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A line cut from the episode stated that Hudson and Sisko
had once played dom-jot on Pelios Station against two Zakdorn on the
suggestion of Curzon Dax. The two Starfleet officers clearly lost and
Curzon told them that he had placed a high bet on the Zakdorn. |
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Michael Bell (Xepolite), who is best known as the voice
of Angelica's father on Rugrats, also played Groppler Zorn in the
Next Generation pilot "Encounter
At Farpoint". He is also known in genre circles as the voice of
several characters in the original Transformers series, The Riddler on
Challenge Of The Superfriends, Zan on World's Greatest Superfriends, and
a number of voices from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. |
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John Schuck (Legate Parn) is best known in Star Trek
circles for his role as the Klingon Ambassador in
Star Trek IV: The
Voyage Home and
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. |
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In Sisko's office, Kira's Bajoran comunicator is upside
down. |
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Ira Steven Behr discusses the motive behind Legate
Parn's character:
"We were afraid that the Cardassians were all
becoming too alike. We wanted to see a kind of pear-shaped Cardassian,
just to show that they're not all alike." |
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Robert Blackman discusses the Cardassian uniform:
"[The uniforms had a kind of] jigsaw-puzzle
understructure made out of slightly rigid, flexible foam. We covered
probably ninety-three percent of each character's body in this foam, and
then covered it with a very expensive polyester that looks like leather.
I think there were three hundred and eleven pieces of foam that had to
be glued together to do one suit. And the actor who wore it had
to be like Marc Alaimo, who is an amazing fellow with zero percent body
fat. [However] the costumes are made now so that the can be adjusted to
a body like John Schuck's (Legate Parn) although that's about as far as
they can go." |
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The jungle sequence was all filmed on Paramount's Stage 8
so director Corey Allen had to carefully choreograph the scene:
"It was carefully planned out so they would take a
circular route, making three ninety-degree turns as they walked. I used
the same technique in 'Paradise,'
setting the camera way back and having the actors take the longest
possible walk in each direction." |
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Ira Steven Behr discusses the Kira/Dukat
relationship:
"That was the beginning of their whole complicated
relationship, which would become more and more complicated during third
and especially fourth season." |
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Ira Steven Behr discusses the motivation behind
Sisko's line "It's easy to be a saint in paradise.":
"I've been waiting to say that line in Star
Trek for a long time. We need to dig deeper and find out what,
indeed, life is like in the twenty-fourth century. It is this paradise,
or are there, as Harold Pinter supposedly said, 'Weasels under the
coffee table?' Sisko's speech in this episode, and Quark's speech to
Sisko about the Federation in 'The
Jem'Hadar' was the beginning of our really starting to question some
of the basic tenets of Star Trek philosophy. Because, yes, it's a
paradise - but so what?" |
