Trivia / Star Trek Deep Space Nine S 06 E 07 You Are Cordially Invited

• Author's Saving Throw: Ron Moore deeply regretted a bit in "Redemption: Part I", where he entered into canon that only male Klingons can have a place in their government (even though Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country showed Chancellor Gorkon's daughter, Azetbur, inheriting his position after his assassination). This episode was largely his attempt to undo that perception of a completely male-dominated society by putting in the counterpart that females have complete control of their households, and their approval is needed for any change like marriage.
• Blooper: Kira refers to the USS Akagi as the "Agaki".
• Creator Backlash: Nobody on the show (Nana Visitor, René Auberjonois, Ira Behr, etc.) was happy with the resolution of the Odo/Kira situation in the wake of "Sacrifice of Angels".
• Deleted Scene: The officers return to their quarters and start cleaning up from their occupation by Dominion officials. Bashir is dismayed to find that Weyoun used his quarters, and filled it by collecting all sorts of knickknacks, while Nog finds that his quarters were wrecked by Jake.
• Enforced Method Acting: The party scene was pretty much a real party. The director wanted a certain energy level that was missing from Star Trek parties in the past, and liked the realism of the actors having to shout to hear each other.
• Shrug of God: Dax refers to Captain Shelby at one point, and this may or may not be the Shelby from The Next Generation's "The Best of Both Worlds." Ronald D. Moore forgot that he had told Pocket Books that there were no plans for the character so she could be used in non-canon novels (namely Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier). Since they only mention her last name, Moore says that the fans can decide for themselves whether it's the same Shelby.
• Throw It In!: The "Ferengi Mating Dance" was made up on the spot by actor Aron Eisenberg.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Producers looked into getting the TNG cast to make quick cameos at the wedding but abandoned those plans when only Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton were available during filming. The spin-off novel Planet X has Worf travel on the Enterprise-E shortly after his wedding, where he apologises to his former crewmates that they were unable to wait for the Enterprise to reach the station in time given Alexander's imminent transfer, and the Enterprise senior staff have a smaller party in Ten-Forward for him instead.
  • Ronald D. Moore has stated the original intention was for a guilty Odo to alienate himself from the others over what he did in the last few episodes. However, no one (including Moore himself) knew where to go from there or how to make Odo feel redeemed, so they dropped that storyline. Unfortunately, by the time they decided that, there was no time to write an Odo/Kira scene about the issue, leaving it an off-screen matter that no one was satisfied with.
  • Remember how a crewmember of the USS Sutherland performed a fire-dance at Jadzia's bachelorette party? Well, they initially had expanded plans for the Sutherland - many of the other crewmembers would've carried on Hawaiian and/or Polynesian traditions, and they would've appeared whenever plans called for "wacky party guys". But for whatever reason, that didn't pan out.

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