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	A line cut from the episode stated that Hudson and Sisko had once played dom-jot on Pelios Station against two Zakdorn on the suggestion of Curzon Dax. The two Starfleet officers clearly lost and Curzon told them that he had placed a high bet on the Zakdorn.
	Michael Bell (Xepolite), who is best known as the voice of Angelica's father on Rugrats, also played Groppler Zorn in the Next Generation pilot "Encounter At Farpoint". He is also known in genre circles as the voice of several characters in the original Transformers series, The Riddler on Challenge Of The Superfriends, Zan on World's Greatest Superfriends, and a number of voices from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
	John Schuck (Legate Parn) is best known in Star Trek circles for his role as the Klingon Ambassador in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
	In Sisko's office, Kira's Bajoran comunicator is upside down.
	Ira Steven Behr discusses the motive behind Legate Parn's character: "We were afraid that the Cardassians were all becoming too alike. We wanted to see a kind of pear-shaped Cardassian, just to show that they're not all alike."
	Robert Blackman discusses the Cardassian uniform: "[The uniforms had a kind of] jigsaw-puzzle understructure made out of slightly rigid, flexible foam. We covered probably ninety-three percent of each character's body in this foam, and then covered it with a very expensive polyester that looks like leather. I think there were three hundred and eleven pieces of foam that had to be glued together to do one suit. And the actor who wore it had to be like Marc Alaimo, who is an amazing fellow with zero percent body fat. [However] the costumes are made now so that the can be adjusted to a body like John Schuck's (Legate Parn) although that's about as far as they can go."
	The jungle sequence was all filmed on Paramount's Stage 8 so director Corey Allen had to carefully choreograph the scene: "It was carefully planned out so they would take a circular route, making three ninety-degree turns as they walked. I used the same technique in 'Paradise,' setting the camera way back and having the actors take the longest possible walk in each direction."
	Ira Steven Behr discusses the Kira/Dukat relationship: "That was the beginning of their whole complicated relationship, which would become more and more complicated during third and especially fourth season."
	Ira Steven Behr discusses the motivation behind Sisko's line "It's easy to be a saint in paradise.": "I've been waiting to say that line in Star Trek for a long time. We need to dig deeper and find out what, indeed, life is like in the twenty-fourth century. It is this paradise, or are there, as Harold Pinter supposedly said, 'Weasels under the coffee table?' Sisko's speech in this episode, and Quark's speech to Sisko about the Federation in 'The Jem'Hadar' was the beginning of our really starting to question some of the basic tenets of Star Trek philosophy. Because, yes, it's a paradise - but so what?"

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