Code of Honor (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Director Les Landau completed the episode. "Star Trek" novel author Keith DeCandido later recalled that this was because of the casting itself, while cast member Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) thought that it was because Mayberry was racist towards the guest stars after they were cast. Staff writer Tracy Tormé was not pleased with the "1940s tribal Africa" theme of the aliens, and because the combat scene towards the end of the episode resembled the Kirk versus Spock fight in "" episode "Amok Time". Fellow "Star Trek" writer Maurice Hurley said that it was "a good idea, but the execution just
Star Trek (film) for portraying Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", was brought in, through urging by Greg Grunberg, to voice several of the other Romulans in the film. "Star Trek" fan and Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch cameoed as a "Kelvin" crew member, and has a line of dialogue. Majel Barrett, the widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, reprised her role as the voice of "Enterprise"s computer, which she completed two weeks before her death on December 18, 2008. Orci and Kurtzman wrote a scene for Shatner, in which old Spock gives his younger self a recorded message