What an awful AI upscale. Wesley is all wrong and Riker isn't quite Riker.

Thankfully these Earth-bound bottle episodes made way for the more expensive ones, like the one where they had to blow half the season's budget on cybernetics research to create Lal.

Aside: There's a persistent, ridiculous rumor that "The Inner Light" was filmed on Earth. Like do you people know how much it would cost to make the Sun go supernova just for one episode??

Thankfully the entirety of the universe's planetary biomes exist within 30 miles radius from Hollywood.

Almost all of them. Only Risa scenes were filmed on location.