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This Story: Season 4 Episode 20 (production code 194)
TNG Overall: Episode 94
Trek Overall: Story 193, Episode 196
Airdate: 22 Apr 1991
Teleplay by Ira Steven Behr
Story by Ira Steven Behr & Randee Russell
Directed by Cliff Bole

Notes

• Features the return of John DeLancie’s Q as well as Jennifer Hetrick’s Vash.  It is Vash’s last appearance on the show, but not in the franchise.
• Worf’s smashing of Geordi’s mandolin is intended as reference to John Belushi in the movie Animal House.
• The shot where Vash trips over her dress was a blooper, but it was left it because it was felt the discomfort with her dress fit the character.
• The actor who played Sir Guy of Gisbourne in this episode (Clive Revill) was also the voice of Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes back – but later revisions removed him in favor of Ian McDiarmid.
• A background actor in this episode (John Nowak) plays an unnamed character here.  He was in Star Trek previously in 1967’s “The Doomsday Machine“.
• The line Q makes about Vash being “good. really good” is repeated by Quark in the DS9 episode “Q-Less“.
• Amusingly Marina Sirtis & Gates McFadden were the only two in the cast actually trained in sword fighting, yet the two of them only bashed people over the head with vases.

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