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TREKCORE
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EMANATIONS >
Behind the Scenes
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Jefrey Alan Chandler
(sometimes credited as Jeffrey Alan Chandler), who plays
Hatil, also plays Guardian in the DS9 episode
"Facets". |
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Jerry Hardin, who plays
Doctor Neria, plays Radue in the
TNG episode
"When the
Bough Breaks" and Samuel Clemens in the
TNG episode
"Time's Arrow." |
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Brannon Braga:
"I wrote a first draft that I
thought was one of my best scripts, and it is certainly
one of my best concepts. Our reality being somebody else's
afterlife and one of our people coming back from the dead
in return for an alien was a good idea, solid sci-fi, and
an issues explored. My shows don't always deal with
issues, but this one deals with issues of euthanasia. I
got a lot of notes and did rewrites I wasn't happy to do,
but in the end they were right and I was wrong." |
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Jeri Taylor:
"Ultimately it was an episode about
something, and it was thought-provoking. I have some
quibbles about some of the production elements of it. I
think some of the aliens on the other side were a little
hokey." |
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Michael Piller:
"I always felt that it was more
philosophical than dramatic." |
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David Livingston,
director, wanted to present the alien afterlife milieu on
a skewed camera angle. "I said to
Jeri Taylor that I had to do something different and the
only thing I could come up with was to dutch the camera.
They all threw up their hands because I did that in the
DS9 episode
"Crossover", and took a lot of **** for it. I
said it was the only thing I could think of to do visually
that would make it different. Rick Berman didn't want me
to do it, and Jeri finally agreed, and eventually Rick did
too, but they didn't want to go too far overboard with it.
I didn't do as much as I wanted, but I did it enough so
that you have a sense that things look slightly unbalanced
and screwed." |
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David Livingston, the
episode's director, was suffering from the flu while
shooting this episode - "I wanted
the mood of the Other Side to be much darker and the sets
to be weirder and stuff, but time and everything conspire
against you. I initially wanted everything bright in the
emanation room where they're waiting to die, and it was a
mistake on my part. It should have been much moodier and
darker and weirder. If I have any regrets, it's that." |
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Garrett Wang:
"'Emanations' was particularly
trying on me. The seven or eight days of shooting were
tough because, as actors, we play parts where a character
is dying but not where a character dies and comes back to
life, which is very difficult because there's no precedent
to that in one's life experience. When I was pretending to
be dead, I concentrated on trying to slow my heart-beat
down, and on physical things and manifestations. When I
was young and on my martial-arts kick, I would read about
ninjas who are going to attack and people won't know it
because they've sucked in their aura. That's what I tried
to do. It was interesting because David [Livingston] left
up to me when I actually came back to life after I was
injected with the hypospray. He said, 'Choose when is the
time that it will affect you and jump-start you back.' And
so when I did come back I took in this big breath and had
goose bumps all over me." |
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