Apparently, the director made many makes an attempt so as to add extra emotion to “The Icarus Issue,” and these makes an attempt met with the approval of some very huge names. For instance, influential producer Rick Berman accepted of those efforts, however Gene Roddenberry had the ultimate say on what might or couldn’t go into every episode of his well-liked sci-fi spinoff. This endlessly irritated Iscove, who (as quoted in Captain’s Logs) later summed up his frustration in a single query: “In the event you can’t cope with the emotion, what’s the purpose?”
Placing his cash the place his mouth is, Iscove successfully walked away from the present. After his frustrations throughout “The Icarus Issue,” he turned down future provides to direct Star Trek episodes. On this method, he was a bit like Commander Riker…the present stored pulling the massive chair out for the director and he stored refusing to sit down down.