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Template:Realworld To Boldly Go was a ten-minute Star Trek: The Next Generation documentary produced by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1990 for their current affairs series PrimeTime Live. It was broadcast on 27 September 1990 as part of the second season of the series. The featurette was hosted by DeForest Kelley, who playfully adopted his curmudgeon alter ego character of Leonard McCoy. Kelly visited the set of The Next Generation around the time when the episode "Family" was in production. Apart from talking to actors and production staffers like Gates McFadden (also playfully in character as Beverly Crusher) and Michael Westmore, it also featured behind-the-scenes footage, among others staff meetings, application of makeup and the designing and filming of the McKinley-type studio model.

Produced by ABC staffers Neil Shapiro and Eric Dennis, the featurette has never been released as, or included as a special feature in any of the, home media formats afterwards. Not seen for decades, it has recently resurfaced on Internet websites like YouTube.

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