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During this episode, Ira Behr asked Hans Beimler and
Richard Manning to join the Deep Space Nine writing staff, but they both
declined. A year later, Beimler came on board as producer. |
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Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir), René Auberjonois (Odo),
Armin Shimerman (Quark) and Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) do not appear in
this episode. |
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Julia Nickson (Cassandra) is probably best known by genre
fans as Catherine Sakai, CDR Sinclair's on-and-off love interest during
the first season of Babylon 5. |
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There was no hole in the back of O'Brien's uniform when
he was explaining about the phaser after Vinod had shot it with an
arrow. |
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O'Brien says he "got the gold suit" by saving his men
during the Cardassian War by fixing their equipment. However during the
pilot of
The Next Generation, (set after
the Cardassian War) O'Brien as still in a red command uniform, and
didn't change to gold until he became Transporter Chief later. |
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The brothers to whom Sisko refers in this episode do not
seem to exist in later episodes. |
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The Orellius system was probably named for Marcus
Aurelius, a Roman emperor who like Alixus was known as a philosopher.
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The punishment box and Sisko's uncompromising resistance
are probably inspired by the story of The Bridge on the River Kwai. In
this film, the unyielding British lieutenant colonel Nicholson resists
similar treatment in a Japanese POW camp during World War II. |
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The scene in which O'Brien strips down to his shorts in
order to set up a decoy with his uniform was filmed at Griffith Park's
bird sanctuary. |
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Ira Steven Behr on
"Paradise":
"'Paradise' was a strong Sisko show. It was our
Great Escape, with Sisko being Steve McQueen, the cooler king, not
giving in. But in terms of what those people were doing, the message of
the show always seemed a little unclear." |
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Writer Jim Trombetta on "Paradise":
"I wanted to put these characters, who have humane
ethics that are based on hardware, into a situation where you take the
hardware away and see what happens to those ethics. If you have to fight
a war and you have a phaser, you set the phaser on stun and knock the
guy down. But suppose you only have a stick? [...] It's not a real
action-packed thriller, but all of the philosophical ideas get expressed
and enacted in a very good way, almost in the sense of an old-fashioned
drama." |
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Ira Steven Behr talks about
the failings of "Paradise":
"It was a show that worked well, but I don't know
if we ever found it. We went back and forth over whether what these
people were doing was a positive thing or a negative thing. Star Trek
is such a tech show, and making these people antitechnology... it was
almost like doing a negative show on Greenpeace." |
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Director Corey Allen talks about working with Gail
Strickland (Alixus):
"Gail and I worked very hard to make that
character reasonable, because her motives were right-thinking. She had
created a paradise, and she needed to preserve it through discipline. We
set out to let her be the reasonable and caring human being that she and
I agreed she was but we were swimming upstream. It didn't come out
that way. But I think that it's to Gail's credit that in making the
effort the character came out with more human traits." |
