Hi Robert, how are you? In the next edition of Caminhando com os Profetas, a project dedicated to DS9 on the Brazilian channel Apenas um Trekker, we will be discussing the episode Shadowplay, which you wrote. Personally, I love this episode. I think the Odo and Dax duo worked really well. Do you have any memories about the production of the episode that you could share with us?
Hmmm, it's been a while. A few things:
We reused a TNG village set they'd already built for... ummm... Sub Rosa I think?
I originally wanted the top which Odo turns into to be smaller. Not much bigger than a regular top. But I think matching his size and then slowly shrinking made the VFX cheaper. Odo morphs were very expensive, so we often had to compromise with the way they were done and if they were done at all. Still a fun shot though.
Ira was thrilled to get Kenneth Tobey as Rurigan since he starred in a lot of seminal science fiction movies like The Thing From Another World and It Came From Beneath the Sea. He was great as so was the young actor who played his "granddaughter."
Jake having to admit to Sisko that he doesn't want to go to Starfleet Academy is directly inspired by my own conversation with my father (a decorated career Army officer and former Green Beret) about not wanting to go to West Point.
I loved the idea of Changelings being a near mythical race in the Gamma Quadrant and had a lot of fun with Raya telling Changeling stories.
I think Odo and Dax made a great Holmes and Watson team and I wish we'd done it again a few times.
Working with Michael on Shadowplay and In the Hand of the Prophets is how I learned to write mysteries! He taught me so much and I owe my later success on show's like Elementary and The Irrational to him.
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