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Robert Beltran cited this episode as his favorite
of Star Trek: Voyager's entire run, clarifying his reasoning as
being that the installment has "very little technobabble" and a
concentrated focus on the characters of Chakotay and Kellin.
Beltran also said, "I did enjoy that episode very much." Another
element of the episode that he enjoyed was working with Kellin
actress Virginia Madsen. "She's terrific, and I've always wanted
to work with her," Beltran commented. |
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Director Andrew Robinson was thrilled by the acting
of his two lead performers in this episode. "They hired Virginia
Madsen to play the alien woman," Robinson stated, shortly after
having worked on this episode, "and that was great. Robert
[Beltran] was great! [....] [Madsen] and Beltran will break your
heart. They have this wonderful thing and it's an ill-fated love
story. Get out the Kleenex! It broke my heart. They were sweet
and honest and connected. There's a real charisma between them.
It really was wonderful and I don't mind saying so myself, but I
think it's some of Beltran's best work. I've never seen him
better. The man has such a sensitivity and such a depth when he
is given something to do." |
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This is the third of three Star Trek episodes that
were directed by Andrew Robinson, who is best known for having
played Elim Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He previously
helmed the DS9 outing "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong
Places" and the third season Voyager installment "Blood Fever".
He found this episode's production to be just as laborious as
that of the other installments but less frightening.
"This
latest episode I directed still wasn't easy," he said, fairly
soon after having worked on the installment.
"You're always
working hard. But it was a pleasure. For the first time, I
actually started looking forward to coming to work in the
morning." In common with
Robinson's directorial debut on Star Trek: Voyager, "Blood
Fever", this episode features some hand-held camera work. |
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The design of Kellin's make-up was a deliberate
attempt not to cover her face. "The producers didn't want to
mess around with Virginia [Madsen]'s face," Andrew Robinson
remembered, "so they just gave her ears."
In fact, make-up designer and supervisor
Michael Westmore has admitted that – in common with Daelen of
two episodes previous, "Vis à Vis" – the fact that the
production team deliberately veered away from doing facial
makeup for the Ramurans was because the make-up artists had done
so much forehead designs in the past. "The look came down to us
saying, 'We've done so many foreheads, why don't we do something
interesting with the ears?'" Westmore said. |
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The visual effects company Foundation Imaging
worked on the space battle involving cloaked ships in this
episode's teaser. Ronald B. Moore, who was visual effects
supervisor for this installment, recalled, "We went to
Foundation, saying that there was this battle going on that we
couldn't see." The space battles of this episode included not
only CGI modeling by Foundation but also Harry animation by Greg
Rainoff and compositing by Digital Muse. Ron Moore remarked,
"It
was fun to shoot into empty space as we hit the invisible
ships." |
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For the illusion of Curneth using a neurolytic
emitter on Kellin, the visual effects artists were wary of
differentiating the effect from a weapon blast. Ron Moore noted,
"You want her whole body to light up with energy, but not to
make it look like it was a weapon." The effect was achieved by
Greg Rainoff using Harry animation at Digital Muse. |
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