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TREKCORE >
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This episode originated with Ira Steven Behr's
desire to do a version of the 1976 Daniel Petrie television movie
Sybil in the sphere of DS9. Sybil was a psychological study of a
woman, played by Sally Field, who, due to a traumatic childhood,
suffered from an extreme form of multiple personality disorder, and
had at least 13 distinct personalities. Behr thought this would be a
fascinating approach from which to examine Jadzia Dax in a new
light, and he assigned René Echevarria to write the teleplay.
However, at first, Echevarria couldn't shake the notion that if Dax
suddenly started to experience resurgences of her past hosts, there
would need to be a reason why. In the case of Sybil, it was a dark
psychological trauma in her past, but Dax had already had one such
trauma revealed this season (in the episode "Equilibrium"), and
Echevarria felt it would be unacceptable to present viewers with
another nasty experience from her past. Echevarria next came up with
the idea for the zhian'tara ritual, but originally, the ritual
involved simply the suppression of the Jadzia host, and the
resurgence of the former hosts, one at a time. This meant however
that the episode was essentially going to focus exclusively on Terry
Farrell, with her simply playing various different characters, and
Echevarria was unhappy with this because it meant that there could
be no interaction between Jadzia and the previous hosts; "Once she
became each host, it was kind of 'Okay, let's sit back and watch Dax
be this person now.' There was no true interaction between Jadzia
and that host." It was then that Echevarria hit on the idea of using
the cast regulars to 'embody' the various hosts. (Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine Companion, pp. 246-247) |
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When composing the teleplay for this episode René
Echevarria soon realized that there were three female hosts, but
only one female character (Kira) in which to embody them. Dax's
first host was Lela, so Echevarria used Kira for her. He then
decided that it would provide some good comedy to use Quark for
Audrid. This left him with Emony. Originally, he wanted to use
Keiko, as the only recurring female character in the show, but
actress Rosalind Chao was unavailable. As such, he decided to use
the character of Leeta. There had been no indication of a friendship
between Dax and Leeta prior to this episode, so the writers added a
line in the teaser about the two "spending quite a bit of time
together." Ira Steven Behr noted, "It didn't make any sense. We paid
lip service [to the relationship], but it never really paid off
again. It was just one of those things. Sometimes you've just gotta
shoehorn ideas into an episode to keep it going." (Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine Companion, pp. 246-247) |
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Neither René Echevarria nor Ira Steven Behr were
overly happy with how Curzon came across in this episode. According
to Echevarria, "If I had to do it over again, I would have been more
careful about his character. He was almost always drinking or
talking about drinking." Behr, for his part, says, "The way Curzon
came across was by no means the way I saw the character. I saw him
as a kind of bon vivant. Instead he was like Shecky Curzon, a wacky,
funny guy." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 248) |
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The scenes involving Sisko as Joran had to be shot
twice because the producers were unhappy with the first set of
dailies. The reason for this was they felt that Avery Brooks'
performance was too creepy. According to visual effects supervisor
Gary Hutzel, Brooks spoke in an almost inaudible whisper that
"literally sent shivers up your spine". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Companion, p. 247) |
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To achieve Odo's new look after he embodies Curzon,
make-up designer Michael Westmore got a photograph of actor Frank
Owen Smith, who had portrayed Curzon in "Emissary", and digitally
morphed it onto the Odo makeup. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Companion, p. 248) |
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Ira Behr commented that the episode is
"all over the place. The story doesn't begin until act three. Before
then, you don't know what it's about. Is it about Dax? Is it about
Odo? Is it about Curzon? I dare anyone to figure it out until the
show is halfway over. It's filled with scenes that exist just for
the hell of having the scenes. They don't all advance the story. We
do a whole act of meeting these hosts, one after the other. But the
fact that the story moved so fast, and so many outrageous things are
happening every two minutes, it works a lot better than I thought it
would when I was watching the dailies. It has all the ideosyncracies
and eccentricities of a Deep Space Nine episode. Terry really does
her best work when she's vulnerable, worried and trying to wrestle
with problems". (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The
Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages p 98) |
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