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  • Directed by Cast Member: Jonathan Frakes was already a popular director for TNG and Deep Space Nine.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Originally, a scene with Sisko ordering Worf to command the Defiant in the battle was to be featured. It was filmed, but cut.
    • Originally, Picard and Riker's roles were to be switched, and more emphasis was going to be placed on the Earth storyline.
    • The Borg Queen wasn't in the early drafts of the script. They started to formulate the character when executive script notes remarked that they were just cyber-zombies and the movie needed a more tangible villain.
    • The Defiant was outright destroyed in one draft of the script to be replaced with an identical ship. Unsurprisingly, the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine staff objected to what effects this would create for their show, so it was changed to the Defiant being left adrift. Two years later though, Deep Space Nine would destroy the Defiant and replace it with an identical ship.
    • Tom Hanks as Zefram Cochrane.
    • An early draft had Zefram Cochrane dying and Picard taking his place in history.

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