Trivia / Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S04E24 "The Quickening"

• Creator's Favorite Episode: As bleak as this episode is, it's one of Alexander Siddig's personal favorites.
• Directed By Castmember: By René Auberjonois, in fact.
• Hide Your Pregnancy: Nana Visitor started to become visibly pregnant while filming this episode, hence why she is only sitting on the runabout.
• Reality Subtext: Ira Steven Behr conceived of the episode as an AIDS metaphor, inspired partly by the recent death of a co-worker from AIDS. Most of the AIDS connotations were lost in revision, however.
• Troubled Production: The sets were damaged by heavy rain, and production had to be halted for three days until they could be rebuilt.

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