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The music Varani is playing in Quark's in the beginning
of the episode is a variant of the Deep Space Nine theme song. |
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Andrew Koenig, who plays Tumak, is Walter Koenig's son. |
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Kitty Swink, who portrays the character of Minister
Rozahn, is Armin "Quark" Shimerman's wife. |
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On the close up of Nog looking at the Most Wanted boards
in Odo's office, you can see a face that looks just like that of Leonard
Nimoy. |
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Haneek walks through an airlock and supposedly on to her
ship. You can see the actor's reflection in the door, trying to get
off-camera. |
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William Schallert (Varani) previously played Nilz Baris
in the TOS episode "The
Trouble with Tribbles." |
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This episode is the first of four Star Trek appearances
by Leland Orser (Gai). He goes on to star as Lovok in season three's "The
Die is Cast", Dejaran in Voyager's
"Revulsion"
and Loomis in the Enterprise
instalment "Carpenter
Street." |
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Writer Frederick Rappaport describes the
motivation behind the use of an alien language:
"We needed to delay the 'reveal' of what was going
on. Up until the end of Act 1, these are just pathetic aliens. We don't
know there are millions more. And if we reveal that fact too early, we
don't have a great 'act-out.'" |
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Ira Steven Behr describes the flaky Skrreeans:
"The thing I liked about these aliens is that they
flaked. There's something to that old commercial that talks about 'the
heartbreak of psoriasis.' It's something that people instinctively don't
seem to like, so if you give this trait to a species, and you can't
understand them, and then they say 'Help us,' you're automatically going
to want to say 'No!'" |
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Makeup artist Michael Westmore produced the flaky
skin effect by using finely ground pumice rock suspended in latex. He
describes the effect:
"When we were doing the makeup test on one, there
were a lot of jokes about bad skin, 'What happened to you?' and so
forth. But when you put it on groups of people, and suddenly you have
twenty-five people standing around looking like this, then the
perception was that this was a race of people, as opposed to an
individual that you could make fun of." |
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Ferederick Rappaport describes how Michael Piller
moved the story away from a perfect ending:
"During the story meetings, we were all moving
toward some kind of idealized ending, but it was Michael - he likes to
rock the boat and I like that about him - who came in and said, 'No,
let's not have a pat ending, where everything is hunky-dory and we find
a class-M planet for them and all is cool.' He said, 'Let's go darker
here.'" |
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David Takemura describes the process of creating
the Skrreean ships:
"We went out to a toy store and purchased dozens
of models of airplanes and cars and tanks and so forth for the ships
that would be seen in the far background. Those don't need a lot of
detail, so we can create little tiny spaceships out of the cannibalized
parts." |
