At a Star Trek: The Next Generation panel at Fan Expo Boston, actress Gates McFadden recalled that filming the show's acclaimed series finale, "All Good Things…", turned into a gruelling 23-hour shoot, capping off a punishing seventh and final season. She and co-stars Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes described how the demands of makeup, prosthetics, effects, stunts and dense technobabble-laden dialogue made the show's 22-plus-episode seasons exhausting, with McFadden joking she was relieved it was the last episode because she "couldn't do that every day".

McFadden explained that the marathon day was caused partly by glued-in grey hair pieces that would not come off, on top of having to play Dr Beverly Crusher across three different time periods, requiring numerous costume changes. The finale saw Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) tested by the entity Q (John de Lancie) across his first days commanding the Enterprise, the present-day Romulan Neutral Zone crisis, and a future in which Crusher, divorced from Picard, commands her own ship. Adding to McFadden's ordeal, production on the crew's first film, Star Trek: Generations, began just four days after the series wrapped.