Trivia / Star Trek Deep Space Nine S 02 E 17 Playing God

• First Appearance: Of Gul Evek (though he isn't named here). While not exactly a major character, he will go on to appear on several Maquis-related episodes of TNG, DS9 and Voyager.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In Jim Trombetta's first draft of the teleplay, the A plot was the protouniverse story, with Dax's storyline the B plot. Michael Piller rewrote the episode to place the Trill storyline as the primary plot. Trombetta felt this decision robbed the episode of its emotional balance and that the ethical problem of the protouniverse story is no longer felt on an emotional level.
  • The scene where Sisko and Jake argue about the latter's wanting to date Mardah was meant as foreshadowing of Mardah's originally-intended introduction in the next episode. However, Cirroc Lofton proved unavailable for that episode, and then the rest of the season ended up being busy with other things, meaning that they weren't actually able to introduce Mardah until early in the following season.

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