This was Robert Hewitt Wolfe's pitch script, and the one which got him hired to work on DS9.
	Brannon Braga on "A Fistful of Datas" - "I'm not a Western fan, I never really saw Westerns, and Patrick Stewart, a British guy who's not familiar with the Western genre - and here we are doing our big Western show! But, I think, we brought a fresh sensibility to it."
	Jeri Taylor on director Patrick Stewart - "Patrick approached this with such zealousness - he went out and rented two classic Westerns every night. The next morning he'd come in and tell us what great ideas he'd had, and we could always tell just what he'd watched."
	The story originally concerned a greedy land baron, but it was DS9's Ira Steven Behr who persuaded them to switch themes to a Rio Bravo homage.
	An original title was "The Good, the Bad and the Klingon". [I prefer it myself!]
	Michael Piller on "A Fistful of Datas" - "This was a hoot! It was never meant to be anything more than old Star Trek. The tricky part was not to make it broad parody but make it believable Western storytelling and still have fun just from seeing the characters in those situations."
	Two scenes cut for time included a homage to "The Ransom of Red Chief" between Data and Alexander, and a moment where Worf nearly shoots himself in the foot after a quick draw lesson from Troi.
	In a blooper, Worf's gun switches hands between takes.
	Eli Hollander is named for one of Brannon Braga's film school professors at UC Santa Cruz.
	The place names reflect hometowns of Braga's family - Rapid City and Deadwood, South Dakota.
	The exterior scenes were all shot on the Western Street at Warner Brothers' backlot while the interiors were built on Stage 16.
	In another blooper, a map of Arizona is seen hung in the sheriff's office even though the town is supposed to be South Dakota.

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