The Perfect Mate

This Story: Season 5 Episode 21 (production code 221)
TNG Overall: Episode 121
Trek Overall: Story 218, Episode 223
Airdate: 27 Apr 1992
Story by René Echevarria & Reuben Leder (as Gary Percante)
Teleplay by Reuben Leder (as Gary Percante) & Michael Piller
Directed by Cliff Bole

Notes

• Deanna Troi does not appear in this episode.
• There was a filmed ending to this where Picard appears to interrupt the wedding, but it turns out it was just a dream – it was not used, but is on DVD/Blu-Ray sets.
• Famke Janssen was offered the role of Jadzia Dax on Deep Space Nine, but declined, paving the way for Terry Farrell.
• Additionally, Farrell’s Trill spots were more or less what was done in this episode for Janssen’s character.
• Famke Janssen later worked again with Patrick Stewart in the X-Men movies.
• Max Grodénchik plays his second Ferengi role (that is not Rom, the one he’s most famous for) in this episode – “Par Lenor”.  He previously played “Sovak” in “Captain’s Holiday“.
• The concept of Cetacean Ops is first mentioned as a thing in this episode.

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