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Salli Richardson (Fenna) is probably best known for her role as Elisa Maza in the animated series Gargoyles. Ironically, Avery Brooks guest starred in an episode of that series.
   
Richard Kiley (Seyetik), an accomplished actor, was best known as the voice behind many National Geographic TV specials. Sadly, he died in 1999 of bone marrow disease.
   
Dax says that they are upgrading a ship's engines to Warp 9.5 so that it can outrun a supernova. This is overkill, as Warp 2 would be more than sufficient, let alone a starship engine that probably has Warp 8 or 9 already. This is an example of a plot device being justified by "techspeak" that doesn't make any sense.
   
The starship assigned for the mission to reignite Epsilon 119 was the USS Prometheus. In greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus brought fire to man.
   
This episode takes place on the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Wolf 359, although the stardate of the episode does not correspond to the anniversary.
   
Mark Gehred-O'Connell describes his original pitch:
"Bashir meets this very mysterious, exotic woman, falls for her, and she disappears. Then he sees her again and she disappears again. He tries to get his crewmates to help him find her, and discovers that nobody has ever seen her, and they all begin to wonder, 'Gee, has Julian been working a little too hard lately?' So Bashir has to solve this mystery on his own."
   
Gehred-O'Connell's pitch was changed under the direction of Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr recalls:
"During the second season, Michael kept saying 'Let's define Sisko.' That's when he and I had conversations about making Sisko the builder, on establishing the difference between him and Picard, the explorer. Sisko is a builder, he stays with a project until the finish. That helped us to see Sisko in a whole lot of different ways. He's a guy who's solid and real and human."
   
Ira Steven Behr on the casting of Richard Kiley as Seyetik:
"I love Richard Kiley, but I felt that we only got one side of the character. We got his bigness but we didn't get his soul, this bitterness and boldness we tried to give him. For the show to work, Sisko had to respect Seyetik, and for whatever reason, there was never any current of understanding between Sisko and him. And for me, the show fell apart. The audience had to like Seyetik. He kills himself. How many times do we see a guy commit suicide on Star Trek? It was a great ending, an ending worthy of John Huston, but it just seemed like some other wacky thing that this character was doing. You didn't feel any sorrow."
   
Dan Curry describes the famous shots on the upper pylon:
"They go up to what is supposed to be the tip of one of the upper pylons and look down. It was just a really cool shot, I'd like to see out that window more, and I'd like to see them go to a window, and see back through a window into a different part of the station. But its very difficult for us to do, and it doesn't make the story better, so we don't do that a lot."
   
Robert Hewitt Wolfe made the decision to name a bit of Klingon poetry "The Fall of Kang," after the character played by Michael Ansara in the original Star Trek's "Day of the Dove". He comments:
"We didn't know we were going to bring Kang back in 'Blood Oath,' I thought, 'It's been eighty years and he was a real cool guy; he probably went out in a blaze of glory.' And he did - but in a subsequent episode!'"


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