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splodeymissile posted...

Gomez is a panicky little motormouth. Cute, but there's not much else. I actually expected her to die, the way this episode is set up.

That discrepancy is because Gomez was meant to be a recurring character that'd become a love interest for Geordi. The issue is that she was kind of a bumbling annoyance and neither she nor Burton were told about these plans, so they didn't play it romantic at all.

And if SFDebris is to be believed, in that scene where Q is in the meeting room with Picard and Riker, the script called for Q to make an over the top threat when Riker talked shit to him. De Lancie was the one who went with just quietly going, "Oh, please."