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*An actor has repeated trouble with a line or word. In [[A Private Little War (TOS episode)|an episode]] of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'', according to [[William Shatner]], his fellow actor [[DeForest Kelley]] had trouble pronouncing an alien creature's name. The creature's name was "Gumato", but Kelley kept saying "Mugato". The monster eventually became officially known as the Mugato.

*To make late changes to the script. In [[The Battle (TNG episode)|an episode]] of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', [[LeVar Burton]] and [[Brent Spiner]] originally said the USS ''Stargazer'' was a [[Constitution class starship (Star Trek)|"''Constitution''-class" starship]], but in post-production, it was decided to show a previously unseen class of starship. The dialogue was re-dubbed with the words "[[Constellation class starship (Star Trek)|''Constellation''-class]]," partly due to the similarity of the words ''constitution'' and ''constellation''.

==In comics==

Retroscripting is similar to the "[[Marvel method]]" of script writing developed by [[Stan Lee]], wherein a rough plot outline is given to the artist to draw, and dialog is added after the artwork is completed. The technique was developed by Lee because the high number of titles he was writing concurrently prevented him from being able to write full scripts for each one.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comicbooks.about.com/od/glossary/g/Marvel-Method-Definition.htm |title=The Marvel Method Comic Book Glossary Definition |publisher=Comicbooks.about.com |date=2014-03-04 |accessdate=2014-04-29}}</ref>

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