Riker, Troy, and Data all came from characters that were supposed to be in ToS: Phase 2.
Riker was originally the character that would learn from and replace Kirk. Troys original character was an alien that had to repress her sex drive. And Data was a Vulcan.
Those characters were first repurposed for the movies, and then repurposed again for NG.
MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I saw an interview with Marina where she said she was only ever given intelligent sounding lines in the episodes where her cleavage was covered up.