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	Martha Hackett plays Seska in the following episodes: "Parallax", "Phage", "Emanations", "Prime Factors", "State Of Flux", "Maneuvers", "Alliances", "Basics", "Worst Case Scenario" and "Shattered". Martha Hackett also plays a Romulan, Subcommander T'Rul, in DS9's "The Search".
	Kenneth Biller, who wrote this story, also wrote a "Kazon bible" in which he set out the background story behind the Kazon - the Trabe (seen in "Alliances"), the Kazon revolt etc.
	David Livingston directed this episode. Livingston, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's lionfish in the captain's ready room aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, was named for David Livingston. Livingston worked as Supervising Producer on [Voyager] Season 1. Poe says that Livingston "at the end of the second season David got his wish. He resigned his position with the company to devote his creative energies full-time to directing."
	Stephen Edward Poe (author, Star Trek Voyager - A Vision of the Future) on the Directors: "It is an odd position for her (Merri Howard, line producer) to be in, since Livingston is her boss from day to day (as supervising producer). But when he is working as a director, he has to answer to her in the same way any other director would. .... There is a running joke about David Livingston. As [Voyager]'s supervising producer, Livingston plays a key role in keeping the day-to-day production business on track. He has been with Star Trek since the first season of [TNG] and knows his craft very well. But it is no secret that David Livingston does not really want to be a producer. What he really wants to be is a director. Since he is quite good at it, Livingston will usually direct three or four [Voyager] and [DS9] episodes each season. He has a passion for his work, shoots a lot of takes, and wants his episodes to be the best episodes ever directed by anyone. In essence, David wears two hats. And with each, he is a different person. Which is where the joke comes in. When David is wearing his producer hat, operating from his executive office on the second floor of the Cooper Building, his attitude is "What? You want twelve extras? We don't have the budget! Can you do it with three?" When he is wearing his director hat - as he was on Stage 9 that afternoon - his attitude is "What? I can only have fifty extras?"

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