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TREKCORE >
DEEP SPACE NINE
> EPISODES >
EMISSARY
> Behind the Scenes
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Philip Kim's original idea for this episode involved
Weyoun coming to Sisko to ask for his help because the Founders are
breeding a new race called the Modain, who are to replace the Jem'Hadar.
The Modain are far tougher and more aggressive than the Jem'Hadar, and
even more loyal to the Founders. Weyoun convinces Sisko that it would be
in everybody's best interest to destroy the breeding facility where the
Modain are being developed. After destroying the facility however, Sisko
discovers that Weyoun was lying – the Modain were not being bred to
replace the Jem'Hadar, they were being bred to replace the Vorta. Ira
Steven Behr had been looking for a good Weyoun/Odo story since the sixth
season, and he believed that Kim's idea could be modified to fit.
Consequently he assigned the script to David Weddle and Bradley
Thompson, who altered Kim's story into the final episode. (Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine Companion) |
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The origins (or possible origins) of the Vorta are
revealed in this episode. Ira Steven Behr came up with this story, and
of it, he says, "I like to get the audience
thinking one way about a character or a race, making them think that
these are definitely the bad guys. Then you slip something like this in
so they have to reevaluate the opinion you've already given them. These
are still the bad guys, but now, at least, you understand something
about why. So I just loved that the Vorta, this calculating,
Machiavellian race, started out as Hobbit-like cute little creatures who
were genetically altered and directed to do these horrible things."
(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) |
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The writers saw Odo's reluctant acceptance that for the
Vorta, he truly is a god, as being his first step in deciding to return
to the Founders at the end of the series. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Companion) |
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Of the B-story, which is based on the 1961 Joseph Heller
novel Catch 22, with Nog taking the role of Milo Minderbinder, Aron
Eisenberg states, "This was Nog taking the same
energy and Ferengi ideals he'd had before he joined Starfleet and
incorporating them into his goals in Starfleet. What I love about having
an honest Ferengi in Starfleet is that he knows how to manipulate the
situation. In Starfleet, you go through certain channels to get things
done. It's all very official. Nog just feels that you don't have to. You
can do it this way and it works just as easily and it's much faster. He
thinks it's perfectly natural to do this. No one else in Starfleet would
have done things this way except Nog." (Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine Companion)
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The idea of an officer who wants to sit behind Sisko's
desk was Ira Behr's joke about how obsessed Trekkies can become. (Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) |
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