the other half took offence to the episode implicitly endorsing evolution theory over Young-Earth Creationism.
  • At the 2009 New Jersey Star Trek convention, Kate Mulgrew remarked to the audience that this was the episode she was most uncomfortable with, noting that she didn't like the thought of mating with Paris as a lizard.
  • Even Robert Duncan McNeill, who was eager for more character focus, was "puzzled" by the episode, and later said at a 2015 cast reunion:
    McNeill: If you take a hallucinogenic and watch the episode, I'm telling you, you'll appreciate it!
• Similarly Named Works: Brannon Braga would later become involved in a short-lived sci-fi series called Threshold.
• Technology Marches On: Tom and B'Elanna working off a table littered with PADDs.
• Written by Cast Member: Just for one scene, anyway - Robert Duncan McNeill personally helped rewrite the final scene, as he felt it originally didn't end very well.

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