At that point we trusted each other, we trusted the producers and we trusted the writers enough to know that it was going to be exciting. Alan Sims, property master: My pride with those episodes would be the prosthetic arms, for which I created remote control apertures.
You would see it flicker and flip back and forth. When the one Borg came to the Enterprise and captured Picard, that was me off camera with a little remote control with two control joysticks and antenna.
Michael Westmore, makeup artist: Patrick Stewart loved being in the makeup chair. Moore : My favorite moment was seeing Picard in that Borg outfit for the first time. You realize the show had gone someplace different. This is going to break some molds. Westmore: My son [ Michael Westmore, Jr. It was a new product on the market and had never been used on TV previously. They wanted Patrick to look directly in the lens, and nobody knew what was going to happen at all. Oh my god. The episode electrifies audiences when it begins airing on syndication June 18, Even Trekkies who refused to accept Next Generation as legitimate are buzzing.
Meanwhile, the writers are tasked with figuring out how to follow up their first cliffhanger ever. Moore : What people forget now is in the first couple of seasons of Next Generation , we were sort of not taken seriously as Star Trek. The fans were split on the acceptance of the show. Forget the bald guy. We were the second-tier Trek. And it got in the press and there was all this tension and people were talking about the cliffhanger and Picard.
Somehow we knew — there were rumors that Patrick Stewart was going to leave the show. That was definitely in the air. He was coming back. The interesting thing was, how were they going to play that? I was the only holdover from season three. It was not on a major network. It was the first show to be in syndication to have tremendous ratings. What that meant was it was on in different times of the day depending on where you were.
They were in southern Jersey outside of the Philly markets. Star Trek: The Next Generation , p. As for the name Locutus, Michael Piller termed it as "a name which I got out of the dictionary about language — I think it's a Latin word for language.
The final draft script for "The Best of Both Worlds" stipulates about the assimilated Picard, " Half his face is gone… replaced with machinery. The way in which Locutus was represented in "The Best of Both Worlds" turned out to be very successful with production staff. David Livingston remarked, " I just remember the moment in dailies of seeing Patrick say, 'You will be assimilated' […] I think that was the turning point for the series, because here you have your captain, who's now a Borg, who's saying he's now gonna take you guys over.
That was an extraordinary moment. Because at the time, the fans were bitching about Picard [such as by complaining that he was 'too cold' or not similar enough to Kirk] […] But by Borgifying Picard — which is something that Michael really related to, because there was a little bit of Borg in him — it led the way to 'Family,' and […] it's what kept the franchise alive.
Jonathan Frakes had several suspicions regarding how effective Locutus was with fans. Following the initial airing of "The Best of Both Worlds", fans anticipated discovering Picard's fate so much that someone devised a hoax script supposedly of the concluding part of the story, in which it turned out that Picard's assimilation had actually been a prank by the Q Continuum.
For help with wording the process of corrupting the Locutus persona in order to enable Picard's inevitable return in " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II ", visual effects artists including Rick Sternbach were consulted. You know, to not just have that one dimension that he had on the series, " observed Director Cliff Bole.
He enjoyed it, tremendously. He explained, " The interesting situation for me was how to create this murderous, autonomous figure while retaining, behind all that, the shadow of Jean-Luc [ I can think of other episodes in which I felt that the character was expanding, developing and learning much more than in that one.
It principally for me was a way of trying to find out how technically to make the Borg character work. Of course, a lot of it was left to the makeup department and the special effects department. The makeup made a significant contribution. Initially, this was done by showing the exposed areas of his body paler by a couple of shades.
According to Westmore, this demonstrated that "as humanity was drained away so was the color of life. They didn't want to put a helmet on him. The suit's face plates were crafted by Westmore from life castings of Patrick Stewart. There were actually two main variations of Locutus' full Borg makeup created for television — one that was used at the end of "The Best of Both Worlds", and another that was applied for the start of " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II ". Whereas the first of these makeup designs incorporated a headpiece that wrapped round from the back of the head to the front of the face where it covered the right cheek, the second version extended the headpiece so that it covered the majority of the face.
Similarly, though the first variant of the makeup included only a few black ribbed tubes that seemed to run into his body and merely one identical tube that ran through the headpiece a lead which, according to Michael Westmore, was intended "to indicate that it was connected directly through his skull to his brain" , the later version had considerably more tubes.
The immediate aftermath of Picard's transformation into Locutus was originally planned to be featured in an alternate past timeline experienced by Picard in TNG series finale " All Good Things He became one with the hive mind; he had the Borg's cybernetic devices implanted throughout his body. Locutus' distinctive Borg feature was a single, red-laser ocular implant. On Stardate , Locutus lead the Borg into the battle of Wolf There, what was to be Starfleet's last line of defense turned into a massacre — 39 starships destroyed by one Borg cube.
The crew of the Enterprise-D eventually managed to sever Locutus from the Borg Collective, save Picard, and ultimately defeat the Borg. However, the memory of Locutus would forever haunt the captain. Locutus plagued Picard yet again on Stardate During this particular encounter with the Borg, Picard admitted that he could still "feel" the Collective, he could still hear their thoughts.
It was not commonplace to be killing off any of your series regulars. Moore said. He was the number two guy on the show, and he was debating whether or not to leave Star Trek and go and run his own show. There have been times when I've perhaps been too public with opinions that should have been expressed privately.
But, as far as the series was concerned,I was always very proud of it. Forget the bald guy. And it got in the press and there was all this tension and people were talking about the cliffhanger and Picard.
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