The Enterprise-D.
Bringing back the Enterprise, and the Enterprise-D,
was an idea early on.
I went to Patrick's house, and I told him, I said,
"I think it's obviously right for you
to get back onto the Enterprise,
but not just any Enterprise."
And he was like, "I think you're 100% right."
I became very emotional.
It wasn't just the Enterprise,
but it was being back on a ship again.
[Brent] Look at this would you?
Look at this!
During those seven years,
can you imagine how many thousands of hours
we spent on those sets?
They became home.
I mean, my son, my personal son, my real son,
learned how to walk on that set.
[Terry] This art department has worked so hard
to get this right, down to the square inch.
So, Liz and Dave.
We early on had to rebuild that bridge,
and that involved our Production Designer, Dave Blass,
getting in touch with people I used to work with
when I was a Production Assistant, with the Okudas,
Doug Drexler, Herman Zimmerman.
Everyone who was in involved with that bridge early on
came back to help out to make it as accurate as possible.
Everybody involved in the building
of the Enterprise-D set did such a great job.
I mean, we all walked on and went, "Wow."
The Enterprise-D of course
is a very accurate copy of what we did back in 1987
under Production Designer Herman Zimmerman.
When you step onto that set,
the sense of nostalgia is almost overwhelming you.
It's like it's 1987 again.
When I first saw the bridge back in '87,
we had never seen a bridge like that before.
It was always kind of militaristic
and very stark and spartan.
Even though it's, it's full of nostalgia,
hopefully to a lot of the viewers of this show,
it's important to remember that back in those days
when the ship was first designed,
it was, it was very innovative.
I just remember it looked like a living room.
You know, it looked like somebody's really nice living room.
It just goes to show that they thought about that.
They thought about, you know, "What if these people have
to be in space, for five or 10 or whatever years,
it'd be nice to have something that's comfortable."
There was no denying that there was
an emotional sense memory going right up through my feet.
And I think that that's gonna happen to all of us.
Warp core, online.
Watching the crew take their stations, again,
after all this time, intermixed with the new crew,
it's like everything you want from Star Trek,
especially from this version of Star Trek.
I don't think we could've gotten there without
the first two seasons.
I think it would've been too fast to get there
in Season 1 or Season 2.
It felt like it always felt.
It felt comfortable.
And we took our positions at our stations,
felt like we'd never left.
There is kind of sentimental and moving
that we're going to be on the bridge
of the Enterprise again,
but what we were looking forward to as a cast
was working together again, the whole crew.
And it gets a bit, let's not say unprofessional,
let's say joyous.
Let's use that word instead.
And now there's a hundred starships
with a guns pointed right at you.
There are no words to describe what it's like
to call action in that moment.
It's...you're standing in this room with these legends,
on this legendary set, and you still have to work.
Still gotta get your day and you still gotta yell, "Cut,"
and give them direction.
It's really hard.
Turns out it's really hard when it's your childhood dream
and these heroes are here.
They're all having an emotional reaction.
They're all remembering moments with each other
on that set where somebody fell,
somebody smashed into a wall, somebody did a thing.
It was extraordinary.
It really was magic for three days.
Again, that sense of coming home,
completing the circle, on the story has been really present
in the scripts and in the atmosphere on stage.
My goal from the beginning of Season 3 was: this needs
to be a sendoff to the Next Gen cast
and where better to end than at the beginning, on that set,
on that bridge.
It felt really powerful to us to do.
Computer, initiate shut down sequence.
[Computer] Shut down procedure initiated.
[Will] I miss that voice.
[Jean-Luc] Take care of her, Geordi.
[Geordi] Yes, sir.
After all, she's always taken good care of us.