Most Star Trek TV scripts are created in a fairly straightforward way - and then there’s "Yesterday’s Enterprise”: a mash-up of stories, a train wreck of a process, and yet one of the most popular episodes of The Next Generation ever. For its 30th anniversary this month, let The Trek Files decipher the paper trail from those crazy days of 26-episode seasons with none other than its co-writer, TNG script coordinator (and lifelong fan) Eric Stillwell.
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8-18 "In Essence, Nothing" deal memo - 1968
8-17 From the Bridge - "Gene's Back" - May 1987
8-16 Tests for Make-Up/Hair/Wardrobe - May 12, 1987
8-15 Letter from David Houston to Gene Roddenberry - 1975
8-14 More Aliens in Lead Roles memo - 1989
8-13 Fan letter to Michael Eisner - 1978
8-12 Letter from Rear Admiral Miller - 1968
8-11 Creative Concept Notes - 1986
8-10 IDIC memo and "Is There in Truth No Beauty" - 1968
8-9 Sisterhood memo - 1986
8-8 Director Contract Request - September 29, 1967
8-7 Starfleet Operating Orders - 1987
8-6 Cosmopolitan Motors - April 1968
8-5 Fan correspondence - 1971-1975
8-4 Generation Gap letter - 1971
8-3 Star Trek directorial commitments - 1968
8-2 Gene Roddenberry "Metalaw" speech
8-1 Writing to Budget - 1987
7-24 Maiden Wine poem - 1968
7-23 - National Space Society speech - January, 1989
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