Star Trek: The Next Generation Force of Nature (1987–1994) watch online HD

The first Trek episode where a speed limit is imposed on all Federation vessels. This is mentioned intermittently throughout this final season of TNG but never on Звездный путь: Дальний космос 9 (1993) or Звездный путь: Вояджер (1995). What with the production staff's dissatisfaction with this episode, its likely they erased it from canon in their minds, rather than found some off-screen solution to remedy the warp effect.

In this episode a Federation wide speed limit is put in place because of the harmful effects traveling at high warp has on subspace. While it is never mentioned in any of the TV series or movies it was mentioned in a book that the new class 9 warp drive being tested in the new Intrepid-class star-ships, such as the U.S.S. Voyager, had been designed to not have those harmful effects on subspace. So after the new class 9 warp drive tests were successful all Starfleet vessels had their warp cores replaced with new ones with similar modifications to the class 9 warp drive, which is why the Federation wide speed limit is never brought up again.

This episode went through a very troubled production history because the staff couldn't figure out what to do with it. They commented: "When the script was written, it was too short. So then we started adding scenes about Data's cat. By luck (or by bad luck), all of those scenes came at the beginning of the show. So you had an episode that started fitfully, with an unrelated cat subplot. Then it took a turn and seemed to be about Geordi's rivalry with the other guy. Then back to the cat and finally in the third act, the real story began. By that point, people were hopelessly lost. It never got back on track, even if its intentions were good." Michael Piller: "I think this is the worst show I worked on this season. It inspired us to have several meetings over where the season was going. I felt we were letting it slip away." Brannon Braga: "There were preposterous moments. And we knew the risks, which is why we thought it important to do an environmental show. We struggled with making it a personal story and in the end it just didn't work as well as we wanted to. We couldn't find a personal angle. And when you limit warp drive, the rug is pulled out from under Star Trek. I wish more time had been spent with that, and less time with Spot the cat."

The first mention of bio-mimetic gel, an extremely valuable substance often employed in Звездный путь: Дальний космос 9 (1993) and Звездный путь: Вояджер (1995). The USS Voyager's computers are regulated by bio-neural gel packs. Science consultant André Bormanis based this element on news that Cambridge researchers had developed material that could create small tubules that mimic certain cellular-level biological activities and structures.

First episode where Data's cat Spot is now referred to as a she. In all previous episodes Spot is referred to as a "he."

Although Data is devoted to his cat, in reality Brent Spiner hates cats.

Further references to the warp speed limitation were made in episodes "The Pegasus" and "Eye of the Beholder" later in the season.

Data's attempts to keep training Spot from not jumping onto his desk would still be unsuccessful going into 2371, as shown in Star Trek Generations.

Previously Data's cat, Spot, has always been a male. However starting with this episode, and continuing through the end of the series, Spot is suddenly a female. It was mentioned in the Star Trek: Encyclopedia that the writers said in a later interview when questioned about this that perhaps Spot had some sort of transporter accident.

We learn the standard crew complement for a Ferengi vessel is 450.

Rebal and Serova's ship is actually a Talarian vessel from stock footage of a ship from Звездный путь: Следующее поколение: Suddenly Human (1990).

The episode derived from a premise Joe Menosky had created back in the sixth season, known as "Limits". Menosky's allegory for modern day environmental problems was dropped as an element from several episodes that season, including "Suspicions".

Continues the tradition of using 24th century matters to comment on social and political conditions in real life. Warp drives harming the fabric of space refers to fossil fuel emissions from aircraft, cars, and trucks contributing to anthropogenic climate change.

Lee Arenberg also played a Ferengi in Звездный путь: Дальний космос 9: The Nagus (1993) and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) {Bloodlines (#7.22)}_.

Lee Arenberg has appeared in five different roles in all four Star Trek spin-off series. He has played Gral (a Ferengi) in DS9 "The Nagus", Park in TNG "Force of Nature", Bok in TNG "Bloodlines", Pelk in Voyager "Juggernaut" and Gral (a Tellarite) in the Enterprise episodes "Babel One" and "United".

This takes place in 2370.

Several wall displays in this episode read "RS Corridor". According to Michael Okuda, this was a mistake, the name of the Hekaras Corridor was misspelled on the graphic and then all but the last two incorrect letters were accidentally deleted.

The costume worn by Margaret Reed (Doctor Serova) was later sold off at an online auction.

The costume worn by Michael Corbett (Doctor Rabal) was later sold off at an online auction.