History Trivia / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E05SecondSkin

* TroubledProduction: Specifically, for Creator/NanaVisitor, who is claustrophobic and was not ''at all'' comfortable with wearing all that Cardassian makeup. After 12 hours of shooting, she'd finally had enough, had it out with the director, tore off her makeup and fled the set. While it was her hardest episode to film, she later admitted that it gave her a whole new respect for the regulars and guest stars who had to wear all those prosthetics at all times.

** The producers liked Gregory Sierra’s performance as Entek, and wanted to keep the character, but felt it was more important to keep/give Garak’s hard edge, so Garak shot him. This is the origin of Garak saying he really liked him.

** Early in the development of the "secret Cardassian sleeper agent" premise, Wolfe wanted to pin it on O'Brien ([[RunningGag who must suffer]]). He abandoned it after realizing O'Brien's fully-human daughter Molly would raise too many questions, for both viewers and characters. Fortunately, he took a shot at doing it with Kira, who ended up fitting the premise better than O'Brien.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/NanaVisitor's very, very real discomfort with the Cardassian makeup helped her get into the mindset of someone who literally wakes up wearing a strange face and being told her entire life is a lie.

The producers liked Gregory Sierra’s performance of Entek, and wanted to keep the character, but felt it was more important to keep/give Garak’s hard edge, so Garak shot him. This is the origin of Garak saying he really liked him.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Robert Hewitt Wolfe planned to end the episode on an AmbiguousCloneEnding, with Bashir unable to determine whether Kira is actually a Cardassian. This left open the possibility that Kira was unknowingly a Cardassian agent all along, and that the Obsidian Order had been telling the truth.

* RecycledScript: The episode reuses elements from two separate TNG episodes- [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E10TheDefector "The Defector"]] (high-ranking member of a militaristic enemy government secretly has his loyalty tested by his superiors and fails) and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E13FaceOfTheEnemy "Face of the Enemy"]] (female member of the regular cast is kidnapped and wakes up surgically altered to look like a member of an enemy species). Ironically, both of those were Romulan episodes.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Nana Visitor's very, very real discomfort with the Cardassian makeup helped her get into the mindset of someone who literally wakes up wearing a strange face and being told her entire life is a lie.
* TroubledProduction: Specifically, for Nana Visitor, who is claustrophobic and was not ''at all'' comfortable with wearing all that Cardassian makeup. After 12 hours of shooting, she'd finally had enough, had it out with the director, tore off her makeup and fled the set. While it was her hardest episode to film, she later admitted that it gave her a whole new respect for the regulars and guest stars who had to wear all those prosthetics at all times.

* EnforcedMethodActing[=/=]TroubledProduction: For Nana Visitor, who is claustrophobic and was not ''at all'' comfortable with wearing all that Cardassian makeup. After 12 hours of shooting, she'd finally had enough, had it out with the director, tore off her makeup and fled the set. While it was her hardest episode to film, she did gain a whole new respect for the regulars and guest stars who had to wear all those prosthetics at all times. Her discomfort also helped get into the mindset of someone who literally wakes up wearing a strange face and being told her entire life is a lie.

* EnforcedMethodActing[=/=]TroubledProduction: For Nana Visitor, who is claustrophobic and was not ''at all'' comfortable with wearing all that Cardassian makeup. After 12 hours of shooting, she'd finally had enough, had it out with the director, tore off her makeup and fled the set. While it was her hardest episode to film, she did gain a whole new respect for the regulars and guest stars who had to wear all those prosthetics at all times. Her discomfort also helped get into the mindset of someone who literally wakes up wearing a strange face and progressively being broken down by having their identity questioned to the core.

* EnforcedMethodActing[=/=]TroubledProduction: For Nana Visitor, who is claustrophobic and was not ''at all'' comfortable with wearing all that Cardassian makeup. After 12 hours of shooting, she'd finally had enough, had it out with the director, tore off her makeup and fled the set. While it was her hardest episode to film, she did gain a whole new respect for the regulars and guest stars who had to wear all those prosthetics at all times.

* EnforcedMethodActing[=/=]TroubledProduction: For Nana Visitor, who is claustrophobic and was not ''at all'' comfortable with wearing all that Cardassian makeup. After 12 hours of shooting, she'd finally had enough, had it out with the director, tore off her makeup and fled the set. While it was her hardest episode to film, she did gain a whole new respect for the regulars and guest stars who had to wear all those proethetics at all times.