TREKCORE > DS9 > EPISODES > MELORA > Behind the Scenes
 

	Cirroc Lofton (Jake) doesn't appear in this episode.
	The character of Melora was originally going to be a main character on Deep Space Nine, but the costs of zero gravity scenes that would have to be filmed in her quarters were too great for a permanent character. The character was substituted for the Trill Jadzia Dax, as it would lead to fewer complications.
	Don Stark (Ashrok) later appears in Star Trek: First Contact as Nicky the Nose.
	Melora's wheelchair was purchased by Set Decorator Laura Richarz and revamped by Prop Master Joe Longo, who recalls that he "added a control panel and some wheel covers to block out the spokes in the wheels, and changed the joystick. Basically we tried to keep it as simple as possible, because of our experience in [the TNG episode] "Too Short a Season." We had made a big albatross of a moving chair for that, and it was bad. But this one worked great; the actress drove it everywhere."
	Jim Martin (Illustrator) recalls creating Melora's exoskeleton: "I started with a basic framework for her limbs. The producers didn't want any chest or waist pieces. They just wanted it to be around her arms, her neck, and her legs. And they didn't want regular hinges, because hinges aren't futuristic enough. So Rick Sternbach designed an expanding and contracting kind of hinge, something that pulls in rather than rotate, that I incorporated into my drawings. But the metallic bands adjoining the pieces kept popping off, once right in the middle of a scene. Joe Longo never let me forget it."
	Alexander Siddig on the flying sequences: "Great fun! [The flying gear included] a very thick wire corset, like a steel bathing suit. It has to be incredibly tight because when you're upside down, you tend to slip out. So they actually put their foot up on your spine and pull the strings tight, literally like an old-fashioned corset. It was hard to  be romantic, kissing somebody longingly, like in some old movie, while you're spinning slightly and you don't know where you're going and you bump into each other's head."