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 Christopher Neame, who plays Unferth, is known well in British television as Lt. Dick Player in Colditz, as Flt. Lt. John Curtis in Secret Army, and as the guest-villain Colonel Quute in Blake's 7 episode Traitor.
   
Naren Shankar, the former TNG story editor, in her short time on Voyager, came back and wrote this episode and created the holodeck environment for 'Beowulf'. In production, a forest set was constructed on one of the show's swing stages. Greenery and backdrops were brought in along with the construction of the Great Hall. In addition, director Les Landau was able to make use of a crane for his establishing shots of the holodeck environs.
   
Robert Picardo: "The writers know exactly what they want to do, but I think that as the show progresses, I've managed to incorporate certain of my own personal quirks as an actor into what is the Doctor."
   
Even though Garrett Wang only appeared briefly, he numbers it among his favorites. "I had chain mail on me, which was great. As an Asian American actor, I'm not really afforded the chance to play period pieces. I could never get a role in 'Braveheart' or 'Rob Roy', so it was a blast."
   
Jeri Taylor: "A delightful show. It was one of these uniquely original ideas of putting the Doctor on the holodeck in 'Beowulf'. It's what makes Star Trek such a delight to work on, because where else could you do a story like that? It just opens it up to all kinds of really terrific, tantalizing ideas. It was also the first time the Doctor got out of sick bay, which was a lot of fun. People adored this episode, and Robert Picardo was wonderful. It was one of those irresistible ideas, and the holodeck is a lot of fun. We put people in the holodeck and get them into trouble, but you get to see things you haven't seen before on Star Trek. And isn't getting there half the fun of it? Show me the person that doesn't think that's a lot of fun and says, 'I've seen this before,' and I will show you a really dull person. I thought it was delightful. It was also different in that it was the Doctor's first away mission. So it was a great way to break him out of sick bay. I think it transcended the idea of 'Oh, we're in trouble on the holodeck."
   
David Livingston: "Les used a lot of close-focus lenses to get this tremendous sense of depth, and you get a lot of big, wide shots. We had a lot of really cool-looking extras, and the art department really had a lot of fun putting together all these elements. It was fun from a visual standpoint because we got to do stuff that we don't normally get to do. It was something grounded in reality here on Earth, so we could kind of go for it since we had a template and didn't have to create something out of whole cloth. Everything there was in mythology and in historical record, so all the departments could go back to them and then kind of expand upon them, and that's why I think it was very successful."


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