I swear I remember they cut directly to Obrien and Data with incredulous "did he just say saucer sep" looks on their faces.
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Not to ruin the mood, but I think the idea was that it was this scary procedure only used in extreme emergencies.
For example, when the episode was running short by about 5 minutes...
They actually only did a saucer separation three times during the entire TNG run. The pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", the cliff-hanger douple-part episode at the end of Season 3 with the Borg, and that one random episode back in the first season. If you count the "Generations" movie, that's a fourth and final time.
Yeah I read somewhere they found it just slowed down the episode too much, so it wasn't used much after the first season.
Correctly used in the movie though.
Its use is limited in actual scenarios, but it does make for a good test.
Test?
The trial never ended, Captain.
I felt like they did it one more time, but I guess they only ever discussed doing it and never actually did. Given that it was a series opening event and how well it was used in The Best Of Both Worlds im surprised it wasn't used again until Generations.
I just remembered the discussion without separation was in Disaster, when Troi was the senior officer on the bridge and a warp core breach was developing. Ro wanted her to separate the ship to save as many people as possible, but Troi wanted to wait in the hopes someone would get to engineering and fix the problem.
They did it three times in TNG. Once during Farpoint, once during The Arsenal of Freedom, and once during The Best of Both Worlds.