10 MORE Star Trek Moments You Never Knew Were Improvised

10. The F-Bomb Is Not A Cocktail

We've already discussed this particular piece of profanity in, well, our piece on profanity. But, as the crew of the Enterprise-D trapped in the Typhon Expanse would say, 'Here we f**king go again!' Like your dad stubbing his toe on the sofa, Discovery introduced Star Trek to the F-word. Picard followed suit, kicking off with Clancy. In season three, the titular then added a F-bomb of his own, via the actor, off the cusp of the cut glass.

If there is anywhere you can swear, the bar is the place. Already on the Jameson, neat, in the holographic recreation of Guinan's 10 Forward Avenue, Jean-Luc let slip his "ten f**king gruelling hours" in No Win Scenario. The four-letter word-ing wasn't in the script, however. As showrunner Terry Matalas told Collider in March 2023,

[Jonathan Frakes, Ed Speleers, and Patrick Stewart] were rehearsing and what they had crafted was so genuine and so intense, that came out in the moment. Patrick said it and felt it, and it was real, a couple of times.

Fan reaction was… varied. Matalas himself, having not been on set that day, admitted to being "taken aback by it" when he saw the first cut. "I was really torn because hearing that word come from your childhood hero, Captain Picard, it throws you," he added to Collider. Matalas apparently hesitated over removing the expletive entirely, but (evidently) decided "it had to stay in".