Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Directed by Cast Member: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Alexander Siddig and even guest stars Andrew Robinson and Jonathan Frakes get at least one shot behind the camera. And LeVar Burton, who appeared in The Next Generation, take a spin as well.
    • In fact, Burton was the fifth most prolific director on the series, while Brooks and Auberjonois share sixth place.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!:
    • Wallace Shawn (!) as the Ferengi Grand Nagus Zek.
    • Andrew J. Robinson as Garak.
    • Iggy Pop as a Vorta.
    • Played with in-Universe in the episode "Little Green Men", when Rom notices the similarities between historical activist Gabriel Bell and Capt. Benjamin Sisko. Fans, of course, know that the two are one and the same.
    • Louise Fletcher as Winn Adami.
    • General Hague as Admiral Leyton in "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost". Pretty ironic, all things considered.
    • Babu Bhatt as Dr. Bashir's father.
    • J.G. Hertzler, most well-known among Deep Space Nine fans for playing Martok, also played the Vulcan captain of the Saratoga in the pilot episode "Emissary", and later played changeling Laas in Season 7's "Chimera".
      • Which means he played Changelings twice, no? Several times in the guise of Martok, and once as Laas.
    • Jeffrey Combs. Twice. As Weyoun in all incarnations and also as Brunt.
      • Combs always wanted to appear as both characters in a single scene, but never got the chance.
    • PRINCE HUMPERDINCK as Martus Mazur, Quark's one-episode commercial rival in the Season 2 episode "Rivals".
      • Now if only they could just have put Zek in that episode somehow. Surely they could have found a way.
    • Bill Mumy, best known as Lennier in rival Babylon 5, or Will Robinson of Lost in Space, appears in "The Siege of AR-558".
  • Homage: "Far Beyond The Stars" seems to be a full episode story about EC Comics's Judgment Day which ended the magazine that published it the same time the story is set when the publishers and management disagreed about having the Hero be black.
  • Shout-Out: In the penultimate episode, Quark cops some of Picard's speech from Star Trek: First Contact to defend the sacred Ferengi practice of sexual extortion from employees.
    • Morn is an anagram of Norm, from Cheers. It was entirely intentional.
    • In the comedic episode "Trials and Tribble-ations," the two agents who show up to investigate Sisko's time traveling shenanigans are named Dulmer and Luscly, anagrams of "Mulder" and "Scully."
    • When the occupying forces on DS9 in The Siege find that Odo (the shape-shifter) is missing, their commander concludes the situation is "more than meets the eye".
    • In Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places, Quark states his opinion on war, and what it is good for. Absolutely Nothing
    • The Breen's refrigeration suits are modeled after Princess Leia's disguise as Ubese bounty hunter Bouschh in the beginning of Return of the Jedi.
    • In "Crossover" (the first Mirror Universe episode since TOS), Quark stands accused of helping human slaves escape captivity, and tells the enforcing officer (mirror Garak, a Gul) that he is nothing more than a simple barkeep and doesn't stick out his neck for anyone.
    • In "The Way of the Warrior", Quark speculates that perhaps he should have listened to his cousin who said, "Quark, I got one word for you: 'weapons'."
    • The episode "The Nagus" is an homage to The Godfather, especially the scene where Quark "receives" guests in his quarters.
    • Sisko's "Hello, ship" was a direct reference to the Steve McQueen movie The Sand Pebbles, and the ship in question was also named the Sao Paulo. But not for long. It was soon rechristened Defiant.
    • In a more subtle one Garak manages to be John Le Carre's most famous novel: he is a Tinker, a Tailor, a Soldier, and a Spy
    • A conversation between Sisko and Quark in "The Jem'hadar" heavily references a similar one in The Great Outdoors.
    • In the final episode, Sisko's words to Kasidy about when he'll be able to return from being with the "Prophets" echo what a character from Martian Successor Nadesico said to his wife just before going off to war. The Nadesico guy said, "It might be tomorrow. It might be ten years from now. But I will come back."
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Melora from season 2 episode "Melora" was meant to be the permanent science officer, but was replaced with Dax and reused as a one-off guest character.
    • Alexander Siddig originally tried out for the part of Sisko, but was turned down for being too young. Andrew Robinson tried out for the part of Odo.
    • Michelle Forbes, playing the part of Ensign Ro, was originally supposed to be Deep Space Nine's token Bajoran in the cast. Forbes didn't want to commit to a full television series, so the new character of Major Kira was created. (It probably worked out for the best). Ro would end up serving as the station's chief of security in the relaunch novels, however.
    • The writers considered a Kira/Dukat Foe Yay scenario (season 4's "Indiscretion", introducing Dukat's half-Bajoran love child Ziyal, is artifact to where things may have headed). Nana Visitor (Kira) flat-out refused to consider the relationship. Instead, the storyline was given to Kira's mother Meru as Dukat's "comfort woman" during the occupation in "Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night."
    • While "Trials and Tribble-ations" is regarded as one of the best episodes of the series and a fitting 30th Anniversary for the franchise, there were numerous other ideas which were tossed around. One of which was having the Deep Space Nine crew visit the mobster planet from "A Piece of the Action", where they find that the inhabitants have gone on to emulate Starfleet as a commentary on Star Trek fandom.
    • The writers originally toyed with the idea of killing off Jadzia Dax in the Season 6 episode "Change of Heart" rather than in "Tears of the Prophets", the season finale. The idea was that Jadzia would manage to convince Worf to continue their mission without her and leave her behind, in which case she certainly would have died. Worf would then have had even more angst than he ended up with to work through in the final season, having lost his wife out of choosing his career over her. Terry Farrell (Jadzia) was on board with it, but they ended up not going through with the idea.
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