History Trivia / StarTrekDeepSpaceNine

** Creator/TonyTodd was among those conisdered for Sisko. He played the adult Jake in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E03TheVisitor The Visitor]]" and reprised his role as Kurn in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E15SonsOfMogh Sons of Mogh]]".

** Tora Ziyal was played by Cyia Batten for her first two appearances, but the producers decided that she was too young for the part and replaced her with Tracy Middendorf for Ziyal's third appearance. Due to Middendorf proving allergic to the prosthetics and having poor chemistry with Garak's actor, Andrew Robinson, however, she was replaced by Melanie Smith for all of Ziyal's subsequent appearances.

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E25Facets Facets]]", Sisko [[WillingChanneler willingly allows himself to be possessed by Joran Dax for a short time]]. Creator/AveryBrooks was required to do shoot this scene twice. The reason? Brooks' performance was way too scary for a TV-PG show.

* DuelingShows: With ''Series/BabylonFive'' during its '94-'95 run. B5 auteur Creator/JMichaelStraczynski has claimed for years that {{Creator/Paramount}} stole his story treatment, but internal company memos have come to light hinting that the idea circulating around before he pitched his show. The two would remain rivals throughout their respective runs, with [=B5=] wrapping up a year earlier in 1998. The two shows' similarities begin at being set on a space station at a trade crossroads and don't stop there:

** The romance between Worf and Jadzia was the result of Dorn and Creator/TerryFarrell, who had become very fast friends on set, requesting more scenes together. Fortunately it suited their characters because one of Dax's previous hosts (Curzon) was basically an honorary Klingon and so was very well integrated into that culture, making it sensible that Jadzia would be drawn to Worf and vice-versa.

** Siddig wasn't too happy about his character being revealed to be an Augment. He interpreted it as Behr/Berman et al. attempting to squeeze him into a "Data" role without consulting him, and responded by deliberately reading long equations and statistics in a drowsy, non-eloquent manner. The Augment stuff quickly faded into into the background and became all but irrelevant.

* VindicatedByReruns: The series polarized ''Star Trek'' fans when it aired, but years after it left TV it found a new audience on Creator/{{Netflix}} which was the perfect platform for extensive MythArcs and binge watching.

* FriendshipOnTheSet: The behind-the-scenes relationship between Creator/ReneAuberjonois (Odo) and Creator/NanaVisitor (Kira Nerys) was apparently a warm and mutually affectionate one, which left Visitor heartbreakingly [[https://twitter.com/NanaVisitor/status/1203822496161517568 lost for words]] when he passed away in late 2019.

* FriendshipOnTheSet: The behind-the-scenes relationship between Creator/ReneAuberjonois and Creator/NanaVisitor was apparently a warm and mutually affectionate one, which left Visitor heartbreakingly [[https://twitter.com/NanaVisitor/status/1203822496161517568 lost for words]] when he passed away in late 2019.

** Creator/TonyTodd was among those conisdered for Sisko. He played the adult Jake in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E03TheVisitor The Visitor]]" and reprised his role as Kurn in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E15SonOfMogh Son of Mogh]]".

* RoleReprise: Creator/JohnColicos portrayed Kor in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and returned to portray Kor in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.

* FakeRussian: Major Kira is reimagined as Colonel Anastasia Komananov ("''[[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre Gay-Chee-Pee]]''"), in Bashir's totally-not-Franchise/JamesBond holoprogram. Even Creator/NanaVisitor, an American, gleefully admitted that it's a terrible accent. This is commented on by Vic in "His Way". When pressed, he admitted that his sexy Kira duplicate, "Lola Chrystal", is just a modded version of the Colonel Komananov hologram and that it took him forever to [[BitingTheHandHumor get rid of her horrid accent]].

* UnderageCasting: In "Dax," Ilon Tandro is played by Creator/GregoryItzin, born in 1948. His mother, Enina Tandro, is played by Creator/FionnulaFlanagan, born in 1941.

* ActorInspiredHeroism: The series finale twist ("[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E25E26WhatYouLeaveBehind What You Leave Behind]]") of Sisko [[spoiler:dying in the Fire Caves and becoming a Prophet]], Creator/AveryBrooks was firm: ''Hell'' no. Given the fact that he was [[UnfortunateImplications an African-American male ditching his wife and newborn child]], Brooks was uneasy about the message they would be sending. The writers suddenly saw his point, and the ending was rewritten to make Sisko's departure more ambiguous.

** Siddig wasn't too happy about his character being retconned into an Augment. He interpreted it as Behr/Berman et al. attempting to squeeze him into a "Data" role without consulting him, and responded by deliberately reading long equations and statistics in a drowsy, non-eloquent manner. The Augment stuff quickly faded into into the background and became all but irrelevant.

* RoleReprise: John Colicos portrayed Kor in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and returned to portray Kor in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.

* {{McLeaned}}: Jadzia Dax was killed off after contract re-negotiations with Terry Farrell fell through, largely due to her wanting to be paid the same amount as the men on the main cast and if they wouldn't, to allow her to drop down to guest star instead of main cast. She was refused, and so Terry left the show in Season 6 to join the cast of ''{{Series/Becker}}''.

** Nana/Kira's pregnancy negated any chance of her participating in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Trials and Tribble-ations]]", so we never get to see her in [[{{Fanservice}} vintage ''Trek'' garb]]. Curses, drat, and blast.

** For Bashir's part, his actor creator/AlexanderSiddig has on his Zoom club disputed that "oblivious" characterization and suggested that he felt that Bashir was attracted to people regardless of gender.

*** It's mentioned in an episode of ''Voyager'' that in Klingon/human hybrids, Klingon DNA is dominant (hence why Miral Paris, who is only 1/4 Klingon, still has visible ridges on her forehead).

** Ira Behr and Ron Moore got the itch to pursue a Kira/Dukat FoeYay scenario (season 4's "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E05Indiscretion Indiscretion]]", introducing Dukat's half-Bajoran love child Ziyal, is a clue to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen where things may have headed]]). Alaimo was all for it (what better way to secure a character's redemption than a romantic storyline with the female lead?) but Nana Visitor (Kira) [[NoYay flatly refused to do anything of the sort]], pointing out that he was guilty of the brutal occupation and genocide of Kira's species. ("If you put a gun to her head, I don't think Kira would ever consider it.") Behr tried his best to jimmy the lock in various ways, such as forming a 'family unit' with Dukat, Kira and Ziyal during the Dominion occupation of Bajor. But in the end, Nana was unmovable. Finally, the storyline was handed off to Kira's mother Meru, who turns out to have been Dukat's "comfort woman" in "Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night" (co-written by Behr).

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