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The stardate on which this episode's events take
place was in the script but omitted in the voiceover. Bashir simply says
"supplemental" for the stardate. This is because a stardate is usually omitted from the episode when the opening sequence runs longer than anticipated. To save money, the opening shot must be shortened, and 'supplemental' is used in place of a stardate to save a few seconds (and thus a few dollars). |
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This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series. The
series lost the coveted award to Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman. |
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Features recycled Turkana IV matte painting from the
Next Generation episode "Legacy",
this time being used as the exterior shot for T'Lani III. |
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Cirroc Lofton (Jake) does not appear in this episode. |
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Bashir's old love Palis is named for a friend of Ira
Steven Behr's wife, who is also a ballerina. |
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The title for this episode came from Robert Hewitt Wolfe
who named it as an homage to the classic Star Trek episode "A
Taste of Armageddon." |
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Morgan Gendel's initial pitch had to do with
Federation personnel going to an alien civilization and insisting that
the aliens get rid of a doomsday device:
"And what the aliens do is encode the weapon onto
O'Brien's DNA, so that if we want to destroy the weapon, we're going to
have to kill O'Brien. That's the idea: assuming that if digital memory
is just an on-off switch, that what they do is either attach a molecule
or not attach a molecule to each DNA strand, so O'Brien is, in effect, a
walking floppy disk. Unfortunately, there is another episode that uses a
similar gimmick ("Dramatis
Personae"), although I hadn't seen it at the time." |
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Morgan Gendel recalls the many modifications of
the plot:
"Initially, the bad guys were supposed to be in a
lab on a planet. But if they were on a planet, then we had to have a
ship for them to chase our guys at the end." |
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Ira Steven Behr discusses the O'Brien/Bashir
dynamic of the episode:
"It's a very important O'Brien/Bashir show, and
both the actors are great. When two people face death together, it
creates a bond that can never be broken." |
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Winrich Kolbe on recurring guest star Rosalind
Chao (Keiko):
"She knows her character a lot better than I do. I
knew there was supposed to be tension between Keiko and O'Brien, and
that obviously had to play into it. But I let her make the decision of
how she would react. I said to her, 'What is your relationship with him?
Do you give a damn? Do you have guilt, or remorse that maybe you should
have tried harder?' We arrived at that particular conclusion, and it was
her decision, and I just filmed it. Rosalind is a top-notch actress and
she knew exactly what she had to do." |
