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	The Klingon restaurateur is played by Ron Taylor, who was the voice of "Bleeding Gums" Murphy on The Simpsons. He was also the voice of Audrey II in the original Broadway cast of the musical Little Shop Of Horrors.
	This is the first appearance of Gul Evek (Richard Poe). He would later appear in both The Next Generation and Voyager. Although the script only refers to his character as "Cardassian Officer" and production sources credit him only as "Cardassian", it is apparent that this character became Gul Evek, as in "Tribunal", Evek tells Miles O'Brien that they have spoken before.
	Terry Farrell and Geoffrey Blake (Arjin) had previously starred together in the 1980s series Paper Dolls. Blake's character was the boyfriend of Farrell's character.
	The script describes the Klingon love song as "Sigmund Romburgesque... the sort of thing Nelson Eddy would have sung to Jeanette MacDonald if they were Klingons...".
	Director David Livingston talks about Dax: "I think Dax has a pretty healthy libido. When Arjin came to her door, I wanted her to look as sexy as possible. I wanted her to be a knockout - and she did look pretty spectacular. The audience is thinking, 'What's she doing with this guy?' Well, she was working out with him."
	Terry Farrell on "Shadowplay": "Dax is trying to show Arjin into trusting her. Her job is to  shock him into being himself because he's not ready to become a host. She even leads him to believe that she's slept with this wrestler, but she didn't. She was playing with Arjin's head. Everything she does in the beginning of 'Playing God' is an attempt to get Arjin to react to her, to shake him out of his behavior. Because somebody who's really mature enough to be a host would have handled that treatment differently than Arjin did."
	Armin Shimerman on Dax and Tongo: "Nobody on the set really knows how to play tongo. It enforces in viewers' minds that Dax is not 'all work and everything in its proper place' like most Starfleet characters. No other Starfleet character has a corner of his or her heart reserved for the playful Ferengi. But Dax does, and the writers have given her several speeches designed to convince the others of the Ferengi's good points. I'm very happy that Dax and Quark play tongo together."
	Director David Livingston on the voles: "I loved the voles! I wanted to see those suckers and shoot them up close. Initially the script was written so that we didn't really see them as they scurried about. But I said, 'No, we've gotta see them!' So Michael Westmore designed this wonderful creature, and I shot big close-ups."

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