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Michelle Forbes had
already turned down appearances on DS9 in favour of
working on films. |
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Jeri Taylor found herself
pursuing Michelle Forbes for the appearances just days
away from the design week before live filming, after
coming up with a bare-bones Maquis idea to follow DS9's
two parter. |
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Jeri Taylor on
the job of convincing Michelle Forbes -
"Her agent had
said last year 'Please leave us alone!'. It came down to
her agent and manager, saying, 'You - Jeri - get on the
phone with Michelle and tell her what the story is, and if
you can sell it she might do it.' So that was a phone call
I really had a dry mouth about, because it was all only my
shoulders. But I guess desperation and the clock ticking
inspired me, because I just spun gold out of straw - 'a
woman torn, and her choices are...' - and I knew I had
her." |
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Naren
Shankar's first draft had Ro pull off her trust earning
raid alone against a freighter, but three days before
filming Michael Piller asked for a restructuring of the
whole Act to make her task seem more credible and get the
regular cast more screen time. |
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Rene
Echevarria was very sad to lose a final scene where
Macias, not wearing the traditional Bajoran earring, turns
to Ro and asks if she's ready to stop wearing hers because
she's not Bajoran, she's a Maquis. The moment would have
added even more poignancy to her final request that Riker
take her earring back to Picard. |
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Macias'
original death was to have been greatly disfiguring and
cause by the mutagenic weapons referred to in season six's
"Chain
of Command". |
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Macias' name
was taken from the Cuban Freedom Fighter in Cuba's War of
Independence from Spain. |
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Michelle
Forbes told numerous news agencies and reporters that
she'd consider an appearance on DS9 if the story was up to
par. She never did. |
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Ro's reference
of the Commander from Tactical Training was designed to be
a veiled reference to Voyager's Chakotay. |
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The starship
skirmish utilised the Maquis fighter first seen on the DS9
two parter "The Maquis", Ro's fighter/transport ship (new
to the show, built by Greg Jein), two Bajoran ships built
for DS9's second season opening trilogy, Kira's "attack
ship" and a troop transport. |
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This episode
was known as "The Good Fight" until someone noticed it
would contain the same word as the
series finale. |
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Propmaster
Alan Sims revealed that the Hasparat dish was simply
American flat bread coated with cream cheese, lettuce,
dried tomatoes and black olive bits, then rolled burrito
style and cut in half to reveal the colorful
cross-section. |