Issue 54 of the British 'Dreamwatch' magazine had an interview with actor and director Jonathan Frakes who of course played Commander William T. Riker. Frakes looked back at his work with 'Star Trek: Insurrection' in the interview having to say the following: About Insurrection's original ending : "They need a big action sequence at the end of film - there was not one in the original script. To the studio's credit, they realised that to satisfy our core audience, we needed the Enterprise to come and save the day. And to that end, Rick Berman and Michael Piller were able to sit down and have three stories now intercut instead of one story. It was a credit to everyone involved that this was done in three weeks, and the visual effects guys had to add 23 new opticals" "Originally, we had Patrick [Stewart] and Murray [Abraham] in the scaffolding, Murray was ejected out into the metaphasic rings, and he morphed down from Ru'afo to Murray's regular appearance down to a teenager that we hired who looked like a young Murray. Now, at the studio suggestion, the Enterprise cuts in to save the day, the collector explodes with the villain on it, so the villain gets his commepauce." More can be found by going to this page at TrekWeb. Return to news Page | Comment on this @ the SFI Forums