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	Peter Allan Fields on "Progress": "Brian Keith played Mullibok as a lovable old curmudgeon. But I didn't want that! I wanted a character who wasn't so lovable, someone who, when Kira puts her hand on his shoulder at the end, would look like he really means it when he shrugs her off and looks his own way. I wanted a strong guy who did not change at the end. There are too many old guys in television dramas who start out nasty and then get meek and gentle and the end. That's not what I wanted."
	According to Peter Allan Fields, the use of Kira's given name, Nerys, came across wrong: "He said it because he was trying to con her!"
	Terry Farrell on talk about Morn: "The intention in that scene was to try to break into Kira's shell. I wasn't serious. I was trying to mess with her head, trying to get her to be herself around me. You haven't seen Jadzia with Morn, she doesn't date him. But as Jadzia, I think that Kira puts too much emphasis on what a guy looks like, so I'm teasing her about her youth, and her naivete about what people are really about. I'm trying to be funny, but I am also trying to get Kira to laugh at herself."
	Ira Steven-Behr on stem bolts (the self sealing variety): "Pete (Allan Fields) gave us latinum, Pete gave us Garak, and he gave us self-sealing stem bolts. And there's something about those things - the stem bolts in particular - that are the most indicative of the Pete Fields that I know. You just can't figure out what self-sealing stem bolts are - and Pete lives his whole life that way. We love throwing his ideas into the scripts."
	Actor Terrence Evans (Baltrim) later appeared in Season 2's "Cardassians" as the adoptive father of the Cardassian war orphan.